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 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 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…
by Kevin T McEneaney Franz Joseph Haydn essentially created the quartet in the 1760s and nurtured it to maturity with Mozart. The commission for Beethoven to compose his first quartets…
by Kevin T McEneaney Music enthusiasts have been waiting for SummerScape to address Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart for a long time. The 36th SummerScape Festival has finally embraced him! The two-week…
by Kevin T McEneaney Erinys (meaning Furies) Quartet derives its name from the Oresteia by Aeschylus. They were founded in 2018 at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland. They have toured Europe…
Last Sunday afternoon at the Stissing Center in Pine Plains, Daniel Adam Maltz performed a program on a newly created fortepiano that imitated the sound of an instrument during the…
by Kevin T McEneaney At Saint James Place in Great Barrington, last Saturday, Aston Magna, an organization devoted to the playing of period instruments, offered a program titled The Genius…