The Bangor Daily News shared a profile of Kaitlin McCullough, a UMaine senior from Ellsworth majoring in music education who will be singing the National Anthem at the 2023 University of Maine commencement ceremonies.
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The University of Maine Collins Center for the Arts will host a Maine Indie Music Showcase, featuring four Maine-based bands, at 8 p.m. April 15. The event will include performances by headliner GoldenOak, a folk-inspired band with music rooted in the natural landscape; Gnocchi, a rock band from Orono; Midnight Breakfast, an indie-soul sextet; and […]
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The Ellsworth American noted that students from the University of Maine School of Performing Arts will join the Downeast Chamber Orchestra, Down East Maine’s newest classical music ensemble, for a concert of notable classical works led by violinist and conductor Anatole Wieck on Friday, April 7, at 6 p.m. at Hammond Hall. For more information […]
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Screenings of a filmed version of the opera “I Give You My Home,” with music and libretto written by Beth Wiemann, professor of music and director of the McGillicuddy Humanities Center, will be screened in venues across New England in March and April. The piece, inspired by the life and work of Rose Standish Nichols, […]
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Kaitlin McCullough has spent years shaping her own unique singing voice, and she is ready to share it with thousands of people during the 2023 University of Maine commencement ceremonies. Commencement is not the first event at which McCullough, a UMaine senior from Ellsworth majoring in music education, has sung the “National Anthem.” She performed […]
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WABI-TV (Channel 5 in Bangor) reported that the True North Theatre will host performances of the play “Silent Sky” on March 23, at the Versant Power Astronomy Center. For more information about the production, visit the center’s website.
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WFVX-TV (Fox 22/ABC 7 in Bangor) shared events from the University of Maine School of Performing Arts. This weekend, the UMaine Singers and Alumni Concert at the Collins Center for the Arts will celebrate longtime University Singers conductor, Dennis “DC” Cox. Next weekend, the Department of Theatre offers up the play “Everybody,” a modern adaption […]
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Orono-based theater company True North Theatre (TNT) will perform the play “Silent Sky,” based on the true story of 19th-century astronomer Henrietta Leavitt, at the Versant Power Astronomy Center in March and April. Performances of “Silent Sky” are scheduled as follows: Thursdays, March 23 and 30 at 7 p.m. Friday, March 24 at 7 p.m. […]
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The Detroit Jewish News reported on the upcoming performance by Noreen and Phillip Silver, faculty in the University of Maine School of Performing Arts, titled “The Music of Resistance,” at 6 p.m. on March 18, the Ukrainian-American Archives Museum in Hamtramck, Michigan. The Silvers will perform with Ukrainian-American violinist Solmia Soroka, a professor at Goshen […]
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Noreen and Phillip Silver, faculty in the University of Maine School of Performing Arts, will perform a concert entitled “The Music of Resistance” at the Ukrainian-American Archives Museum in Hamtramck, Michigan, on Saturday, March 18, at 6 p.m. This recital presents works by Jewish and Ukrainian composers, including James Simon, Leone Sinigaglia, Paul Ben-Haim, Mykola […]
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