Williams, who has written more than 100 film scores, is devoting himself to composing concert music, including a piano concerto he’s writing for Emanuel Ax.
Life & Culture
Stories about life, culture, entertainment and arts from the Portland Press Herald.
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Press Play: Listen to ‘Sloe Gin Fizz’ by Jeff Christmas
The track is a new single by the Portland-based singer songwriter who you can see tonight in Portland.
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Posted inArts & Entertainment, Do This
Got Tix: Where to find concert tickets to upcoming shows
Grab tickets for the ultimate Prince tribute in Arundel on Saturday.
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Theater backs off plan to fast-forward through same-sex ‘Lightyear’ kiss
Owners of a theater in central Oklahoma took down a sign that said they would fast-forward through the same-sex kiss in the animated film “Lightyear.”
Posted inAnimals, Arts & Entertainment, Life & Culture
Sound off! Trumpet is 1st bloodhound to win Westminster show
The competition drew more than 3,000 purebred dogs, ranging from Affenpinschers to Yorkshire terriers.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, News
Civil jury finds Bill Cosby sexually abused teenager in 1975
Jurors found that Bill Cosby intentionally caused harmful sexual contact with a 16-year-old girl at the Playboy Mansion in 1975.
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Colbert says his staffers guilty of ‘first-degree puppetry’
CBS says the interviews were authorized and pre-arranged and it wasn’t clear if Capitol Police were told in advance that the employees would be in a building normally closed to visitors.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Nation & World
For K-pop supergroup BTS, questions remain about its future
HYBE, the company behind the band, denied the group was taking a hiatus – a word used in a translation of the group’s emotional dinnertime video announcement last week.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Review
‘Good Luck to You, Leo Grande’: Finding sex and self-acceptance at 55
In “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande,” Emma Thompson plays Nancy Stokes, a widow and retired religion education teacher who has endured a lifetime of erotic unfulfillment. Until today. As the movie opens, Nancy is arriving at a featureless hotel room to meet the sex worker she has procured for the evening – a last-ditch […]
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Theater review: ‘Be Here Now’ takes a heavy look at the subject of happiness
The thought-provoking play is having its Maine premiere at the Public Theatre in Lewiston.