Eight days after Mark O’Connor and his band perform at the University of Maine, their 12-song “Coming Home” album could take home Best Bluegrass Album at the Grammy Awards. The O’Connor Band, which fuses country, acoustic pop, folk, classical and Americana, plays at 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 4 at the Collins Center for the Arts. […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported on three exhibitions on display through May 6 at the University of Maine Museum of Art in downtown Bangor. The centerpiece of the museum’s winter exhibits is “Brenton Hamilton: 20 Years,” a mid-career retrospective of the Maine-based photographer’s work, according to the article. Hamilton uses old-fashioned photographic techniques to create […]
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This spring, the University of Maine Department of Art will offer a five-week, after-school art program for children in grades K–8. ArtWorks! gives children an opportunity to explore the world of art through viewing and hands-on experiences with a variety of visual media. All classes will be taught by UMaine students, under the supervision of […]
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The Bangor Symphony Orchestra will provide live musical introductions before two Friday evening public programs in February at the University of Maine’s Emera Astronomy Center. Feb. 3 and Feb. 24, BSO musicians will perform works from Star Wars movies to open the center’s public program “Stars,” narrated by the actor Mark Hamill. The program explores […]
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WVII (Channel 7) and the Bangor Daily News reported on the winter exhibits currently on display at the University of Maine Museum of Art in downtown Bangor. Brenton Hamilton: 20 years is a midcareer retrospective of the Maine-based photographer’s work, which uses old-fashioned techniques to create pictures with an antique and contemporary feel. “There’s now […]
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WABI (Channel 5) reported on the Bangor Symphony Orchestra’s Jan. 22 concert at the Collins Center for the Arts. Noreen Silver, instructor of cello and chamber music at the University of Maine, performed as a soloist during F.J. Haydn’s Cello Concerto No. 1 in C major. The program also included music by Bach and Handel. […]
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The latest art installation by Samantha Jones, an adjunct professor of art and Honors College preceptor at the University of Maine, is currently on display at 3S Artspace in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Seacoast Online reported. Jones recruited art students from Blue Hill Harbor School, a small alternative high school, to work with her on the […]
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A quartet celebrated for its wit, joy of making music and technical and interpretive talents will perform at 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 29 at Minsky Recital Hall at the University of Maine. The award-winning and popular Danish String Quartet will play a wide range of music, including Beethoven’s No. 8, Op. 59 No. 2, as […]
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The University of Maine’s Innovative Media Research and Commercialization (IMRC) Center will showcase visiting artists of various mediums, faculty presentations, and performances as part of its spring 2017 artist lecture series. The Tuesdays at the IMRC series provides the university community an opportunity to meet and learn from artists of differing backgrounds who will perform, […]
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The Bangor Daily News and Ellsworth American reported Noreen Silver, instructor of cello and chamber music at the University of Maine, will perform as a soloist during the Bangor Symphony Orchestra’s Jan. 22 concert at the Collins Center for the Arts. Silver’s performance of F.J. Haydn’s Cello Concerto No. 1 in C major with the […]
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