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Hank Garretson, Rylan Cates, Chris Watts, Alden Poole,
Dustin Hamalainen and Aaron Annis of the CHRHS Chorale practice their
dessert-sampling skills. Photo by Marti Stone Photography
Annual CHRHS Dessert Cabaret Oct. 16
Camden Hills Regional High School (CHRHS) Chamber
Singers and Women’s Choir will present their annual Dessert Cabaret
on Thursday, October 16, at 7 p.m. in the CHRHS Wave Cafe. Accompanied by
Susan Iltis, this year’s cabaret is a benefit to support the 2009
band and chorus trip to Virginia Beach. During this trip, six CHRHS musical
ensembles will perform for nationally known judges and have the opportunity
to listen to a variety of ensembles from around the country. Each ensemble
receives a rating according to its own merit and is also awarded a standing
in comparison to all of the participating ensembles.
Thursday’s cabaret features a variety of music.
The Chamber Singers will perform such classics as “Aquarius”
and “Let the Sun Shine” from Hair, “The Pink Panther,” “Song of Purple
Summer” from Spring Awakening and the Beatles’ “Can’t Buy Me
Love.” The Women’s Choir will perform “It’s Raining
Men,” “Good Morning Baltimore,” a medley from Hairspray, and Wicked’s “What Is This
Feeling?” Also featured will be three solos from the upcoming CHRHS
production of the musical Beauty and the Beast. Anna Klemperer (Belle) will sing “Home,” Ben
Pote (Beast) will sing “If I Can’t Love Her,” and Jessica
Uges (Mrs. Potts) will sing the title song “Beauty and the
Beast.”
Members of the band and chorus will be waiters and
waitresses for the evening. Audience members will have a choice of a
variety of all you-can-eat desserts, coffee and tea. The evening will end
with an auction of dessert items donated by area restaurants.
Seating for the event is limited. Reservations can be
made by calling director Kim Murphy at 236-7800, extension 295. Additional
donations to help the band and chorus meet their fund-raising goals will be
accepted.
Grammy-Winning Pianist George Winston in Boothbay
Harbor
George Winston plays over 100 solo piano concerts a
year in the U.S. and internationally, inspired by the seasons. As the Maine
coast moves from fall towards winter, this Grammy-winning musician will
bring his music of the fall and winter season to the Opera House stage in
Boothbay Harbor on Saturday, October 25.
A Winston concert features a variety of styles,
including his melodic folk piano, stride piano, New Orleans R&B piano,
Vince Guaraldi’s “Peanuts” pieces and more. With seven
multi-platinum, platinum and gold records, Winston is one of the most
accomplished pianists currently performing in the U.S.
In an effort to help boost the larder at the Boothbay
Region Food Pantry, all ticket holders are asked to bring a nonperishable
food item to the concert for collection prior to the performance. The
Pantry’s Don Shuman requests that concert goers consider donating
coffee, soup, canned baked beans, spaghetti sauce and canned meats, which
are always in short supply at the Pantry.
Tickets for the concert are $25 in advance; any tickets
remaining the day of the performance will be $28. Tickets may be purchased
at the Opera House box office, 86 Townsend Avenue, or by calling 633-5159.
Tickets are also available online at boothbayoperahouse.com. The historic
upstairs bar will open at 6:30 p.m. on the night of the concert, with doors
for seating opening at 7:30 p.m. and the music beginning at 8 p.m.
BCC’s New Season Opens with Chamber Music All
Stars
Maria Lambros
Bay Chamber Concerts launches its 2008-2009 Performing
Arts Series with “Chamber Music All Stars” on Sunday, October
12, at 4 p.m. at the Rockport Opera House. The concert brings the acclaimed
Muir String Quartet back to the midcoast, joined by other stars of chamber
music. Admission to the concert is $20, a reduction from previous
years, thanks to the generosity of underwriter Brewster Point.
This concert is a popular annual tradition, as each
Columbus Day weekend the Chamber Music All Stars come to Rockport to
perform for the public and to coach some 50 amateur chamber musicians
who gather for the Fall Foliage Adult Chamber Music Weekend. This year the
concert is held in honor of Betty and Ted Evans and co-sponsored by Quarry
Hill.
The Muir String Quartet has been the
quartet-in-residence at Boston University for 24 years and the group is a
perennial favorite of Bay Chamber audiences. Members of the quartet
performing are violinist Peter Zazofsky, violist Steven Ansell, cellist
Michael Reynolds, with founding violinist Bayla Keyes. They will be joined
by violist Maria Lambros, cellist Marc Johnson and pianist Cary Lewis. They
will perform Mozart’s Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-flat Major, K. 493;
Barber’s String Quartet, Op. 11; and Brahms’ String Sextet in
B-flat Major, No. 1, Op. 18.
This summer Bay Chamber Concerts an-nounced a price
decrease on tickets to the 2008-2009 Performing Arts Series. Most concert
tickets are $20 (prime seating is $40), a decrease of 38 percent from last
year. The goal of the new program, underwritten by Brewster Point, is to
make performing arts affordable for all members of the community.
