by Kevin T McEneaney String Quartets, Op. 59 # 1,2,3 (1806) by Ludwig van Beethoven are nicknamed “Razumovsky” after the Russian Count, who commissioned three quartets from Beethoven. Beethoven began…
by Kevin T McEneaney Last Sunday night at Saint Andrews Episcopal Church, The Sherman Ensemble outdid themselves in a remarkable, historic performance. The program theme, American Genius, was the honoring…
by Kevin T McEneaney Writing began due to economics. There was a need to record transactions, receipts of payment and receipts of debt. * The first standardization of vowels appeared…
The 2 pm pre-concert talk by Fred Baumgarten was on the American composer Anthony Philip Heinrich (March 11, 1781 – May 3, 1861), the first "full-time" America composer who is…
by Kevin T McEneaney At its root, all language is poetry, yet it makes room for conventional fact. Language is what makes us human beings who speak acrobatic languages describing…
by Kevin T McEneaney Last Sunday, under a bright blue sky and towering cumulous clouds slowly scudding above, The Lysander Trio performed an unusual musical program. They opened with Andante…
Last Saturday evening at The Stissing Center in Pine Plains, Windborne, a group with several noted CDs, entertained those with a sense of the current political situation. They are four…
by Kevin T McEneaney We will have multiple AI machines and your input may be irrelevant on any policy under the sun. * Robots will see you as second-class elves…
by Kevin T McEneaney Last Saturday evening at Bard College, Sosnoff Theater, a program of Family, Friends, and Students headlined the SummerScape Mozart Festival. The first half of the concert…
by Kevin T McEneaney Homer’s Odyssey offers a series of blatantly unbelievable episodes from start to finish. The Greek language is haunting, witty, memorable, and eloquent. Homer is the uncontested…