Preview The Smithfield Church will present Rio JAZZ - Intimate Brazilian Jazz hosted by the Bang Family Concert Series. Saturday, 3 pm, October 11, 2025. Refreshments to follow in the…
by Kevin T McEneaney Twenty-six years ago, Bard opened the acoustically marvelous Sosnoff Theater with Gustave Mahler’s Third Symphony (1896, only the first two movements were performed), one of the…
The concert opened with Prelude and Fugue in D major, BWV 532 by J.S. Bach (1685-1750), which is thought to have been composed during Bach’s later years at Wiemar (1708-1717)…
by Kevin T McEneaney Transcendence was a secular ideal with humanists in the last century, but currently it appears to be folly. Today, transcendence is limited to religious meditation, poetry,…
by Bill Schlesinger A few years ago, while buying some fish for dinner, I shied away from wild salmon in favor of farm-raised. It sounded like a good way to…
by Kevin T McEneaney Terrence Wilson, an acclaimed pianist of great vigor and sound who has toured the globe’s great musical halls, made his debut at The Stissing Center last…
by Kevin T McEneaney A dozen talented musicians performed an eclectic, uninterrupted two-hour concert presenting thirty-six short Baroque pieces on the Harmony of the Spheres theme at Saint Joseph Church…
by Kevin T McEneaney When did you last speak to a small beetle? Was it hiding under dandelion? You should speak to a beetle once a year since they account…
by Kevin T McEneaney Why are lilacs blooming in August? They did not bloom as they should have in Spring… * Anomalies can be disconcerting… Such little surprises in the…