by Kevin T McEneaney The production of the China Now festival under conductor Jindong Cai, an annual production by Bard College (now in its ninth year), delivered two epic compositions…
by Kevin T McEneaney Have you ever been to The Grace Note? That’s the basement East Village-like nightclub/cabaret setting for intimate music that hosted the current incarnation of the long-lived…
by Kevin T McEneaney Last Sunday under the umbrella of Clarion Concerts and cloudy skies, Grammy Award winners, Pacifica Quartet, performed at Christ Episcopal Church, an historic Gothic revival church,…
by Kevin T McEneaney This was the fourteenth appearance of Kent Tritle in the intimate setting of the historic Smithfield Church. In addition to his renown on the tracker organ…
Friday night at Sosnoff Theater time went backward. One can, of course, instruct and highlight by going backward or forward. The evening opened with a rarely performed gem by Friedrich…
By Tonia Shoumatoff "If only men could see that almost all that they know consists of the ruins of destroyed towers, perhaps they would cease to build them. "-- P.D. Ouspensky…
Preview by Sharon Webb The Smithfield Church in Amenia, New York, is proud to welcome organ virtuoso Kent Tritle to its historic 1893 Johnson tracker organ for his annual performance…
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…
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…