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SUMMARY:Stillson School of Irish Dance
DESCRIPTION:Returning to Ogunquit for their annual visit\, the acclaimed Stillson School of Irish Dance brings a troupe of more than a dozen dancers garbed in brilliant\, sparkling costumes.   Always a local favorite\, the dancers will perform an array of jigs and reels which have won them prizes at regional and international competitions.\n\nAfter their performance\, the Stillson dancers will invite children and dancers of all ages  to join them in trying out a few steps.   A reception with refreshments will follow.  Join us for this festive St. Patrick’s celebration! \nTickets are $5 per person at the door.  General seating\,   no advance sales. \nThe only certified school in the state of Maine\, the Stillson School of Irish Dance has been accredited by An Coimisiun\, Dublin\, Ireland\, since 1991.  Dancers have placed in the North American Irish Dance Championships\, as well as competed in the All Ireland\, The European \, Great Britain  and The World Irish Dance Championships. \nThe School 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 IRISH DANCE COMPANY\, LIZ CARROLL\, BILLY MCCOMISKEY and MICK MOLONEY\, NATALIE MACMASTER\, and EILEEN IVERS.\n\nIn existence for twenty years\, the school is the only certified school of Irish dancing in the state of Maine. The school’s dancers compete all over New England and place in the NEW ENGLAND REGIONAL IRISH DANCING CHAMPIONSHIPS annually. \nThe Stillson School of Irish Dance is under the direction of Carlene Moran Stillson ADCRG / TCRG. She is accredited by An Coimisiun in Dublin\, Ireland and a member of IDTANA. (Irish Dancing Teacher’s Association of North America) and The New England Region teaching organizations.
URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/stillson-school-of-irish-dance-2/
LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States
CATEGORIES:Live Performance
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SUMMARY:Classic Film Series:  Friendly Persuasion
DESCRIPTION:Friendly Persuasion (1956) focuses on the Birdwells\, a peaceful family of Quakers who are thrust into the Civil War when a band of Confederates known as Morgan’s Raiders threatens their town. The eldest son\, Josh\, (Anthony Perkins) hears a plea for young men to help fight off the marauders and begins to question the anti-war\, anti-violence values of his religion. His mother Eliza (Dorothy  McGuire) is against him going to battle\, but his father\, Jess\, (Gary Cooper)\, a man of moral courage and understanding\, recognizes his son’s need to work out his conflict and side with a just cause. When Josh is wounded in battle\, his father goes into the war zone to save him. What he encounters there tests his faith and a way of life that will never be quite the same. \nProducer-director William Wyler had author Jessamyn West’s novel Friendly Persuasion in mind for eight years before he brought the project to Allied Artists. They gave him a $1.5 million budget for his first color film\, and shooting was to take place in the story’s original southern Indiana locale. By the time it was completed\, on a San Fernando Valley estate and at the old Republic studios\, the cost had swelled to $3 million.  A critical and financial success\, the film brought in $8 million in box-office receipts by 1960 alone. \nFriendly Persuasion was the first film to cast Gary Cooper as a parent with grown children and gave him one of his best late career roles. The internal conflicts as Jess Birdwell struggles with his son’s decision to forsake his Quaker faith to fight in the Civil War and his own urge to avenge a friend’s death in battle provided a perfect vehicle for his simple\, understated acting style. \nWyler had always thought Gary Cooper the perfect actor for the part.  Although the actor was reluctant to undertake his first father role\, he finally gave in after West took him to a Society of Friends prayer meeting. The stillness made him think he could capture the character’s spiritual nature. \nCooper complained that his fans would be disappointed if his character didn’t take up arms in the Civil War. He argued that they would expect him to do something. West suggested\, “You will furnish them with the refreshing picture of a strong man refraining.” \nWyler’s dream casting for Cooper’s wife was Katharine Hepburn\, but she wasn’t available.  Many others were considered\, and Wyler actually tested Maureen O’Hara and Eleanor Parker before casting Dorothy McGuire. \nWhile scouting talent in New York\, Wyler saw several young actors for the role of Cooper’s conflicted son\, including Anthony Perkins\, who had only done one previous film.  Wyler was so impressed with Perkins’s insights into the character and his reading that he cast him without bothering to make a screen test. \nPerkins had not yet learned how to drive at the time Friendly Persuasion was shot. Each morning he hitchhiked to the Allied Artists studios\, where limousines were waiting to drive the cast to the shooting location. He often told drivers he was the stand-in for a hot young actor named Anthony Perkins\, for whom they should watch in upcoming films. \nThe film was nominated for six Academy Awards\, including Best Picture\, Best Director\, Best Screenplay\, Best Supporting Actor (Anthony Perkins)\, Best Sound\, and Best Song (“Friendly Persuasion – Thee I Love” by Dimitri Tiomkin.) \nThe excellent supporting cast includes Marjorie Main\, Richard Eyer\, Robert Middleton\, Phyllis Love\, Mark Richman\, and Joel Fluellen.
URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/classic-film-series-friendly-persuasion/
LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classic Film Series
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SUMMARY:Classic Film:  Dinner at Eight
DESCRIPTION:Biting and poignant at the same time\, Dinner at Eight is one of the great screen comedies of manners. Though it’s often hilarious\, there is always more going on beneath the surface in the interactions of these brilliantly realized characters. It’s an elegant mixture of both high and low comedy that delves into the problems of the wealthy when they are faced with the loss of money\, power and status. \nStatus conscious Millicent Jordan (Billie Burke) is throwing a dinner party for an elite group of guests including self-made tycoon Dan Packard (Wallace Beery) and his brassy wife Kitty (Jean Harlow)\, her husband’s ex-lover Carlotta Vance (Marie Dressler)\, and a desperate fading movie star (John Barrymore) who is secretly carrying on an affair with their young daughter (Madge Evans)\, who just happens to be engaged to another man. Meanwhile Millicent’s husband (Lionel Barrymore) is suffering serious health problems while his business teeters on the brink of collapse. At this unforgettable dinner party\, anything can happen. \nDinner at Eight was the first film that both producer David O. Selznick and director George Cukor made for MGM. Selznick especially had something to prove. On the heels of MGM’s great success under Irving Thalberg\, Grand Hotel (1932)\, Selznick wanted to show that he was capable of competing with Thalberg and creating a blockbuster of his own. The roaring success of the film established Selznick as a power to be reckoned with at his new studio.\n\nDinner at Eight has one of the finest ensemble casts of any motion picture in history. Some of MGM’s biggest stars including Lionel Barrymore\, John Barrymore\, Marie Dressler\, Wallace Beery\, Jean Harlow\, Madge Evans and Billie Burke do some of their finest work here and remind contemporary audiences of why these actors were great stars. \nDinner at Eight was not the glamorous Jean Harlow’s first film\, but it was the movie that proved not only did she have what it took to be a major movie star\, but also that she could act and hold her own in the midst of established professionals like John Barrymore. Her comic turn as Wallace Beery’s vulgar social climbing wife nearly steals the picture and established her as the star she deserved to be.  \nActress Billie Burke’s famous onscreen persona as a flighty flibbertigibbet can be traced back to this film. Dinner at Eight represented Burke’s first role as a mature woman\, and she was so effective as the high-strung hostess Millicent Jordan that that type of role has become synonymous with her name ever since. \nMarie Dressler\, a huge\, if unlikely\, star in her day\, was cast strongly against type as an upper crust former great beauty and woman of considerable means. Despite the risky casting\, Dressler’s talent is so great that she pulls it off with great aplomb. Her performance is one of the best things in Dinner at Eight\, and serves as a reminder to the remarkable talents of this beloved star. \nby Andrea Passafiume
URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/classic-film-dinner-at-eight/
LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classic Film Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180107T140000
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SUMMARY:Classic Film:  Peter Grimes
