BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Ogunquit Performing Arts - ECPv6.15.17.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Ogunquit Performing Arts X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Ogunquit Performing Arts REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20170312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20171105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20180311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20181104T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20190310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191004T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191004T193000 DTSTAMP:20260407T192517 CREATED:20190219T222802Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150821Z UID:10000125-1570217400-1570217400@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:13th Annual Elizabeth Dunaway Burnham Piano Festival George Lopez DESCRIPTION:Bowdoin College Artist-in-Residence George Lopez returns to Ogunquit to play American Pops Piano Music\, from Joplin to Gershwin! \n \nPianist George Lopez\, the Robert Beckwith Artist-in-Residence at Bowdoin College & Director of the Bowdoin Orchestra\, has been a dynamic performer and educator for over 25 years. He is known on several continents for his thoughtful and deeply expressive performances of the standard repertoire as well as being a champion of newly-written works. He recently premiered a piano concerto composed especially for him and is comfortable in styles of music ranging from jazz and ragtime to more contemporary improvisational styles. \nHis program for OPA is entitled “The History of American Popular Piano Music”\, and includes such composers as Louis Moreau Gottschalk\, Scott Joplin\, Charles Ives\, George Gershwin\, Zez Confrey’s “Dizzy Fingers”\, Keith Jarrett and Billy Joel! \nTickets to this performance available now on this website. Tickets may also be purchased at the Ogunquit Camera Shop\, Dunaway Center\, Ogunquit Playhouse Downtown Box Office\, and Ogunquit Welcome Center beginning three weeks prior to the performance. Free parking for the performance is located behind the Dunaway Center. \nLopez has given recitals and performed in chamber ensembles and with orchestras in the United States\, Europe\, and Australia. His interpretation of Bach’s Goldberg Variations at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam received critical acclaim\, and a Los Angeles Times critic hailed the pianist for his “…musical perspective\, continuity\, and kaleidoscopic colors.” \nBorn in Brooklyn to Mayan parents\, George Lopez spent his childhood in Belize\, before his family moved to Texas\, where he began to play the piano at the rather late age of 11. He quickly discovered that he had a knack performing at the keyboard and\, by age 14\, he had won his first concerto competition; only two years later\, he received a full scholarship to the Hartt School of Music. A Franco-American study grant permitted graduate work in Paris\, and he completed his Master’s Degree cum laude at the Sweelinck Conservatory\, Amsterdam. \n \nThis year\, he has toured Philadelphia\, New York City\, the Bay Area\, Seattle\, Mexico and New England\, as well as making his first visit to Cuba recently to give masterclasses and concerts with the Aries Trio. His “Music in the Museum” series at Bowdoin College has consistently sold out to audiences who enjoy his creative and engaging lecture recitals on the relationship of music to art and ideas. He has also taken up the baton as conductor of the Bowdoin College Symphony Orchestra. \nhttps://www.bowdoin.edu/profiles/faculty/glopez/index.html \nOur Piano Festival honors the memory of Elizabeth Dunaway Burnham\, founder and first chairperson of Ogunquit Performing Arts. A pianist herself\, Betty studied\, performed and taught piano for most of her life. She also saw to it that OPA acquired its spectacular Steinway Concert Model C Grand Piano\, which still remains OPA’ greatest treasure.\nBook online now! URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/13th-annual-elizabeth-dunaway-burnham-piano-festival-george-lopez/ LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States CATEGORIES:Live Performance ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/george-lopez_Resized.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190913T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190913T193000 DTSTAMP:20260407T192517 CREATED:20190219T220913Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150821Z UID:10000124-1568403000-1568403000@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:29th Annual Capriccio Music Festival Andy Happel & Los Galactacos String Band DESCRIPTION:Featuring voice\, guitar\, violin\, cello\, dobro\, cuatro\, upright bass\, acoustic bass\, guitarron\, drums and percussion! \n \nLos Galactacos is a musical group made of adventuring stringbenders\, strummers\, pickers and percussionists exploring an atlas of musical styles and songs.\nTheir repertoire is the standards of cultures from across the Americas\, and across the seas: Tex/Mex folk; Appalachian string music; Canadian maritimes fiddle tunes; the Classic American Songbook; ol’ time Country; and music for wherever people gather and celebrate. \nTickets to this performance available now on this website. Tickets may also be purchased at the Ogunquit Camera Shop\, Dunaway Center\, Ogunquit Playhouse Downtown Box Office\, and Ogunquit Welcome Center beginning three weeks prior to the performance. Free parking for the performance is located behind the Dunaway Center. \nFounded in summer 2015 on a lark to enjoy some late-summer soirees\, the excursion was quickly underway with multi-instrumentalist Andy Happel as navigator. A true translator and ambassador of musical ideas\, Happel has infused his music with elegant fire – ranging from Capitol Records’ Thanks to Gravity and modern classical label PARMA\, to his work with the Don Campbell Band\, and his ever-expanding teaching studio. Joining him are Drew Wyman (Thanks to Gravity\, the Cozmik Zombies)\, Todd the Rocket (The Downbeat Renaissance)\, and Pete Witham (The Cozmik Zombies\, Spookie Daly Pride) along with a cast of guests. \nAlready in their adventure\, the group has entertained at the Wentworth By The Sea Hotel (Newcastle\, NH)\, Wentworth Marina\, The Wentworth (Jackson\, NH)\, two seasons residency at El Rayo in Scarborough\, Maine\, and a collection of private residences. \n \nAndy Happel is a concert violinist and fiddler who has shared the stage with symphonies\, pop stars and country music luminaries alike. As bandleader for 90s rock group Thanks to Gravity\, Andy was signed to Capitol Records and EMI Publishing and toured extensively with the likes of Guster\, Train\, Matchbox 20 and the Dave Matthews Band. A successful run with country singer Don Campbell followed\, where he opened for country legends Willie Nelson\, Randy Travis\, George Jones and Charlie Daniels. He currently performs with classical improv group Aeterna Trio\, and several other independent projects. \nAndy is also Lead Producer with new classical music label PARMA Recordings. He has worked with the Moravian Philharmonic in the Czech Republic\, the Metropolitan Opera Children’s Chorus and the New England String Quartet\, among others.\nBook online now! URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/29th-annual-capriccio-music-festival-andy-happel-los-galactacos-string-band/ LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Los-Galactacos-Resized.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190907T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190907T113000 DTSTAMP:20260407T192517 CREATED:20190219T193337Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150821Z UID:10000123-1567850400-1567855800@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:29th Annual Capriccio Music Festival Andy Happel and Friends DESCRIPTION:Singer/fiddler Andy Happel makes a special appearance at Capriccio Festival of Kites \n \nFiddler/singer Andy Happel will provide high-flying music on Ogunquit Beach for the Capriccio Festival of Kites on Saturday\, September 7th \, from 10 to 11:30 am. Andy plans to bring along some musician friends to join in the joyous fun\, playing selections from his repertoire of exotic tunes and lilting rhythms. \nHis appearance will serve as a preview of his full-length concert with Los Galactacos String Band Friday\, September 13th\, 7:30 pm at the Dunaway Center. The Band will perform a variety of beautiful songs and rousing rhythms from across the Americas\, and across the seas: Tex/Mex folk; Appalachian string music; Canadian maritimes fiddle tunes; the Classic American Songbook; ol’ time Country; and music for wherever people gather and celebrate. \nIn the meantime\, join Andy at the Capriccio Festival of Kites\, where songs and kites will fill the air! URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/29th-annual-capriccio-music-festival-andy-happel-and-friends/ LOCATION:Ogunquit Beach\, Beach Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907 CATEGORIES:Live Performance ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/andy-happel.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190906T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190906T193000 DTSTAMP:20260407T192517 CREATED:20190219T130828Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150821Z UID:10000122-1567798200-1567798200@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:29th Annual Capriccio Music Festival Paul Sullivan and Con Fullam DESCRIPTION:Grammy-winning Composer/Pianist Paul Sullivan and Emmy-nominated Songwriter/Guitarist Con Fullam in a return performance together! \n \nPaul Sullivan has enjoyed a richly varied and distinguished career as a composer and a pianist. In his solo performances\, he creates a relaxed and intimate feeling with his audience through his pleasant and quirky observations about music and life. His warm and inviting personality\, coupled with his world-class musicianship\, wins over new listeners immediately and usually makes them life-long fans. \nCon Fullam is a most talented and accomplished wordsmith and songwriter\, but it’s when he himself performs his music that the listener’s experience is most touching\, whether his musical stories are wistful\, joyous\, loving\, blue or hopeful. He is a powerful entertainer and guitarist.\nHearing either of them live in concert is a special occasion. But when they join forces\, they create a musical event which is simply not to be missed. OPA is proud and fortunate to bring them together as a part of the Capriccio Music Festival. \nTickets to this performance available now on this website. Tickets may also be purchased at the Ogunquit Camera Shop\, Dunaway Center\, Ogunquit Playhouse Downtown Box Office\, and Ogunquit Welcome Center beginning three weeks prior to the performance. Free parking for the performance is located behind the Dunaway Center. \n \nAs a soloist\, with his trio\, and as a member of the Paul Winter Consort\, Paul Sullivan has played concert tours in most of the United States and Europe\, as well as the Middle East\, Central America\, and Asia. He has performed among the dunes of the Negev Desert\, in Leonard Bernstein’s living room\, and on the stages of many of the world’s finest concert halls. He has been a guest on Marian McPartland’s “Piano Jazz”\, and he has also performed with some legendary orchestras\, such as the Philadelphia Orchestra under Eugene Ormandy\, the Boston Pops under both Arthur Fiedler and Keith Lockhart\, and several regional orchestras around the US.\nSullivan has worked in some of New York’s most prestigious jazz clubs as well\, including Sweet Basil\, The Village Vanguard\, and Bradley’s. He has played with a wide variety of masters from Benny Goodman to Tommy Flanagan\, as well as Red Mitchell\, Lou Donaldson\, George Mraz\, Gerry Hemingway\, Marc Helias\, Gene Bertoncini\, Eugene Friesen\, Jamie Haddad\, Luciana Sousa\, Cafe\, Sarah Lee Guthrie\, Noel Stookey\, Don McLean\, Pheeroan AkLaff\, Eddie Daniels\, Richard Stoltzman\, Nana Vasconcelos\, Cyro Baptista\, Ivan Lins\, Glen Velez and many other luminaries. His 18 CDs have sold over 300 thousand copies and have won 3 Indie Awards. His music has been broadcast internationally\, as well as on all the major American networks\, including National Public Radio. He received a Grammy Award for his work on the Paul Winter Consort CD\, Silver Solstice.\nIn the theater world\, he has worked as a Musical Director\, pianist\, and/or conductor for many Off-Broadway and Broadway shows. He played keyboards and shared the conducting duties for the original production of the musical Nine\, which won a Tony Award for Best Musical. Some of the other shows he’s worked on include Cats\, A Chorus Line\, Rags\, and a cabaret with Lewis Black. Other theater credits include accompanying Joseph Papp and even appearing as a character on the TV soap opera One Life To Live.\nSullivan also received commissions to write two musicals\, including “The Last Ferryman” for which he wrote both the music and lyrics\, which are available on CD.\nHe has also worked extensively in the Modern Dance world\, playing piano for Merce Cunningham’s classes\, and writing music for the Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall. He has also enjoyed a long friendship with the Pilobolus Dance Theater\, for whom he has written close to 20 scores.\nA long\, lovely\, lucky career\, which shows no signs of stopping. \n \n“Con Fullam is one of the most diverse and talented songwriters that I have had the pleasure to publish”. Lou Ragusa\, President Infinity/MCA Music.\n“Fullam’s songs are passionate and intelligent.” Billboard Magazine\n.Fullam has been playing and performing since he was 5 years old. It was at that age that his father died leaving him his ukelele. He was born on a farm in Sydney\, Maine population 60 or so people\, 600 or so cows and thousands of acres of fields\, and woods. He spent a lot of that time playing his ukelele and singing songs he learned from his family\, all of whom played an instrument. His brother and sister loved folk music\, bluegrass and the blues and so he learned the songs of Woody Guthrie\, Pete Seeger\, Cisco Houston\, The Weavers\, Flatt and Scruggs\, Ralph Stanley\, The Carter Family\, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee\, Josh White Sr.\,  Hudie Ledbetter and Lightnin’ Hopkins to name a few. \nHis mother was a pianist whose taste ran towards Classical music and Broadway. And so he learned to love Bach\, Beethoven and Scarlatti\, The Pirates of Penzance\, My Fair Lady and Oklahoma. \nCon’s musical education continued with enrollment at The New Division\, an experimental college in Springvale\, Maine founded by a behavioral scientist from Harvard by the name of Tom Howard. There\, he pushed himself to step up and learn new chords and progressions on the guitar as well as hone his skills at wordsmithing. It was there with a lot of support from his fellow students that he realized that playing and writing were the things that made him the happiest and that it was down that road he would travel. In the forty years that have passed since that first semester he has never looked back. \n“Over the course of my career\, I have had the honor of playing with some of the finest musicians in the business and I have been blessed to call many of them my close and cherished friends. It is those friends that I have called on to help me realize this dream….” Con Fullam\nCon is now published by MCA Universal\, Sony/BMG\, Warner/Chappell\, Acuff Rose\, Opryland\, and Chrysalis Music. He has had his songs recorded by major recording artists and has produced records that have sold over a half million units. He has played with and shared stages with the likes of Asleep At The Wheel\, Joan Armatrading\, Aztec Two Step\, Razzy Bailey\, David Bromberg\, Johnny Cash\, George Carlin\, Bob Dylan\, Richie Havens\, Emmy Lou Harris with Gram Parsons\, Waylon Jennings\, Jorma Kaukenon\, Willie Nelson\, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band\, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee\, John Sebastian\, Earl Scruggs Review and Tammy Wynette. \nCon has been critically acclaimed in many of the music industry’s most prestigious publications such as Billboard\, Music Row\, Village Voice\, Boston Phoenix\, Canadian Country News\, Cashbox Magazine\, and Nashville Music City News. He has been nominated for an Emmy and has been recognized by The American Society Of Composers Authors And Publishers for his contributions to the world of the performing arts.