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Bob Keyes writes about the visual and performing arts for the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram. He appreciates that his job requires him to visit museums and attend plays and concerts across Maine, and most enjoys interviewing artists in their studios. He’s a New Englander by birth, and has lived in Maine off and on, most recently since 2002. He lives in Berwick with his wife, Vicki, and their son Luke.

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  • Published
    February 9, 2012

    Student composers get rare chance to hear orchestra play their music

    For a group of budding classical music composers, Saturday’s concert by the Southern Maine Symphony Orchestra at Gorham Middle School affords a rare opportunity. The orchestra will perform compositions written by three students at the University of Southern Maine’s School of Music: Aaron Pettengill, a junior violin performance major from Saco and Lewiston; Timothy Burns […]

  • Published
    February 5, 2012

    Arts Planner

    • Portland Ovations brings the Swedish folk group Vasen to Portland for a concert at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 16. The performance will be at Hannaford Hall at the University of Southern Maine. Darol Anger and Friends will open the show. Vasen is comprised of three of Sweden’s best musicians: Olov Johansson, Mikael Marin and Roger […]

  • Published
    February 3, 2012

    New public art at USM extols civic life, service

    The abstract piece by Mark Wethli of Brunswick is three-dimensional and made of interlinked poplar.

  • Published
    February 2, 2012

    ’70s: Take a bow

    The musicals of the ’70s made a big impression on the people behind today’s music and theater productions in Maine.

  • Published
    January 29, 2012

    Fiction with fangs

    Portland author Sarah Thomson puts her own spin on the vampire tale and, say critics and her young-adult audience, it’s a bloody good read.

  • Published
    January 26, 2012

    It’s curtains up at local theaters

    Shows range from the noir ‘Trouble Is My Business’ and comedy ‘The Language Archive’ to the classic ‘The Glass Menagerie.’

  • Published
    January 25, 2012

    Success in music takes guest conductor far

    Dmitry Sitkovetsky also performs as a soloist in Sunday’s concert.

  • Published
    January 24, 2012
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    Report highlights sites for artists to live, work

    A national group points to five possible places in Portland to develop studio and living spaces.

  • Published
    January 23, 2012

    Guest conductor has royalty on his resume

    Christopher Warren-Green, who conducted the British royal wedding last spring, is visiting Portland.

  • Published
    January 22, 2012

    Bob Keyes: Winter wonderscape of new shows

    New shows feature a mixed-media bag ranging from high-tech digital to old-school oil on canvas.