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SUMMARY:Pre-performance lecture of Hamlet with Caroline Bicks*
DESCRIPTION:Stephen E. King Chair in Literature Caroline Bicks will bring her Shakespeare expertise to this pre-performance discussion of Hamlet. Learn more about Caroline Bicks. Preceding Professor Bicks’ lecture\, MHC and CLAS will host a pre-Homecoming reception\, also in Bodwell\, from 4:30-6PM. \nFree and open to the public. \n  \nFollowing the pre-performance lecture is Aquila Theatre Presents: Hamlet at the Collins Center for the Arts. You can find out more about that performance and purchase tickets on the CCA website.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/pre-performance-lecture-hamlet-caroline-bicks/
LOCATION:Collins Center for the Arts\, 2 Flagstaff Road\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture,Performing Arts,Pre-Performance Lectures,Public Humanities
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SUMMARY:Pre-performance lecture of King's Singers with Francis John Vogt*
DESCRIPTION:Francis John Vogt (SPA Director of Choral Activities) will bring his expertise to this pre-performance lecture. Learn more about Vogt here. \nFree and open to the public. \n  \nFollowing the pre-performance lecture is King’s Singers at the Collins Center for the Arts. You can find out more about that performance and purchase tickets on the CCA website.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/pre-performance-lecture-francis-john-vogt/
LOCATION:Collins Center for the Arts\, 2 Flagstaff Road\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture,Performing Arts,Pre-Performance Lectures,Public Humanities
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SUMMARY:Pre-performance lecture of Yamato Drummers with Stuart Marrs* & Sake and Sushi reception
DESCRIPTION:Stuart Marrs (Professor of Music) will bring his musical expertise to this pre-performance discussion of the Yamato Drummers: The Drummers of Japan. \nIn addition to the lecture\, the Hudson Museum will display some Japanese art pieces and there will be a Sake and Sushi reception\, sponsored by Oriental Jade. \nFree and open to the public. \nFollowing the pre-performance lecture is the performance of Yamato Drummers: The Drummers of Japan at the Collins Center for the Arts. You can find out more about that performance and purchase tickets on the CCA website.  Check out the promotional video they made for their UK appearance below. \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAH299MIvpE
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/pre-performance-lecture-yamato-drummers-stuart-marrs/
LOCATION:Collins Center for the Arts\, 2 Flagstaff Road\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture,Performing Arts,Pre-Performance Lectures,Public Humanities
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SUMMARY:Pre-performance lecture of Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead with Dr. Richard Brucher – NT Live Broadcast
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the pre-performance lecture by Dr. Richard Brucher of the NT Live Broadcast of Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead.  Dr. Brucher is a professor of English at UMaine whose specializations include Shakespeare and English Renaissance drama\, modern American and British drama. \nFree and open to the public. \nFollowing the pre-performance lecture is the streamed broadcast of Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead at the Collins Center for the Arts. You can find out more about that show and purchase tickets on the CCA website.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/pre-performance-lecture-rosencrantz-guildenstern-dead-with-dr-richard-brucher/
LOCATION:Collins Center for the Arts\, 2 Flagstaff Road\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
CATEGORIES:Pre-Performance Lectures,Public Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181025T180000
