BRUNSWICK Bowdoin festival founder honored by Juilliard Bowdoin International Music Festival founder Lewis Kaplan, a member of the Juilliard School’s violin and chamber music faculties, has been named the 2011 recipient of the William Schuman Scholar’s Chair. The Schuman Chair is awarded each year by Juilliard’s Literature and Materials of Music Department to a Juilliard […]

• Maestro Robert Moody and members of the Portland Symphony Orchestra return to Merrill Auditorium for two late-January concerts. At 7:30 p.m. Jan. 25, the orchestra and guest pianist Andrew von Oeyen present “From Russia with Love,” featuring Sergei Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3, and Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5. But the main event of […]

SACO — The Saco Museum is showing a collection of photographs by Charles E. Moody from the late 19th and early 20th century. The photographer lived in town and made images that “transcended the documentary abilities of the medium to create photographs of astonishing quality, capturing the beauty, humor and contrasts of this idiosyncratic state,” […]

Arthur Fink celebrates the readying of his exhibition of dance photos with a gala opening complete with improvisational movement pieces by Karen Montanaro.

The Maine Crafts Association named Katharine Cobey Maine’s 2010 “Master Craft Artist.” Cobey is a knitter. If you haven’t yet wrapped your head around the idea that fiber, clay, glass, wood and other media traditionally associated with fine craft can handle edgy artistic content as well as painting, stone and bronze, then you should definitely […]

‘The Fighter’ also carries a slew of nominations into tonight’s 68th annual extravaganza.