Riverhead High School sophomore Lauren Enos, 15, sits on the edge of her seat in Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium, her clarinet pointed down. Her eyes are glued to the sheet music in front of her, but she’s practiced enough that she knows composer Aaron Copland’s “Lincoln Portrait” like the back of her hand.
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Jazz musician Alex Sipiagin often draws from his experiences traveling when he composes music. The life of a musician leads to constant travel and as a trumpet player and composer, Mr. Sipiagin has been all across the world.
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Auditions for the 14th season of Riverhead Idol are scheduled for Thursday, according to Riverhead Town. READ
An East Moriches couple’s love of records is culminating in a plan to bring a new record store to downtown Riverhead. READ
My wife always fires back the same wisecrack each time I make a joke about her joining a concert band. For example, we walked past the Patchogue Theatre for the Performing Arts during Tuesday’s Fourth of July parade, where a concert band had assembled in front to fill the morning air with patriotic tunes as the fire trucks and dancers and Boy Scouts marched by. READ
Music comes naturally to Alex Montalbano, a 16-year-old junior at Riverhead High School.
He learned to play piano at home as a child and began playing the flute in the school’s band program in fifth grade. Alex mastered the flute quickly and expanded his musical repertoire by taking up the clarinet the following year. READ
Shoreham-Wading River graduate Gina Mingoia fulfilled a promise she made to Tom Cutinella.
In the summer of 2014, after they had both finished 10th grade, Tom made Gina promise that if she ever became famous, she would write him a song. READ
“Hey, hey, we’re The Monkees. And people say we monkey around.”
If you’ve been anywhere near a television set in the past 50 years, you’ve probably heard the theme song from “The Monkees,” a series that first aired in the 1960s and enjoyed syndication for decades. READ