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SUMMARY:"Portland Cello Project" Pre-Performance Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Portland Cello Project\nPre-Show Lecture presented by Noreen Silver \nThursday\, October 25\nRoom 100\, Class of 1944 Hall\n6:00 pm (before the Portland Cello Project concert) \nYou must have a ticket to the CCA’s Portland Cello Project concert to attend this event. \nNOREEN SILVER\, Director of the Chamber Music Program at UMaine\, has been described by Michael Tumelty in the Glasgow Herald as being “an extraordinarily soulful player” who “demonstrates an uncommon depth of feeling and imagination.” She was born in Glasgow and studied at the Royal College of Music in London\, then subsequently in Geneva with Pierre Fournier\, and the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston\, Mass.While studying at NEC she met her husband\, Phillip Silver\, and together they formed the Silver Duo. With the Duo\, and as a member of the Van Leer Trio\, Noreen has performed in the UK\, USA\, Israel\, Sweden\, Czech Republic\, Germany\, France and Belgium\, and has broadcast frequently for the BBC and other national radio stations. Noreen has been on the faculties of Strathclyde University and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow\, Scotland. She has also been a member of the Boston Opera Orchestra\, Northwest Chamber Players\, and the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/portland-cello-project-pre-performance-lecture/
LOCATION:Class of 1944 Hall
CATEGORIES:Pre-Performance Lectures,School of Performing Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181030T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181030T190000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20181023T183821Z
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SUMMARY:"The Nature of Forgetting" Pre-Show Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:The Nature of Forgetting\nPre-show panel discussion on Aging Issues \nTuesday\, October 30\nRoom 100\, Class of 1944 Hall\n6:00 pm \nLen Kaye\, PhD\, Moderator\nProfessor of Social Work at the University of Maine School of Social Work and Director of the UMaine Center on Aging. \nPanelists: \n\nFayeza S. Ahmed\, PhD\nAssistant Professor in the Department of Psychology whose research is on the intersection of health factors/behaviors and cognitive functioning.\nDon Beith\, PhD\nAssistant Professor of Philosophy\, whose currently working at the intersection of environmental philosophy\, medical ethics\, the philosophy of technology and existentialism.\nGreg Carter\, PhD\nDr. Carter is a computational biologist studying genetic causes of Alzheimer’s disease at Jackson Laboratory.\n\nThis conversation is being facilitated with the help of the McGillicuddy Humanities Center.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/the-nature-of-forgetting-pre-show-panel/
LOCATION:Class of 1944 Hall
CATEGORIES:Pre-Performance Lectures,Public Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181116T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181116T190000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20181114T190912Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELED — "King Lear" Pre-Performance Lecture
DESCRIPTION:NOTE: This event has been canceled. \nKing Lear Pre-Performance Lecture\nBy Caroline Bicks\, Prof. of English and Stephen E. King Chair of Literature \nFriday November 16\nCollins Center for the Arts\n6:00 pm \nKING LEAR on NT Live\, 7:00pm
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/king-lear-pre-performance-lecture/
LOCATION:Collins Center for the Arts\, 2 Flagstaff Road\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
CATEGORIES:King Chair,Lecture,Pre-Performance Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190220T180000
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SUMMARY:Spamalot pre-performance lecture: Sarah Harlan-Haughey
DESCRIPTION:Join us at 6 p.m. on Wednesday\, February 20 for a pre-show lecture\, presented in conjunction with the Collins Center for the Arts. Sarah Harlan-Haughey\, Associate Professor of English\, will be the featured speaker. With a specialty in Medieval literature\, Literature and the Environment\, Folklore and Oral Traditional Studies\, the talk is sure to provide an enlightening backdrop to the play. Refreshments will be served. \nSPAMALOT:\nThis outrageous musical comedy is lovingly ripped off from the film classic\, Monty Python and the Holy Grail. With a book by Eric Idle and music and lyrics by the Grammy Award winning team of Mr. Idle and John Du Prez\, Spamalot tells the tale of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table as they embark on their quest for the Holy Grail. Flying cows\, killer rabbits\, taunting Frenchmen\, and show-stopping musical numbers are just a few of the reasons audiences worldwide are eating up Spamalot! \n 
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/spamalot-pre-performance-lecture-sarah-harlan-haughey/
LOCATION:Collins Center for the Arts\, 2 Flagstaff Road\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
