Founded in 1964, the festival brings students from all over the world to study for six weeks with world-class classical musicians in Brunswick. The festival also includes 20 ticketed concerts and dozens of free shows in the area.
Life & Culture
Stories about life, culture, entertainment and arts from the Portland Press Herald.
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Face the Music: Peter Gallway’s pandemic-inspired album is ‘Deliberate’
The release show for Gallway’s album with The Real Band is Saturday in Portland.
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Live Music Lineup: Jeff Christmas, Cure covers and Canadian indie-pop act
All three shows are in Portland.
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Indie Film: There are a lot of harsh truths in Afrofuturistic fable ‘Neptune Frost’
The 2021 film is screening at Space this weekend.
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‘Lightyear’ stays earthbound, ‘Jurassic World’ holds No. 1 at box office
“Lightyear” disappoints with $51 million in its debut weekend in North America.
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Book review: When a librarian and her widowed mom fly to England to help run a family bookstore, they get more than they bargained for
‘Chapter and Curse,’ the first in a new mystery series from Elizabeth Penney, offers likeable characters and plausible motivations – for murder.
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Tracy Flick is back – and she’s tired of losing
Flick, the ambitious high school student from Tom Perrotta’s 1998 novel ‘Election,’ is now an assistant principal in the sequel, ‘Tracy Flick Can’t Win.’
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Society Notebook: Culinary students whip up support for LearningWorks with new cookbook
A launch party for ‘The LearningWorks YouthBuild Cookbook’ raised $50,000 for the Portland nonprofit.
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Bedside table: Two books, one soothing, one a lot less so
Book recommendations from readers.
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Deep Water: ‘My Father Could Take Apart a Dryer,’ by Jefferson Navicky
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.