\nBook online now! URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/29th-annual-capriccio-music-festival-paul-sullivan-and-con-fullam/ LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States CATEGORIES:Live Performance ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Paul-Sullivan-courtesy-Sun-Journal.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190614T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190614T193000 DTSTAMP:20260407T192517 CREATED:20190212T001310Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150840Z UID:10000121-1560540600-1560540600@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:25th Annual Chamber Music Festival ChoralArt Camerata DESCRIPTION:First performance in Ogunquit by Portland’s ChoralArt Camerata singers\, Robert Russell\, Music Director \n \nPortland’s ChoralArt Camerata\, under the direction of Robert Russell\, will make their first appearance in Ogunquit in the lovely setting of the Barn Gallery. A chamber chorus of about 15 singers\, Camerata features strong singers and independent musicians; their pristine\, resonant sound and utter musicality have garnered regional critical acclaim. Like all the ensembles under the ChoralArt umbrella\, Camerata is dedicated to advancing the tradition of artistic excellence in choral singing. Their program will be listed on this site in the near future. \nTickets to this performance available now on this website. Tickets may also be purchased at the Barn Gallery\, Ogunquit Camera Shop\, Dunaway Center\, Ogunquit Playhouse Downtown Box Office\, and Ogunquit Welcome Center beginning three weeks prior to the performance.  Free parking at the Gallery. \nAt 15 singers\, Camerata is the smallest of the three ChoralArt ensembles (which also include ChoralArt Masterworks\, a symphonic chorus of 100 voices\, and ChoralArt Singers\, a mixed chorus of about 45 voices.)\nThe Camerata principally performs a cappella repertory from the Renaissance and Modern eras with occasional forays into ethnic and folk music. Favorite composers include Ēriks Ešenvalds\, Morten Lauridsen\, James MacMillan\, Paul Mealor\, David Conte\, and Stephen Paulus.\nMusic Director Robert Russell came to Portland in 1979 as professor of music at the University of Southern Maine and music director of ChoralArt. He concluded a 36-year tenure at USM in 2015 and was named professor emeritus. His time in Portland has been rich\, the highlights many. \n \nChoralArt has presented numerous concerts with orchestra\, many under the auspices of the Portland Symphony Orchestra. The first Messiah performance in 1982 stunned us all\, as we filled City Hall Auditorium (Merrill’s predecessor) with patrons and glorious music.\nOther notable performances include Verdi’s Requiem\, Mahler’s Symphony No. 2\, Bach’s Mass in B Minor\, Bach’s Passion According to St. John\, Mendelssohn’s Elijah\, and the Brahms Requiem several times\, including a riveting performance in 1991 with distinguished guest conductor Robert Shaw. Several collaborative concerts with Portland Ballet\, including a dynamic Carmina Burana in 2003\, as well as concerts with Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ\, Southern Maine Symphony Orchestra\, USM Wind Ensemble\, Musica de Filia and many other regional organization stand out.\nBook online now! URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/25th-annual-chamber-music-festival-choralart-camerata/ LOCATION:The Barn Gallery\, 3 Hartwig Lane (off Bourne Lane at Shore Road)\, Ogunquit\, Maine\, 03907 CATEGORIES:Live Performance ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/ChoralArts-Camerata-Copy_Revised-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190607T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190607T193000 DTSTAMP:20260407T192517 CREATED:20190211T230712Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150840Z UID:10000030-1559935800-1559935800@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:25th Annual Chamber Music Festival Boston Chamber Music DESCRIPTION:Cellist Bruce Coppock leads the Boston Chamber Music trio with Matthew Vera\, violin\, and Randall Hodgkinson\, piano. \nOgunquit’s favorite Boston Chamber Music returns to the Dunaway Center for its 20th year of opening the Festival. This year the trio is led by acclaimed cellist Bruce Coppock\, with Matthew Vera\, violin\, and Randall Hodgkinson\, piano. As with his predecessor Thomas Hill\, Mr. Coppock continues the tradition of bringing together the finest ensembles especially selected for this concert. Their program will include:\nBEETHOVEN Piano Trio in D Major\, Opus 70 #1 “Ghost”\nDEBUSSY Pour le Piano\nBRAHMS Piano Trio in B major\, Opus 8. \nTickets to this performance available now on this website. Tickets may also be purchased at the Ogunquit Camera Shop\, Dunaway Center\, Ogunquit Playhouse Downtown Box Office\, and Ogunquit Welcome Center beginning three weeks prior to the performance.   Free parking for the performance is located behind the Dunaway Center. \n \nBruce Coppock has enjoyed a long musical career as performer\, teacher and management executive. He served twice as president & managing director of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra\, a position in which he served both as the artistic and the executive director. Coppock first led the SPCO from 1999 until 2008\, when he stepped down due to illness. After a five-year hiatus during which Coppock focused on medical issues\, served a consultant to several orchestras\, and served as managing director of the Cleveland Orchestra’s Miami Residency\, Coppock resumed his tenure in Saint Paul in 2013. He retired from the SPCO at the end of 2015. Prior to Saint Paul\, Coppock was deputy director of Carnegie Hall and executive director of the Saint Louis Symphony\, and has happily retired to New England. \nDuring the 20 years prior to 1990\, Coppock served as principal cellist of the Handel & Haydn Society\, as a member of the Boston Musica Viva and played regularly in the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Coppock co-founded the Boston Chamber Music Society. During this period he also served as the director of chamber music and orchestra activities at the New England Conservatory of Music\, and was director of the Music Division of the Boston Conservatory of Music. Coppock has been active as a teacher for over 40 years. Coppock earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in cello from the New England Conservatory\, where he was a student of David Soyer and Laurence Lesser. \nViolinist​ ​Matthew​ ​Vera​\, is known for his versatility as a soloist\, chamber musician\, and orchestral leader. Currently a masters student at the New England Conservatory\, Matthew also enjoys a freelance career in the Boston area. His primary teachers include: James Buswell\, Lucy Chapman\, Mark Rush\, Stephen Moeckel\, Dennis Bourret\, and David Rife. Matthew has been a member of the Boston Philharmonic’s first violin section since 2010. He recently stepped in on short notice to play the famous violin solos in Ein Heldenleben at Boston Philhamonic concerts to widespread acclaim: “Playing with pure tone\, terrific character\, and not a bit of hesitation (several of the third movement’s biggest runs were dispatched at lightning speed)\, Vera delivered an account of the solo part that was wholly captivating. His is — or should be — a bright future.” (Boston Arts Fuse); “Matthew Vera projected non-stop\, drop-dead gorgeous tone\, alternately flippant and ravishing\, as directed. A virtual golden spotlight enwreathed him in laurels.” (The Boston Musical Intelligencer). \nMatthew has appeared as soloist with the Buffalo Philharmonic\, The Tucson Philharmonia\, The Tucson Symphony\, The World Youth Symphony Orchestra and The New England Conservatory Symphony.Matthew has appeared as soloist with the Buffalo Philharmonic\, The Tucson Philharmonia\, The Tucson Symphony\, The World Youth Symphony Orchestra and The New England Conservatory Symphony. \n \nRandall Hodgkinson has achieved recognition as a winner of the International American Music Competition for pianists sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation. He has appeared frequently as soloist and chamber music artist in festivals throughout the United States\, and as a featured soloist with major orchestras including those of Philadelphia\, Atlanta\, Buffalo\, the American Symphony\, the Orchestra of Illinois\, and abroad in Italy and Iceland. His solo debut with the Boston Symphony Orchestra was presented both in Boston and at Carnegie Hall.\nMr. Hodgkinson studied at The Curtis Institute and the New England Conservatory. He has been an artist member of the Boston Chamber Music Society since 1983. While a member of Boston Musica Viva\, he performed throughout the U.S. and Europe\, and his recordings on several labels have brought him notable acclaim.\nHe also performs four-hand and two-piano literature in duo recitals with his wife\, Leslie Amper. He is a member of the piano faculty of the New England Conservatory and Wellesley College.\nBook online now! URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/25th-annual-chamber-music-festival-boston-chamber-music/ LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States CATEGORIES:Live Performance ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Bruce-Coppock-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190517T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190517T193000 DTSTAMP:20260407T192517 CREATED:20190211T212417Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150841Z UID:10000029-1558121400-1558121400@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:Jason Anick & The Rhythm Future Quartet DESCRIPTION:Gypsy Jazz returns to Ogunquit\, led by violinist Jason Anick\, with guitar\, bass\, and Matt DeChamplain at the piano. \n \nJason Anick and the Rhythm Future Quartet return for their third engagement with Ogunquit Performing Arts in recent years. These dynamic performers have received national acclaim for their lilting rhythms\, virtuoso musicianship\, and vibrant musical combinations. \nTickets to this performance available now on this website. Tickets may also be purchased at the Ogunquit Camera Shop\, Dunaway Center\, Ogunquit Playhouse Downtown Box Office\, and Ogunquit Welcome Center beginning three weeks prior to the performance. Free parking for the performance is located behind the Dunaway Center. \nA favorite of Ogunquit audiences\, the acoustic jazz ensemble\, Rhythm Future Quartet has a straightforward agenda: to keep the spirit of Gypsy jazz alive and expanding in today’s musical universe. The virtuosic foursome\, named for a Django Reinhardt tune\, offers up a newly minted sound\, influenced by the classic Hot Club of France\, yet wholly contemporary.\nLed by violinist Jason Anick and guitarist Olli Soikkeli\, the quartet performs dynamic and lyrical arrangements of both Gypsy jazz standards and original compositions that draw upon diverse international rhythms and musical idioms. With Greg Loughman on bass\, and guest performer Matt DeChamplain on piano\, Rhythm Future is dedicated to expanding the boundaries of a vital musical genre. \nThe Fall of 2018 marked the release of their newest album\, “Rhythm Future Quartet and Friends”\, which features the critically acclaimed singer Cyrille Aimée\, brazil’s top bandolimist Hamilton de Holanda\, and guitarist Stochelo Rosenberg. While maintaining the effervescent lilt\, virtuosic musicianship and adventurous musical leanings of their previous recordings\, Rhythm Future Quartet and Travels (picked as one of the best jazz albums of 2016 by All About Jazz and the Huffington Post)\, RFQ and Friends brings vibrant new colors to the mix. \n \nWith its arresting blend of Hot Club of France styled string jazz\, Brazilian and East European idioms\, original compositions and hints of classical music\, the album marks a significant moment in the growth of a continually evolving ensemble. (And one with continually increasing popularity: the quartet’s version of Django’s “Minor Swing” has over four million views on YouTube\, while their video clip of “Bushwick Stomp” from Travels has over three million Facebook views.) \nJason Anick\, an award-winning composer and one of the youngest violin professors at the esteemed Berklee College of Music in Boston\, has shared the stage with an array of artists including Grammy award winning guitarist John Jorgenson\, Stevie Wonder\, The Jim Kweskin Jug Band\, and Tommy Emmanuel. After relocating from Scandinavia Olli Soikkeli quickly became a top call guitarist in the bustling Brooklyn jazz scene. He has performed alongside Cyrille Aimee\, and the celebrated guitarists Frank Vignola and Bucky Pizzarelli\, and many prominent contemporary players. \n \nPianist Matt DeChamplain is from Hartford\, Connecticut. He obtained his bachelors degree from the Jackie McLean Institute of Jazz at the Hartt School in 2010 and graduated with his masters from the University of Toledo in Ohio in 2012. Matt has performed at the Berks Jazz Festival\, New York’s JVC Jazz Festival\, Jazz at Lincoln Center\, Django By The Sea Gypsy Jazz Festival and jazz clubs such as the Regatta Bar\, The Side Door\, Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola\, Smalls and Yoshi’s. Currently Matt holds a faculty position at The Hartt School of Music (University of Hartford) and has taught at The Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts\, The Artist’s Collective (founded by Jackie McLean)\, the Litchfield Jazz Camp and New Hampshire and Maine’s Jazz All-State programs. While maintaining an active performance and teaching schedule\, Matt continues to arrange and compose.\nBook online now! URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/jason-anick-the-rhythm-future-quartet/ LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States CATEGORIES:Live Performance ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/jason-anick-rhythm-future-quartet-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190505T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190505T140000 DTSTAMP:20260407T192517 CREATED:20181212T010415Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150841Z UID:10000028-1557064800-1557064800@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:Classic Film: Yentl DESCRIPTION:Yentl  is a 1983 romantic musical drama film from United Artists co-written\, co-produced and starring Barbra Streisand based on the play of the same name by Leah Napolin and Isaac Bashevis Singer\, itself based on Singer’s short story.  The film’s musical score and songs were composed by Michel Legrand.   