 Director Lewis Kaplan with Jamie Laredo following their performance of the Bach Double Concerto |
Bowdoin Festival Extra
Bowdoin Festival Extra presents special events throughout the summer. Concerts and public masterclasses feature our resident artists and top participants; lectures feature faculty and guest presenters. Venues for 2010 included Brunswick’s Curtis Memorial Library and Thornton Oaks retirement community, Portland's One Longfellow Square, Harpswell’s Elijah Kellogg Church, Yarmouth's First Parish Church, and the Main Deck at Sebasco Harbor Resort.
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For more information, please call 207-725-3895 or email info@bowdoinfestival.org.
2010 Bowdoin Festival Extra series sponsor:
Sebasco Harbor Resort
The 2010 Bowdoin Festival Extra series is also generously supported by the National Endowment for the Arts: Access to Artistic Excellence, Maine Humanities Council: Community Outreach Grants, Stephen and Tabitha King Foundation and the Alfred Senter Fund.
2010 Bowdoin Festival Extra dates and locations
| Monday, June 28, 2010 @ 4:00 p.m. |
Musical Talk and Performance
Making Music: Commissioning Music and Working with Composers
String Quartets by Richard Danielpour and
John Novacek
The Ying Quartet |
Location: Studzinski Hall |
| Tuesday, June 29, 2010 @ 4:30 p.m. |
Lecture
Music, Language, and Time: Thoughts on Why We Do Music
Robert Judd
Executive Director,
American Musicological Society |
Location: Studzinski Hall |
| Tuesday, July 6, 2010 @ 4:00 p.m. |
Lecture-demonstration
Chopin in the Midst of a Piano Revolution
James Parakilas
Chair,
Bates College Department of Music, and
Rodney J. Regier, Piano Maker |
Location: Studzinski Hall |
| Saturday, July 10, 2010 @ 4:00 p.m. |
Concert
First Parish Church, Yarmouth |
Location: First Parish Church, Yarmouth |
| Monday, July 19, 2010 @ 4:00 p.m.. |
Lecture
Hearing the Life in the Work? Madness, Joy, Oppression and Genius.
Mary Hunter
Chair,
Bowdoin College Department of Music |
Location: Studzinski Hall |
| Thursday, July 22, 2010 @ 4:00 p.m. |
Lecture
So What Is a Composer?
Samuel Adler
Composer, The Juilliard School |
Location: Thornton Oaks |
| Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 4:00 p.m. |
Lecture/recital
Chopin Mazurkas: The Dance of the Soul
Arie Vardi
Pianist, Buchmann-Mehta School |
Location: Studzinski Hall |
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2010 Festival Dates
June 26 - August 7
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