DESCRIPTION:Peter Grimes is the work that established Benjamin Britten as a major musical force when it was first performed in 1945.  It is now universally acknowledged as one of the twentieth century’s finest operas.  In this performance\, world-great tenor Jon Vickers – internationally acclaimed for his portrayal of Grimes – heads a cast that gives vivid life to this powerful masterpiece. The atmospheric stage production co-stars soprano Heather Harper and baritone Norman Bailey\, with massive orchestra and chorus conducted by Colin Davis.  It was filmed in London’s Royal Opera House\, Covent Garden. \n“A subject very close to my heart—the struggle of the individual against the masses. The more vicious the society\, the more vicious the individual.”  Benjamin Britten \nPeter Grimes was based on the narrative poem\, “Peter Grimes” in George Crabbe’s book The Borough\, with libretto adapted by Montagu Slater. The tragic story revolves around the tormented title character\, a fisherman who finds himself shunned by the rest of the fishing village\, called the Borough.   At once the protagonist and the anti-hero\, Grimes is gruff and unpopular\, but the character is crafted with a certain degree of ambiguity. \nHis former apprentice died at sea\, and although Grimes was cleared of any wrongdoing\, the village still believes that he was responsible and are ever suspicious of him.  A tragic series of further events\, fanning the flames of local gossip\, convince the Borough that Grimes is a murderer.  They condemn and pursue him; he descends into madness as the mob approaches. \n“Peter Grimes is a big opera with a very tight focus. There are huge choral scenes and a large cast of supporting players but the work holds fast to Grimes himself. Grimes is the ultimate outsider\, one whom Britten associated with strongly. He’s far from a hero\, not even close\, but he’s no pantomime villain either. “Now the Great Bear”\, his startling Act II aria\, reveals the wounded man beneath the menacing facade. This ambiguity runs throughout the piece\, Grimes’s nastiness set against the overwhelming mob-like behaviour of the townsfolk. \n“Another major element is that of nature\, the sea ever present in the drama and in Britten’s music – and no more so than in the incredible orchestral interludes (music that is frequently heard in concert halls as the “4 Sea Interludes”). The town is dependent on the sea\, fishing is how they make their living\, but it is a dangerous bargain: they live by the sea and frequently die by it too\, as we see with Grimes’s successive apprentices. \n  \n“Peter Grimes is a tragedy from start to finish but it’s also a masterpiece of musical theatre. The sheer force of the music lifting the narrative to realms rarely reached in 20th Century opera.”     The Opera 101 \n 
URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/classic-film-peter-grimes/
LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classic Film Series
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SUMMARY:Classic Film: The Shop Around The Corner
DESCRIPTION:The Shop Around the Corner is a 1940 American romantic comedy film produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch\, and starring Margaret Sullavan\, James Stewart\, and Frank Morgan.  The screenplay was written by Samson Raphaelson\, based on the 1937 Hungarian play Parfumerie by Miklos Laszlo. \nSet at Christmastime\, the film is about two employees at a small shop in Budapest who can barely stand each other\, not realizing they’re falling in love as anonymous correspondents through their letters. \n“By 1940\, Lubitsch was renowned throughout Hollywood for his popular movies that combined romance and wit.  Lubitsch had made his name with sophisticated fare like Design for Living (1933) and Ninotchka (1939)\, but his dream project was adapting Miklos Laszlo’s 1937 play Parfumerie for the big screen.  Lubitsch had bought the rights to this simple story … shortly after its debut\, but he sat on the property for a few years until he got the right studio (MGM with its luxe production values) and the right stars (Lubitsch never wanted anyone other than Stewart for the male lead\, but several actresses\, including Janet Gaynor\, were considered before Lubitsch settled on Sullavan.) \n“The Shop Around the Corner tells the story of the assorted employees of a notions shop in Budapest.  The main characters are head clerk Alfred Kralik (Stewart) and new employee Klara Novak (Sullavan)\, but the film is really an ensemble piece that focuses on each employee in turn\, including the curmudgeonly boss Matuschek (Frank Morgan)\, a kindly family man Pirovitch (Felix Bressart)\, and a handsome but vain salesman Vadas (Joseph Schildkraut). \n“Lubitsch\, who helped write the screenplay with Samson Raphaelson\, based The Shop Around the Corner on his childhood memories.  Lubitsch’s father was a tailor\, and he grew up helping out in the family’s shop.  ‘I have known just such a little shop in Budapest\,’ he said at the film’s Radio City Music Hall debut.  ‘The feeling between the boss and those who work for him is pretty much the same the world over.’ \n“It is those universal feelings that make The Shop Around the Corner a great work of art.  The relationship between Klara and Alfred is well-drawn – they get off on the wrong foot and things go downhill from there – and Sullavan and Stewart have great chemistry\, but the film’s central theme expands to fit everyone at the shop.”  Amanda Garrett
URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/classic-film-shop-around-the-corner/
LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classic Film Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171203T150000
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SUMMARY:Portland Ballet: Excerpts from "The Victorian Nutcracker"
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS are $5 per person at the door. No advance sales. \nAs a holiday treat\, dancers from the Portland Ballet will perform excerpts from their production of Tchaikovsky’s beloved ballet.\nThis representation of about a dozen dancers\, will appear in full costume in selections from the Ballet’s complete production of “The Victorian Nutcracker”. \nCHILDREN ARE WELCOME\, and may be invited from the audience to chat with the dancers and try out a few dance steps. Join us for this Christmas classic\, live on stage at the Dunaway Center! \nA reception with refreshments will follow the performance. \nFollowing the presentations of his ballets “Swan Lake” and “Sleeping Beauty”\, Tchaikovsky was commissioned by the Direction of the Imperial Opera to compose a double-bill program featuring both an opera and a ballet. Alexandre Dumas Père’s adaptation of the story by E.T.A. Hoffmann was set to music by Tchaikovsky and originally choreographed by Marius Petipa. \nIn the spring of 1891\, while on his way from Moscow to New York – where he was to conduct at the grand opening of Carnegie Hall – Tchaikovsky became acquainted with a new instrument that enchanted him with its “divinely beautiful tone.” Inventd by a noted French instrument maker\, Victor Mustel\, it had been patented as the “celesta” after its heavenly timbre. Tchaikovsky arranged to have one sent to Russia in secret\, for he was afraid other composers “will get hold of it and use its unusual effects before me. I expect this new insrument will produce a colossal sensation.” \nThe first concert presentation of “The Nutcracker” in 1892 was a great success\, although the ballet itself took considerably longer to take hold. Over the years\, however\, the Sugar Plum Fairy\, and the music of the celesta to which she danced\, has ensured “The Nutcracker” as the favorite Christmas presentation of ballet companies around the world. \nSteeped in tradition\, Portland Ballet’s annual production of “The Victorian Nutcracker” recreates the interiors of Victoria Mansion and interprets Tchaikovsky’s score through the stories of Portland’s nineteenth-century families. This audience favorite is unique among Nutcracker performances across the nation and continues to be a mainstay of Portland’s winter arts season.\nFMI: www.portlandballet.org
URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/portland-ballet-excerpts-from-the-victorian-nutcracker/
LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States
CATEGORIES:Live Performance
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SUMMARY:Classic Film:  The Jazz Singer
DESCRIPTION:The Jazz Singer is a 1980 American drama film about the son of a Jewish cantor\, who must defy the traditions of his religious father in order to pursue his dream of being a popular singer. It is a remake of the 1927 film of the same name\, and stars Neil Diamond\, Laurence Olivier\, and Lucie Arnaz\, with direction shared by Richard Fleischer and Sidney J. Furie. \nThe film was nominated for three golden globes\, and the soundtrack was enormously successful\, eventually reaching multi-platinum status and becoming Diamond’s most successful album to date. It resulted in three hit songs\, “America\,” “Love on the Rocks\,” and “Hello Again.” \nYussel Rabinovitch is a young Jewish cantor performing at the synagogue of his imperious father. Yussel is married to his childhood friend\, Rivka\, and has settled down to a life of religious devotion to the teaching of his faith. \nBut on the side\, he writes songs for a black singing group\, and when a member of the quartet takes ill\, Yussel covers for him at one of their gigs by wearing blackface. The nightclub engagement is such a success but one of the patrons at the nightclub notices that Yussel hands are white and calls him out. A fight ensues and the band is arrested. Yussel’s father comes to the jail to bail them out but finds out that there is not a Yussel Rabinovitch there but a Jess Robin. Later his father questions him about that and Yussel tells him it is just a professional stage name he uses when performing. His father reminds him that his singing voice was to be used for God’s purposes not his own\, and Yussel’s struggle to determine his true place in the world begins.
URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/classic-film-the-jazz-singer/
LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classic Film Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171013T200000
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SUMMARY:Piano Festival Concert: Masanobu Ikemiya
DESCRIPTION:Masanobu Ikemiya\, pianist\nOctober 13th\, 2017\, 8pm\n\n\n\nSir Edward Elgar / arr. Ikemiya \n \nSalute d’Amore (Love’s Greeting\, 1889) \n\n\n\n\nFranz Joseph Haydn(1732-1809) \n \nSonata No. 62 in E flat Major\, Hob. XVI:52 \nAllegro\nAdagio\nFinale: presto\n \n\n\n\nBela Bartok\n(1881-1945)\nSuite Op. 14 (1916) \n1. Allegretto\n2. Scherzo\n3. Allegro molto\n4. Sostenuto \n\n\n\n– intermission – \n\n\n\n Brahms\nIntermezzo in B Minor\, Op. 119\, No. 1\nIntermezzo in E Minor Op. 119\, No. 2\nIntermezzo in C Major Op. 119\, No. 3\nRhapsody in E-flat Major\, Op. 119\, No. 4 \n\n\n\nAaron Copland\n(1900-1990)\nFrom ballet suite “Rodeo” (1942)\nRanch House Party\nCorral Nocturn\n“Hoe-Down”\n\n\n\n\n  \nMasanobu Ikemiya was born in China to Japanese parents\, grew up in Kyoto and Kansas\, and was educated at Oberlin College Conservatory and Indiana University\, and has received world-wide attention for his many concerts throughout Japan\, Mexico\, Argentina\, Taiwan\, Cambodia\, Philippines\, Bulgaria\, El Salvador\, the former Soviet Union\, Portugal\, Brazil\, Guam\, Hawaii\, India\, Korea\, Canada\, and the United States.\nIn 1972\, he came to Maine to join the Zen Buddhist Monastery in Surry where he was a practicing monk for 10 years.\nIn 1980\, he founded the Arcady Music Festival\, of which he was the artistic director for 24 years. Many of you may have had the opportunity to attend some of his performances\, or have seen or heard him on Public Television or Public Radio. \nMr. Ikemiya developed an interest in American ragtime music while volunteering at a homeless shelter started by Mother Teresa in Harlem. He has made 5 ragtime CD’s and was nominated for a Grammy Award for the album\, “Ragtime Classics” in 1994. He certainly has given “new life” to this American Art Form. Since 1995\, he has toured annually in Japan with members of the New York Philharmonic and with the New York Ragtime Orchestra of which he is the founder-leader-pianist. He also appeared with them at the 50th Anniversary Gala Celebration at the United Nations and received an award from the UN for promoting world peace through music. \nMr. Ikemiya has appeared in solo recitals at New York’s Lincoln Center and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C.\, and other venues. \nWith the invitation from Peace & Justice Center of Maine\, Mr. Ikemiya has honored the anniversaries of Hiroshima by giving concerts in memory of the bomb victims and to promote peace in our world. \nIn recognition of this peacemaking quality of his work\, he has been the recipient of numerous honors and awards. The Philharmonic Society of Kaugan\, Russia\, presented Mr. Ikemiya with an Honorary Certificate for strengthening the friendship between Siberian and American people through music. \nIn addition\, Mr. Ikemiya received an Official Recognition Award from the Maine State Senate for his “contribution to the cultural life of the state.” \nHe has stated that he and his wife Tomoko are presently trying to simplify their lives. They are enjoying a self-sustaining life style with organic farming at their permaculture homestead with a passive solar house on Mt. Desert Island\, Maine. Mr. Ikemiya’s teacher was the late Frank Glazer\, who he considers to be the most life changing influence on his piano playing. \n\nTICKETS
URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/piano-festival-concert-masanobu-ikemiya/
LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States
CATEGORIES:Elizabeth Dunaway Burnham Piano Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171008T150000
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SUMMARY:Piano Festival: Student Piano Recital
DESCRIPTION:A recital showcasing the best young pianists in southern Maine\, the piano stars of the future\, performing on OPA’s glorious Steinway.
URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/piano-festival-student-piano-recital/
LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States
CATEGORIES:Elizabeth Dunaway Burnham Piano Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171006T200000
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SUMMARY:Piano Festival Concert: Laura Kargul
DESCRIPTION:Laura Kargul\npiano\nA Night at the Opera\n\n\n\nSonata in C Minor\, K. 457 \nMolto Allegro\n Adagio\n Allegro assai \n\nWolfgang Amadeus Mozart\n1756-1791\n\n\n\nIsolde’s Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde (Richard Wagner)\nFranz Liszt\n1811-1886\n\n\n\nIntermission \n\n\n\nNocturne in B-Flat Minor\, Op. 9 No. 1\nNocturne in F Major\, Op. 15 No. 1\nNocturne in E-Flat Major\, Op. 55 No. 2\nNocturne in D-Flat Major\, Op. 27 No. 2 \n\nFrédéric Chopin\n1810-1849\n\n\nRéminiscences de Norma (Vincenzo Bellini)\nFranz Liszt\n1811-1886\n\n\n\n\n\nAfter receiving her doctorate in piano performance from the University of Michigan\, Ms. Kargul began to concertize internationally.  Her European debut in the Netherlands in 1985 was hailed by the Rotterdams Nieuwsblad as “one of the most remarkable debut recitals recently given in our country.”  The following year she played at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw and earned immediate recognition as “a world class pianist:  This is playing that belongs on our great concert stages … almost feverishly inspired\, so controlled and so thrilling.”  Haagsche Courant\, The Hague. \nSubsequent tours have included solo concerts in Austria\, Belgium\, France\, Germany\, Greece\, Switzerland and the West Indies.  As a guest of  numerous international music festivals\, Ms. Kargul has appeared at the Schleswig-Holstein\, Nordhessen\, and Eisenacher Summer Music Festivals in Germany; the Evian Music Festival in France; the Opera Theater and Music Festival of Lucca in Italy; and the Lesvos Arts Festival in Greece.  She has recorded for radio in France\, Germany\, the Netherlands\, and Jamaica\, as well as for PBS radio and national television in the United States. \nAlthough her repertoire spans from Scarlatti to Rochberg\, Ms. Kargul has received particular recognition for her playing of the nineteenth century romantics.  She is one of the few pianists ever invited to give a full recital on Liszt’s own Bechstein piano at the Liszthaus in Weimar\, Germany\, and her performances of Liszt have consistently drawn high praise:  “Liszt wanted everything from the piano – wildness and fervor\, exuberance and humility.  Laura Kargul delivers all of it.  She is completely absorbed by the music\, elegantly floating through the most treacherous passages … “  Hessische Allgemeine\, Kassel\, Germany.  At the same time\, critics frequently comment upon her unusual versatility and find her performances of works from all periods to be equally compelling. \nMs. Kargul moved to Maine in 1989 to join the piano faculty at the University of Southern Maine\, where she now serves as the Director of Keyboard Studies.
URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/piano-festival-concert-laura-kargul/
LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States
CATEGORIES:Elizabeth Dunaway Burnham Piano Festival
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171006
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171014
DTSTAMP:20260407T190513
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SUMMARY:11th Annual Elizabeth Dunaway Burnham Piano Festival
DESCRIPTION:The 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. \nThe Ogunquit Performing Arts Committee was Betty’s brain-child.  Her love of Ogunquit was matched by her love of the piano\, which she studied and taught for most of her life.  She long dreamed of the possibility that Ogunquit could support a program of musical performances to add to its attractiveness as a welcoming place for painters\, sculptors and summer theatre. \nWhen her father\, S. Judson Dunaway\, died in 1976\, his will directed that a portion of his estate be donated to charitable causes.  Betty requested that the executors include a contribution to Ogunquit to endow a fund to help support musical performances\, some to be held at the Dunaway Center\, which he earlier had donated to the town.  When this endowment was in place\, the Committee for the Performing Arts was formed and began its work\, with Betty elected as chairperson. \n\n\nTICKETS AVAILABLE NOW FOR:\n\n\n\nMasanobu Ikemiya\nOct. 13\, 8pm \n\nTICKETS\n \n\n\n\n  \n 
URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/11th-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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170915T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170915T193000
DTSTAMP:20260407T190513
CREATED:20170413T235940Z
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SUMMARY:Capriccio Concert:  Andy Happel and Los Galactacos
DESCRIPTION:Los Galactacos\nMusic from the Americas \nFeaturing voice\, guitar\, violin\, cello\, dobro\, cuatro\, upright bass\, acoustic bass\, guitarron\, drums and percussion. \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. \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 \n\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. \nThis concert will take place at the Barn Gallery\, 1 Bourne Lane\, Ogunquit.  TICKETS:  $18 in advance; $20 at the door; $5 Student
URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/capriccio-concert-andy-happel-and-los-galactacos/
LOCATION:The Barn Gallery\, 3 Hartwig Lane (off Bourne Lane at Shore Road)\, Ogunquit\, Maine\, 03907
CATEGORIES:Capriccio
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170908T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170908T200000
DTSTAMP:20260407T190513
CREATED:20170413T234813Z
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SUMMARY:Capriccio Concert: Erik Kroncke
DESCRIPTION:Come and explore music written for the bass voice in opera\, songs\, and musical theater with internationally acclaimed bass Erik Kroncke and world renowned pianist Mary Jane Austin. Covering many composers\, genres\, and styles\, you’re sure to hear music that you enjoy\, as well as some new favorites. \nErik’s engaging presentation of each piece\, makes for an enjoyable evening.  Mary Jane Austin’s magical playing goes from the subtle nuance of song to the bombast of a complete orchestra.  Join us as we take you on a journey of music that will enliven your soul and fill your heart with joy. \nThe music written for bass uses the full range of voice from the extremely low to high and Erik and Mary Jane flesh out the music to its fullest extent and emotional impact.  It will be an evening to remember and you will be talking about it long afterwards. \n… Mr. Kroncke’s rich\, powerful\, and perfectly placed basso seems to effortlessly and formidably flow …   Houston Chronicle \nSince his debut in 2000\, Erik Kroncke’s unique bass voice has been in demand by opera companies and orchestras all over the world. He has been heard in such varied repertoire as Sarastro in Die Zauberflöte\, Gremin in Eugene Onegin\, Ramphis in Aida\, Commendatore in Don Giovanni\, Philip and the Grand Inquisitor in Don Carlos\, Hunding in Die Walküre\, and Daland in Der Fliegende Holländer. He has appeared with many companies including the Sarasota Opera\, Opera San José\, Chautauqua Opera\, Green Mountain Opera\, Bronx Opera\, Austin Lyric Opera\, Opera Theater of the Rockies\, Hudson Opera Theater\, Delaware Valley Opera\, New Jersey Verismo Opera\, Lyric Opera Virginia\, and Opera in the Heights. \nHe was the American Wagner and St. Bonaventura award winner from the Liederkranz competition in 2008. The same year\, he made his South Korea debut with the Korean W Philharmonic in Seoul as the bass soloist in Beethoven’s 9th symphony as well as his debut with Opera San José as Gremin in Eugene Onegin. \nHis symphonic and oratorio performances have included engagements with the New York Philharmonic\, Danbury Symphony Orchestra\, Chautauqua Symphony\, Vermont Philharmonic\, and the American Classical Orchestra in such varied repertoire as the Shostakovich 13th\, Haydn’s the Seasons\, as well as “The Three Basses” concerts.
URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/capriccio-concert-erik-kroncke/
LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States
CATEGORIES:Capriccio
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170908
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170918
DTSTAMP:20260407T190513
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SUMMARY:Capriccio
DESCRIPTION:27TH Annual CAPRICCIO \nOGUNQUIT’S FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS \nFriday\, September 8 through Sunday\, September 17\, 2017 \nSchedule of Events \n  \nFRIDAY\, SEPT 8\,   8:00 PM:  Ogunquit Performing Arts Concert:  bass-baritone Erik Kroncke performs “Broadway Songs and Opera Favorites”  Dunaway Center \nFRIDAY\, SEPT 8:  Ogunquit Playhouse Backstage Tours \nSATURDAY\, SEPT 9\,  9 AM TO 2 PM:  Capriccio Festival of Kites at Ogunquit Beach \nSUNDAY\, SEPT 10:  Ogunquit Playhouse Backstage Tours \nMONDAY\, SEPT 11\, 10 PM TO 12 AM:  Capriccio Night at Leavitt Theatre\, Live Jazz with Joe Rillo \nMIDWEEK:  Capriccio Special\,  Buy-One-Get-One-Free tickets for performances of “Heartbreak Hotel” during Capriccio week\, Ogunquit Playhouse.  Restrictions and limitations apply; see Playhouse website for available dates and specific information. \nFRIDAY\, SEPT 15:  Ogunquit Playhouse Backstage Tours \nFRIDAY\, SEPT 15\,  7:30 PM:  Ogunquit Performing Arts Concert at the Barn Gallery:  Andy Happel and Los Galactacos String Band\, playing “Songs from The Amercas” \nSATURDAY\, SEPT 16\,  11 AM TO 5 PM:  Open House and Tour of the Art Galleries of Ogunquit \nSATURDAY\, SEPT 16\,   1 PM TO 4 PM:  Open House with Refreshments at the Ogunquit Heritage Museum \nSATURDAY\, SEPT 16\,  5 PM TO 7:30 PM:   Barn Gallery Gala Reception\, Opening of Fall Exhibits \nSUNDAY\, SEPT 17\, 10 AM TO 5 PM:  Capriccio Day at Ogunquit Museum of American Art\, 2-for-1 admission and 10% off gift shop purchases
URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/capriccio/
LOCATION:Dunaway Center & Barn Gallery\, School St. & Shore Rd.\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 04090
CATEGORIES:Capriccio
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170616T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170616T200000
DTSTAMP:20260407T190513
CREATED:20170410T221413Z
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SUMMARY:The Cascabel Trio
DESCRIPTION:Several years ago\, on a winter evening over a few glasses of wine\, three wildly overbooked Boston musicians formed CASCABEL TRIO. Naming themselves after a notoriously hot pepper seemed fitting\, and they have been warming audiences ever since with their lyricism\, virtuosity\, and heat.   Their program will include trios by Smetana and Dvorak. Cascabel Trio’s program will include:  Loeillet’s Trio Sonata; Dvorak’s Piano Trio in G Minor\, Op. 15; and Smetana’s Piano Trio No. 3 in F Minor\, Op. 65.  \nJanice Weber\, Pianist\nJanice Weber  is a  summa cum laude graduate of the Eastman School of Music.  She has performed at the White House\, Carnegie Hall\, Wigmore Hall\, National Gallery of Art\, and Boston’s Symphony Hall. She has appeared with the Boston Pops\, Chautauqua Symphony\, New Jersey Symphony\, Hilton Head Orchestra\, Sarajevo Philharmonic\, and Syracuse Symphony. \nHer  world premiere recording of Liszt’s 1838 Transcendental Etudes elicited acclaim from  Time Magazine.  Miss Weber recorded Liszt’s last Hungarian Rhapsody\, one of only two living pianists to be included in a compendium of historic performances by nineteen legendary artists. This disc subsequently won the International Liszt Prize. \nHer recordings also include Rachmaninoff’s complete transcriptions; with the Lydian Quartet\, Leo Ornstein’s vast Piano Quintet; flute and piano works of Sigfrid Karg-Elert; and waltz transcriptions of Godowsky\, Rosenthal\, and Friedman.  She is a member of the piano faculty at Boston Conservatory and MIT. \nPiotr Buczek\, Violinist\nPiotr Buczek was born in Chorzow\, Poland.  He began violin studies at the age of eight and graduated from the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music\, receiving a Diploma of Art with special distinction. \nHe was a founding member of the Penderecki String Quartet\, with whom he has made eleven recordings. Mr. Buczek was assistant to Ralph Evans of the Fine Arts Quartet in Milwaukee and has worked with Pinchas Zukerman\, Yo Yo Ma\, Ursula Oppens\, and Shlomo Mintz. While at the University of Maryland\, he worked with Arnold Steinhardt and John Daley of the Guarneri Quartet. \nHe has performed throughout Europe\, Asia\, and the Americas. Mr. Buczek appears regularly with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project and the South Coast Chamber Players. He teaches at the Rivers School in Weston. \nTimothy Roberts\, Cellist\nMr. Roberts is an active chamber musician\, teacher\, and orchestral player who tours nationally and internationally in addition to his numerous appearances throughout New England. He has performed with the Smithsonian Chamber Players in New York and Washington DC and recorded with them for Deutsche Harmonia Mundi. He has toured with the Brandenburg Ensemble\, with the contemporary group Alea III to Greece\, and with the New England Ragtime Ensemble under Gunther Schuller. \nHe has performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra\, the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra\, the Florida Orchestra\, Rhode Island Philharmonic\, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra\, Portland Symphony\, New Hampshire Symphony\, and many years as a member of the Opera Company of Boston. He plays a Gabrielli cello from Florence\, made in 1751.
URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/the-cascabel-trio/
LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States
CATEGORIES:Live Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170609T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170609T200000
DTSTAMP:20260407T190513
CREATED:20170410T221149Z
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SUMMARY:Boston Chamber Music
DESCRIPTION:Boston Chamber Music returns for its 18th year of opening the Festival. Clarinetist and Artistic Director Thomas Hill continues to bring together the finest ensembles especially selected for this concert\, which this year will feature clarinet\, ‘cello and piano\, performing the works of Beethoven\, Brahms\, and Fauré. The Boston Chamber Music’s program will include: Beethoven’s Trio in Bb major\, Op.11; Brahms’ Sonata in f minor Op. 120 #1 for clarinet and piano; Fauré’s  Après un Rêve\, Impromptu in Ab\, and Élégie\, Opus 24\, for ‘cello and piano;  and Fauré’s Trio in d minor Op.120. \nThomas Hill\, Clarinetist\n \n“Hill’s performance was what we’ve come to expect from him –- beautifully controlled\, technically strong\, imaginative and musical.” \n—– The Boston Globe \n…”among the best clarinetists anywhere.” \n—— 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\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  \nBruce Coppock\, ‘Cellist\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.
URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/boston-chamber-music-2/
LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States
CATEGORIES:Live Music
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170609
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170617
DTSTAMP:20260407T190513
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SUMMARY:Chamber Music Festival
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, June 9:    8:00 pm Chamber Music Festival:  Boston Chamber Music led by clarinetist Thomas Hill\, performs Beethoven\, Brahms\, and Fauré \nFriday\, June 16:  8:00 pm Chamber Music Festival:  The Cascabel Trio\, led by pianist Janice Weber\, performs Smetana and Dvorak \nCHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL TICKETS:  Per Concert\, $18 in advance; $20 at the door; $5 Student;   SERIES TICKETS:  $30.
URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/chamber-music-festival/
LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States
CATEGORIES:Live Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170519T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170519T200000
DTSTAMP:20260407T190513
CREATED:20170403T002231Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150852Z
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SUMMARY:Joyce Andersen & Harvey Reid
DESCRIPTION:Ogunquit Performing Arts welcomes back local country stars Joyce Andersen and Harvey Reid\, for an evening of classic country music in a program entitled   “Keep on the Sunny Side”- A Celebration of Classic Country Music.   Joining Joyce and Harvey will be the the Knotty Pine Boys All-Star Band\, as these talented musicians showcase a spectacular evening of old-time favorites: country\, bluegrass\, folk\, blues\, Celtic\, and ragtime. \nHarvey Reid and Joyce Andersen are life-long musicians with deep roots in a wide range of American music. Between them they have made over 30 albums including folk & blues\, country & Americana\, and jazz & bluegrass. They have traveled the country and the world playing their original takes on American music as well as their own songs. For this performance\, they are joined by members of the Knotty Pine Boys playing steel guitar\, bass\, and drums\, a rousing combination which has packed in the crowds in local venues. \nJoyce Andersen is a veteran musician who has enjoyed a varied 20-year career as side-gal\, session player\, singer-songwriter\, and band leader. Her live shows and recordings showcase her versatility as a vocalist and violinist who thrives on writing and interpreting songs across many genres from old-time\, rock & Americana\, to folk\, pop\, & swing. She started getting critical acclaim and radio play in the folk world with her first full length CD “The Girl I Left Behind” (2000) for its songwriting\, breadth of styles and her unique ability to harmonize her vocals with her violin.
URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/joyce-andersen-harvey-reid/
LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States
CATEGORIES:Live Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170507T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170507T140000
DTSTAMP:20260407T190513
CREATED:20170312T184454Z
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SUMMARY:The Benny Goodman Story
DESCRIPTION:The Benny Goodman Story is a biographical film\, starring Steve Allen and Donna Reed\, directed by Valentine Davies and released by Universal-International in 1956. The film is based on the life of famed clarinetist Benny Goodman\, who recorded most of the clarinet solos used in the film. \nLionel Hampton\, Martha Tilton\, Kid Ory\, George Givot\, Gene Krupa\, Teddy Wilson\, Harry James and many other musicians also made appearances in this film. \n“Benny Goodman’s swing music is so much a part of the familiar sounds of our times that just to hear it as Benny and his bandsmen used to play—and still do—is an experience of multiple charms.”  New York Times \nWhen a young Benny Goodman (Barry Truex) first starts taking music classes\, he becomes very adept at the clarinet and gravitates towards ragtime and jazz. After playing for a few years\, an older Benny (Steve Allen) gains the attention of critic John Hammond (Herbert Anderson)\, who champions the musician. Benny also meets John’s sister\, Alice (Donna Reed)\, and\, although she initially dislikes jazz\, Goodman wins her over. However\, Benny’s mother (Berta Gersten) does not approve of the match. \n \nThe “King of Swing” came to the screen as never before in the 1955 musical biography\, The Benny Goodman Story. It’s not that Benny Goodman had never appeared in a movie before. He had made ten at that point\, nine as himself and one as a college professor in A Song Is Born (1948). But The Benny Goodman Story marked the first time he had been played by another actor\, TV talk show host and comic Steve Allen. \nProducer Aaron Rosenberg cast Allen\, who bore a strong resemblance to the bandleader. In addition\, Allen was an accomplished musician and songwriter\, though he had to take lessons with Sol Yaged to learn how to mime playing the clarinet convincingly. Allen would also prove to be an accomplished actor in stage appearances and television guest shots.  Leading lady Donna Reed had only recently won an Oscar® as Best Supporting Actress for her performance in From Here to Eternity (1953).  Cast as Goodman’s mother\, the Polish-born actress Berta Gersten was a mainstay of the Yiddish theatre movement in New York and had starred in the pioneering Yiddish-language film Mirele Efros (1939). \n \nAnd of course\, the highlight of  The Benny Goodman Story\, is its great music. On the soundtrack\, Goodman played everything from swing and jazz to a Mozart clarinet concerto. In addition\, the film featured an array of guest stars\, including trumpeter Harry James and drummer Gene Krupa jamming on “Swing\, Swing\, Swing\,” vocalist Martha Tilton doing “And the Angels Sing\,” and such Goodman associates as Lionel Hampton\, Stan Getz and Ziggy Elman. Other Goodman hits on the soundtrack include “Let’s Dance\,” “Goodie Goodie” and “Memories of You\,” the latter serving as the romantic theme for Allen and Reed. \nEnjoy this film on the wall-sized screen of the\nDunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit.\nAdmission\, Parking and Popcorn are free. \n 
URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/classic-film-the-benny-goodman-story/
LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classic Film Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170423T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170423T140000
DTSTAMP:20260407T190513
CREATED:20170306T105237Z
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SUMMARY:The Crossing
DESCRIPTION:A Special Screening for Patriots’ Day\n \nThe Crossing is a historical TV film about George Washington crossing the Delaware River and the Battle of Trenton.  Directed by Robert Harmon\, the film stars Jeff Daniels as George Washington.  Also appearing are Roger Rees as Hugh Mercer\, Sebastian Roche as John Glover\, and Steven McCarthy as Alexander Hamilton. \nAdaptedby screenwriter Howard Fast from his own fact-based novel\, this historical drama tells the story of one of the most unexpected triumphs of the American Revolutionary War. \nThe Crossing won a Peabody Award for excellence in 2000. \nThe film opens with the retreat of the Continental Army across New Jersey during the American Revolutionary War\, after repeated losses and defeats during the campaign of 1776. \nIn December 1776\, the armies of General George Washington  are near the point of collapse; short on money and supplies\, ravaged by disease\, their numbers thinned by desertion\, and freezing in summer uniforms in the midst of a brutal winter\, it seems all but impossible that the Colonial Army can hold out much longer against the British Army and their allied German Hessian forces. \nAfter the army narrowly escapes across the river to the Pennsylvania shore\, Washington meets with his officers. In possession of the only boats of any use on that stretch of the Delaware River\, the army has a reprieve from further pursuit until the river freezes and they must retreat again\, leaving Philadelphia open to capture. \nWashington conceives a plan to cross the river and conduct a surprise attack on the Hessian garrison at Trenton. The situation makes the plan appear all but impossible to Colonel John Glover\, but due to his loyalty to Washington\, he agrees to take the army across. On Christmas night\, the Hessians will be feasting and drinking\, so the morning after\, while still in darkness\, the Continentals must take the fight to them while they are sluggish and hung over. The officers have only a few days to prepare their troops and weapons\, and the soldiers\, until it is time to cross\, must be told no more than necessary. \nDespite their own fatigue and the winter weather\, Washington manages to lift his weary soldiers’ spirits\, allowing the army to cross the river on the night of December 25–26\, 1776. The crossing is done in one night\, allowing the troops to attack Trenton at eight o’ clock in the morning on December 26\, 1776\, and achieve a stunning victory\, capturing almost all the Hessian garrison. \nEnjoy this film on the wall-sized screen of the\nDunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit.\nAdmission\, Parking and Popcorn are free.
URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/classic-film-the-crossing/
LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classic Film Series
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SUMMARY:Classic Film:  Laura
DESCRIPTION:Laura (1944) is one of the most stylish\, elegant\, moody\, and witty classic film noirs ever made with an ensemble cast of characters.\n\n Manhattan detective Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews) investigates the murder of Madison Avenue executive Laura Hunt (Gene Tierney) in her fashionable apartment. Pursuing her murderer\, McPherson quizzes Laura’s arrogant best friend\, gossip columnist Waldo Lydecker (Clifton Webb)\, and her comparatively mild fiancé\, Shelby Carpenter (Vincent Price). As the detective grows obsessed with the case\, he finds himself falling in love with the dead woman. The stunning cast also includes Judith Anderson and Dorothy Adams. \n Laura is characterized by shadowy\, dream-like\, high-contrast black and white cinematography\, and taut\, smart dialogue in a quick succession of scenes. It presents the recognizably poignant and haunting ‘Laura’ signature theme music\, and a decadent and morally-corrupt group of upper-class society types. Almost all of the main protagonists in the entertaining mystery are treated as suspects for a down-to-earth detective. \n\n Producer Otto Preminger ultimately ended up directing the film\, after filming was begun by Rouben Mamoulian. With the first two weeks of work having to be scrapped\, Preminger began his directing job with a purposeful vengeance. He threw out everything Rouben Mamoulian had done including the costumes\, sets and even the cinematographer. Preminger’s film falls under the category of romantic\, melodramatic detective thriller. It might also be called a psychological study of deviant\, kinky obsession\, because almost everyone in the cast loves the title character – Laura.\n\n Vincent Price once asked Preminger why he thought he was able to do a better job on the film than Rouben Mamoulian. “Rouben only knows nice people\,” replied Preminger\, “I understand the characters in ‘Laura’. They’re all heels\, just like my friends.”\n\n According to Gene Tierney’s husband\, famed fashion designer Oleg Cassini\, their personal tragedy of dealing with the severe problems of baby daughter Daria just prior to filming influenced Tierney’s performance as the mysterious Laura. “.. After Daria’s birth\, she seemed to die inside. There was a ghostly quality\, an evanescence\, to both Laura and Gene… she has a certain mystery\, an aura\, that permeates the film and gives it much of its magic.” \n \n The character of Waldo Lydecker appears to be based on the columnist\, broadcaster and New Yorker theater critic Alexander Woollcott\, a famous wit who\, like Waldo\, was fascinated by murder. Woollcott always dined at the Algonquin Hotel\, where Laura first approaches Waldo.\n\n This movie is also famous for the haunting “Laura Theme”. Despite the Oscar snub of the score\, David Raksin’s music proved to be so popular that the studio soon found itself inundated with letters asking if there was a recording available of the main theme. Soon sheet music and recordings of the instrumental music were released and proved to be a huge hit with the public.\n\n Fox asked celebrated songwriter Johnny Mercer to write lyrics to go with “Laura”‘s theme\, and he happily obliged. It also was a smash hit\, becoming an instant standard\, recorded over the years by countless artists including Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald. When asked why she had turned down the part of Laura\, Hedy Lamarr said\, “They sent me the script\, not the score.”\n\n The highly-polished film was nominated for five Academy Awards: Best Director (Otto Preminger)\, Best Cinematography (Joseph LaShelle)\, Best Supporting Actor (Clifton Webb)\, Best Art Direction and Best Screenplay\, and it received the award for Best Cinematography. The crisply-written screenplay (by Jay Dratler\, Samuel Hoffenstein and Betty Reinhardt) was based on the play and novel of the same name by Vera Caspary. The successful novel had previously been serialized in Collier’s Magazine (October-November 1942) as “Ring Twice for Laura.”
URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/classic-film-laura/
LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170311T183000
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SUMMARY:Stillson School of Irish Dance
DESCRIPTION:Returning to Ogunquit for their annual visit\, the acclaimed Stillson School of Irish Dance brings a troupe of more than a dozen dancers garbed in brilliant\, sparkling costumes.   Always a local favorite\, the dancers will perform an array of jigs and reels which have won them prizes at regional and international competitions. \nAfter their performance\, the Stillson dancers will invite children and dancers of all ages  to join them in trying out a few steps.   A reception with refreshments will follow.  Join us for this festive St. Patrick’s celebration! \nTickets are $5 per person at the door.  General seating\,   no advance sales. \nThe only certified school in the state of Maine\, the Stillson School of Irish Dance has been accredited by An Coimisiun\, Dublin\, Ireland\, since 1991.  Dancers have placed in the North American Irish Dance Championships\, as well as competed in the All Ireland\, The European \, Great Britain  and The World Irish Dance Championships. \n \n  \nThe School 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 IRISH DANCE COMPANY\, LIZ CARROLL\, BILLY MCCOMISKEY and MICK MOLONEY\, NATALIE MACMASTER\, and EILEEN IVERS. \nIn existence for twenty years\, the school is the only certified school of Irish dancing in the state of Maine. The school’s dancers compete all over New England and place in the NEW ENGLAND REGIONAL IRISH DANCING CHAMPIONSHIPS annually. \nThe Stillson School of Irish Dance is under the direction of Carlene Moran Stillson ADCRG / TCRG. She is accredited by An Coimisiun in Dublin\, Ireland and a member of IDTANA. (Irish Dancing Teacher’s Association of North America) and The New England Region teaching organizations.
URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/stillson-school-of-irish-dance/
LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States
CATEGORIES:Live Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170305T140000
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SUMMARY:Classic Film:  The Hunters
DESCRIPTION:The Hunters is a 1958 big-screen American war/ adventure film loosely adapted from the novel\, The Hunters\, by James Salter.  Produced and directed by Dick Powell\, it stars Robert Mitchum as a flight commander during the Korean War\, and Robert Wagner as a cocky young  pilot assigned to his flight. \nLee Philips\, May Britt\, Richard Egan\, and John Gabriel complete the cast of this romantic adventure\, which features spectacular flying sequences as well as interpersonal tensions on and off the ground. \nMajor Cleve “Iceman” Saville (Robert Mitchum)\, a veteran World War II fighter ace returns to combat in the Korean War\, eager to fly an F-86 Sabre fighter. His commanding officer (Richard Egan) assigns him command of a flight.  \n \nAmong his pilots is a troubled\, insecure\, heavy-drinking pilot (Lee Philips)\, with whose neglected wife Mitchum is already in love.  Adding to his problems is the arrival of a brash new young replacement\,  (Robert Wagner)\, who ignores command orders in the sky. \nThe film was produced and directed by Dick Powell.  According to Turner Classic Movies\, “Twentieth Century-Fox’s submarine combat movie The Enemy Below was such a big hit in 1957 that the studio immediately assigned the film’s producer-director\, Dick Powell\, to another war movie: The Hunters (1958). Powell\, of course\, was also a big movie star\, but his feature acting days were already behind him. In 1953\, he had transitioned to a new career as a director and producer — though he would still occasionally act for television — with the fine suspense drama Split Second. The Hunters was his fifth and final big-screen directing effort. \n“… Dick Powell sent Wendell Mayes’s script to Robert Mitchum\, whom he had just directed in The Enemy Below — or\, as Mitchum later recounted\, Powell sent part of the script. Speaking to the London Sunday Express in 1978\, Mitchum said\, ‘Powell sent me 30 pages\,…saying how good it was. And it seemed fine to me. I got to fly a fighter plane and spend a lot of time in the officers club in Japan. ‘And you can go to Japan and scout it out for a couple of weeks\,’ he said. That sounded good\, so I said ‘Yes.’ Then he sent me page 31. And I found out my plane crashed and I spent the rest of the film carrying some fellow through Korea on my back. ‘You ought to cast the part by the pound\,’ I said. ‘Find some wisp. What’s Sinatra doing?’ But of course they saddled me with a hulk [Lee Philips] who got heavier by the minute and  I never got near Japan.’ \n \n“For the role of a young hotshot pilot named Lt. Ed Pell\, Fox cast 27-year-old Robert Wagner\, who reported to work on The Hunters immediately following his honeymoon with Natalie Wood. In his memoir\, Wagner wrote that he ‘adored both [Powell and Mitchum]. Powell was one of the great guys of all time\, and Mitchum and I became fast friends…’ ”   Jeremy Arnold\, TCM \n“The brash detachment of young Mr. Wagner\, of all people\, in the role of a jive-talking killer ace\, steals the picture from everybody\, excluding the jet planes.  The sight of these silver-bellied beauties streaking across the sky\, or barking away in counter-attack\, may be reward enough for many customers. The sequence of the Americans roaring toward the enemy under a carpet of smoky contrails is thrilling.”  New York Times \nEnjoy this film on the wall-sized screen of the\nDunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit.\nAdmission\, Parking and Popcorn are free.
URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/classic-film-the-hunters/
LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170205T140000
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SUMMARY:Classic Film Series:  Show Boat
DESCRIPTION:Filmed previously in 1929 and in 1936\,  this third adaptation of Jerome Kern’s Show Boat was shot in Technicolor in the typical MGM lavish style in 1951\, with a production spread out from the MGM back lot to the Mississippi itself.  Produced by Arthur Freed and directed by George Sidney\, the film stars Kathryn Grayson\, Ava Gardner\, and Howard Keel\,  with Joe E Brown\,  Agnes Moorehead\, and the sensational dancers Marge and  Gower Champion.  But arguably\, the two biggest stars of the show are the magnificent baritone William Warfield\,  and the Show Boat itself.  When the two get together for the finale reprise of “Ol Man River”\, the effect is memorable. \nThe original Show Boat is a 1927 musical in two acts\, with music by Jerome Kern and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II.  Based on Edna Ferber’s best-selling novel of the same name\, the musical follows the lives of the performers\, stagehands and dock workers on the Cotton Blossom\, a Mississippi River show boat. \nIn doing research for her proposed novel Show Boat\, writer Edna Ferber spent several weeks on the James Adams Floating Palace Theatre in Bath\, North Carolina\, gathering material about a disappearing American entertainment venue\, the river show boat.   In a few weeks\, she gained what she called a “treasure trove of show boat material\, human\, touching\, true”. \nJerome Kern was impressed by the novel\, but when he first spoke to Ferber about his idea to create a musical from her novel\, the author thought he was crazy.  The conventional musical theater during the 1920’s was comparable to Vaudeville\, with plotless revues\, songs\, dancing girls\,  and comedic routines. Kern eventually convinced Ferber by explaining to her his plans for a revolutionary new approach to musical theater\, an imaginative reinterpretation of what was appropriate subject matter for musicals. The result of his effort was the first true combination of music\, lyrics\, plot\, and authentic characters in a theatrical work. \nAfter composing most of the first-act songs\, Kern and Hammerstein auditioned their material for producer Florenz Ziegfeld\, thinking that he was the person to create the elaborate production they felt necessary for Ferber’s sprawling work.  Ziegfeld was impressed with the show and agreed to produce it\, writing the next day\, “This is the best musical comedy I have ever been fortunate to get hold of; I am thrilled to produce it\, this show is the opportunity of my life…” \nThe premiere of Show Boat on Broadway was a watershed moment in the history of American musicals. It was a radical departure in musical storytelling\, marrying song\, dance and spectacle with a serious and compelling plot. \nShow Boat opened a new era\, essentially paving the way for future theater.  The characters were far more three-dimensional and realistic\, and the integration of music and plot was skillfully maneuvered. Perhaps most importantly\, Kern and Hammerstein strove to focus on more elaborate and controversial  storylines.   Show Boat manages to investigate such topics as poverty\, racial injustice\, miscegenation\, and unhappy marriages while remaining entertaining and musically beautiful.  This balance is an eternal legacy of the original production. \nAwards for Broadway shows did not exist in 1927 when the original production of the show premiered\, nor in 1932\, when its first revival was staged.  But the quality of the musical was recognized immediately by critics and audiences then and now\, –   and revivals of Show Boat\, with its glorious music and timeless message\, continue even to this day. \nEnjoy this film on the wall-sized screen of the\nDunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit.\nAdmission\, Parking and Popcorn are free. \n 
URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/classic-film-series-showboat/
LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classic Film Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170108T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170108T140000
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SUMMARY:Classic Film Series:  Julia
DESCRIPTION:This 1977 Oscar-winning drama\, based on the memoirs  of playwright Lillian Hellman\, depicts the relationship between two friends with unexpected consequences.  Lillian\, on her way to a writers’ meeting in 1930’s Russia\, plans to reunite with her life-long friend Julia\, who in turn asks Lillian to smuggle funds into Germany to aid the anti-Nazi movement.  Waiting in the wings is Lillian’s lover and mentor\, Dashiell Hammett\, who is unaware of her dangerous assignment. \nJulia’s fabulous cast includes Vanessa Redgrave\, Jane Fonda\, Jason Robards\, Maximilian Schell\,  Hal Holbrook\, Meryl  Streep\, and Rosemary Murphy. \nJulia is a 1977 drama film\,  based on Hellman’s book of memoirs  Pentimento\,  a chapter of which purports to tell the story of her relationship with an alleged lifelong friend\, “Julia\,” who fought against the Nazis in the years prior to World War II. \nJulia\, directed by Fred Zinnemann\,  from a screenplay by Alvin Sargent\, was received positively from the critics and was nominated for eleven Academy Awards\,  including Best Picture\, Best Director for Fred Zinnemann\, and Best Actress for Jane Fonda.   It ended up winning three awards \, Best Supporting Actor for Jason Robards\, Best Supporting Actress for Vanessa Redgrave\,  and Best Adapted Screenplay for Alvin Sargent’s script. \nLillian Florence “Lilly” Hellman (1905 – 1984) was an American dramatist and screenwriter known for her success as a playwright on Broadway\, as well as her left-wing sympathies and political activism. She famously was blacklisted by the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) at the height of the anti-communist campaigns of 1947–52. Although she continued to work on Broadway in the 1950s\, her blacklisting by the American film industry caused a precipitous decline in her income.  She was praised by many for refusing to answer questions by HUAC. \nHellman was romantically involved with fellow writer and political activist Dashiell Hammett\, author of classic detective novels who also was blacklisted for 10 years until his death in 1961. The couple never married.  As a playwright\, Hellman had many successes on Broadway\, including Watch on the Rhine\, The Autumn Garden\, Toys In The Attic\,  Another Part of the Forest\, The Children’s Hour\, and The Little Foxes. \nIn her book Pentimento\, a widely praised follow-up to her National Book Award-winning first volume of memoirs\, An Unfinished Woman\, the legendary playwright  looks back at some of the people who\, wittingly or unwittingly\, exerted profound influence on her development as a woman and a writer. The portraits include Hellman’s recollection of a lifelong friendship that began in childhood\, reminiscences that formed the basis of the Academy Award-winning film Julia. \nEnjoy this film on the wall-sized screen of the\nDunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit.\nAdmission\, Parking and Popcorn are free.
URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/classic-film-series-julia/
LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classic Film Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161211T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161211T140000
DTSTAMP:20260407T190513
CREATED:20161009T114648Z
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SUMMARY:Classic Film Series: A Christmas Memory
DESCRIPTION:“A Christmas Memory” is a short story by Truman Capote.   First published in 1956\, this much sought-after autobiographical recollection of Capote’s rural Alabama boyhood has become a modern-day classic. \nThis 1997 film version stars Patty Duke\, Piper Laurie and Eric Lloyd.  As directed by Glenn Jordan\, and adapted by Duane Poole\, the gentle and lyrical holiday-themed drama begins with a seven-year-old boy\, Buddy (Eric Lloyd) whose parents drop him off with distant relatives in an unfamiliar town one Christmas holiday. \nEnjoy this film on the wall-sized screen of the Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit.  Admission\, Parking and Popcorn are free. \n  \nSuddenly lonely and displaced\, Buddy finds peace and solace in an unlikely cross-generational friendship with a sweet-natured old woman\, Sook (Patty Duke). The two join forces and embark on a series of heartwarming adventures.   The evocative narrative focuses on country life\, friendship\, and the joy of giving during the Christmas season\, and it also gently yet poignantly touches on loneliness and loss. \nOriginally published in ”Mademoiselle” magazine in December 1956\, it was reprinted in The Selected Writings of Truman Capote in 1963. It was issued in a stand-alone hardcover edition by Random House in 1966\, and it has been published in many editions and anthologies since. \nTruman Capote was born Truman Streckfus Persons on September 30\, 1924\, in New Orleans\, Louisiana. One of the 20th century’s most well-known writers\, Capote was as fascinating a character as those who appeared in his stories. His parents were an odd pair—a small-town girl named Lillie Mae and a charming schemer called Arch—and they largely neglected their son\, often leaving him in the care of others. Capote spent much of his young life in the care of his mother’s relatives in Monroeville\, Alabama. \nHe formed a fast bond with his mother’s distant relative\, Nanny Rumbley Faulk\, whom Truman called “Sook”. “Her face is remarkable – not unlike Lincoln’s\,  craggy like that\, and tinted by sun and wind”\, is how Capote described Sook in “A Christmas Memory.” \nIn Monroeville\, he was a neighbor and friend of author Harper Lee\, (To Kill a Mockingbird)  who is rumored to have based the character Dill on Capote.  Lee became his life-long friend\,  and later aided him during the four years he spent writing one of his signature books\, In Cold Blood.
URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/classic-film-series-a-christmas-memory/
LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classic Film Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161204T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161204T150000
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SUMMARY:Portland Ballet:  The Victorian Nutcracker
DESCRIPTION:As a holiday treat\, dancers from the Portland Ballet will perform excerpts from their production of Tchaikovsky’s beloved ballet.  This representation of about a dozen dancers\, will appear in full costume in selections from the Ballet’s complete production of “The Victorian Nutcracker”\, (which opens in the Portland area on Dec 17th.) \nCHILDREN ARE WELCOME\, and may be invited from the audience to chat with the dancers and  try out a few dance steps.   Join us for this Christmas classic\, live on stage at the Dunaway Center! \nA reception with refreshments will follow the performance.   \nTICKETS are $5 per person at the door.   No advance sales. \nFollowing the presentations of his ballets “Swan Lake”  and “Sleeping Beauty”\,  Tchaikovsky was commissioned by the Direction of the Imperial Opera  to compose a double-bill program featuring both an opera and a ballet. Alexandre Dumas Père’s adaptation of the story by E.T.A. Hoffmann was set to music by Tchaikovsky and originally choreographed by Marius Petipa. \nIn the spring of 1891\, while on his way from Moscow to New York – where he was to conduct at the grand opening of Carnegie Hall – Tchaikovsky became acquainted with a new instrument that enchanted him with its “divinely beautiful tone.”  Inventd by a noted French instrument maker\, Victor Mustel\, it had been patented as the “celesta” after its heavenly timbre.  Tchaikovsky arranged to have one sent to Russia in secret\, for he was afraid other composers “will get hold of it and use its unusual effects before me.  I expect this new insrument will produce a colossal sensation.” \nThe first concert presentation of “The Nutcracker” in 1892 was a great success\, although the ballet itself took considerably longer to take hold.  Over the years\, however\, the Sugar Plum Fairy\, and the music of the celesta to which she danced\, has ensured “The Nutcracker” as  the favorite Christmas presentation of ballet companies around the world. \nSteeped in tradition\, Portland Ballet’s annual production of “The Victorian Nutcracker” recreates the interiors of  Victoria Mansion and interprets Tchaikovsky’s score through the stories of Portland’s nineteenth-century families. This audience favorite is unique among Nutcracker performances across the nation and continues to be a mainstay of Portland’s winter arts season. \nFMI:  www.portlandballet.org
URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/portland-ballet-the-victorian-nutcracker/
LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161106T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161106T140000
DTSTAMP:20260407T190513
CREATED:20161009T114411Z
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SUMMARY:Classic Film Series:  Arsenic and Old Lace
DESCRIPTION:Arsenic and Old Lace is a 1944 American madcap\, but dark\, comedy film directed by Frank Capra\,  starring Cary Grant\, and based on Joseph Kesselring’s play Arsenic and Old Lace.   Set in the Brooklyn family home of the Brewsters\, the plot concerns a drama critic\, Mortimer Brewster\, whose two beloved maiden aunts are caring for their benign but delusional brother Teddy\, (a man who is living his life believing he is President Teddy Roosevelt.)   Mortimer learns on his Hallowe’en wedding day that his long-lost brother Jonathan is now a fiendish killer trying to escape from the police\, and that his aunts are concealing lethal secrets of their own. \nEnjoy this film on the wall-sized screen of the Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit.  Admission\, Parking and Popcorn are free. \nThe script adaptation was by Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein.  Capra actually filmed the movie in 1941 because of star Cary Grant’s availability\, but it was not released until 1944\, after the original stage version had finished its run on Broadway.  The Broadway comedy opened at the Fulton Theatre on January 10\, 1941 and ran for 1\,444 performances\, closing on June 17\, 1944. \nIn the film\,  Josephine Hull\,  Jean Adair\, and John Alexander reprised their stage roles as the Brewster siblings Abby\, Martha\, and Teddy\, all three getting eight weeks’ leave of absence from the New York play to make the film.  Boris Karloff\,  who played Jonathan\, was denied permission to participate by the play’s producers\, fearing that the absence of their main star would adversely affect the play’s attendance.  His role in the film was played by Raymond Massey\, who was deliberately made up to look like Karloff\, a running joke in both the play and the film.  The film’s excellent supporting cast also featured Priscilla Lane\,  Jack Carson\,  Edward Everett Horton\,  and  Peter Lorre. \nThe lead role of Mortimer Brewster was originally intended for Bob Hope\,  but he could not be released from his contract with Paramount.    Director Frank Capra had also approached Jack Benny and Ronald Reagan before learning that Grant would accept the role. \nCary Grant delivers  a marvelous comedic performance\, with exaggerated acting\, constant mugging and other facial plasticity\, amazing double-takes\, slapstick and general befuddlement.  Sight gags also abound:  when Mortimer is sitting in the family  graveyard\, one of the tombstones bears the name Archie Leach (Cary Grant’s real name.) \nFrank Capra  enlisted in the U. S. Army Signal Corps in 1941 during filming. He received an extension of his order to report for active duty until late January 1942 so he could finish editing the picture.   Cary Grant donated his entire salary\, $100\,000\, to the U.S. War Relief Fund.
URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/classic-film-series-arsenic-and-old-lace/
LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classic Film Series
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SUMMARY:Janice Weber
DESCRIPTION:“As Weber conquered Liszt\, she also conquered the audience … Her performance of the Etudes was indeed transcendent.”  San Francisco Chronicle   \n“There may now be several fire-eating piano virtuosos who can execute the original notes\, but few can liberate the prophetic music [of the Liszt Etudes] as masterfully as Janice Weber does here.”  Time \nJanice Weber returns to Ogunquit to play one of these “ferociously difficult” Liszt Etudes\, as well as works by Beethoven\, Czerny\, Grieg\, and Schumann. \n“Weber’s grasp of the musical language outshone even her technique\, which is high praise on a program as challenging as hers.”  Washington Post \nRefreshments will be served. \nTICKETS are $15 in advance\, $18 at the door\, $25 Series\, and $5 student\, and may be purchased at the Dunaway Center\, Ogunquit Camera Shop\, Ogunquit Welcome Center\, and Arts Ogunquit Building. \n——————————————————- \nA summa cum laude graduate of the Eastman School of Music\, Janice Weber has performed at the White House\, Carnegie Hall\, Wigmore Hall\, National Gallery of Art\, and Boston’s Symphony Hall. She has appeared with the Boston Pops\, Chautauqua Symphony\, New Jersey Symphony\, Hilton Head Orchestra\, Sarajevo Philharmonic\, and Syracuse Symphony.   She has performed at the Bard\, Newport\, La Gesse\, Husum\, and Monadnock summer festivals and has twice toured China under the auspices of the American Liszt Society. \nHer  world premiere recording of Liszt’s 1838 Transcendental Etudes elicited acclaim from  Time Magazine: “Liszt later simplified these pieces into the still ferociously difficult Transcendental Etudes (1852 version) for fear that no one else could play them. There may now be several fire-eating piano virtuosos who can execute the original notes\, but few can liberate the prophetic music they contain as masterfully as Janice Weber does here.” \nMiss Weber recorded Liszt’s last Hungarian Rhapsody\, one of only two living pianists to be included in a compendium of historic performances by nineteen legendary artists. This disc subsequently won the International Liszt Prize.  \n Her recordings also include Rachmaninoff’s complete transcriptions; with the Lydian Quartet\, Leo Ornstein’s vast Piano Quintet; flute and piano works of Sigfrid Karg-Elert; and waltz transcriptions of Godowsky\, Rosenthal\, and Friedman. \nHer Naxos recording of Leo Ornstein’s radical works introduced the charismatic composer to a worldwide audience. She is heard in Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time on Ongaku Records and her newest disc\, Cascade of Roses (Dorian Sono Luminus)\,features works of twenty-one composers from Adolf Jensen to Billy Mayerl. \nShe is a member of the piano faculty at Boston Conservatory and MIT. \nMiss Weber is also a published author.  Her  novels\, most of which have something to do with music\, have a worldwide following.  She also produced the tones for Ivory\, the worldwide bestselling virtual piano software.
URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/janice-weber/
LOCATION:ME
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161007T080000
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SUMMARY:Victor Goldberg
DESCRIPTION:“Victor Goldberg is an excellent pianist with a formidable technique\, a powerful and a romantic soul…[his] intensely expressive performance had a powerful emotional impact.”  Edith Eisler\, New York Concert Review. \nHe has been hailed as a performer with “astute interpretive sensibilities” by Allan Kozinn of The New York Times\, and has received praise from The Washington Post for his “emotionally frank style” and “technique to burn.” \nVictor Goldberg is a strikingly original yet highly sensitive and imaginative pianist.  He is a master of focused emotion whose commanding stage presence has won him a major following worldwide.   His dramatic program will include Scarlatti\, Chopin\, and Mussorgsky. \nRefreshments will be served. \nTICKETS are $15 in advance\, $18 at the door\, $25 Series\, and $5 student\, and may be purchased at the Dunaway Center\, Ogunquit Camera Shop\, Ogunquit Welcome Center\, and Arts Ogunquit Building. \n\nVictor Goldberg has performed in such prestigious venues as Carnegie Hall\, Lincoln Center\,  the National Gallery of Art in Washington\, DC\,  the Wiener Konzerthaus in Vienna\, the Dame Myra Hess Series in Chicago\, the Dvorak Hall of the Rudolfinum in Prague\, the Oriental Arts Center in Shanghai\, and Musashino Hall and Toppan Hall in Tokyo.  \nHis concerto engagements include the Sofia Philharmonic\,  Orquestra Sinfonica de Tenerife\, Brooklyn Philharmonic\,  and Wonju Philharmonic Orchestra in South Korea. \nIn addition to his busy international performance career\, Goldberg has lectured and given master classes in prominent music institutions such as the Vienna Conservatory\, Prague Conservatory\, Franz Liszt Conservatory\, Carl Nielsen Conservatory\, California State University\, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater\, and Yonsei University. \nHe has been recognized with numerous awards\, including the Pro Musicis International Award\, and the Artist Recognition Award at the International Keyboard Festival\, New York.   The Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs has declared Victor Goldberg an “Israel Cultural Ambassador\,” resulting in numerous collaborations with embassies world-wide. \nGoldberg also has performed charitable concerts in such distant locations as Yangon and Mandalay. His charity concert at a Buddhist orphanage  allowed him to share his emotional connection to and appreciation of music to 6000 childen who had never had an opportunity to hear a live classical music performance.  This occasion prompted Dr. Goldberg to co-found  the Key Vive Arts Foundation\, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting charitable causes by using the power of music to enrich the human spirit and bring people closer to one another.  He currently serves as Artistic Director.
URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/victor-goldberg/
LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States
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