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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A bus accident with multiple injuries will be the focus of a disaster simulation April 27 at the the University of Maine for students in the School of Nursing and University Volunteer Ambulance Corps (UVAC). The event, from 1–4 p.m. on campus, will feature a simulated bus accident and 31 actors with a range of […]
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The Sun Journal reported bands from Leavitt, Edward Little and Lewiston high schools will perform a free concert with the University of Maine Symphonic Band at 7 p.m. Friday, April 8, at the Leavitt Area High School. The show is part of the UMaine Symphonic Band’s performance tour through southern Maine that includes 10 free […]
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The Ellsworth American reported the Ellsworth Community Music Institute will present the Silver Duo — cellist Noreen Silver and pianist Phillip Silver — in a free concert from noon to 1 p.m. on Thursday, April 7 at the General Bryant E. Moore Community Center theater. The husband-and-wife Silver Duo was founded when the musicians were […]
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Registration is open for the 2016 Maine Sea Grant Research Symposium: Research in a Time of Rapid Change. The event will be held from 1–5 p.m. Thursday, April 14 in Buchanan Alumni House on the University of Maine campus. The biennial event serves as a forum for new and seasoned Maine Sea Grant investigators and […]
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The annual spring tour of the University of Maine Symphonic Band April 6–9 will feature 10 free public performances, including school assemblies and community concerts. The Symphonic Band, directed by Christopher White, is an auditioned group of 45 woodwind, brass and percussion performers with a repertoire that spans nearly 250 years. The band will feature […]
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The Suffolk Times mentioned the outstanding performance of the University of Maine Singers in Orient, New York. During spring break, the 66-member group performed free concerts in Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and New York.
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The Ellsworth American published a performance review written by Ginger Yang Hwalek, a music instructor at the University of Maine. Hwalek reviewed a recent Bangor Symphony Orchestra performance at the Collins Center for the Arts, which featured the music of Brahms, Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky.
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WABI (Channel 5) spoke with members of the University of Maine’s University Singers, as well as the group’s conductor, Francis Vogt, ahead of their annual spring tour. The 66-member choral group will perform at high schools, churches and a community college in four states from March 7–12. “We really use it as way to get […]
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