CATEGORIES:Pre-Performance Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191108T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191108T210000
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SUMMARY:Pre-Performance Lecture: Jupiter String Quartet
DESCRIPTION:Anatole Wieck\, professor of Music\, Violin/Viola and Orchestra at UMaine\, will give a pre-performace lecture before Jupiter String Quartet takes the stage Friday night. The 6:30pm lecture will be held in Miller’s Cafe\, inside the Collins Center for the Arts\, and will give attendees insight and background knowledge into the quartet’s 7:30pm performance that night in Minsky Hall. \nAbout Jupiter String Quartet:\nThe Jupiter String Quartet is a particularly intimate group\, consisting of violinists Nelson Lee and Meg Freivogel\, violist Liz Freivogel (Meg’s older sister)\, and cellist Daniel McDonough (Meg’s husband\, Liz’s brother-in-law). Now enjoying their 17th year together\, this tight-knit ensemble is firmly established as an important voice in the world of chamber music. \nThe quartet has performed in some of the world’s finest halls\, including New York City’s Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center\, London’s Wigmore Hall\, Boston’s Jordan Hall\, Mexico City’s Palacio de Bellas Artes\, Washington\, D.C.’s Kennedy Center and Library of Congress\, Austria’s Esterhazy Palace\, and Seoul’s Sejong Chamber Hall. Their major music festival appearances include the Aspen Music Festival and School\, Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival\, Rockport Music Festival\, Caramoor International Music Festival\, Music at Menlo\, the Banff Centre\, the Seoul Spring Festival\, and many others. \nTheir chamber music honors and awards include the grand prizes in the Banff International String Quartet Competition and the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition; the Young Concert Artists International auditions in New York City; the Cleveland Quartet Award from Chamber Music America; an Avery Fisher Career Grant; and a grant from the Fromm Foundation. From 2007-2010\, they were in residence at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Chamber Music Two. Since 2012\, they have been artists-in-residence at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana\, where they maintain private studios and direct the chamber music program. The quartet has also held numerous masterclasses for young musicians at universities and festivals throughout the U.S.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/pre-performance-lecture-jupiter-string-quartet/
LOCATION:Collins Center for the Arts\, 2 Flagstaff Road\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performing Arts,Pre-Performance Lectures,School of Performing Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191121T180000
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SUMMARY:Pre-Performance Lecture by King Chair Caroline Bicks\,"Midsummer Night Queens"
DESCRIPTION:Pre-performance reception and lecture entitled “Midsummer-Night Queens”\, presented by the McGillicuddy Humanities Center. \nUMaine professor and Stephen E. King Chair Caroline Bicks\, a Shakespeare scholar\, will conduct the lecture about Shakespeare’s magical comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream\, which features an abundance of queens\, including an off-stage appearance by Elizabeth I herself. Dr. Bicks will discuss the thematic issues that circulate around these formidable females and that inform the play’s larger explorations of love\, gender\, and power. \n6-6:15pm reception\n6:15-6:45pm lecture\n7 pm – Live broadcast of the show from the National Theater in London \nThe lecture and reception will take place in Bodwell Lounge on the 3rd floor of the Collins Center for the Arts. \nAbout the play: A feuding fairy King and Queen of the forest cross paths with four runaway lovers and a troupe of actors trying to rehearse a play. As their dispute grows\, the magical royal couple meddle with mortal lives leading to love triangles\, mistaken identities and transformations… with hilarious\, but dark consequences. \nShakespeare’s most famous romantic comedy will be captured live from the Bridge Theatre in London. Gwendoline Christie (Game of Thrones)\, Oliver Chris (Green Wing\, NT Live: Young Marx)\, David Moorst (NT Live: Allelujah!) and Hammed Animashaun (The Barber Shop Chronicles) lead the cast as Titania\, Oberon\, Puck and Bottom. \nDirected by Nicholas Hytner\, this production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream will build on the success of his immersive staging of Julius Caesar (NT Live 2018). The Bridge Theatre will become a forest – a dream world of flying fairies\, contagious fogs and moonlight revels\, surrounded by a roving audience following the action on foot. More at: https://www.collinscenterforthearts.com/event/nt-live-broadcast-a-midsummer-nights-dream/
