Smithfield Church Pops Chamber Orchestra Swings

by Kevin T McEneaney Last Saturday afternoon, the Bang Family Concert Series produced its 6th Annual Spring “Pops” Concert under the baton of Michelle Demko, who chose most of the…

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Baldouret Quartet at Lyall Church

by Kevin T McEneaney The Baldouret Quartet became a Quintet on Friday afternoon in a free concert sponsored by The Millbrook Music Salon. Sophia Zhou, the Artistic Director of the…

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In flight

by Kevin T McEneaney Poems resemble winding caterpillars plunging through high grass in unknown pastures where they encounter prickly obstacles that stimulates their growth to be transformed into a butterfly…

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The Concert Truck at Bennett Park

Susan Zhang and Sophia Zhou by Kevin T McEneaney A Memorial Day celebration at Bennett Park opened with the roving Concert Truck at 1 pm. Krista Thorne delivered a short…

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Gravitas

by Kevin T McEneaney Our gravity cannot hold off the sun which will consume every atom of Earth in its attempt to prolong its own life…. * The sun’s beneficence…

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Spring Concert at Lyall Church

by Kevin T McEneaney To celebrate 100th anniversary of Lyall Church this past Sunday, The Millbrook Community Festival Choir presented Foundations, under Music and Choral Director Daniel Michael Koch who…

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Migration

by Bill KellerWash your hands with rainwater,then grasp the soft amphibiansby their middles, or enclosethem in your cupped fingers. Be gentle! Feel how delicatethey are, though bones frametheir damp skin. (Notice theevidence on…

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King Lear Triumphant at TheatreWorks

King Lear, one of William Shakespeare’s greatest plays, is now running at TheaterWorks in New Milford, CT, with a superb cast of superior actors under the lean and keen direction…

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All-Strauss program at Bard Sosnoff

by Kevin T McEneaney Richard Strauss began composing at the age of nine. At the age of 21, he composed a Serenade and a Burleske in D minor (1886, revised…

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Spring rain

by Kevin T McEneaney Those rainy days in Spring are a pleasure to a prospective gardener sorting seed packets that whisper in shushing sounds…. I like the sound of rain…

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