Sophia Zhou and friends at The Stissing Center
by Kevin T McEneaney Last Saturday evening at The Stissing Center, pianist Sophia Zhou, clarinetist Graeme Steele Johnson, and tenor Daniel McGrew presented a delightful program of George Gershswin favorites. Sophia opened with the second and third Gershwin Preludes for ...
Renaissance String Quartet at The Thorne Center
by Kevin T McEneaney In co-operation with the Kovner Foundation, The Millbrook Music Salon, under Artistic Music Director Sophia Zhou, and The Thorne Center produced an eclectic concert of notable fragments, addressing a wide variety of styles. The Renaissance String ...
Espressivo! at Bard, Olin Hall
Last Sunday, the Hudson Valley Chamber Music Circle at Olin Hall offered an unusual concert program by Espressivo! The opener presented a once-in-a-lifetime experience of hearing an unpublished piano quartet by Beethoven. This was one of three piano quartets, written ...
Landowska’s World with Christine Gevert
by Kevin T McEneaney Last Saturday at the United Methodist Church in Lakeville, CT, Christine Gevert of Crescendo conducted a solo recital celebrating Wanda Landowska (1879-1959), the first modern musician-scholar to pioneer the revival of harpsichord music and to discover ...