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/pre-performance-lecture-by-king-chair-caroline-bicksmidsummer-night-queens/
LOCATION:Bodwell Lounge\, Collins Center for the Arts\, 2 Flagstaff Rd.\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
CATEGORIES:Pre-Performance Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200203T180000
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SUMMARY:Pre-performance lecture by William Yellow Robe on The Color Purple
DESCRIPTION:THE COLOR PURPLE is the 2016 Tony Award® winner for Best Musical Revival! Hailed as “a direct hit to the heart” (The Hollywood Reporter)\, this joyous American classic conquered Broadway in an all-new “ravishingly re-conceived production that is a glory to behold” (TheNew York Times). Don’t miss this stunning re-imagining of an epic story about a young woman’s journey to love and triumph in the American South. Experience the exhilarating power of this Tony-winning triumph that New York Magazine calls “one of the greatest revivals ever.” \nPlease join us for a pre-performance reception & lecture in Bodwell Lounge on the 3rd floor of Collins Center for the Arts\, presented by the McGillicuddy Humanities Center. Playwright William S. Yellow Robe\, Jr. will conduct the lecture to help you get the most out of seeing the performance. \n\n6-6:15 reception\n6:15-6:45 lecture and Q&A\n7 p.m. show\n\nWilliam S. Yellow Robe\, Jr. is an Assiniboine playwright. He is a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas. His play\, “Making IndiXns”\, was one of five newly completed one-act plays and was published in the America’s Best One-Act Plays. Other publications of his work include Grandchildren of the Buffalo Soldiers and Other Untold Stories\, a collection of his full-length plays\, Where the Pavement Ends: New Native Drama\, a collection of his one-act plays. Wood Bones\, a full length play\, was produced this November at the University of Maine\, Orono\, Maine. He is a member of the Ensemble Studio Theatre and Penumbra Theatre. Yellow Robe resides in Maine where he is a Libra Professor at the English Department\, University of Maine. Read more about Mr. William Yellow Robe here.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/pre-performance-lecture-by-william-yellow-robe-on-the-color-purple/
LOCATION:Collins Center for the Arts\, 2 Flagstaff Road\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture,Performing Arts,Pre-Performance Lectures
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SUMMARY:Pre-Performance Lecture by Dick Brucher on Arthur Miller's "All My Sons"
DESCRIPTION:RESCDHEDULED FOR SNOW\nNEW DATE: Sunday\, February 9\, 2020\n12 p.m. reception and lecture (FREE)\n1 p.m. show (WITH TICKET)\n\n\nThe McGillicuddy Humanities Center presents UMaine professor Dick Brucher\, who will be giving a pre-performance lecture on Arthur Miller’s play All My Sons on Friday\, February 7 at 12 p.m. The play\, which broadcasts live from The Old Vic in London following the lecture\, stars Academy Award-winner Sally Field (Steel Magnolias\, Brothers & Sisters) and Bill Pullman (The Sinner\, Independence Day). Jeremy Herrin directs the cast\, which also includes Jenna Coleman (Victoria)\, and Colin Morgan (Merlin) alongside Bessie Carter\, Oliver Johnstone\, Kayla Meikle and Sule Rimi. \n\n  \n\nBrucher on Miller’s play: \nLate in Arthur Miller’s All My Sons (1947)\, factory owner Joe Keller asks what can be more important than family. It was for family\, and under pressure from the Army Air Force for production\, that Joe says he told his partner to ship faulty airplane parts that killed 21 American pilots during the war. That past decision\, revealed in the present\, betrays the Kellers’ son Chris\, an idealist and veteran\, who insists that there is more to life than business profit and family loyalty. Miller domesticates corporate practice to create middle-class tragedy. \nAll My Sons is what Miller called a birds-coming-home-to-roost play\, one in which retrospective action brings the past to bear on the present\, and connects personal deeds and public consequences. Miller tried to make the play so untheatrical that audience members would mistake the world presented onstage for their own. Miller set out to capture—and to cause audiences to experience—the wonder in the fact that consequences are as real as the actions that cause them. This idea is as timely in 2020 as it was in 1947. \nAll My Sons was Miller’s first big hit; and it has remained among his most popular plays\, up there with Death of a Salesman (1949)\, The Crucible (1953)\, and A View from the Bridge (1955/56). My introduction to the NTLive streaming of the play will discuss its basis in contemporary (1940s) events\, the influences of Henrik Ibsen’s plays on Miller’s work\, and the experience of modern tragedy. The talk will raise a few problems in interpretation and staging\, particularly regarding characters’ motives and interactions.  \n\n\n\nWhat is NT Live?\nNational Theatre Live transmits the best of British theatre live from London to screens around the world. The broadcasts are filmed in front of a live audience\, with cameras carefully positioned throughout the theatre to ensure cinema audiences get the best-seat-in-the-house view. Productions are transmitted via satellite to the Collins Center\, then projected onto our high-definition screen — one of the largest in the state.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/pre-performance-lecture-by-dick-brucher-on-arthur-millers-all-my-sons/
LOCATION:Bodwell Lounge\, Collins Center for the Arts\, 2 Flagstaff Rd.\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
CATEGORIES:Pre-Performance Lectures,Theatre performance
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SUMMARY:Pre-performace lecture by Jack Burt on Septura Brass
DESCRIPTION:Join us in Miller’s Cafe in Collins Center for the Arts for a FREE pre-performance lecture by Jack Burt (SPA) before the afternoon performance by Septura Brass.\n\n2:00 coffee & tea\, light refreshments\n2:15 – 2:45 lecture and Q&A\n3 p.m. concert\nReception to follow concert\n\nSeptura brings together London’s leading players to redefine brass chamber music through the uniquely expressive sound of the brass septet. By creating a canon of transcriptions\, arrangements and new commissions for this brand new classical configuration\, Septura aims to recast the brass ensemble as a serious artistic medium. Currently Ensemble in Residence at the Royal Academy of Music\, London\, the group is recording a series of 10 discs for Naxos Records\, each focused on a particular period\, genre and set of composers\, creating a “counter-factual history” of brass chamber music. \nThe concert is a selection in the John I. and Elizabeth E. Patches Chamber Music Series. A reception for patrons and artists will follow. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor more information\, to view the full season schedule or to purchase tickets\, visit collinscenterforthearts.com/events.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/pre-performace-lecture-by-jack-burt-on-septura-brass/
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CATEGORIES:Pre-Performance Lectures
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SUMMARY:Pre-performance Lecture: Birdie Sawyer on "Flex Ave" by FLEXN
DESCRIPTION:“This dance form\, these artists won’t be boxed in.” – New York Times \nFollowing breakthrough performances at New York’s Park Avenue Armory\, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival\, Manchester International Festival\, and an upcoming residency for the inaugural season of The Shed in New York City\, FLEX AVE.\, the brand new creation of Flexn dance pioneer Reggie “Regg Roc” Gray\, will be coming to the University of Maine’s Collins Center for the Arts. \nJoin the McGillicuddy Humanities Center in Bodwell Lounge (3rd floor of CCA) prior to the performance for a lecture by UMaine dance instructor Birdie Sawyer\, who will be offering insight to help the audience get the most out of the performance. \n2-2:15 reception (FREE) \n2:15-2:45 lecture (FREE) \nshow- 3 p.m. (Tickets required)
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/pre-performance-lecture-flexn/
LOCATION:Bodwell Lounge\, Collins Center for the Arts\, 2 Flagstaff Rd.\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture,Performing Arts,Pre-Performance Lectures,School of Performing Arts
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SUMMARY:Pre-Performance Lecture: Sarah Harlan-Haughey\, "As You Like It"
