Anticipation for this concert of Trio Con Copenhagen welled in my throat. There were two pieces I very much wanted to hear. I was, however, unfamiliar with the first piece...
Anticipation for this concert of Trio Con Copenhagen welled in my throat. There were two pieces I very much wanted to hear. I was, however, unfamiliar with the first piece...
The period instrument ensemble Aston Magna performed for the first time at the Wethersfield Garden Carriage House in Amenia. The acoustics were excellent, the program unusual. They opened with Dario...
The Beethoven quartet marathon continues at Music Mountain which has provided the rare opportunity to hear a live performance of all Beethoven’s string quartets performed by a group who recorded...
When I was a graduate student at Columbia University and drank in the demi-monde of the old West End Bar with its horseshoe-shaped bar and lounged in private wooden booths,...
An unusual faculty recital was held at Vassar College’s Skinner Hall this past Saturday. While not well-publicized this concert was of enormous interest for those who love music. Cellist Sophie...
Cole Porter’s 1934 Depression madcap masterpiece romps with class as it employs a mix of veteran Broadway actors ( Amanda Lea LaVergne and Paul Kreppel) with a young rising star...
Under cloudy, mellow skies in Woodstock it was the 80th anniversary of the Woodstock Playhouse and the 80th birthday celebration of one Woodstock’s most eminent troubadours, Peter Yarrow. Peter was performing...
The Hudson Valley Chamber Music Circle at Bard College’s Olin Hall offered the program “The Two Glorious Brahms Sextets” which featured Jamie Laredo and Pamela Frank on violins, Nokuthula Ngwenyama...