The film also stars Mandy Patinkin\, Amy Irving\, and Nehemiah Persoff. \nThe film received the Academy Award for Best Original Score\, and the Golden Globe Awards for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy\, and Best Director for Streisand\, making her the first woman to have won Best Director at the Golden Globes. \n“’This has to be a musical!’ Marilyn and Alan Bergman exclaimed in unison to Barbra Streisand when she showed the songwriters the script for Yentl.  This project\, developed from Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Yentl (1983)\, the Yeshiva Boy\, had been dear to Streisand’s heart since she first optioned the story in 1968.  It tells of a young Jewish woman in Poland who\, after the loss of her father\, disguises herself as a boy so she can go to a Yeshiva (Jewish school for priests) and study the Torah.  S \ntreisand\, who ended up directing\, co-producing and co-writing the film as well as starring in it\, had planned it as an intimate\, non-musical drama until the Bergmans persuaded her to add songs. As quoted by Streisand biographer James Spada\, Marilyn Bergman explained\, ‘We felt it was a wonderful story for a musical\, because it is [about] a character with a secret.  Throughout the picture\, after her father dies\, there is nobody to whom she can talk\, to whom she can reveal her essential self.  And this rich inner life becomes the [song] score.’ \n“Because they felt the music should be lushly romantic and rooted in the European tradition\, the Bergmans considered Michel Legrand the perfect composer to collaborate on the Yentl score.  ‘The kind of music Michel writes is timeless.  It could be the 18th\, 19th or 20th century\,’ said Alan.  Added Marilyn: ‘The challenge was to make the music exotic and colorful\, but not so special that it doesn’t have universality.’  In developing the songs\, the trio joined Streisand for lengthy sessions in the music room of the Bergmans’ Beverly Hills home.  ‘Our housekeeper would bring us food trays and we’d eat up there\,’ recalled Alan.  ‘Sometimes we’d go late into the night.  It was like there was no outside world; the greatest thing about working on the movie was\, where else in the world could you call your director and say\, “Come over and sing this song for us?” \n“The collaboration was so fruitful that Yentl won an Oscar for Best Song Score. The Bergmans and Legrand also were nominated twice in the “Best Song” category\, for “Papa\, Can You Hear Me?” and “The Way He Makes Me Feel.” (The winner in that category was the title tune from Flashdance.) \nYentl\, released through MGM-UA\, won only one other nomination\, that of Best Supporting Actress for Amy Irving.  Noticeably absent in every category for which she was eligible\, Streisand did not attend the awards ceremony;  Yentl‘s nominated songs were performed by Donna Summer and Jennifer Holliday.  ‘In Hollywood\, a woman can be an actress\, a singer\, a dancer\,’ Streisand said later. ‘But don’t let her be too much more!’” \nby Roger Fristoe for TCM URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/classic-film-yentl/ LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States CATEGORIES:Classic Film Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/190505_Yentl.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190407T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190407T140000 DTSTAMP:20260407T192517 CREATED:20181212T004912Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150841Z UID:10000027-1554645600-1554645600@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:Classic Film: Breaker Morant DESCRIPTION:Breaker Morant (1980) \nBased on a true story from the Boer War in South Africa (1899-1902)\, Breaker Morant (1979) was an unexpected hit that helped usher in the spate of commercially successful and critically acclaimed Australian films that took the U.S. and the world by storm in the early 1980s. Made for only $800\,000\, this drama about the extraordinary and tragic circumstances faced by men at war struck a chord with audiences\, especially in an America that had recently come out of the Viet Nam war. The film racked up several Australian Film Institute Awards\, as well as many nominations in other countries\, opening up a wealth of opportunities for director Bruce Beresford. He became one of the hot new directors from Down Under and went on to direct such hit films in the U.S. as Tender Mercies (1983)\, which netted Beresford the Golden Palm at Cannes\, an Oscar and the Golden Globe for Best Actor (Robert Duvall)\, and Driving Miss Daisy (1989)\, an Academy Award winner for Best Picture\, Best Actress Jessica Tandy and Best Adapted Screenplay (by Alfred Uhry). \nBreaker Morant chronicles an incident in 1901 when three Australian soldiers fighting on the side of the British in South Africa were court-martialed for executing enemy prisoners. Acting under orders from British high command during a brutal guerrilla war (the first of its similarities to Viet Nam)\, Harry “Breaker” Morant and his fellow soldiers in the Australian Bushveldt Carbineers exact revenge for the murder and mutilation of one of their officers by the Boers\, South African farmers of Dutch descent revolting against the British in the century’s first colonial war. Several Boer prisoners and a German missionary the trio believe to be a spy are killed. Because the British are aware Germany is looking for an excuse to enter the war on the side of the Boers (to position themselves favorably for access to South Africa’s gold and diamond riches)\, the command orders the three Australians to be brought to trial as scapegoats\, denying the deaths were ever part of an official but covert military policy. \nBreaker Morant is unflinchingly a polemical film\, skillfully manipulating audiences into sympathy with its protagonists\, who are clearly guilty of the act for which they are condemned. In this respect\, it has been compared to Stanley Kubrick’s brilliant anti-war film Paths of Glory (1957) and was seen by many reviewers of the time as a parallel to the story of Lt. Calley and the 1968 My Lai massacre in Vietnam. Early drafts of the screenplay depicted the Australians as innocent of the executions. Beresford rewrote the story to place the focus not on their guilt or innocence but on the far more compelling theme of the extreme acts soldiers are driven to commit and the double-dealing politics of the military elite…. \nThe story is aided in no small part by the honest and affecting performances of its leads. British actor Edward Woodward\, who later appeared in the American TV series The Equalizer (1985)\, plays Morant as a flawed but essentially warm and decent man\, in contrast to his pompous\, hypocritical superiors. Acting honors are shared by two major Australian stars: Bryan Brown\, who went on to great success in America in the TV mini-series The Thorn Birds (1983) and the thriller F/X (1986)\, and Jack Thompson\, who played a Japanese POW in Nagisa Oshima’s Merry Christmas\, Mr. Lawrence (1983) and the sympathetic father in the gay-themed The Sum of Us (1994). As the harried and increasingly emotionally involved defense attorney\, Thompson won the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor and the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Supporting Actor. \nby Rob Nixon for TCM \n  URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/classic-film-breaker-morant/ LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States CATEGORIES:Classic Film Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/190407_BreakerMorant.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190309T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190309T183000 DTSTAMP:20260407T192517 CREATED:20181212T002959Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150841Z UID:10000026-1552156200-1552156200@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:Stillson School of Irish Dance DESCRIPTION:Irish Stepdancing continues to be a wildly popular art form for performers and audiences alike.  Ogunquit Performing Arts celebrates this unique style of dance at this most appropriate time of year.   The award-winning Stillson dancers\, returning to Ogunquit by popular demand\, will perform a brilliant array of jigs and reels\, dressed in a variety of dazzling\,  hand-made costumes. \n \nThe performance will consist of both the fluid soft shoe style as well as the rhythmic hard shoe popularized by shows such as Riverdance and Lord of the Dance. \nAt the end of the performance\,  the dancers will invite children and the young at heart  to join them onstage to learn or try out some steps.  A reception with refreshments will conclude the evening. \nThe Stillson School of Irish Dance is under the direction of the celebrated dancer/teacher Carlene Moran Stillson ADCRG/TCRG.  She is accredited by Ad Coimisium in Dublin\, Ireland and a member of IDTANA (Irish Dancing Teacher’s Association of North America).  Carlene has a long tradition of dancing having started at age 4.  She has competed in the New England Regional\, North American\, and World Championships. \nIn existence for more than 20 years\, the Stillson School is the only certified school of Irish dancing in the state of Maine and its dancers compete all over New England and place in the New England Regional Irish Dancing Championships annually\, and in competitions around the world. \n \nIn addition to the dance performance\, Carlene Stillson will tell about the history of the dance and explain the reasons for the design of the many different costumes worn by the dancers.  Traditional Irish dress is represented in the school dress which features embroidery designs taken from the Book of Kells. \nThe Stillson School of Irish Dance also has an active show team which has performed throughout New England as well as on the Elipse lawn of the White House. They have been featured dancers accompanying such renowned Celtic performers as Solas\, Cherish the Ladies\, Trinity Dance Company\, Liz Carroll\, Billy McComiskey and Mick Moloney\, and Eileen Ivers. URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/stillson-school-of-irish-dance-3/ LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States CATEGORIES:Live Performance ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/190309_LP_Stillson.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190303T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190303T140000 DTSTAMP:20260407T192517 CREATED:20181109T233457Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150842Z UID:10000025-1551621600-1551621600@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:Classic Film: Cape Fear DESCRIPTION:Cape Fear (1962) \n \n“In the annals of screen psychopaths\, there are few who can top Robert Mitchum’s portrayal of Max Cady in the 1962 version of Cape Fear.  A convicted sex offender who is released from prison after serving a six year sentence\, Cady is a walking time bomb\, biding his time until he can take revenge on the prosecutor who put him away.  Everything about him exudes menace\, from his hooded eyes and insouciant sexual swagger to his smirking\, undisguised contempt for everyone he meets.  Mitchum was born to play this role and he applies the same relentless intensity to the part that he brought to his portrayal of Harry Powell\, the homicidal preacher from The Night of the Hunter (1955). \n \n“Gregory Peck actually deserves the credit for casting Mitchum as Max Cady and taking the more low-key role of attorney Sam Bowden.  After buying the rights to the John D. MacDonald novel\, The Executioners\, Peck reassembled several previous collaborators who had served him well in the past\, namely J. Lee Thompson\, who had just helmed the enormously successful war adventure\, The Guns of Navarone (1961)\, producer Sy Bartlett and screenwriter James Webb.  Initially\, Rod Steiger and Telly Savalas were considered for the part of Cady but once Mitchum became a possibility\, Peck pushed for his commitment.  At first Mitchum didn’t want to do the film but finally relented after Peck and Thompson delivered a case of bourbon to his home. His reply\, ‘Ok\, I’ve drunk your bourbon… I’ll do it.'”   Jeff Stafford for TCM \nCape Fear also stars Polly Bergen\, Lori Martin\, Martin Balsam\, Barrie Chase\, and Telly Savalas. \n \nThompson had always envisioned the film in black and white prior to production. As an Alfred Hitchcock fan\, he wanted to have Hitchcockian elements in the film\, such as unusual lighting angles\, an eerie musical score\, closeups\, and subtle hints\, rather than graphic depictions of the violence Cady has in mind for the family. \nThis scene where Mitchum attacks Polly Bergen’s character on the houseboat was alleged to be somewhat improvised.  Before the scene was filmed\, Thompson suddenly told a crew member: “Bring me a dish of eggs!”  Mitchum’s rubbing the eggs on Bergen was not scripted and Bergen’s reactions were presumably real.  While filming the scene\, Mitchum cut open his hand\, leading Bergen to recall: “his hand was covered in blood\, my back was covered in blood. We just kept going\, caught up in the scene. They came over and physically stopped us.” \n \nThe Production Code Administration still wielded power in the film industry in the early sixties and Cape Fear was certainly a cause for concern for them. After reviewing the film\, suggestions were made to remove several shots and references.   British censors demanded 161 cuts! Cape Fear was finally released there shorn of six minutes of footage. \nBecause of the film’s disturbing nature\, critical reviews were mixed.  Yet\, the film’s claustrophobic sense of impending terror and Mitchum’s mesmerizing performance are hard to dismiss lightly\, and the film is now recognized as a psy chological thriller masterpiece\, eclipsing even the 1991 remake by Martin Scorsese. URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/classic-film-cape-fear/ LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States CATEGORIES:Classic Film Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/190303_CapeFear.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190203T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190203T140000 DTSTAMP:20260407T192517 CREATED:20181109T231446Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150842Z UID:10000024-1549202400-1549202400@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:Classic Film: Guys and Dolls DESCRIPTION:Based on the short stories of Damon Runyan\, and with music and lyrics by the legendary Frank Loesser\, the original production of Guys and Dolls opened on Broadway November 24\, 1950\, and ran for 1200 performances.  The film version\, starring Marlon Brando\, Jean Simmons\, Frank Sinatra and Vivian Blaine (recreating her stage role as Adelaide)\, had the highest box office gross of 1955.  The film also features Stubby Kaye\, B.S. Pully\, Johnny Silver\, and Sheldon Leonard. \nGuys and Dolls is a fable about gambling men\, and the women who try to tame them.  Set in the colorful world of New York’s Times Square in the mid-20th century\, the flashy and witty Guys and Dolls is populated with gangsters and gamblers\, thugs and mugs\, missionary dolls and scantily clad showgirls\, and one of the great musical scores in the history of American theatre. \nIt all begins with a bet.  In a desperate effort to finance a location for “The Oldest Established Permanent Floating Crap Game in New York” and under pressure from its gangster participants\,  Nathan Detroit (Sinatra) bets high-rolling gambler Sky Masterson (Brando) that Sky cannot persuade Save-A-Soul Mission Sergeant Sarah Brown (Simmons) to accompany him on a trip to Cuba.  