Subscriptions to the 2008-2009 Performing Arts Series
are still available. Subscriptions give a variety of discounts and
benefits, including the option of exchanging tickets from one concert to
another. Subscribers to the season receive up to a 50-percent discount on
their tickets. As a number of Bay Chamber Concerts’ events sell out,
it is best to purchase tickets or subscriptions as far in advance as
possible.
A limited number of $8 tickets will be available for
youth ages 18 and under. For more information, or to purchase subscriptions
or tickets, contact Bay Chamber Concerts at 236-2823, toll free at (888)
707-2770 or online at www.baychamberconcerts.org.
Free Chamber Music Concert
Members of Harmoniemusik are, from left, Julia
Morris-Myers, William Myers and Diana Brookes Brown.
The University of Maine Hutchinson Center in Belfast
will present the newly formed ensemble Harmoniemusik in a program of
chamber music for flute, cello and piano at 4 p.m. on Sunday, October 19.
The program will include music by Vaughan Williams, Beethoven, Chopin,
Schumann, Boismortier and Richard E. Brown, local composer and Hutchinson
Center faculty member. The members of Harmoniemusik are Diana Brookes
Brown, flute, William Myers, cello, and Julia Morris-Myers, piano.
Brown holds degrees in music and education from the
University of Massachusetts, Amherst and taught in public schools in
Massachusetts for 20 years. Now retired and living with her composer
husband Richard in Stockton Springs, she teaches flute and voice at the
Belfast Academy of Music and performs regularly in the midcoast and Down
East area.
Myers received music degrees from Boston University,
Hartt College of Music and Yale University. He was on the faculty of
several colleges and was a cello/bass specialist for 16 years in the Dallas
public schools. He returned to Maine in 1993 and teaches private lessons
and plays in the Bangor Symphony.
Morris-Myers holds degrees from Baylor University,
Texas. She has made three recent European tours as accompanist for American
choirs and is currently the accompanist and assistant director of the
Acadia Chorale Society. Morris-Myers is also an organist and, since 2005,
has been the organist/choirmaster at St. Saviour’s Episcopal Parish
in Bar Harbor.
Eleemosynary —
Susie Stedman, Phoebe Arnold and Laura Graham, l. to
r., will be seen when Heartwood Regional Theater Company opens its season
with staged readings of Eleemosynary by Lee Blessing in Skidompha Library’s atrium on
Friday, October 10, at 7:30 p.m., and Saturday, October 11, at 3 p.m. and 7:
30 p.m. This one-act exploring mother-daughter relationships is the first
of three staged readings in Heartwood’s Literature to Stage Series.
Admission is $8; reservations are recommended. Call 563-1373 or e-mail
heartwoodrtc@roadrunner.com.
Evening of Broadway & Opera at Boothbay Opera House
A little bit of Broadway and the opera will arrive on
the Opera House stage in Boothbay Harbor later this month. Dominic Garvey
has teamed up with Dennis St. Pierre, Jennifer McLeod and Jean McCormick to
bring together an evening of music from Les
Miserables, Phantom
of the Opera, Tosca, Carmen and other shows. This one-night-only benefit performance is
Friday, October 17, at 8 p.m., with all proceeds going to help with the
Opera House’s renovation efforts.
Garvey, now retired, is a mainstay in Boothbay region
music circles, with a 25-year association with the Carousel Theater, as
well as with numerous other local productions. Garvey is most frequently
seen playing at the Rocktide Inn during the summer months. St. Pierre most
recently received critical acclaim as Jean Valjean in the 2008 Maine State
Theater’s production of Les Miserables. McCormick currently performs in Disney productions as well
as in New York City. McLeod’s soprano voice “remains the finest
we ever had,” according to Garvey. In a rare group appearance, these
three professionals will bring their voices to the stage in this
production, called “The Art of Song.”
Doors for seating will open at 7:30 p.m., with the
concert to begin at 8 p.m. Tickets are available by visiting the Opera
House box office at 86 Townsend Avenue in Boothbay Harbor, by calling
633-5159, or online at boothbayoperahouse.com. Tickets are $10 in advance
and $15 on the day of the performance. All proceeds go to benefit the Opera
House Renovation Fund.
Murder on Mill Lane —
Scott Adams as Sniverly Snidely, Esther Darres as Sweet
Sue Sobright, and Maurice Darres as Tex Toogood star in a hilarious dinner
theater murder mystery entitled The Mild, Mild
West, to be presented on Friday and Saturday,
October 24 and 25, by the drama team of the Belfast United Methodist
Church, located at 23 Mill Lane in East Belfast. The event will begin at 6:
30 p.m. with a spaghetti dinner, followed by the show. Participants can try
to solve the mystery before the renowned detective solves the case,
competing with other tables to see who can win the evening’s prize.
Tickets are $12 per person. Call the church office at 338-5575 for
reservations
