Gilded Age Melodies at Smithfield Church

From left: Max Caplan, Dr. Elizabeth Gerbi, Dr. Christopher Brellochs, Ann Marie Adamick Last Sunday at Smithfield Church a quartet under the direction of Dr. Christopher Brellochs played music associated…

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Samuel Beckett: Conor Lovett Towers at Hudson Hall

Samuel Beckett by Kevin T McEneaney The Beckett Trilogy (dramatic monologue excerpts from the novels Molloy, Malone Dies, and the Unnameable) performed by Irish actor Conor Lovett will convince you…

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Gilded Age Concert at Smithfield Church

by Kevin T McEneaney, Preview Currently streaming on HBO Max is an historical drama set in the Hudson Valley: The Gilded Age, those boom years of the 1880’s when the…

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Afterlife Aesthetic in Baroque Music with Crescendo

Crescendo at Saint James Place, Great Barrington by Kevin T McEneaney Crescendo, under the baton of Director Christine Gevert, provided a sampling of the continuation of Baroque aesthetic in Eastern…

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Four Hands Two Pianos at The Stissing Center!

Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner and Sophia Zhou by Kevin T McEneaney International pianistic sensation Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner from California, who played for President Obama’s Second Inauguration and many other world luminaries, participated with…

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Bossa Blue Wails at The Stissing Center

From left: Jerry Plotkin, Bobby Sabella, Mark Dann, Brad Cole by Kevin T McEneaney Due to the desert typhoon, or whatever it was that clobbered Las Vegas this weekend, the…

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Joann Falletta conducts, inspires at Lincoln Center with TŌN

Center: Joann Falletta; Left, Samuel Frois by Kevin T McEneaney Last Sunday Joann Falletta, Conductor of the Buffalo Symphonic Orchestra (which she has transformed into one of the country’s leading…

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Romantic Triumph at Hotchkiss School

Fabio Witkowski introducing the program by Kevin T McEneaney Artistic Director Fabio Witkowski put together a fabulous program with guest conductor Mariusz Smolij from Poland conducting the Hotchkiss Philharmonic Orchestra.…

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Stephen Sondheim Tribute at Rhinebeck Center

Partriarcho, Crispel, Olson, Sheehy, Boice, Haines, Bradley, Warren, France by Kevin T McEneaney Last year the theater world lost Stephen Sondheim, one of the giants of musical theater. Sondheim was…

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Demons and Lovers at Hudson Hall

by Kevin T McEneaney There is a crisis in this country concerning the arts: most people want stories, drama, and poetry to be realistic, aligned with truthful portrayal of life.…

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