While the worldly Sky works his charms on a wary Sarah\, Nathan is doing his best to stay outside the matrimonial clutches of his long-suffering fiancée\, showgirl Miss Adelaide (Blaine). \n \nSongs include well-known Loesser favorites\, including such dynamic ensembles as “Luck Be a Lady”\, “Sit Down\, You’re Rockin’ the Boat”\, “Fugue for Tinhorns” – (I’ve Got the Horse Right Here!)\, and the title song.   Loesser added two lovely ballads written especially for the film\, “Adelaide” and “Woman In Love.”  Under the direction of Joseph L. Mankiewicz\, with fabulous dance numbers choreographed by Michael Kidd\, and new music coming from the composer\, the musical was given the usual lavish attention by MGM Studios. \nBorn in 1910 in New York\, composer Frank Loesser never studied music formally\, although he certainly came under the influence of his father\, a distinguished German-born teacher of classical piano\, and of his older brother Arthur\, who was a renowned concert pianist and musicologist. \nIn a few short years\, Loesser created five Broadway musicals whose impact and popularity continue to this day.  Over the years the many revivals of Guys and Dolls\, The Most Happy Fella\, How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying\, Greenwillow\, and Where’s Charley?\,  have enjoyed as great success\,  and have won multiple awards equalling\, and sometimes exceeding\, the original productions. \n \nIn the late 1940’s\, Loesser also formed his own music publishing company\, Frank Music Corporation\, with the primary purpose of discovering and developing new and young popular composers and lyricists.  The company became a major force in music publishing\, licensing of secondary theatrical rights\, and production of printed music editions. \nIn the midst of all his stage work and publishing projects\, Loesser was no stranger to Hollywood and composed\, wrote\, or co-wrote for some fifty films.  He created one of his best loved scores for the film\, Hans Christian Anderson\, which featured such songs as “Wonderful Copenhagen”\,  “Anywhere I Wander”\, “The Inch Worm”\, and “Thumbelina”\, which was nominated for an Academy Award. \nFrom the Pulitzer Prize to the American Theatre Wing’s Tony Award to Hollywood’s highest honor\, Frank Loesser won them all. URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/classic-film-guys-and-dolls/ LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States CATEGORIES:Classic Film Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/180203_GuysDolls.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190106T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190106T140000 DTSTAMP:20260407T192517 CREATED:20181027T173228Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150843Z UID:10000023-1546783200-1546783200@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:Classic Film: One\, Two\, Three DESCRIPTION:Pamela Tiffin watching as Horst Buchholz and James Cagney are about to get into a food fight in a scene from the film ‘One\, Two\, Three’\, 1961. (Photo by United Artists/Getty Images) \nOne\, Two\, Three is a 1961 brilliant American comedy film directed by Billy Wilder\,  and written by Wilder and I. A. Diamond.   The comedy stars James Cagney\, Arlene Francis\, Horst Buchholz\, Pamela Tiffin and Lilo Pulver.    It was filmed in West Berlin and Munich in the summer of 1961. \nThe film is primarily set in West Berlin during the Cold War\, but before the construction of the Berlin Wall. It  is known for its extraordinary fast pace\, taking satiric aim at communism\, capitalism\, post-war Germany\, corporate America\, previous Cagney films\, alligator shoes\, and a host of other targets. \n  \nBilly Wilder wrote and/or directed a wide variety of pictures during his renowned career.   But he’s probably best known for the stunning comedies he created with screenwriter I. A. Diamond.  One\, Two\, Three is a prime example\, with a mile-a-minute script pitting Coca-Cola against Communism. \nJames Cagney’s performance is a tour de force\, delivering pages of script at dizzying speed.  In Cameron Crowe’s book\, Conversations with Wilder (Alfred A. Knopf)\, the director commented on Cagney’s delivery\, saying “We knew that we were going to have a comedy\, we [were] not going to be waiting for the laughs. But we had to go with Cagney\, because Cagney was the whole picture. He really had the rhythm\, and that was very good…” \nIn the film\, Cagney plays C.R. MacNamara\, Coca-Cola’s ambitious head of bottling in West Germany\, who is determined to cut a deal to distribute Coke to the Russian market while at the same time desperately trying to prevent the boss’s visiting flighty daughter (Tiffin) from marrying a card-carrying communist hippie (Buchholz)\, while under the disapproving eye of his own neglected wife (Francis). \nThen in his early sixties\, Cagney was not initially certain he should take on the part.  On reading the script\, he understood that the bulk of the film rested on his abilities and stamina.  And indeed\, Wilder’s insistence on breakneck\, rat-a-tat-tat timing to each and every scene soon began to wear on Cagney\, – especially on those occasions when the actor received pages of script only the night before\, and then was expected to spit out a steady stream of complex dialogue while handling equally complicated stage direction.  Cagney was genuinely irked that Wilder demanded word-for-word perfection and wouldn’t accept even the slightest bit of paraphrasing. \nHe was even more aggravated with Buchholz\, the only actor whom Cagney\, a consummate gentleman\, ever openly disliked.   Said Cagney\, “…this Horst Buchholz character I truly loathed. Had he kept on with his little scene-stealing didoes\, I would have been forced to knock him on his ass\, which I would have very much enjoyed doing.” \nDespite everything\, Cagney achieved a triumphant performance and enjoyed a great success with this film.  However\, One\, Two\, Three also would be his last film appearance until Ragtime  in 1981\, 20 years later. \nThe film won kudos from the staff at Variety. They wrote\, “Billy Wilder’s One\, Two\, Three is a fast-paced\, high-pitched\, hard-hitting\, lighthearted farce crammed with topical gags and spiced with satirical overtones. Story is so furiously quick-witted that some of its wit gets snarled and smothered in overlap. But total experience packs a considerable wallop.” \nDespite great reviews\, and awards from the Academy\, Golden Globes\, and Writers Guild of America\, One\, Two\, Three did not do well at either the U.S. or German box office. The lighthearted East-West Berlin story felt much more sinister at the release\, since the Berlin Wall had been built after filming began.  (The building of the Berlin Wall began during the night of August 13\, 1961\, – right through the film set at the Brandenburg Gate.   The film team\, discovering the change in the morning\, had to move the production to Munich.) \nOne\, Two\, Three was also banned in Finland from 1962 to 1986 on “political” grounds — it was feared that the film would harm relations between Finland and the Soviet Union.  United Pictures Finland tried to get the film released theatrically in 1962\, 1966 and 1969 but it was only in 1986 that the Finnish Board of Film Classification allowed the film to be distributed. \nIn a complete reversal of fortune\, the film was also received enthusiastically in Germany upon its 1985 re-release in movie theaters.   One\, Two\, Three was given a grand re-premier at a large outdoor showing in Berlin which was broadcast simultaneously over television. The film went on to spend a year in the Berlin theaters as it was rediscovered by West Berlin citizens. URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/classic-film-one-two-three/ LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States CATEGORIES:Classic Film Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/180106_CFS_OneTwoThree.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181202T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181202T140000 DTSTAMP:20260407T192517 CREATED:20181027T170827Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150843Z UID:10000022-1543759200-1543759200@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:Classic Film: The Nutcracker DESCRIPTION:Filmed at the Royal Opera House by the BBC\, this historic performance from 1968 captures Rudolf Nureyev at the peak of his career.  The ballet is in two acts adapted from Alexandre Dumas – Music:  Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky – Choreography:  Rudolf Nureyev after Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov – Production:  Rudolph Nureyev.  Co-starring Merle Park with Artists of the Royal Ballet\, London. \nThe Nutcracker was created on the 18th December 1892 at the Maryinski Theatre in Saint-Petersburg.   Rudolf Nureyev staged The Nutcracker for the first time in November 1967 for the Royal Swedish Ballet following the request of Erick Bruhn. This version was to be revived several times in London\, Milan\, Buenos Aires and Berlin. \nNureyev aimed to retain the ballet’s appeal to children while changing the balance of roles and choreography to be of more interest to adults as well.  The work traditionally featured the toymaker Drosselmeyer giving a magic nutcracker to the child Clara\, who is then transported to a distant land of sweets\, where she enjoys watching a series of dances by solo artists from the ballet company\,  climaxed by the famous dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy and her Prince. \nThe original libretto by Alexandre Dumas was completely revised by Nureyev who gave his version of The Nutcracker a psychoanalytic dimension: Drosselmeyer and the Prince are one and the same person\, representing the ideal man dreamt up by the heroine\, ready to leave her childhood and become a young woman.  Clara herself becomes the Sugar Plum Fairy and Princess\, joining her Prince in the final Grand Pas de Deux. \nWith the additional choreography for these two\, including another Pas de Deux in the first act\, Nureyev created two major roles suitable for a company’s leading dancers\, and gave the ballet a more cohesive plot. \nThis new approach was soon adopted in other companies and productions\, including one by Baryshnikov for American Ballet Theatre ten years later. \nFrom the beginning of his career\, Nureyev had already changed the role of the male dancer in the general repertoire\, which heretofore had traditionally been to support and showcase the ballerina\, with only a few solo moments for himself.  Nureyev upgraded the choreography\, requiring the premier danseur to perform as intricate and demanding steps as the prima ballerina\, whether in unison\, mirror-image\, or complementary fashion. \n“He made a revolution on the way to consider a male dancer\,” says dancer Laurent Hilaire. “All of the big classical ballet was meant to value the woman\, and also his work reflected the dance he saw in Denmark\, France\, England and Russia. He learned from all over the world and he created his own style. You know when it’s a step from Nureyev as soon as you see it. You cannot really compare it\, but his choreography is as rich as the language of Shakespeare or Molière.” \n“For me\, purity of movement wasn’t enough.   I needed expression\, more intensity\, more mind.” Rudolph Nureyev \nHis choreographies were extremely intense and vivid. Never one to take the easy way out\, if the musical theme was repeated four times\, he wanted the step to be performed four times keeping the same purity and the same simplicity (which is\, basically\, the most difficult!)\, the repetition enriching the impression of discipline and beauty. \nNureyev was also known for his seemingly effortless leaps and jumps.  In classical ballet jumps aim at a vertical elevation; in modern ballet\, they move horizontally through space.  Nureyev implemented a combination of the two: to jump very high whilst moving across the stage.  The spectator has the impression that the dancer is flying\, and is instantaneously suspended in midair. \nAll of the achievements of this tremendous dancer are reflected in this live performance film\, in his sumptuous production recalling the ballet’s Russian origins.   Nureyev is joined by The Royal Ballet’s prima ballerina Merle Park\, whose glowing performance of this new role lifted her to international stardom in the world of dance. \nSources:   The Rudolph Nureyev Foundation; The New York Times URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/classic-film-the-nutcracker/ LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States CATEGORIES:Classic Film Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/181202_CFS_Nutcracker.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181104T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181104T140000 DTSTAMP:20260407T192517 CREATED:20180923T222157Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150843Z UID:10000021-1541340000-1541340000@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:Classic Film: The African Queen DESCRIPTION:The African Queen is the first film in Ogunquit Performing Arts 2018-19 Classic Film Series.\nOgunquit Performing Arts presents the first film in its 2018-19 Classic Film Series on Sunday\, November 4\, 2018 at 2 pm in the Dunaway Center with the screening of The African Queen.  Starring Katharine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart\, this classic adventure film will be shown on a wall-sized screen\, with free admission\, parking\, and popcorn.  Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit. \nThe African Queen (1951) began as a novel written by English author C.S. Forester and published in 1935. This unique adventure story about the relationship between a prim spinster and the scruffy boat captain who takes her down the river was kicked around as a potential movie idea for years in Hollywood. RKO thought about making it with Charles Laughton and his actress wife Elsa Lanchester\, but ultimately the project was scrapped. The thinking was that audiences would not want to see a romance between two middle-aged people…. \nStill\, others saw potential in The African Queen. In 1946 Warner Bros. bought it as a possible vehicle for Bette Davis. That never came to fruition\, however\, and by 1947 they were trying to unload the property. \nDirector John Huston\, who had always been a fan of the book\, wanted desperately to purchase the rights to the property with his producing partner Sam Spiegel as a project for their independent film company. Horizon Pictures…Funding for the project was achieved by a collaboration with Sound Services Inc.