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a lecture given by UMaine English professor and MHC Faculty Advisory Group member Sarah Harlan-Haughey on Shakespeare’s “As You Like It\,” presented with the support of the Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center\, before the Collins Center for the Arts’s presentation of As You Like It from Theater at Monmouth on Tour. \nWelcome to Arden. This is the story of Rosalind. Oppressed and exiled from Court under threat of death\, she escapes with her cousin\, cross-dressed and gartered\, into the wild and unpredictable Forest of Arden. Disguised as a boy\, she creates a world of her choosing\, reveling in her newfound agency and self-discovery. But chance encounters with the love-struck Orlando complicate her new adventure. All the world’s a stage in As You Like It\, Shakespeare’s gender-bending comedy\, where poetry\, mistaken identities\, and true loves lost and found abound. \nDr. Harlan-Haughey’s pre-performance lecture is free and open to the public. Tickets for As You Like It begin at $25 and are available from the Collins Center for the Arts box office.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/pre-performance-lecture-sarah-harlan-haughey-as-you-like-it/
LOCATION:Bodwell Lounge\, Collins Center for the Arts\, 2 Flagstaff Rd.\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
CATEGORIES:English Department,Performing Arts,Pre-Performance Lectures
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SUMMARY:Pre-Performance Lecture: Scott Cleveland on the Blind Boys of Alabama
DESCRIPTION:Join the Collins Center for the Arts for a pre-performance lecture given by UMaine jazz professor Scott Cleveland\, presented with the support of the Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center. This event will take place in the Bodwell Lounge of the Collins Center for the Arts. \nThe Blind Boys of Alabama are recognized worldwide as living legends of gospel music. Celebrated by The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) with Lifetime Achievement Awards\, inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame\, and winners of five Grammy® Awards\, they have attained the highest levels of achievement in a career that spans over 70 years. \nScott Cleveland is a lifelong composer/singer/pianist/music educator/church musician. He holds a B.M. in Music Education from Berklee College of Music\, an M.M. in Music Theory/Composition from UMassLowell and a M.Div. (magna cum laude) from Boston University School of Theology. He has written and produced six independent solo albums and performs original and reinterpreted Jazz/R&B/Blues/Fusion/Rock as a solo pianist and singer and in numerous duos/trios/quartets. \nThis pre-performance lecture is free and open to the public. Tickets for the Blind Boys of Alabama begin at $35 and are available from the Collins Center for the Arts box office.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/pre-performance-lecture-scott-cleveland-on-the-blind-boys-of-alabama/
LOCATION:Bodwell Lounge\, Collins Center for the Arts\, 2 Flagstaff Rd.\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
CATEGORIES:Pre-Performance Lectures
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SUMMARY:Pre-Performance Lecture: Marisa Solomon on Dreamers' Circus
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the Bodwell Lounge of the Collins Center for the Arts on Sunday\, February 26 at 2:00 p.m. as cellist and music educator Marisa Solomon introduces the “world-class folk music” of the Dreamers’ Circus. \nMarisa Solomon has received performance degrees from the Oberlin College and San Francisco Conservatories of Music. She is an avid chamber musician\, teacher and performer\, plus she was a founding member of the Hancock St. Quartet\, Nor’easter Quartet\, and Cormier Trio. She has participated in many festivals\, including Kneisel Hall\, Aspen Music Festival\, New York String Seminar\, Round Top\, Festival dei Due Mondi\, Spoleto USA and the Breckenridge Music Festival. Marisa teaches privately and performs in the Bangor area\, as well as serving as adjunct faculty at the University of Maine. \nMarisa Solomon’s pre-performance lecture is free and open to the public. Tickets for the Dreamers’ Circus begin at $37 and are available from the Collins Center for the Arts box office.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/pre-performance-lecture-marisa-solomon-on-dreamers-circus/
LOCATION:Bodwell Lounge\, Collins Center for the Arts\, 2 Flagstaff Rd.\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
CATEGORIES:Pre-Performance Lectures
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SUMMARY:Pre-Performance Lecture: Marisa Solomon on the Dreamers' Circus
