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September 25, 2011

PSO opens 87th season

PORTLAND — The Portland Symphony Orchestra opens its 83rd season with two performances featuring the music of Michael Torke, Beethoven and Brahms, and a guest appearance by pianist Awadagin Pratt. The season opens at 2:30 p.m. Oct. 2 with a concert at Merrill Auditorium under the direction of Robert Moody. The symphony repeats the program […]
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September 25, 2011

Signings, etc.

DAVID LIVINGSTONE SMITH
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September 25, 2011

Author Q & A: Text of kin

Waterville's David O. Solmitz has written a new memoir that mines previously unexplored family history in the context of world calamity.
Published
September 25, 2011

Arts Dispatches

KENNEBUNK ‘Trust in Art’ auction marks fifth year on Saturday Heartwood College of Art and the Kennebunkport Conservation Trust will partner for the fifth annual “Trust in Art” auction Saturday at Atlantic Hall, Cape Porpoise. Forty southern Maine painters have been invited to paint the Goat Island Lighthouse in celebration of the recent renovations that […]
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September 25, 2011

Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

May Sarton, one of Maine’s best-known poets, was adept at poetry in forms as well as free verse. In this week’s poem, using a three-beat line and haunting rhymes, she links the annual departure of geese to the losses and sorrows of women.

Published
September 25, 2011

Arts Planner

• Portland Ovations opens its season Thursday with a concert by contemporary jazz trumpeter Chris Botti. Showtime is 7:30 p.m. at Merrill Auditorium. A Grammy Award winner, Botti fuses jazz and pop. Since the release of his 2004 album “When I Fall In Love,” Botti has become the largest-selling American jazz instrumental artist. He has […]
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September 25, 2011

Art Review: Mini artists’ colony thrives in Millinocket

If you like the Maine landscape, there isn’t anything better than seeing the real landscape in person. And while it might seem obvious that galleries would thrive in the places visitors go to experience the Maine landscape, having artists lead the way is an often overlooked benefit. That Homer, Hopper, Hartley, the Wyeths and so […]
Published
September 18, 2011

Book Review: ‘Tennessee Stud’ gets a good ride in ‘Rode’

More than a half-century ago, Jimmy Driftwood wrote a song about a man and his horse, “Tennessee Stud,” that told the story of a man’s lost love, travels and adventures with the horse, and eventual happy ending with his sweetheart. Inspired by the song, Thomas Fox Averill, a professor at Washburn University in Topeka, Kan., […]
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September 18, 2011

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Photographer Tanja Alexia Hollander is on a good old-fashioned portrait kick, but she's taking her subjects from a thoroughly modern pool.
Published
September 18, 2011

Book Review: A 1789 Portland trial comes to life in ‘Stoking Embers’

Jerry Genesio, a Bridgton resident who’s published three books in the last 14 years, ventures into historical fiction in his most recent work. Based on documents and his own careful research, “Stoking the Embers of War” describes a tragic miscarriage of justice that happened in Portland 221 years ago. It’s the story of the trial […]

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