The Village Cidiot at The Stissing Center

by Kevin T McEneaney Cidiot is the term local farmers employ to describe urban transplants to agricultural landscape. Idiot is a classical Greek word invented in Athens to describe a…

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Duke Ellington Tribute at Carnegie Hall

Dr. Leon Botstein and American Symphony Orchestra by Kevin T McEneaney Two years ago, Conductor Leon Botstein with the American Symphony Orchestra had set a March date for a Duke…

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The Extremists: They are in New Milford!

Reviewed by Kevin T McEneaney Are the books that you read subversively extreme? What about TV talk shows? News anchors? Do they get your attention by being extreme? Of course,…

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Metaphor, part 2

Being frames from the Sunday Comics without images by James Sherry The Noodle with a Knife in It And the neck flies Quick, get the magic marker What’s the surprise?…

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Ironic Last Gasp at The Stissing Center

Catherine Howard, Anne Undeland, Zelda Kosofsky, Dean Temple, Paula McGonagle, Tristan Latino, Jim Petrie, Martine King (stage Director) by Kevin T McEneaney As part of the Local Produce series of…

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Super-Star Trio at Trinity-Pawling

Arnaud Sussmann, Wu Han, David Finckel by Kevin T McEneaney Spring music zings in air with wanderers from Lincoln Center: Wu Han blithely running keys on piano, husband David Finckel…

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Metaphor

Being frames from the Sunday Comics without images by James Sherry Join The Fun You may win a nice prize Now, look what you’ve done It’s too hard to explain,…

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Charles Wuorinen Tribute at Bard

From left: Fred Sherry, Tengku Irfan, Alan R. Kay, Jennifer Frautschi by Kevin T McEneaney On March 11 Charles Wuorinen, Pulitzer Prize winning composer born June 9, 1938, died due…

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Janáček’s Cunning Vixen at Bard College

by Kevin T McEneaney One does not usually attend opera to be amused but to revel in musical weaves of pathos, exultant-passionate love, or the ravages of social misrule. Yet…

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Master Class in High C at Rhinebeck Center

From left: David Kent (Stagehand), Sabina Balsamo, Elaine Young, Sara Beth Pearson, Thomas Netter, Paul Schubert by Kevin T McEneaney Terrence McNally’s 1995 docufiction play Master Class, which won the…

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