\, whose equipment was also used in the film’s production. \nHuston was adamant that writer James Agee would be the one to help him write the screenplay. Agee was a poet\, novelist and film critic whose work Huston had always admired…Agee agreed and flew out to California\, where he and Huston holed up in a resort hotel outside of Santa Barbara to work on the screenplay. They set a strict regimen for themselves of work and exercise. Though they got a tremendous amount done\, Agee was not taking care of himself-he was drinking\, smoking and eating too much and not getting enough sleep. Before they could finish the script\, Agee had a heart attack and was out of commission for a lengthy recuperation. \nMeanwhile\, Huston was searching for the ideal leads. Katharine Hepburn was the first one contacted. In 1950 she was touring with the stage production of Shakespeare’s As You Like It\, which was currently playing in Los Angeles. Sam Spiegel sent her a copy of the original novel The African Queen to read while she was staying at the home of her good friend Irene Selznick. She read it and loved it\, knowing that the part of Rose would be perfect for her. \nSam Spiegel came out to visit Hepburn\, and the two discussed the project and potential actors to play opposite her. Charlie Allnut was supposed to have a Cockney accent\, which limited their choices until Spiegel suggested Humphrey Bogart. They both thought him perfect for the part and simply decided to make his character Canadian\, which would solve the problem of the Cockney accent. As Katharine Hepburn later wrote in her 1987 book The Making of the African Queen; or How I Went to Africa with Bogart\, Bacall and Huston and Almost Lost My Mind\, “Now\, looking back at that conversation-can you imagine anyone but Bogie playing that part? He was really it-hook\, line and sinker”. \nJohn Huston and Humphrey Bogart had worked well together previously on The Maltese Falcon (1941)\, Across the Pacific (1942)\, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) and Key Largo (1948) so Huston called up his old pal and said\, “Hey\, old son\, I have a great property. The hero’s a low-life\, and since you’re the biggest low-life in town the part is therefore ideal for you!” Though Bogart wasn’t keen on shooting in Africa\, he trusted his friend Huston. “He’s brilliant and unpredictable\,” said Bogart of Huston. “Never dull. When I work with John\, I think about acting. I don’t worry about business.” Huston\, in turn\, called Bogart “an ideal collaborator and companion…He’s a joy to work with…his figure seemed to find its way into whatever I did.” \nBogie had never worked with Katharine Hepburn\, and neither had John Huston for that matter. The actor was somewhat leery of working with her\, having heard she could be difficult. However\, when Bogie and Huston met with Hepburn\, she won them over. In her 1979 autobiography By Myself\, Lauren Bacall (Humphrey Bogart’s wife) said that Bogie had never wanted to travel out of the country\, but she herself was longing to go and see the world. “Bogie\,” she said\, “liked his life as it was; going to New York was all the traveling he wanted to do. Finally Sam Spiegel told Katharine Hepburn that he had Bogie and John – to John that he had Bogie and Katie – told Bogie that he had John and Katie – and The African Queen was put together.” \nThe African Queen was a big box office and critical success\, honored with four Academy Award nominations for Best Actor\, Actress\, Director and Screenplay. It also provided a major career boost for the director and his two stars. In fact\, Humphrey Bogart scored his biggest triumph with his role as Charlie Allnut\, and he won his only Academy Award as Best Actor for it. \nby Andrea Passafiume for Turner Classic Movies URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/classic-film-the-african-queen/ LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States CATEGORIES:Classic Film Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/181104_CFS_AfricanQueen.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181012T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181012T193000 DTSTAMP:20260407T192517 CREATED:20180630T012706Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150843Z UID:10000119-1539372600-1539372600@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:Sachiko Kato DESCRIPTION:Eloquent New York pianist Sachiko Kato performs the music of Debussy and Ravel. Tickets go on sale on this website Sept 14. \n\nTICKETS\n \n\n\n\nMs. Kato’s Program \n\n\n\nPreludes \nLa fille aux cheveux de lin\nLes collines d’Anacapri\nLa Puerta del Vino\nBruyeres\nCe qu’a vu le vent d’Ouest \nEtudes \nPour les “cinq doigt” d’apres Monsieur Czerny\nPour les Quartes\nPour les Degres chromatiques\nPour les Arpeges composes\nPour les Accords \nL’isle joyeuse\nClaude Debussy (1862-1918)\n\n\nIntermission \n\n\n\nLe Tombeau de Couperin \nPrelude\nFugue\nForlane\nRegaudon\nMenuet\nToccata \nLa Valse\nMaurice Ravel (1875-1937)\n\n\n\n\nSachiko Kato\, known for her expressive and gorgeous tone\, is a classical pianist whose interest ranges from Bach to the contemporary. She has performed throughout the United States and her native Japan\, as well as in Canada and Brazil. Her current projects include a recording of the Brahms’s late piano works released in early 2017. \nMs. Kato has previously recorded the Goldberg Variations on the Centaur Records label in 2012. Jerry Dubins of Fanfare claims “Sachiko Kato’s performance is truly special” and “… everyone who embraces Bach’s Goldberg Variations on piano\, this deserves to be heard and is urgently recommended.” Her playing has been broadcasted by New York’s public radio station WNYC on its “New Sounds” program\, as well as New York’s classical station WQXR\, KMZT (Los Angeles) and WKCR FM (Columbia University station\, New York). Sachiko’s performances have received critical acclaim: “the velvet smoothness and silken beauty … an extremely imaginative player … she plays with such a sense of effortlessness and ease” (Fanfare Jan.-Feb. 2013); “a lovely\, delicate touch … interpretive clarity … impressively crisp fingerwork and consistent energy.” (New York Concert Review). Ms. Kato was also featured in the Juilliard centenary publication\, “Dance Drama Music: 100 Years of the Juilliard School\,” as one of the 100 outstanding alumni. \nA champion of new music\, Ms. Kato has commissioned\, premiered\, and recorded contemporary works. She founded Weaving Japanese Sounds\, contemporary Japanese music concert project in 2004 in the hopes of facilitating cultural exchanges between the US and Japan by introducing Japanese new music to American audiences in an accessible manner. The concerts are presented annually with a coterie of top-tier musicians and have been garnering critical acclaim and enthusiastic followers. \nMs. Kato has won numerous competitions such as the Frinna Awerbuch International Piano Competition and the Pro-Piano Recital Series Auditions\, both held in New York. After her debut at Carnegie Weill Hall in 1995\, she has performed extensively throughout the world. She has been heard at the Lincoln Center Alice Tully Hall and Performing Arts Library\, Steinway Hall in New York\, the Los Angeles County Museum\, and the Arcady Music Festival in Maine. She has toured Canada and Brazil under the auspice of Japan Foundation\, and performed an all-Japanese composers program in Algeria. \nSachiko Kato was born in Osaka\, Japan and immigrated to Los Angles with her family at the age of 14. She graduated from California State University Northridge and then\, on scholarship\, completed her Master’s Degree at the Juilliard School. She did further studies in Boston with the famed pianist/teacher\, Russell Sherman. Ms. Kato is based in New York City. \n\nTICKETS URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/sachiko-kato/ LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States CATEGORIES:Elizabeth Dunaway Burnham Piano Festival ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/181012_PF_Kato.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181007T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181007T150000 DTSTAMP:20260407T192517 CREATED:20180630T013018Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150844Z UID:10000120-1538924400-1538924400@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:Student Piano Recital DESCRIPTION:The Festival continues on Sunday afternoon\, October 7th at 3 pm with the Student Piano Recital\,  featuring the area’s best young pianists performing on OPA’s fabled Steinway.   It is here that talented local students have the opportunity to perform on a world-class piano in front of a live audience.  Admission to this performance is free. \nThe Festival honors the memory of Elizabeth Dunaway Burnham\, founder and first chairperson of Ogunquit Performing Arts.  A pianist herself\, Betty studied\, performed and taught piano for most of her life.  She also saw to it that OPA acquired its spectacular Steinway Concert Model C Grand Piano\, which still remains OPA’s greatest treasure. URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/student-piano-recital/ LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States CATEGORIES:Elizabeth Dunaway Burnham Piano Festival ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/181007_PF_Student-Recital.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181005T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181005T193000 DTSTAMP:20260407T192517 CREATED:20180630T011958Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150844Z UID:10000118-1538767800-1538767800@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:Victor Rosenbaum DESCRIPTION:CONCERT CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS\nRenowned Boston pianist Victor Rosenbaum performs the music of Brahms and Schubert. Tickets go on sale on this website Sept 14. \n\n\nMr. Rosenbaum’s  Program \nThree Intermezzi\, Opus 117 – Johannes Brahms  1833-1897 \nFour Short Pieces\, and Four More Short Pieces – John Heiss  1938 – \nSonata in A Major\, D. 664 –  Franz Schubert 1797- 1828 \n\nAmerican pianist Victor Rosenbaum has concertized widely as soloist and chamber music performer in the United States\, Europe\, Asia\, Israel\, and Russia in such prestigious halls as Tully Hall in New York and the Hermitage in St. Petersburg\, Russia. \nHis highly praised recording of Schubert\, which Classical disCDigest described as “a powerful and poignant record of human experience\,” is on Bridge Records. The release of the last three Beethoven sonatas on the same label was named by American Record Guide critic Alan Becker as one of the top ten classical recordings of 2005 and Susan Kagan of Fanfare wrote of that disc: “Victor Rosenbaum’s rewarding interpretation can sit proudly among the best.” Two recent recordings on the Fleur de Sonlabel feature music of Schubert and Mozart. \nDescribed by the Boston Globe as “one of those artists who make up for all the drudgery the habitual concertgoer endures in the hopes of finding the real\, right thing\,” Rosenbaum has collaborated with such artists as Leonard Rose\, Paul Katz\, Arnold Steinhardt\, Robert Mann\, Joseph Silverstein\, Malcolm Lowe\, and the Brentano\, Borromeo\, and Cleveland String Quartets\, among others. Festival appearances have included Tanglewood\, the Rockport Chamber Music Festival\, Kfar Blum and Tel Hai (in Israel)\, Yellow Barn\, Kneisel Hall (Blue Hill)\, Musicorda\, Masters de Pontlevoy (France)\, the Heifetz Institute\, the International Keyboard Institute and Festival in New York\, and the International Music Seminar in Vienna. Concert appearances in recent years have brought him to Chicago\, Minneapolis\, Tokyo\, Beijing\, St. Petersburg (Russia)\, Tel Aviv\, Jerusalem\, New York and Boston\, and other cities. \nA student of Elizabeth Brock and Martin Marks in his hometown of Indianapolis\, Rosenbaum later studied with Rosina Lhevinne and Leonard Shure while earning degrees at Brandeis and Princeton Universities. Now a renowned teacher himself\, Rosenbaum presently serves on the faculty of the Mannes College of Music in New York and the New England Conservatory in Boston\, where he formerly chaired the piano and chamber music departments. He has been Visiting Professor of Piano at the Eastman School of Music\, a guest teacher at Juilliard\, and presents lectures\, workshops\, and master classes for teachers’ groups and schools both in the U. S. and abroad\, including London’s Royal Academy of Music\, Royal College of Music\, and Guildhall School\, the conservatories of St. Petersburg and Moscow\, Beijing Central Conservatory\, the Toho School in Tokyo and other institutions such as the Menuhin School\, and the Jerusalem Music Center. Rosenbaum was Director and President of the Longy School of Music from 1985-2001. URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/victor-rosenbaum/ LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States CATEGORIES:Elizabeth Dunaway Burnham Piano Festival ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/181005_PF_Rosenbaum.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181005 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181013 DTSTAMP:20260407T192517 CREATED:20180630T005921Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150844Z UID:10000117-1538697600-1539388799@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:12th Annual Elizabeth Dunaway Burnham Piano Festival DESCRIPTION:This year’s Festival features the music of the master composers of Austria\, Germany and France\, as performed by two international artists\, Boston’s Victor Rosenbaum on Friday\, October 5th\, and New York’s Sachiko Kato on Friday October 12th\, both at 7:30 pm. \nThe Festival also includes an afternoon performance by Southern Maine’s finest young pianists in the Student Piano Recital\,  Sunday\, October 7th at 3:00 pm.  Admission to this performance is free. \nThe Festival honors the memory of Elizabeth Dunaway Burnham\, founder and first chairperson of Ogunquit Performing Arts.  A pianist herself\, Betty studied\, performed and taught piano for most of her life.  She also saw to it that OPA acquired its spectacular Steinway Concert Model C Grand Piano\, which still remains OPA’ greatest treasure. URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/12th-annual-elizabeth-dunaway-burnham-piano-festival/ LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States CATEGORIES:Elizabeth Dunaway Burnham Piano Festival ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/181005_PF_GENERAL.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180908T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180908T193000 DTSTAMP:20260407T192517 CREATED:20180610T185233Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150844Z UID:10000116-1536435000-1536435000@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:Capriccio - Andy Happel and Los Galactacos String Band DESCRIPTION:TICKETS\n \n\n\n\nSERIES TICKETS\n \n\n\nAndy Happel and his Los Galactacos String Band will be returning in triumph to the Barn Gallery on Saturday\, September 8th at 7:30 pm\, – after a dynamic performance there one year ago left the audience  dancing in the aisles and calling for more! \nPerforming a lively repertoire of songs\, from Chile to Canada\, Los Galactacos brings together an exotic combination of voice\, guitar\, violin\, cello\, dobro\, cuatro\, upright bass\, acoustic bass\, guitarron\, drums and percussion. \nTheir program includes a variety of beautiful tunes and rousing rhythms from across the Americas\, and across the seas: Tex/Mex folk; Appalachian string music; Canadian maritimes fiddle tunes; the Classic American Songbook; ol’ time Country; and music for wherever people gather and celebrate. \n \nFounded in summer 2015 on a lark to enjoy some late-summer soirees\, the Los Galactacos musical excursion was quickly underway with multi-instrumentalist Andy Happel as navigator. A true translator and ambassador of musical ideas\, Happel has infused his music with elegant fire – ranging from Capitol Records’ Thanks to Gravity and modern classical label PARMA\, to his work with the Don Campbell Band\, and his ever-expanding teaching studio. Joining him are Drew Wyman (Thanks to Gravity\, the Cozmik Zombies)\, Todd the Rocket (The Downbeat Renaissance)\, and Pete Witham (The Cozmik Zombies\, Spookie Daly Pride). \nAlready in their adventure\, the group has entertained at the Wentworth By The Sea Hotel (Newcastle\, NH)\, Wentworth Marina\, The Wentworth (Jackson\, NH)\, two seasons residency at El Rayo in Scarborough\, Maine\, and a collection of private residences. \n \nAndy Happel is a concert violinist and fiddler who has shared the stage with symphonies\, pop stars and country music luminaries alike. As bandleader for 90s rock group Thanks to Gravity\, Andy was signed to Capitol Records and EMI Publishing and toured extensively with the likes of Guster\, Train\, Matchbox 20 and the Dave Matthews Band. A successful run with country singer Don Campbell followed\, where he opened for country legends Willie Nelson\, Randy Travis\, George Jones and Charlie Daniels. He currently performs with classical improv group Aeterna Trio\, and several other independent projects. \nRecently\, he was nominated for a NATAS Boston/New England Emmy\, and performed O’Connor’s The Fiddle Concerto as guest soloist with the Portsmouth Symphony Orchestra \nAndy is also Lead Producer with new classical music label PARMA Recordings.   