The Weekly previewed the Oct. 27 performance by the University of Maine Symphonic Band and the UMaine Jazz Ensemble at the Collins Center for the Arts. The 45-member Symphonic Band, under the direction of Christopher White, will play pieces by Gustav Theodore Holst, Toshio Iwai, John Philip Sousa, Eric Whitacre and François-Joseph Gossec. The Jazz […]
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University of Maine Professor of Music Beth Wiemann is a fellow in the Hambidge Creative Residency Program in Dillard, Ga., where she is working on a piece tentatively titled “Before the Snow” for the Vermont Symphony Orchestra’s fall 2014 tour. Residencies at Hambidge, situated in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, are awarded by […]
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The University of Maine Symphonic Band and the UMaine Jazz Ensemble will both perform at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 27 at the Collins Center for the Arts. Under the direction of Christopher White, the University of Maine Symphonic Band will play pieces by Gustav Theodore Holst, Toshio Iwai, John Philip Sousa, Eric Whitacre and François-Joseph […]
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The University of Maine School of Performing Arts presents Silver Duo in concert with guest violinist Lydia Forbes on Oct. 19 at 7:30 p.m. in Minsky Recital Hall on the Orono campus. UMaine faculty members Phillip Silver, pianist, and Noreen Silver, cellist, form the Silver Duo. The Silvers welcome Forbes for the Homecoming weekend performance. […]
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The Maine Edge previewed the two-day celebration of Jewish culture slated at the Collins Center for the Arts at the University of Maine. The North American debut of Orchester Jakobsplatz Munich on Oct. 17 will highlight two days of music, lectures and film celebrating Jewish culture and honoring its history. The event begins at 7 […]
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Jack Burt, an associate professor of music at the University of Maine, performed with the European Brass Ensemble in Carinthia, Austria and Merano, Italy earlier this month. Burt, who plays trumpet, also visited the Gustav Mahler Composition Hut on the Wörthersee, where Mahler composed Symphony No. 5 through Symphony No. 9. Professor Thomas Clamor directs […]
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The Penobscot Bay Pilot reported the University of Maine School of Performing Arts’ 2013 production of “Spring Awakening” was named a New England Theatre Conference Moss Hart Memorial Award winner. Craig Ouellette, a former UMaine graduate student and current Camden-Rockport Middle School music teacher, was the play’s musical director.
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The Bangor Daily News previewed the two-day celebration of Jewish culture slated at the Collins Center for the Arts at the University of Maine. The North American debut of Orchester Jakobsplatz Munich on Oct. 17 will highlight two days of music, lectures and film celebrating Jewish culture and honoring its history. The event begins at […]
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The University of Maine’s Collins Center for the Arts and University of Maine Museum of Art in Bangor were both cited in a MarketWatch column, titled “Retire here, not there: Maine.” Both facilities were included as affordable and culturally rich benefits of retiring in Maine.
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University of Maine School of Performing Arts dance students present “Emerging Dance” at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 10 in Minsky Recital Hall on the Orono campus. The performance will highlight works in progress and feature a variety of dance styles and student choreography. Admission is free. For disability accommodations, contact the School of Performing Arts, 207.581.1781.
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