Arts & Entertainment
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PublishedMarch 7, 2010
Review: ‘Harold’ depicts bygone era, but its lessons still resonate
PORTLAND – The Portland Stage Company’s latest production deals with the serious subject of a type of racism that was a part of everyday life in South Africa in the era of apartheid. Athol Fugard’s “Master Harold and the Boys” takes place in 1950 and hit home hard in 1982 when it had its world […]
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PublishedMarch 7, 2010
Arts Planner
This week • Michael Trautman’s Big Time Vaudeville Show makes it final appearance of the season at 7 p.m. Saturday at Merriconeag Waldorf School, 57 Desert Road, Freeport. The performance will include appearances by Jones & Boyce and Dos Eckies. Jones & Boyce are Brian Jones and Susan Boyce, a song, dance, and comedy team […]
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PublishedMarch 7, 2010
Tonight’s the night
Will double the number of Best Picture nominees make for twice the suspense at the Oscars? Probably not, but there should be plenty enough intrigue to satisfy your inner cinemaniac.
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PublishedMarch 7, 2010
Arts Dispatches
PORTLAND Hurt flutist Galway cancels guest spot in NPR’s concert Flutist Sir James Galway, who was scheduled to appear as a guest as part of a concert and recording of the NPR show “From the Top” at 7 p.m. March 24 at Merrill Auditorium, will not be part of the performance because of an injury. […]
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PublishedMarch 7, 2010
Author elegantly invokes the gods
John Banville interweaves a gifted mathematician with parallel universes.
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PublishedMarch 7, 2010
Classical Beat: DaPonte quartet unseals Janacek’s ‘Intimate Letters’
In my music library is a paperback by the British writer Nigel Cawthorne titled “Sex Lives of the Great Composers.” The great Czech composer Leos Janacek isn’t featured, but he should have been. Unhappily married, he consoled himself with a series of affairs that were found extremely shocking at the time. His most famous opera, […]
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PublishedMarch 7, 2010
Friends in high places
From Mount Katahdin to the White House, it's the story of Maine guide Bill Sewall and his long and influential friendship with Teddy Roosevelt.
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PublishedMarch 7, 2010
Oscars’ In Memoriam always tugs at the heart
The moving segment can be painful to put together, says its producer.
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PublishedMarch 7, 2010
Sculptor goes diving for sunken treasure
WESTBROOK – Sometime after ice-out this spring, Portland artist Aaron Stephan will hop in a truck with a buddy and travel north to Moosehead Lake and the headwaters of the Kennebec River. They will scavenge for old-growth logs left over from the logging boom, buried in the mud in the depths below the surface. Hundreds […]
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PublishedMarch 7, 2010
West Java puppets will perform to gamelan
LEWISTON – The Bates College Gamelan Orchestra, joined by Indonesian puppeteer Apep Sobani and composer Wahyu Roche, performs at 8 p.m. Saturday in Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St. The program includes music, featuring compositions written for the Bates ensemble by Roche, and a performance of the Indonesian puppetry style called wayang golek, […]
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