LEWISTON — Guest artists from Indonesia, an Indonesian-style dancer from California and a Maine composer will all have a part in Bates College’s Gamelan Orchestra concert on Saturday, March 31. Joining the orchestra, which plays traditional Indonesian gamelan instruments, are drummer-composer Wahyu Roche and dancer Achmad Farmis, both of Indonesia, and dancer Ben Arcangel. The […]
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Bates’ Gamelan ensemble will perform at UMF
FARMINGTON — Bates College’s Gamelan Degung Ensemble will perform traditional and contemporary music from western Java on Sunday, March 18, at the University of Maine at Farmington. The ensemble will be joined by composer, cellist and UMF Professor of Music Philip Carlsen for the premiere of his “Tango Tanggung” for cello and gamelan. Admission to […]
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Bates Dance Festival holding arts camp for kids
LEWISTON — The Bates Dance Festival will offer its three-week Youth Arts Program from July 23 through Aug. 10 at the Benjamin Mays Center on the campus of Bates College. Now in its 19th year, YAP has changed the lives of many youth, enhancing their self-confidence and opening up new avenues of expression. Offering local […]
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Bates musicians will present Brahms, Debussy, Handel
LEWISTON — Bates College musicians will offer three masterpieces of the art music repertory in March: Brahms’ Symphony No. 3, Debussy’s “Prelude a l’apres-midi d’un faune” and the second and third parts of Handel’s “Messiah.” Conducted by Hiroya Miura of the Bates faculty, the Bates College Orchestra will perform the Brahms and Debussy compositions at […]
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Capital and Vienna piano trios will perform at Bates
LEWISTON — A couple of piano trios will give performances in March at Bates College. The Capital Trio — pianist and 1993 Bates graduate Duncan Cumming, violinist Hilary Cumming and cellist Selen Dikener — will perform at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 9. The Vienna Piano Trio, which has performed in virtually every major music center […]
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Correction: Cochrane artwork locations
AUBURN — The River Views column on Page B1 on Feb. 7 about artwork by Harry Cochrane incorrectly named two locations of his paintings. The locations should have been the First Universalist Church of Auburn, which is on Pleasant Street, and the High Street Methodist Church in Auburn, now demolished. It was a reporting error.
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BatesDowntown concerts continues with Middle Eastern ensemble
LEWISTON — The Okbari Middle Eastern Ensemble will bring music from the Turkish, Arabic and Armenian cultures to the BatesDowntown concert series on Friday, March 2. The 5 p.m. performance at 22 Park St., the former Maple Room, is open to the public at no cost. Okbari’s repertoire includes Ottoman Turkish classical compositions, rural Turkish […]
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Novelist Justin Tussing will give reading at Bates
LEWISTON — Justin Tussing will read from his novel, “The Best People in the World,” at Bates College on Thursday, March 8, as part of the school’s Language Arts Live series. The book is about an unlikely trio — a teenager, his history teacher and a local anarchist — who trek from rural Kentucky to […]
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Bates College theater will present Ibsen’s ‘Doll House’
LEWISTON — Henrik Ibsen’s 19th-century play “A Doll’s House,” which still sparks debate about a woman’s role in family and society, will be presented at Bates College in March. College senior Elizabeth Castellano of New Suffolk, N.Y., is directing the play as part of her honors thesis in theater. Set in Norway in the 1870s, […]