DESCRIPTION:On Sunday\, February 26 at 2:00 pm\, the MHC continues its 2022-23 pre-performance lecture series at the Collins Center for the Arts\, with a talk by School of Performing Arts faculty member Marisa Solomon in the Bodwell Lounge\, before the Dreamers’ Circus take the stage of Minsky Recital Hall. Solomon received performance degrees from the Oberlin College and San Francisco Conservatories of Music. She is an avid chamber musician\, teacher and performer\, and was a founding member of the Hancock St. Quartet\, Nor’easter Quartet\, and Cormier Trio. This event is free and open to the public.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/pre-performance-lecture-marisa-solomon-on-the-dreamers-circus/
LOCATION:Bodwell Lounge\, Collins Center for the Arts\, 2 Flagstaff Rd.\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
CATEGORIES:Pre-Performance Lectures
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SUMMARY:Pre-Performance Lecture: Dan Barrett on Jazz at Lincoln Center
DESCRIPTION:On Sunday\, April 2 at 6:00 p.m.\, join the Collins Center for the Arts for a pre-performance lecture delivered by UMaine jazz professor Dan Barrett\, presented with the support of the Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center. \nDr. Dan Barrett teaches low brass instruments\, music theory\, and jazz courses at the University of Maine\, and plays and performs around the state. He also leads the Maine Trombone Collective and the Maine Brass Guild. Barrett’s career has included performances with the Utah Symphony\, the Bangor Symphony\, the Boston Brass and many other ensembles\, as well as solo performances with the Carson City Symphony\, the University of Maine Symphonic Band\, the University of Maine Farmington Concert Band\, the Brigham Young University Philharmonic Orchestra\, the Utah Premiere Brass Band\, and as a guest artist at the Eastern Trombone Workshop in Washington D.C. \nSongs We Love is a journey through the first 50 years of jazz song. Under the musical direction of Riley Mulherkar\, 3 guest vocalists will join an all-star band made up of New York’s rising stars. Combining their distinct talents\, the group will sing their way through four decades of music\, beginning with the early blues and jazz of the 1920s and ending in the early 1950s. Iconic singers to be explored include Ma Rainey\, Billie Holiday\, Ella Fitzgerald\, Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland. \nDan Barrett’s pre-performance lecture is free and open to the public. Tickets for Jazz at Lincoln Center’s “Songs We Love” begin at $30 and are available from the Collins Center for the Arts box office.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/pre-performance-lecture-dan-barrett-on-jazz-at-lincoln-center/
LOCATION:Bodwell Lounge\, Collins Center for the Arts\, 2 Flagstaff Rd.\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
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SUMMARY:Pre-Performance Lecture: Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo
DESCRIPTION:The McGillicuddy Humanities Center presents a pre-performance lecture by D Granke\, assistant professor in the UMaine School of Performing Arts Division of Theatre\, a director\, fight director\, intimacy director\, and theatre movement specialist. \nLes Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo\, the world’s foremost all-male comic ballet company\,  brings its internationally beloved troupe of dancers to the CCA as part of its landmark 50th anniversary season featuring gems from across the company’s groundbreaking repertoire.  Founded in New York City in 1974\, the company\, affectionately known as the Trocks\, has grown from its roots in late-late shows in off-off Broadway lofts to a global touring sensation\, performing from Tokyo to Toronto and everywhere in between.  The company dances en travesti with razor-sharp wit and breathtaking pointe work\, performing polished parodies of works that span the classical ballet canon.  Revered by ballet aficionados as well as by those who don’t know a plié from a jeté\, the Trocks are “a guaranteed hoot for people who know nothing of ballet and an absolute must for those who think they know the originals.” (Sydney Star Observer). \nD Granke’s pre-performance lecture is free and open to the public. Tickets for Les Ballets Trockadero begin at $27 for adults and $16 for K-12 students\, including all fees.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/pre-performance-lecture-les-ballets-trockadero-de-monte-carlo/
LOCATION:Bodwell Lounge\, Collins Center for the Arts\, 2 Flagstaff Rd.\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
CATEGORIES:Pre-Performance Lectures
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