WABI reports on Pride of Maine Black Bear Marching Band show
WABI (Channel 5 in Bangor) reported that the Pride of Maine Black Bear Marching Band will perform an ’80s themed show at the football home opener on Sept. 10 against Colgate.
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Bangor Band to perform last concert conducted by professor emeritus Farnham Aug. 9
The Bangor Band will host its final concert of the season at 6:30 p.m. Aug. 9 at the Waterfront Concerts Maine Savings Amphitheater in Bangor. The free concert will be the last led by longtime conductor Curvin “Chip” Farnham, professor emeritus of music at the University of Maine. Seats will be available in the amphitheater […]
Read moreNews Center Maine boosts Maine Summer Youth Music camp at UMaine
News Center Maine reported on the start of the annual Maine Summer Youth Music camp for middle and high schoolers at the University of Maine. The camp offers youths opportunities to learn and perform in jazz and string ensembles, concert and symphonic bands and musical theater and choir groups. Campers arrived on campus Sunday and […]
Read moreUMaine preps for 50th annual Maine Youth Summer Music Camp
Editor’s note: Story updated July 7. The Division of Music in the University of Maine School of Performing Arts is celebrating its 50th annual Maine Summer Youth Music Camp this July, returning to its traditional in-person, residential experience after two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. The camp, led by Christopher White, UMaine director of bands, […]
Read moreBDN reviews “The Moors” at Cyrus Pavilion Theater
The Bangor Daily News reviewed playwright Jen Silverman’s 90-minute, one-act play “The Moors,” presented this weekend by True North Theatre at the Cyrus Pavilion at the University of Maine. Lauren Billings, who plays the free-spirited younger sister Huldey, will begin her third year as a theater major with a minor in dance at the University […]
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Emily Dunlap: The UMaine music education experience
Emily Dunlap from Old Town, Maine is a rising fourth-year music education major with an instrumental concentration. She is also in the Honors College. Dunlap has received the Thomas E. Lynch Honors Fellowship, been recognized as a James S. Stevens Outstanding Junior and is an alumni member of the 2021 Macy’s Great American Alumni Marching […]
Read moreWiemann opera about Rose Standish Nichols boosted by Beacon Hill Times, Boston Sun
Broadway World, the Boston Sun and Beacon Hill Times shared information about a performance of an original, one-woman opera based on the life of Rose Standish Nichols, pacifist, suffragist, garden designer and museum founder who died in 1960 at the age of 88. Beth Wiemann, professor of composition, clarinet and music theory in the University […]
Read moreEllsworth American features Birch concert
The Ellsworth American shared information about a concert by Kevin Birch, music faculty member at the University of Maine’s School of the Performing Arts, at 7 p.m. Friday, June 3, at Hammond Hall in Winter Harbor. A historical instrument specialist, Birch will perform on the clavichord, a precursor to the piano played largely from the […]
Read moreBDN shares ‘Sound of Silence’ performance available online
The Bangor Daily News shared that “Sounds from Silence: Rescuing Music Suppressed by the Nazis,” the performance by the Silver Duo in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah), is available online. In the performance, University of Maine School of Performing Arts professor and pianist Phillip Silver presented his research on rescuing music suppressed by […]
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“Sounds from Silence: Rescuing Music Suppressed by the Nazis,” the performance by the Silver Duo in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah), is available online. In the performance, University of Maine School of Performing Arts professor and pianist Phillip Silver presented his research on rescuing music suppressed by the Nazis. He was joined in […]
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