He has worked with the Moravian Philharmonic in the Czech Republic\, the Metropolitan Opera Children’s Chorus and the New England String Quartet\, among others. \n\nTICKETS\n \n\n\n\nSERIES TICKETS URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/capriccio-andy-happel-and-los-galactacos-string-band/ LOCATION:The Barn Gallery\, 3 Hartwig Lane (off Bourne Lane at Shore Road)\, Ogunquit\, Maine\, 03907 CATEGORIES:Capriccio ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/180907_CAP_Happel.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180908T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180908T143000 DTSTAMP:20260407T192517 CREATED:20180610T184546Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150845Z UID:10000115-1536417000-1536417000@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:Capriccio - Paul Sullivan and Con Fullam DESCRIPTION:TICKETS\n \n\n\n\nSERIES TICKETS\n \n\n\nPaul Sullivan has enjoyed a richly varied and distinguished career as a composer and a pianist.  In his solo performances\, he creates a relaxed and intimate feeling with his audience through his pleasant and quirky observations about music and life. His warm and inviting personality\, coupled with his world-class musicianship\, wins over new listeners immediately and usually makes them life-long fans. \nCon Fullam is a most talented and accomplished wordsmith and songwriter\, but it’s when he himself performs his music that the listener’s experience is most touching\, whether his musical stories are wistful\, joyous\,  loving\,  blue or hopeful.  He is a powerful entertainer and guitarist. \nHearing either of them live in concert is a special occasion.   But when they join forces\, they create a musical event which is simply not to be missed.  OPA is proud and fortunate to bring them together as a part of the Capriccio Music Festival. \nAs a soloist\, with his trio\, and as a member of the Paul Winter Consort\, Paul Sullivan has played concert tours in most of the United States and Europe\, as well as the Middle East\, Central America\, and Asia. He has performed among the dunes of the Negev Desert\, in Leonard Bernstein’s living room\, and on the stages of many of the world’s finest concert halls. He has been a guest on Marian McPartland’s “Piano Jazz”\, and he has also performed with some legendary orchestras\, such as the Philadelphia Orchestra under Eugene Ormandy\, the Boston Pops under both Arthur Fiedler and Keith Lockhart\, and several regional orchestras around the US. \nSullivan has worked in some of New York’s most prestigious jazz clubs as well\, including Sweet Basil\, The Village Vanguard\, and Bradley’s. He has played with a wide variety of masters from Benny Goodman to Tommy Flanagan\, as well as Red Mitchell\, Lou Donaldson\, George Mraz\, Gerry Hemingway\, Marc Helias\, Gene Bertoncini\, Eugene Friesen\, Jamie Haddad\, Luciana Sousa\, Cafe\, Sarah Lee Guthrie\, Noel Stookey\, Don McLean\, Pheeroan AkLaff\, Eddie Daniels\, Richard Stoltzman\, Nana Vasconcelos\, Cyro Baptista\, Ivan Lins\, Glen Velez and many other luminaries. His 18 CDs have sold over 300 thousand copies and have won 3 Indie Awards. His music has been broadcast internationally\, as well as on all the major American networks\, including National Public Radio. He received a Grammy Award for his work on the Paul Winter Consort CD\, Silver Solstice. \nIn the theater world\, he has worked as a Musical Director\, pianist\, and/or conductor for many Off-Broadway and Broadway shows. He played keyboards and shared the conducting duties for the original production of the musical Nine\, which won a Tony Award for Best Musical. Some of the other shows he’s worked on include Cats\, A Chorus Line\, Rags\, and a cabaret with Lewis Black. Other theater credits include accompanying Joseph Papp and even appearing as a character on the TV soap opera One Life To Live. \nSullivan also received commissions to write two musicals\, including “The Last Ferryman” for which he wrote both the music and lyrics\, which are available on CD. \nHe has also worked extensively in the Modern Dance world\, playing piano for Merce Cunningham’s classes\, and writing music for the Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall. He has also enjoyed a long friendship with the Pilobolus Dance Theater\, for whom he has written close to 20 scores. \nA long\, lovely\, lucky career\, which shows no signs of stopping. \n—– \n“Con Fullam is one of the most diverse and talented songwriters that I have had the pleasure to publish”. Lou Ragusa\, President Infinity/MCA Music. \n“Fullam’s songs are passionate and intelligent.”  Billboard Magazine \n.Fullam has been playing and performing since he was 5 years old. It was at that age that his father died leaving him his ukelele. He was born on a farm in Sydney\, Maine population 60 or so people\, 600 or so cows and thousands of acres of fields\, and woods. He spent a lot of that time playing his ukelele and singing songs he learned from his family\, all of whom played an instrument. His brother and sister loved folk music\, bluegrass and the blues and so he learned the songs of Woody Guthrie\, Pete Seeger\, Cisco Houston\, The Weavers\,  Flatt and Scruggs\, Ralph Stanley\, The Carter Family\, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee\, Josh White Sr.\,  Hudie Ledbetter and Lightnin’ Hopkins to name a few. \nHis mother was a pianist whose taste ran towards Classical music and Broadway. And so he learned to love Bach\, Beethoven and Scarlatti\, The Pirates of Penzance\, My Fair Lady and Oklahoma. \nCon’s musical education continued with enrollment at The New Division\, an experimental college in Springvale\, Maine founded by a behavioral scientist from Harvard by the name of Tom Howard.  There\, he pushed himself to step up and learn new chords and progressions on the guitar as well as hone his skills at wordsmithing. It was there with a lot of support from his fellow students that he realized that playing and writing were the things that made him the happiest and that it was down that road he would travel. In the forty years that have passed since that first semester he has never looked back. \n“Over the course of my career\, I have had the honor of playing with some of the finest musicians in the business and I have been blessed to call many of them my close and cherished friends. It is those friends that I have called on to help me realize this dream….”  Con Fullam \nCon is now published by MCA Universal\, Sony/BMG\, Warner/Chappell\, Acuff Rose\, Opryland\, and Chrysalis Music.   He has had his songs recorded by major recording artists and  has produced records that have sold over a half million units. He has played with and shared stages with the likes of  Asleep At The Wheel\, Joan Armatrading\, Aztec Two Step\, Razzy Bailey\, David Bromberg\, Johnny Cash\, George Carlin\, Bob Dylan\, Richie Havens\, Emmy Lou Harris with Gram Parsons\, Waylon Jennings\, Jorma Kaukenon\, Willie Nelson\, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band\, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee\, John Sebastian\, Earl Scruggs Review and Tammy Wynette\, \nCon has been critically acclaimed in many of the music industry’s most prestigious publications such as Billboard\, Music Row\, Village Voice\, Boston Phoenix\, Canadian Country News\, Cashbox Magazine\, and Nashville Music City News.  He has been nominated for an Emmy and has been recognized by The American Society Of  Composers Authors And Publishers for his contributions to the world of the performing arts. \n\nTICKETS\n \n\n\n\nSERIES TICKETS URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/capriccio-paul-sullivan-and-con-fullam/ LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States CATEGORIES:Capriccio ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/180908_CAP_Sullivan.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180908T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180908T113000 DTSTAMP:20260407T192517 CREATED:20180610T183745Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150845Z UID:10000114-1536400800-1536406200@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:Capriccio - Singer/fiddler Andy Happel makes a special appearance at Capriccio Festival of Kites DESCRIPTION:Fiddler/singer Andy Happel will provide high-flying music on Ogunquit Beach for the Capriccio Festival of Kites on Saturday\, September 8th \, from 10 to 11:30 am.   Andy plans to bring along some musician friends to join in the joyous fun\, playing selections from his repertoire of exotic tunes and lilting rhythms. \nHis appearance will serve as a preview of his full-length concert with  Los Galactacos String Band the same night at 7:30 pm at the Barn Gallery.  The Band will perform a variety of beautiful songs and rousing rhythms from across the Americas\, and across the seas: Tex/Mex folk; Appalachian string music; Canadian maritimes fiddle tunes; the Classic American Songbook; ol’ time Country; and music for wherever people gather and celebrate. \nIn the meantime\, join Andy at the Capriccio Festival of Kites\, where songs and kites will fill the air! URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/capriccio-singer-fiddler-andy-happel-makes-a-special-appearance-at-capriccio-festival-of-kites/ LOCATION:Ogunquit Beach\, Beach Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907 CATEGORIES:Capriccio ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/180908_CAP_Kite.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180907T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180907T193000 DTSTAMP:20260407T192517 CREATED:20180610T181847Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150845Z UID:10000113-1536348600-1536348600@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:Capriccio - Matt DeChamplain Jazz Trio DESCRIPTION:TICKETS\n \n\n\n\nSERIES TICKETS\n \n\n\nMatt DeChamplain returns to Ogunquit to open the 28th Annual Capriccio Music Festival on Friday\, September 7\, 2018\, at 7:30 pm in the Dunaway Center.  He previously performed here as pianist with the Jason Anick Trio\, and again in a solo jazz piano concert.  This time\, he brings his own trio with him\, including guitarist Christopher Morrison and bassist Matthew Dwonszyk. \n“Matt DeChamplain plays with amazing dexterity and superb taste while covering the history of jazz piano from ragtime and stride to modern.”  Hartford Jazz Society \nMatt’s love of classic jazz inspires him to pursue a thorough musicianship that fuses traditional elements with modern jazz concepts.  His performance is rooted in that of the early jazz masters. \nHe is a favorite performer in the jazz clubs of Hartford and Southington\, Connecticut\,  with occasional gigs in Boston and New York.   Hear Matt play at www.mattdechamplain.com \n \nMatt DeChamplain is from Hartford\, Connecticut. He obtained his bachelors degree from the Jackie McLean Institute of Jazz at the Hartt School in 2010 and graduated with his masters from the University of Toledo in Ohio in 2012. Matt has performed at the Berks Jazz Festival\, New York’s JVC Jazz Festival\, Jazz at Lincoln Center\, Django By The Sea Gypsy Jazz Festival and jazz clubs such as the Regatta Bar\, The Side Door\, Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola\, Smalls and Yoshi’s. \nIn 2008\, Matt was selected for the Betty Carter Jazz Ahead Program under the instruction of jazz luminaries Dr. Billy Taylor\, Nathan Davis and Curtis Fuller culminating in three performances filmed live from the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. That same year he was part of a group led by bassist Nat Reeves that played in Europe. In 2010\, Matt participated as a semifinalist in the Martial Solal Jazz Piano Competition in Paris\, France. \nAt the age of 16\, Matt had had the privilege of playing three duets with Dave Brubeck in two concerts. Since then\, Matt has shared the stage with Marion Cowings\, Jimmy Cobb\, Shawnn Monteiro\, Nat Reeves\, Steve Davis\, Dezron Douglas\, Javon Jackson\, Arti Dixon\, Jon Hendricks\, Paul Keller\, Avery Sharpe and Greg Abate. In concert settings\, he has lead or been a part of groups that opened for Hank Jones\, Dave Brubeck\, Wynton Marsalis\, Michael Wolff\, Renee Rosnes\, The Duke Ellington Orchestra and Clifton Anderson. As a sideman\, Matt has appeared on albums by guitarist Norman Johnson\, jazz violinist Jason Anick\, and recorded several songs with vocal legend Jon Hendricks in 2013. Matt recorded a self-produced solo piano album titled “Stride-Bop” that sought to fuse the Harlem stride tradition with bebop and hardbop language. In 2015\, he collaborated with his wife vocalist Atla DeChamplain on their first recording together titled “Pause.” The independent album features a guest appearance by Hendricks. \nCurrently Matt holds a faculty position at The Hartt School of Music (University of Hartford) and has taught at The Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts\, The Artist’s Collective (founded by Jackie McLean)\, the Litchfield Jazz Camp and New Hampshire and Maine’s Jazz All-State programs. While maintaining an active performance and teaching schedule\, Matt continues to arrange and compose. \nChristopher Morrison – Guitar \nThe son of jazz guitarist\, Allen Morrison\, Christopher Morrison began performing early on with New Haven\, CT jazz organists Richard McCrae\, Bobby Buster and Eddie Buster.  The training he received while working with these men made a lasting impression on Chris.  To this day\, his playing and teaching style reflect the simple and practical approach that was used in his education. \nChris has recorded and or performed with Adam Nussbaum\, Lew Soloff\, John Patitucci\, Joe Beck\, Akiko Tsuruga\, Chip Jackson\, Joe Magnarelli\, Bennie Wallace\, Harvie S\, Delfeayo Marsalis\, Richie Cole\, John Stowell\, Gary Versace\, and Ralph Lalama. Recently he has appeared with the legendary guitarist\, Joe Diorio\, as his guitar duo partner.  Chris’s latest recording\, with saxophonist Andrew Beals entitled “Maybe Someday”\, is on the Centaur record label.  