PORTLAND — Maine State Ballet will present “ Swan Lake” at 2 p.m. March 31 and April 1 at Merrill Auditorium. “The show is a rare opportunity for Maine residents to see a large-scale version of Tchaikovsky’s first ballet, which premiered in Russia 135 years ago,” a Maine State Ballet release states. “The presentation showcases […]

BRUNSWICK — University of Maine at Augusta student jazz ensembles, under the direction of professors Tim Weir and Richard Nelson, will offer a free performance from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday at Frontier Café in Fort Andross on Maine Street. The performers are all enrolled in the Jazz and Contemporary Music Program at the […]

TOPSHAM — The DaPonte String Quartet titled its spring program “Fatal Attraction.” The program includes Franz Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden” quartet. “It’s gorgeous and deeply moving; but when the four musicians decided to couple it with Alban Berg’s ‘Lyric Suite,’ written in 1927, they worried that a piece of music that they had grown […]