University of Maine students in an advanced art education course will present their community art service project, “Weaving a Story,” during the 22nd annual HOPE Festival. From 11 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Saturday, April 23 at the New Balance Student Recreation Center, the students will provide the opportunity for participants to contribute to a collaborative […]
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The Bangor Daily News and The Weekly previewed the Bangor Symphony Orchestra’s season-closing concert and semi-staged performance of Giacomo Puccini’s “La Boheme.” The four-act opera is set for 3 p.m. Sunday, April 24 at the Collins Center for the Arts. The performance will mark the first time in recent memory that a live opera will […]
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The Maine Edge published a review of the Maine Masque production of Bert V. Royal’s “Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead.” Maine Masque is the University of Maine’s longtime student-run theater group. The show is viewed as an “unauthorized parody,” a bleak and unsettling reimagining of Charles Schultz’s beloved “Charlie Brown” characters as […]
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The Ellsworth American reported Brandon Aponte of Brooklin won the Bay Chamber Concerts’ 2016 Young Stars of Maine Program for violin, which includes a $1,000 scholarship. Aponte studies violin with University of Maine music professor Anatole Wieck and is a freshman at John Bapst Memorial High School in Bangor, according to the article. He will […]
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Editor’s note: Due to predicted rain this event has been rescheduled for May 11. The Coaction Lab at the University of Maine will present “FLOW: An evening of water themed light & projection” at the Thomas Hill Standpipe in Bangor on May 4. The multimedia event — a partnership between the Intermedia MFA program at […]
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The University of Maine Humanities Center (UMHC) has awarded more than $10,000 to seven faculty grant projects, including several based in the community. Spring 2016 UMHC Faculty Grants were awarded to: Constant Albertson, associate professor of art, to support the new media component of her ceramic art project, “Coordinates of Collateral Damage.” Kirsten Jacobson, associate […]
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A piano trio named after a witty German poet will play at 3 p.m. Sunday, May 1, in Minsky Recital Hall at the University of Maine. Catherine Klipfel, piano; Stefan Hempel, violin; and Emanuel Wehse, cello, compose the Morgenstern Trio, whose namesake is Christian Morgenstern. The musicians met while studying at Folkwang Conservatory in Germany. […]
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Darren Ranco, chair of Native American Programs and coordinator of Native American Research at the University of Maine, was mentioned in a Portland Press Herald article about the Portland Museum of Art exhibit, “Edward Curtis: Selections from the North American Indian.” Ranco, who also is an anthropology professor at UMaine, will participate in the panel […]
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The Maine Edge reported the 22nd HOPE Festival will take place from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, April 23 at the New Balance Student Recreation Center at the University of Maine. An organizational fair of more than 50 tables sponsored by progressive groups in Eastern Maine also will be part of the event, according […]
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A project to bring full-text scores from the Maine Music Box database into Digital Commons is underway. The first of several series to be migrated is the “Vocal Popular Sheet Music Collection” with 5,200 illustrated sheet music scores now available on Digital Commons. Materials in the public domain, or published before 1923, may be downloaded […]
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