Dr. Ken Ciuffreda of Just Jazz Guitar magazine wrote\, “Chris produces one of the most beautiful sounds I have ever heard coaxed out of a jazz guitar – great phrasing\, perfect musicality\, warmth and expression –  all played effortlessly with seemingly unlimited technique.” \nChris was fortunate to study with jazz guitarists Sal Salvador\, Don Neary and Joe Diorio\, arranger Bill Finegan and pianists Charlie Banacos and Mike Longo. He holds a Masters of Music degree in Jazz Performance from the Conservatory of Music at SUNY Purchase. His undergraduate studies\, Bachelor of Music in Jazz Studies\, were completed at The University of Bridgeport and Western Connecticut State University. \nChris is employed by Western Connecticut State University\, Fairfield University and BackCountry Jazz where he teaches jazz guitar and small group jazz. He has earned several awards for his teaching including a Distinguished Adjunct Appreciation Award  and a Centennial Award for Excellence from Western Connecticut State University. \nMatthew Dwonszyk – Bass \nBorn in Hartford CT\, Dwonszyk started playing the electric bass at the age eleven. In high school\, he picked up the upright bass while attending the Greater Hartford Academy of Performing Arts and soon started attending the Artist Collective after school program founded by the legendary Jazz Saxophonist/Composer\, Jackie McLean. \nDwonszyk continued his collegiate studies at the Jackie McLean Institute of Jazz studying with world-renowned bassist Nat Reeves. He graduate and continued his studies at Suny Purchase where he received a Masters in Music in 2015. Dwonszyk currently lives in Brooklyn and is an active bassist in New York. \nHe has performed at the JVC Jazz Festival in NYC\, the Baikal Jazz Festival (Yakutsk\, Siberia)\, the NYC Winter Jazz Festival\, Litchfield Jazz Festival\, Hartford Jazz Festival\, Jazz & Colors Festival (Metropolitan Museum of Art)\, The Kennedy Center\, Smalls Jazz Club\, Dizzy’s Coca Cola Club\, The Blue Note\, Smoke Jazz Club and the Fat Cat. Dwonszyk has performed with Harold Mabern\, Larry Willis\, David Hazeltine\, Anthony Wonsey\, Rick Germanson\, Pete Malinverni\, Steve Wilson\, Abraham Burton\, Javon Jackson\, Gary Smulyan\, Bennie Wallace\, Wayne Escoffery\, Mike Diruboo\, Myron Walden\, John Farnsworth\, Joe Farnsworth\, Winard Harper\, Joe Strasser\, Eddie Henderson\, Jumaane Smith\, Wallace Roney\, Terell Stafford\, Steve Davis\, Steve Turre\, Freddie Hendrix and Duane Eubanks. \n\nTICKETS\n \n\n\n\nSERIES TICKETS URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/capriccio-matt-dechamplain-jazz-trio/ LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States CATEGORIES:Capriccio ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/180907_CAP_DeChamplain.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180907 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180911 DTSTAMP:20260407T192517 CREATED:20180610T165716Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150846Z UID:10000112-1536278400-1536623999@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:Capriccio DESCRIPTION:CAPRICCIO IS COMING!\nOgunquit Performing Arts Celebrates\nIts 28th Annual Music Festival\nMatt DeChamplain Jazz Trio – Fri Sept 7 @ 7:30 pm S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit \nSinger/fiddler Andy Happel performs at Capriccio Kite Festival – Sat Sept 8\, 10 to 11:30 am\, Ogunquit Beach\nPianist Paul Sullivan and guitarist Con Fullam in concert together! Sat Sept 8\, 2:30 pm\, S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\nAndy Happel & Los Galactacos String Band\, Sat Sept 8\, 7:30 pm Barn Gallery\, Bourne Lane at Shore Road\, Ogunquit \n\nSeptember will mark the 28th year of OPA’s sponsorship of the annual Capriccio Festival\, which began as a music festival\, and expanded over the years to include the visual and literary arts. This year\, the festival will once again focus on the musical arts with several concerts\, and provision of high-flying music for the Capriccio Festival of Kites at Ogunquit Beach. \nCapriccio is defined as “a joyous musical composition\, or work of art\, in free form\, usually brilliant in style.” The word is therefore an especially appropriate title for the musical focus of this year’s Festival! \nFestival Series Tickets at $45 for three concerts go on sale on this website on August 15th. Included are concerts by the Matt DeChamplain Jazz Trio\, composer/pianist Paul Sullivan\, songwriter/guitarist Con Fullam\, and Andy Happel with the Los Galactacos String Band. URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/capriccio-2/ LOCATION:Dunaway Center & Barn Gallery\, School St. & Shore Rd.\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 04090 CATEGORIES:Capriccio ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/170908_CAP_GENERAL-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180615T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180615T193000 DTSTAMP:20260407T192517 CREATED:20180319T152813Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150846Z UID:10000111-1529091000-1529091000@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:DaPonte String Quartet DESCRIPTION:TICKETS\n \n\n\nThe DaPonte String Quartet returns to Ogunquit Performing Arts after too long an absence.  Their performances for OPA go back to almost the beginning of the Chamber Music Festival in the mid-90’s.  A return engagement is long overdue\, and OPA together with the Barn Gallery are so happy to join together to welcome back the Quartet. \nOgunquit Performing Arts will celebrate its 40th Anniversary with a Champagne Reception following this performance. \nThe DaPonte Program will include: \nFranz Josef Haydn(1732-1809) \nString Quartet in C Major\, Op 20\, No 2 \nBéla Bartók(1881-1945) \nString Quartet No. 3\, Sz. 85 \nWolfgang Amadeus Mozart(1756-1791) \nMozart Clarinet Quintet in A Major K. 581 \nGuest artist: Thomas Hill\, clarinet \n————————————————————————————— \n \nNot long after forming in Philadelphia twenty-one years ago\, the DaPonte String Quartet surprised the musical world by moving from a cosmopolitan urban area to rural Maine. The DSQ had been — and continues to be — sought after to perform and teach all over the U.S. and around the world. They have appeared in France\, Scotland\, Canada\, and more than twenty American states. Their performances have been broadcast over nation-wide radio and television programs in both the United States and Canada. They have received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Philadelphia Musical Fund Society\, the Music Teachers National Association\, Chamber Music America\, and have participated in several of the nation’s most prestigious concert series to rave reviews. Musicians and critics alike wondered\, why would the DSQ move to Maine\, where\, as the New York Times noted\, they create an experience “like watching the Celtics play in the local gym.” \nBut the members of the DaPonte String Quartet were proud to call Maine home\, and their relationship with mid-coast Maine remains a deeply rooted one. \nFerdinand “Dino” Liva (Violin)\nA violinist and conductor\, Dino comes from a musically prominent family in northeastern Pennsylvania. He began studying the violin at age seven with his father\, a noted conductor and teacher. Dino continued his education at the Peabody Conservatory with Berl Senofsky. After graduating with a Bachelor of Music degree\, he studied with Christine Dethier in New York and then attended Temple University\, working with Luis Biava\, where he graduated with a Master’s degree and a Professional Studies Certificate. He then spent four years as Assistant Professor of violin and chamber music at Wilkes University and as conductor of the University Orchestra. \nIn 1991\, Dino became one of the founding members of the DaPonte String Quartet and he moved full-time to Maine in 1996. Chamber music has remained his passion since those first rehearsals at the home of cellist Myles Jordan. The DSQ’s performances and workshops have been praised by members of the press and the quartet has worked with many important contemporary musicians\, including Marc Johnson\, Anton Kuerti\, Pamela Mia-Paul\, Rami Solomonov\, Tom Hill\, Mark Simons\, Jon Klibonoff\, Maria Bachmann\, Randall Hodgkinson\, and Marcus Thompson. Dino also continued to conduct and teach when he moved to Maine\, enriching the lives of young musicians throughout the Midcoast. \nLydia Forbes (Violin)\nLydia’s career has been guided by a singular intention — to delve as deeply as possible into the magic of great chamber music literature\, old and new. \nLydia has concertized throughout Europe and the U.K. with Ensemble L’Archibudelli\, Zephyr Kwartet\, Het Schoenberg Ensemble\, Sinfonietta Amsterdam\, Het Blazers Ensemble\, Osiris Piano Trio\, I Fiamminghi\, and Ensemble Explorations. During this time\, she recorded with some of the world’s most prominent labels; Sony Classical\, Harmonia Mundi\, CNM\, and for Vienna Modern Masters as soloist with the Czech Radio Philharmonic. She has also performed for festivals in Europe\, the U.K.\, Australia\, New Zealand\, and the U.S. Lydia has also served as concertmaster for Het Orkest van het Oosten in the Netherlands. \nMyles Jordan (Cello)\nMyles Jordan worked as a child actor for CBC Television and the National Film Board of Canada before taking up the cello. Inspired by the North American premiere of the second Shostakovich cello concerto and a Casals master class\, Myles asked for and received from his father a bright orange Hofner cello as a birthday present. He went on to train at the Banff School of Fine Arts in Alberta\, the Britten-Pears School of Advanced Musical Studies in England\, and at Schloss Weikersheim in Germany. In 1981\, he won a Floyd S. Chalmers Foundation Award\, which enabled him to study at the Juilliard School\, and by 1983 he had earned two degrees there. From New York he moved to Philadelphia\, where he served as associate principal cellist of the Concerto Soloists Chamber Orchestra\, completed a Doctor of Musical Arts\, and founded the DaPonte String Quartet. \nKirsten Monke (Viola)\nA native of Brunswick\, Maine\, Kirsten Monke received both her Masters and Bachelors degrees at Indiana University\, where she worked with Kim Kashkashian and Georges Janzer (of the Vegh Quartet and Grumiaux Trio). As a graduate fellow at UC Santa Barbara\, where she studied with Heiichiro Ohyama\, she was a founding member of the Anacapa String Quartet\, winners of the Fischoff competition as well as recipients of various honors from Chamber Music America. Following ten years of touring and concertizing with the ASQ\, Kirsten remained in Santa Barbara\, serving as Principal Violist of both the Santa Barbara Symphony and the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra. She also taught at the University of California\, Santa Barbara\, Westmont College\, and at chamber music workshops across the country. Kirsten can be heard in recordings with the Anacapa Quartet and the Santa Barbara Symphony\, as a soloist on a jazz CD featuring the music of Earl Stewart\, and as a member of the Gove County String Quartet\, a group that performs all original music.  Kirsten joined the DaPonte String Quartet in 2008. \n\nwww.dapontestringquartet.org \n\nTICKETS URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/daponte-string-quartet/ LOCATION:The Barn Gallery\, 3 Hartwig Lane (off Bourne Lane at Shore Road)\, Ogunquit\, Maine\, 03907 CATEGORIES:Ogunquit Chamber Music Festival ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/180615_CMF_DaPonte.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180608T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180608T193000 DTSTAMP:20260407T192517 CREATED:20180319T145028Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150846Z UID:10000020-1528486200-1528486200@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:Boston Chamber Music DESCRIPTION:TICKETS\n \n\n\nBoston Chamber Music returns for its 19th year of opening the Festival on Friday June 8\, 2018 at 7:30 pm in the Dunaway Center.\nClarinetist and Artistic Director Thomas Hill will be reducing his performance schedule next year\, so he will be making his final appearances in Ogunquit with this Festival\, a sad day for Ogunquit Performing Arts.  For the June 8th concert\, he once again brings together the finest ensemble especially selected for this concert\,  which will feature clarinet\, ‘cello and piano. \nBoston Chamber Music’s program will include: \n\n\n\nFantasy Trip Op. 26 for clarinet\, ‘cello and piano\nRobert Muczynski     1920-2010\n\n\nSonata for ‘cello and piano\nSergei Rachmaninoff     1873-1943\n\n\nSonatina clarinet and piano\nBohuslav Martinů       1890-1959\n\n\nTrio in a minor Op.114 for clarinet\, ‘cello and piano\nJohannes Brahms    1833-1897\n\n\n\n  \nMr. Hill will also appear as Guest Artist with the DaPonte String Quartet on Friday\, June 15\, 2018\, at 7:30 pm at the Barn Gallery\, Bourne Lane at Shore Road\, the second concert of the Festival. \nOgunquit Performing Arts will celebrate its 40th Anniversary with a Champagne Reception following these performances. \nThomas Hill\, Clarinetist\n \n“Hill’s performance was what we’ve come to expect from him –- beautifully controlled\, technically strong\, imaginative and musical.” —– The Boston Globe \n…”among the best clarinetists anywhere.” —— The Boston Musical Intelligencer \nPrincipal Clarinetist of The Boston Philharmonic from 1992 to 2015\, Mr. Hill has also been clarinetist of the acclaimed Boston Chamber Music Society since 1983. He has appeared on innumerable concert and festival series\, and has been widely engaged as soloist and ensemble performer under a variety of auspices since the beginning his career in New York and Los Angeles. \nMr. Hill is also served as principal clarinetist of The New Haven Symphony\, The Long Beach Symphony\, The Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra of Boston\, The Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra\, The San Diego Symphony\, and The Cascade Festival Orchestra in Oregon. He has appeared with both The Boston Symphony and The Boston Pops. \nHe holds both a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree with Honors from The New England Conservatory. He also attended The Cleveland Institute of Music where he was a member of the class of the venerable Robert Marcellus. \nRandall Hodgkinson\, Pianist\n \nRandall Hodgkinson has achieved recognition as a winner of the International American Music Competition for pianists sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation.  He has appeared frequently as soloist and chamber music artist in festivals throughout the United States\, and as a featured soloist with major orchestras including those of Philadelphia\, Atlanta\, Buffalo\, the American Symphony\, the Orchestra of Illinois\, and abroad in Italy and Iceland.  His solo debut with the Boston Symphony Orchestra was presented both in Boston and at Carnegie Hall. \nMr. Hodgkinson studied at The Curtis Institute and the New England Conservatory.  He has been an artist member of the Boston Chamber Music Society since 1983.  While a member of Boston Musica Viva\, he performed throughout the U.S. and Europe\, and his recordings on several labels have brought him notable acclaim. \nHe also performs four-hand and two-piano literature in duo recitals with his wife\, Leslie Amper.  He is a member of the piano faculty of the New England Conservatory and Wellesley College. \n\n  \nBruce Coppock\, ‘Cellist\n \nBruce Coppock\, an acclaimed ‘cellist and teacher in the Boston Area\, has also had a distinguished career in arts management.  He  served twice as president & managing director of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra\, a position in which he served both as the artistic and the executive leader of the organization.  He also served a consultant to several orchestras\, and served as managing director of the Cleveland Orchestra’s Miami Residency\,  He retired from the SPCO at the end of 2015. \nPrior to Saint Paul\, Coppock served as the founding director of the League of American Orchestra’s Orchestra Leadership Academy\, as deputy director of Carnegie Hall\, and as executive director of the Saint Louis Symphony from 1992-1997. \nCoppock has also been active as a Board member\, at the Harlem Boys Choir\, the Interlochen Center for the Arts\, and as a member of the Board of Overseers at the Curtis Institute of Music. \n\nTICKETS URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/boston-chamber-music-3/ LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States CATEGORIES:Ogunquit Chamber Music Festival ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/180608_CMF_Boston_Chamber.