UMaine Music, Theater, Dance Schedule Announced
Contact: Contacts: Karen Cole, 581-4704; George Manlove, 581-3756
ORONO – The University of Maine School of Performing Arts has announced its spring 2006 music, theater and dance schedule, featuring faculty, students and, in some cases, members of surrounding communities.
Admission to the events is $6 and UMaine students are admitted free with a MaineCard, unless otherwise noted. The Maine Center for the Arts box office at 581-1755 has more information, as does the UMaine SPA website at www.umaine.edu/spa
All faculty recitals are held at 7:30 p.m. in Minsky Recital Hall in the Class of 1944 Hall.
Faculty Recitals
Saturday, Feb. 4, Silver Duo – Piano/Cello Recital
The internationally renowned Silver Duo, featuring Phillip and Noreen Silver of the School of Performing Arts Music Division, will perform four 19th Century masterpieces, including sonatas by Beethoven and Brahms, Schumann’s ever popular “Fantasy Pieces” and the hauntingly beautiful, “Malinconia” by Sibelius.
Saturday, Feb. 11 – Violin Recital, featuring Anatole Wieck & Friends
Thursday, March 23, “Back to Bach”
An all-Bach program, featuring the “Coffee Contata” and two baritone solo contatas. Featuring Ludlow Hallman with fellow faculty members and friends
SPA Ensemble Series
Saturday, March 25, University Singers Concert
After their spring break tour throughout the northeast, the singers perform this concert for their friends back home. Minsky Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, March 28, Three Bands Concert
A local middle school, a high school, and the UMaine Concert Band will join together on the Hutchins Concert Hall stage, under the baton of a guest conductor, in a benefit for Acadia Hospital. Maine Center for the Arts, 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, April 11, Chamber Concert
The concert is the culminating activity for our chamber music course. Minsky Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, April 13, Opera Workshop
In Opera Workshop, students perform music from the standard opera, operetta and musical repertoire, as well as chamber operas and experimental works in a workshop setting. Minsky Recital Hall, 12 p.m.
Thursday, April 13, Symphonic Band and Concert Band
The two bands play separately, then together for this concert at Maine Center for the Arts; 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 15, Collegiate Chorale
The 50-plus voice Collegiate Chorale’s repertoire is drawn from all style periods from the Middle Ages to the present. Minsky Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m.
April 21 & 22, “Broadway Nights”
Students perform a selection of songs straight from Broadway stages of yesterday and today. Minsky Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, April 23, University Singers, Oratorio Society and BSO
University Singers and Oratorio Society will join Bangor Symphony Orchestra for “Inspiration and Consolation,” a performance of “Ein Deutsches Requiem, op. 45” (German requiem) by Johannes Brahms. Maine Center for the Arts, 3 p.m.
Tuesday, April 25, Percussion Ensemble
This ensemble draws its literature from a wide variety of styles from transcriptions to contemporary music for percussion. Minsky Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, April 27, Jazz Ensemble
Big band at its best. The ensemble is devoted to performing a wide variety of challenging, significant, diversified and contemporary literature within the genre. Minsky Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 29, Orchestra Concert
The orchestra will perform works from a standard repertoire. Minsky Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, April 30, Athena Consort/Black Bear Men’s Chorus
Sing into spring with the unique sounds of UMaine’s women’s and men’s choruses.
Minsky Recital Hall, 2 p.m.
Theatre
“Jesus Christ Superstar”
This “rock opera” tells the story of Christ’s final days, dramatized with emotional intensity, thought-provoking edge and explosive theatricality. Propelled by a stirring score by Andrew Lloyd Webber, the musical contains an effective mix of hard-driving rock tunes and wonderfully soulful ballads, all with a highly theatrical flavor. “Jesus Christ Superstar” illuminates the transcendent power of the human spirit with a passion that goes straight to the heart. “Superstar” opened on Broadway in 1971 and ran for 720 performances. Directed by Sandra Hardy. Hauck Auditorium. Feb.16-18, 23-25 at 7:30 p.m.; Feb 19 and 26 at 2 p.m. Admission $12, UMaine students $6 with MaineCard.
“American Buffalo & Boston Marriage”
UMaine’s student-run theatre organization, Maine Masque, will present two David Mamet plays in succession. “American Buffalo,” David Mamet’s breakthrough masterpiece, tells the story of three men on the fringe of society, whose friendships unravel during a botched robbery attempt. This tense, gritty, sometimes violent play features the coarse, rapid fire dialogue that has become Mamet’s trademark.
“Boston Marriage,” a newer play by Mamet, is set in a Victorian drawing room and channels the wit of Oscar Wilde. In this sexy comedy, two society women, who also happen to be in a lesbian relationship, must deal with the aftermath when their romantic liaisons, one with a man, one with a woman, go horribly awry.
Directed by Allen Adams; April 12-15 at 7:30 p.m., Hauck Auditorium
(Show dates: American Buffalo – 4/12; Boston Marriage – 4/13; Boston Marriage, followed by American Buffalo on 4/14; American Buffalo, followed by Boston Marriage on 4/15. Please check website for prices: www.umaine.edu/spa
Admission $6 for one show, $8 for both.
Readers’ Theatre Series
“A Wild & Wacky World”
Original comedy, written and performed by students, under the direction of Sandra Hardy, associate professor of theater. Minsky Recital Hall, Tuesday, May 4 at 7:30 p.m.
Dance
May 5-6, Dance Concert, Hauck Auditorium, 7:30 p.m. Admission $8; students with a MaineCard free