by Kevin T McEneaney Last Saturday evening amid the superior acoustics of Elfers Hall, Fabio Witkowski conducted The Hotchkiss Orchestra with an imaginative musical program of Bedřich Smetana, Aram Khachaturian,…
Photo from Wikipedia/commons by Tonia Shoumatoff The Fisher Performing Arts Center at Bard was filled with a panoply of young people, some with Tolkien elf ears, who came to hear…
Rebecca Brown Adelman as Hamlet by Kevin T McEneaney Perhaps the title above should read Rebecca Brown Adelman resurrects Theresa Rebek’s excellent play Bernhardt/Hamlet (2018) in Rhinebeck at the Center…
From left: Mark Steinberg, Serena Canin, Nina Lee, Misha Amory by Kevin T McEneaney Opening with String Quartet in C major, Op. 33, no 3 by Josef Haydn, the Brentano…
by Kevin T McEneaney The key to the success of any play lies on the shoulders of actors and the Director. This production directed by Peter Risafi presents a superb…
From left: Concertmaster Willi Zimmermann and Director Daniel Hope by Kevin T McEneaney Music Director Fabio Witkowski of Hotchkiss School somehow managed to book Daniel Hope, one of the greatest…
Evan Shinners, Doori Na, Sarah Adams, Susan Rotholz, Eliot Bailen, Michael Roth by Kevin T McEneaney Last Sunday afternoon at St. Andrews Episcopal Church in Kent, The Sherman Ensemble performed…
Final Bow P.G. Woodhouse’s 1926 adaptation of Ferenc Molnár’s 1924 comedy The Play at the Castle (an absurdist play possiblyly influenced by the uncompleted 1922 masterpiece novel The Castle by…
S by Kevin T McEneaney Last Sunday at The Stissing Center’s Young Artists Showcase series saxophonist Steven Bank and accordionist Hanzhi Wang performed an idiosyncratic selection of Classical works. They…
by Kevin T McEneaney Robert Schumann was enthusiastic about the invention of the French horn; love of this new valve sound which was able to play every note of the…