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180608 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180616 DTSTAMP:20260407T192517 CREATED:20180205T182305Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150846Z UID:10000019-1528416000-1529107199@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:Chamber Music Festival DESCRIPTION:24th Annual Chamber Music Festival\nFriday\, June 8:  Ogunquit’s favorite Boston Chamber Music returns to the Dunaway Center for its 19th year of opening the Festival.  Clarinetist and Artistic Director Thomas Hill celebrates his final season with OPA\, once again bringing together the finest ensembles especially selected for this concert\,  which this year will feature clarinet\, ‘cello and piano. \nFriday\, June 15:  The acclaimed DaPonte String Quartet makes a special appearance at Ogunquit Performing Arts\, after many years’ absence.  The internationally acclaimed Quartet is now in its 24th season and its members are still proud to call Maine home.  Thomas Hill is Guest Artist for this concert\, which will take place at the Barn Gallery\, Bourne Lane at Shore Road in Ogunquit. \nMore detailed program information will follow soon on this website! \nTICKETS:  $18 in advance; $20 at the door; $5 student;  $30 series. \nTickets will go onsale beginning May 18\, 2018\,  at the Ogunquit Camera Shop\, the Dunaway Center\, the Ogunquit Playhouse Downtown Box Office\, the Ogunquit Welcome Center\, and online through our secure ticket system. URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/chamber-music-festival-2/ LOCATION:Dunaway Center & Barn Gallery\, School St. & Shore Rd.\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 04090 CATEGORIES:Live Performance ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/180608_CMF_GENERAL.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180518T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180518T193000 DTSTAMP:20260407T192517 CREATED:20180122T195528Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150847Z UID:10000018-1526671800-1526671800@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:Lissa Schneckenburger with Corey DiMario\, Matt & Shannon Heaton DESCRIPTION:TICKETS\n \n  \n  \nThe traditional music of New England can be as warm and comforting as a winter fire or as potent and exhilarating as a summer thunderstorm. Fiddler and singer Lissa Schneckenburger is a master of both moods: a winsome\, sweet-voiced singer who brings new life to old ballads and a skillful\, dynamic fiddler who captures the driving rhythm and joy of dance tunes old and new. \n“Schneckenburger’s [fiddle] playing is…quietly virtuosic…her voice is pure and clear\, full of simple emotion.”   All Music Guide \n“World-class fiddler… far from just offering one dance tune after another\, simple settings allow the true beauty of the music to shine through.” \nSing Out \n“…lovely singer and literate\, catchy songwriter..” — Scott Alarik\, Boston Globe \n“To me\, folk music is anything that creates a feeling of community\,” Lissa said. “Music that people want to sing along to\, dance to\, fall in love to… music that brings people together. These songs are part of all of us …”\nWhether playing interpretations of ancient or contemporary music\, Lissa brings to the stage enthusiasm\, energy\, and the bright future of New England’s musical traditions. \nLissa has performed on tour at the Silkeborg Dance Weekend in Denmark\, the Shetland Folk Festival in Scotland\, Celtic Connections in Glasgow\,  and the Festival international des arts traditionels in Quebec. \nShe also has performed in the following festivals:  Celtic Classics Festival\, Bethlehem\, PA;  Festival of American Fiddle Tunes\, WA;  Newport Irish Festival\, Newport\, RI;  Champlain Valley Folk Festival\, VT; and New Bedford Summer Festival\, MA. \n \nDouble-bassist Corey DiMario is one of the most sought after accompanists in the acoustic music scene. He has performed at major festivals and concert venues across North America\, Europe and Australia. \nA diverse musician\, Mr. DiMario adds rock solid\, low-end accompaniment and driving rhythm to any musical situation. A founding member of the string band sensation Crooked Still\, DiMario brings a diverse musical palette and energetic approach to an ensemble.  Most recently\, Mr. DiMario was in the”house band” for Bela Fleck’s New York Banjo Summit featuring banjoists Tony Trischka\, Bill Keith\, Pete Wernick\, Eric Weissberg\, Richie Stearns\, Noam Pikelny and of course Bela Fleck. \nCorey DiMario received his undergraduate degree in Jazz Performance from the New England Conservatory in 2001 and is a free lance musician in Brattleboro\, VT. He previously studied at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester\, New York. He has studied privately with John Lockwood\, Cecil McBee\, Paul Bley\, John Abercrombie and James Van Demark. \nWith engaging stage presence and masterfully-crafted music\, Boston-based Matt & Shannon Heaton offer well-travelled Irish music from the heart. Steeped in sessions in County Clare and brewed in the acoustic music scenes of Chicago & Boston\, their flute/guitar/bouzouki instrumentals and sweet husband-and-wife harmony singing draw deeply from the Irish tradition. \n \nThe Heatons also gently incorporate the Thai music Shannon learned in school as a kid and rootsy Americana sounds that surrounded them during their three years in bluegrass-haven Boulder\, Colorado. \nSince their move to Boston in 2001\, the Heatons have become an integral part of Boston’s vibrant trad music scene. (Shannon co-founded the Boston Celtic Music Fest in 2003.) \n‘Their playing is masterful and inventive\, their arrangements city-smart and spacious.’  Boston Globe \nShannon was named 2016 Massachusetts Cultural Council Traditional Artist Fellow. The Irish American News dubbed her Female Musician of the Year (2009) and Live Ireland nominated her Female Musician of the Year 2010 and 2011. She’s been compared to Alison Krauss and Altan’s Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh for her combination of vocal grace and instrumental prowess on Irish flute\, whistles and accordion. She is also an acclaimed arranger and composer\, and has published two instructional Irish music books. \nIn addition to his acclaimed work as an Irish accompanist on guitar and bouzouki\, Matt has also received multiple Massachussetts Cultural Council Grants for his work with kids (he’s got two CDs of original rockabilly-tinged music for children and discerning parents). He fronts surf-rock band Electric Heaters and also holds a master’s degree in classical guitar. For his creative chording and driving grooves\, Matt has been called “a combination of Bill Frisell and Arty McGlynn.” \nMatt and Shannon are poised\, passionate American performers with Irish roots and universal appeal. They are comfortable onstage and have a warm connection with their audiences. They move listeners with their love of traditional music (and each other)\, and their sense of adventure and fun in exploring new directions and possibilities. \nTICKETS:  $18 in advance; $20 at the door; $5 Student.  Available through this website beginning April 23rd. \n\nTICKETS URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/lissa-schneckenburger-with-corey-dimario-matt-shannon-heaton/ LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States CATEGORIES:Live Performance ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/180315180_LP_Scheckenburger-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180506T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180506T140000 DTSTAMP:20260407T192517 CREATED:20180118T004051Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150847Z UID:10000017-1525615200-1525615200@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:Classic Film Series: South Pacific DESCRIPTION:South Pacific (1958) \nThe much-anticipated film version of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific made its debut on March 19\, 1958.  The film stars Mitzi Gaynor\, Rossano Brazzi\, John Kerr\, France Nuyen\, Juanita Hall\, and Ray Walston\, and was produced by Buddy Adler and directed by Joshua Logan for Twentieth Century Fox. \n \nAll the wonderful songs from the original stage musical are captured in this film\, including “Some Enchanted Evening”\, “Younger Than Springtime”\, and “I’m in Love with a Wonderful Guy”. \nThe original musical\, also directed by Joshua Logan\, was adapted from James A. Michener’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Tales of the South Pacific\, an account of some of the author’s experiences toward the end of World War II.  The musical opened at the Majestic Theater on April 7\, 1949\, and ran for 1\,925 performances\, until it closed on January 16\, 1954. \nWanting to protect their work\, Rodgers and Hammerstein had long since decided to produce the film versions of their great shows themselves\, starting with Oklahoma! in 1955. Since each film received their personal attention\, by the time they started working on South Pacific in1957\, they couldn’t use the show’s original leads. \nAlthough many thought Mary Martin too old for the role by then\, they would have used her if Ezio Pinza hadn’t died. With his passing\, they didn’t think there was an actor strong enough to hold his own as her love interest. Ultimately\, the only member of the original Broadway cast to make it to the film was Juanita Hall\, who had won a Tony for her performance as Bloody Mary.  The film’s only other actor who had done South Pacific on stage was Ray Walston\, who had played the comic character Luther Billis in the touring company and in London. \nWith Logan signed to direct\, the search was on for the leading lady.  Many were considered\, including Doris Day\, Audrey Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor.  The role of Nellie Forbush finally went to Mitzi Gaynor\, a contract player who had earlier starred in a series of musicals for Fox.  Although inevitable tough comparisons to Mary Martin were made\, Gaynor turned out to be an inspired choice and turned in a solid\, professional and engaging performance. \n \nShe was also the only one of the four leads to do her own singing. Other voices were found and dubbed for almost everyone else in the cast\, even including second lead John Kerr and Juanita Hall. \nThe biggest vocal disappointment came from suave\, Italian leading man Rossano Brazzi\, cast as Emile de Becque\, who had insisted that he could sing the role himself.  But when Rodgers and Hammerstein heard him\, they sought out and found the gifted Metropolitan Opera bass Giorgio Tozzi to record the songs.  When Brazzi heard the playbacks of Tozzi’s beautiful performances\, he was none too pleased and initially refused to lip sync to them.  His rebellion subsided however when it was made clear to him that it was lip sync or leave. \n(It is notable that the casting of Ezio Pinza in the stage version was also in doubt.  When casting Mary Martin\, they first they had to convince her that she could hold her own vocally opposite Pinza. Eventually\, they created a score in which the romantic leads never sang together\, as remains true in the film.) \nThe filming of South Pacific was a huge logistical undertaking\, involving the cooperation of the US Defense Department and hundreds of extras.  Some shooting was done in the Fiji Islands\,  but the main location was the idyllic Hawaiian island of Kauai\, where four shiploads of technical equipment and a crew of nearly two hundred joined the cast. URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/classic-film-series-south-pacific/ LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States CATEGORIES:Classic Film Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/180506_CFS_SouthPacific.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180408T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180408T140000 DTSTAMP:20260407T192517 CREATED:20171106T152535Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150847Z UID:10000015-1523196000-1523196000@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:Classic Film Series: A Place in the Sun DESCRIPTION:Theodore Dreiser’s 1925 novel\, An American Tragedy\, was based on the real-life murder of a poor\, pregnant factory girl by her social-climbing fiance. It had been filmed by Josef Von Sternberg in 1931\, starring Sylvia Sidney\, Phillips Holmes and Frances Dee.   George Stevens’ 1951 version\, A Place in the Sun\, focused more on the developing romance between the man and the rich girl\, and changed the poor girl’s death to an accident\, but maintained the psychological motivations and class distinctions of the novel. \nA Place in the Sun\,  directed by George Stevens from a screenplay by Harry Brown and Michael Wilson\, stars Montgomery Clift\, Elizabeth Taylor\, and Shelley Winters; its supporting actors included Anne Revere and Raymond Burr. \nStevens cast Elizabeth Taylor\, not  yet 18 and incredibly beautiful\, as Angela\, the most demanding role of her career thus far.   Stevens asked much of her\, shooting take after take\, but Taylor lived up to the challenge. \nTaylor was also initially intimidated by the intense scenes she had to play with Montgomery Clift\, “…because Monty was the New York stage actor and I felt very much the inadequate teenage Hollywood sort of puppet that had just worn pretty clothes and hadn’t really acted except with horses and dogs.” Clift put her at ease\, and the two began a life-long friendship.\nShelley Winters originally broke into Hollywood films as a blonde bombshell type\, but quickly tired of the role’s limitations. She had previously achieved leading roles in The Great Gatsby  and Winchester 73\, and was determined to play against type in A Place in the Sun.  She claimed to have washed off her makeup and worn dowdy clothes to audition for the role of Alice Tripp\, the factory girl in the film.  Her performance brought Winters her first acclaim\, earning her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.\n\nMontgomery Clift was already one of the most important  young actors in films\, and had been nominated for an Academy Award for his first film\, The Search (1948). Intense and neurotic\, Clift was ideal for the part of George\, and worked extremely hard on his character.  In preparation for his character’s scenes in jail\, Clift spent a night in a real state prison. He determined not to play the walk to the electric chair with high drama\, but instead walked to his death with a naturalistic\, grim facial expression. \nHis performance was one of his best\, and earned him an Academy Award nomination.  (His main acting rival\, Marlon Brando\, was so moved by Clift’s performance that he voted for Clift to win the Academy Award for Best Actor.) \nThe film itself was a critical and commercial success\, winning six Academy Awards\,  (including Best Director for George Stevens)\,  and the first-ever Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama. URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/classic-film-series-a-place-in-the-sun/ LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States CATEGORIES:Classic Film Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/180408_CFS_PlaceInSun.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR