Out and About for the Mid Coast Lakes Region of Maine July 5-11

Out and About for the Bangor Lakes Region of Maine July 5-11
Out and About for the Bangor Lakes Region of Maine July 5-11
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Out and About for the Belgrade Lakes Regions of Maine July 5-11
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Out and About for the Mid Coast Lakes Region of Maine July 5-11

“Beauty and the Beast,” Maine State Music Theatre, Brunswick

July 5-8 and 10-11, Thursday-Sunday and Tuesday-Wednesday, 2pm/Thurs, Sun, and Tues, 7:30pm/Thurs.-Sun. and Tues.-Wed, “Beauty and the Beast,” this timeless family favorite tells the story of Belle, a young woman in a provincial town, and the Beast, who is really a young prince trapped under the spell of an enchantress. All of the fanciful characters, such as a talking tightly wound clock, adorable tea cup, and a kindhearted candelabra, are trapped in this spellbound form until the beast, can learn to love and have his love returned. This “tale as old as time,” reminds us to look beyond one’s exterior and find the beauty from within, $55-$85, Maine State Music Theatre, 1 Bath Road, Brunswick. FMI: 207-725-8769, www.msmt.org.
July 5, Thursday, 7:30pm, “BIMF: Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music,” presented as part of the Bowdoin International Music Festival since 1965, the Charles E. Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music represents a sustained commitment to nurturing and promoting the music of our time. Over its history, the Gamper Festival has celebrated many of the most significant composers such as Milton Babbitt, Luciano Berio, William Bolcom, John Corigliano, George Crumb, and Ralph Shapey as well as new voices at the start of their careers. The Gamper Festival is programmed by Derek Bermel, free, Studzinski Recital Hall, Bowdoin College, 21 College Street, Brunswick. FMI: 207-373-1400, bowdoinfestival.org.
July 6, Friday, 4pm, “Walking Tour of Camden,” an educational and entertaining tour of downtown Camden. Runs approximately an hour and fifteen minutes. Reservations are recommended. Please call the library at 207-236-3440 to reserve a spot, free, mmet at the Atlantic Avenue entrance to the Library, in the Children’s Garden, Camden Public Library, Atlantic Avenue, Camden. FMI: 207-236-3440, www.librarycamden.org.
July 6, Friday, 7:30pm, “BIMF: Narek Hakhnazaryan plays Tchaikovsky,” this evening’s program opens with one of Brahms’s proudest dispatches from the Austrian countryside where he enjoyed creative summertime retreats. Then, composer-in-residence John Harbison transports us from the New England sun to the oppressively dark expanse of a Wisconsin winter for Snow Country, featuring the oboe against an earthy backdrop of string textures. To conclude the concert with the first orchestral performance this season, we welcome Armenian-born and internationally renowned cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan his Festival début, playing Tchaikovsky’s concerto-like Rococo Variations, $45, Crooker Theater, Brunswick High School, 116 Maquoit Road, Brunswick. FMI: 207-373-1400, bowdoinfestival.org.
July 7, Thursday, 7:30pm, “Chase Rice with special guest Cassadee Pope,” having earned a reputation as a country music maverick, Chase Rice has gained the attention of fans and critics alike with his edgy, eclectic sound and energetic live shows. Rice’s debut album, Ignite the Night, charted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums, producing a pair of Top 5 hits, including Platinum-certified “Ready Set Roll.” He’ll be joined on stage by GRAMMY® Award-nominated Cassadee Pope, winner of Season 3 of NBC’s The Voice, this concert is standing-room only, free, L.L. Bean Summer in the Park, 95 Main Street, Freeport. FMI: www.llbean.com/summer.
July 10, Tuesday, 7pm, “Alfred D. Snow: The Ship, the Captain, and a Great-Great Granddaughter,” “SHIPWRECK – ALL HANDS LOST – Wreck of a Thomaston Ship on the Irish Coast” was the headline on Jan 4, 1888. All hands were lost. Though it occurred 130 years ago, Wexford County residents on the Irish coast still speak reverently of the Ship and the Captain as if the tragedy happened yesterday. On Tuesday, Jul 10th at Watts Hall, Betsy White of Friendship will share a story not to be missed. After learning of the wreck in which her great-great grandfather lost his life, Thomaston sea Captain William J. Willey’s great-great granddaughter felt compelled to make a pilgrimage for family closure. Come listen as she shares her intriguing quest to learn more of the tragedy that an entire Irish community still remembers as if it happened yesterday, free, Watts Hall, 174 Main Street, Thomaston. FMI: 207-354-4121, www.thomastonhistoricalsociety.com.
July 10, Tuesday, 7:30pm, “DaPonte String Quartet: ‘Summer Goulash’,” the program has a Hungarian flavor, as the Quartet continue their year-long exploration of the works of Bela Bartok, with a performance of the Hungarian composer’s String Quartet No. 3, Sz. 85, a work strongly influenced by the folk music Bartok collected obsessively. Other works on the program include Brahms’s String Quartet No. 3 in B flat Major Op. 67—his last quartet, a bright, sunny and perfectly crafted work; and Franz Haydn’s String Quartet in C Major Op.20 No.2, one of the works that led him to be dubbed the “father of the string quartet,” $30/door, $27/online, Rockport Opera House, 6 Central Street, Rockport. FMI: www.daponte.org.

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