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“Oratorio Chorale presents Bach+,” St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Brunswick

Feb. 23, Thursday, 7pm, “Appalachian Odyssey: a 28-year Hike on the Appalachian Trail,” Maine native and insatiable (10,000 mile) hiker Jeff Ryan has just published his first book: Appalachian Odyssey: A 28-year hike on the Appalachian Trail. For nearly 3 decades, Jeff hiked a section of the trail with the same friend (they started hiking in 1985 and completed the AT in 2013). This is not a “we ate oatmeal and walked 12 miles” narrative. It is a story rich with meaning that speaks to challenges, perseverance and friendship. It is one told through a mixture of stunning photography and humor as well. This is a fundraiser for Teens To Trails, $5, Frontier, 14 Maine Street, Brunswick. FMI: 207-725-5222, explorefrontier.com.
Feb. 24-25, Friday-Saturday, 7pm, “On Golden Pond,” the plot focuses on aging couple Ethel and Norman Thayer, who spend each summer at their home on a lake called Golden Pond. During the year the story takes place, they are visited by daughter Chelsea with her fiancé Billy Ray and his son Billy Ray Jr. The play explores the often turbulent relationship the young woman shared with her father growing up, and the difficulties faced by a couple in the twilight years of a long marriage, $15/advance, $17/door, Chocolate Church Arts Center, 798 Washington St, Bath. FMI: 207-442-8455, www.chocolatechurcharts.org.
Feb. 24-26, Friday-Sunday, 7:30pm/Fri. and Sat, 4pm/Sun, “Shooting Star,” snowed in overnight at a middle-America airport, college lovers Elena Carson and Reed McAllister have an unexpected and life-altering reunion. Elena has stayed true to her hippie-ish, counter-culture path, while Reed has gone predictably corporate and conservative. As the night gives way to laughter, banter, remembrance and alcohol, Elena and Reed revisit a past that holds more surprises than they imagined—and a present that neither of them could have predicted. Filled with laughter and ache, SHOOTING STAR is a bittersweet romantic comedy about the middle days of our lives, and how we got there, $15, Capt. Albert Stevens Elementary School, 31 Elementary Ave, Belfast. FMI: 207-370-7592, www.MidcoastActors.org.
Feb. 25, Saturday, 6pm, “Music@Dusk: Peter and Will Anderson,” “Virtuosos on clarinet and saxophone” (New York Times), identical twins Peter and Will were drawn to jazz at a very young age and attended The Juilliard School. They’ve performed with jazz greats James Moody, Hank Jones, Clark Terry, Frank Wess and Benny Golson. Peter and Will have headlined at The Blue Note, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, New Orleans Jazz Festival and many other prestigious U.S. and international venues and festivals. Peter and Will will be joined by guitarist Alex Wintz, $30, $10/under 25, Union Hall Theatre, 2 Central St, Rockport. FMI: 207-236-2823, www.baychamberconcerts.org.
Feb. 25, Saturday, 7pm, “Droplet Dance Show,” integrating dance, theater, music and acrobatics, choreographer Molly Gawler’s Droplet Dance weaves story and song into colorful threads that connect every heart and bring about awareness of water in our world. The Monroe dancer often uses the Cyr Wheel, a circus apparatus, as the vehicle to reflect the natural movement of spirals and gravity imbued with the spirit of water. Joining Gawler on the opera house stage will be Nettie Lu Lane, a Circus Smirkus artist-in-residence clown based in Brattleboro, Vt. Lane will share stories of water. Fueling the movement — which will include dancing on roller skates — will be live music by fiddler and folk singer Lissa Schneckenburger of Vermont, $12-$22, Rockport Opera House, 6 Central St, Rockport. FMI: 207-542-3555, www.rockportoperahouse.com.
Feb. 25, Saturday, 7:30pm, “207 Wind Orchestra’s Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue,” this concert will feature the Serenade for Winds by Dvorak, a brand new piece by myself based on 5 paintings by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya, a terrific setting of Pictures at an Exhibition for winds that really captures the Ravel orchestral transcription, and Ticheli’s Blue Shades. These 4 works will showcase this one-per-part ensemble and allow all the power, beauty, and colors that wind ensemble can produce to really shin, $5, Brunswick High School, Crooker Theater, 116 Maquoit Road, Brunswick. FMI: 207windorchestra.bandcamp.com.
Feb. 26, Sunday, 4pm, “Oratorio Chorale presents Bach+,” in celebration of the Oratorio Chorale’s partnership with the Portland Bach Festival, the Chorale presents Bach +, a concert featuring two Baroque vocal masterworks: Johann Sebastian Bach’s Jesu Meine Freude, one of his most beloved and intricate vocal works, and Heinrich Schütz’s Musikalische Exequien, which inspired the composition of Brahms’s Requiem 200 years later. Several members of the St. Mary Schola will participate as choral singers and soloists along with the Oratorio Chorale Chamber Choir. Featured instrumentalists are St. Mary Schola director Bruce Fithian, who will provide continuo accompaniment, with Philip Carlsen, cello, and Timothy Burris, lute, $20/advance, $25/door, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 27 Pleasant St, Brunswick. FMI: oratoriochorale.org.

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