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April 10, 2011

Arts Planner

This week • He has been called the most famous organist in the world today, and such hyperbole is probably not too far off the mark. Cameron Carpenter returns to Portland to work his magic on the Kotzschmar Organ at Merrill Auditorium. Cameron performs at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in a concert presented by the Friends […]
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April 10, 2011

Corthell Hall to resound with new music

GORHAM — The mixed musical stylings of New York and Maine will be in evidence when the University of Southern Maine School of Music hosts a weekend of new music at Corthell Concert Hall on USM’s Gorham campus. It starts at 8 p.m. Friday with “Unaccustomed Earth,” a performance from the New York-based group Two […]
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April 10, 2011

Music Review: Conor Oberst continues his quest in a new ‘Key’

MINNEAPOLIS — With all the cosmic imagery on his recent albums, Conor Oberst could not have asked for a better setting than the riverfront park where his band Bright Eyes played two weeks ago in Austin, Texas, during the South by Southwest Music Conference. Those deep-in-the-heart Texas stars served as a backdrop, along with a […]
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April 10, 2011

Art Review: Great ideas well executed for ‘One World’ exhibit

There is a kind of collaborative art show that is born of great ideas and good intentions and bred by creative energy and innovative processes. Everything is terrific except, unfortunately, the art. Maybe it’s because more time was spent talking or scheming than on the art itself. Sometimes, the exciting ideas reach beyond the technical […]
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April 10, 2011

Music Q & A: Jeff Beck plays on, unswerving in his belief that Les is more

CHICAGO — When Jeff Beck first heard the music of Les Paul, it set him off on a mission to master the guitar and in the process become one of the defining instrumentalists in British rock. Last summer, Beck paid homage to the late, pioneering guitarist on what would have been Paul’s 95th birthday at […]

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April 10, 2011

Author Q & A: Off the beat

Steve Webster puts out a book about the cases that have stuck with him through years of police work in Maine.
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April 10, 2011

Signings, etc.

MELISSA COLEMAN
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April 10, 2011

Society Notebook: Telling time

Thursday's glam Glitterati ball raises money for Portland's nonprofit Telling Room.
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April 10, 2011

Bob Keyes: An experienced hand at Portland Conservatory helm

PORTLAND — Retirement didn’t last long for Stephen Shiman. He and his wife became full-time Mainers in October, after both retired from jobs in the metropolitan New York area. For more than two decades, Shiman served as executive director of the Newark School for the Arts. He thought he had put the working life in […]
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April 10, 2011

Five artists receive Purchase Prizes at PMA’s 2011 Biennial opening

The Portland Museum of Art awarded five prizes to artists in its 2011 Biennial at Wednesday’s opening. The Purchase Prizes were awarded to four artists: Philip Brou for “Black Box,” James Groleau for “Arbil Rubia Riyadh” and “Sinjar Karbala Basra,” Siri Sahaj Kaur for “Kristie,” and Don Voisine for “High Time.” The prizes are chosen […]

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