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Music Theory
10:00am
Curious about the fascinating math underlying music, from Ancient Greece to Vienna? Want a better understanding of how music is constructed, written, and read? Join me for a romp through major scales, sheet music, rhythms, melodies, and harmonies! By the end of this class you will be able to read and write music.
Camden Opera House P.O. Box 1207 29 Elm Street Camden ME 04843 (207) 236-7963
Laurie Lachance, Maine Development Foundation CEO and President and former State Economist, and Tom Wessels, noted landscape historian, will be the featured speakers October 21-23 at a major three-day conference sponsored by the Kennebec Woodland Partnership (KWP). Planned for the public, the conference will focus on issues of interest to land owners and others who work and recreate in the woods of Kennebec County. The three-day program will feature field trips, presentations, and workshops focused on forest resources and land management tools and strategies. Participants can register for any or all of the events through the Maine Forest Service website: www.maine.gov/doc/mfs/fpm/projects/kwp/
Professor Miller is a prolific writer and lecturer. She has written scores of articles, such as “1935: The Popular Front, Artists and Writers Mobilize,” “The Twentieth Century Artistic Reception of Whitman and Melville,” “With Eyes Wide Open: The Americanization of Surrealism,” and “Death and Resurrection in an Artist’s Studio.” She was the principal author and editor of the monumental survey book American Encounters: Art, History, and Cultural Identity, which is being used as the textbook for American art history in many of the nation’s leading universities and colleges.
Please join us to celebrate the past year’s local heroes and progressive victories with an evening of good friends, delicious food and meaningful music at the MPA Rising Tide Dinner with our keynote speaker Jim Hightower. Click here to order tickets.
Anna Hepler’s The Great Haul, on view in the Great Hall through October 24, focuses our attention on the overwhelming amount of plastic in our environment. Casco Baykeeper Joe Payne shares his concerns and vision for the future of our part of the world’s oceans. Payne says, “We can’t be complacent just because Casco Bay looks good. Our citizens will have to make hard decisions in the near future about pipelines across the bay, sewage discharges, and the loss of aesthetic, recreational, and economic uses of our ocean resulting from current abuses.”
This UMA exhibition examines the work of ten contemporary artists, offering an exciting range of perspectives, subjects, and attitudes on drawing. Six of the artists will speak at the gallery, exploring their unique methods and explorations of the art form.
Kick off the Women’s Leadership Series with inspiring stories of Midcoast foodies Reba Richardson, Hatchet Cove Farm, and Melody Wolfertz, In Good Company and The Wine Seller, as told to moderator Susanna Liller, author of Circle Power and The Heroine’s Choice. Through their stories, we will hear how their leadership evolved as they followed their dreams to develop successful businesses in the food industry here in the Midcoast region.
In the 1970s, photographers began to challenge the classic image of the American landscape as wondrous, harmonious and pristine. Informed by the burgeoning environmental movement, they reinterpreted nature as inseparable from culture and eschewed emphasis on aesthetic form
The work by American photographers Frederick Sommer, Robert Frank and Chauncey Hare profoundly reflects these decades of social change. As contemporaries, each had a distinct voice describing what they observed and experienced during a turbulent period of American history.
Maine author Carole Lambert will discuss her new book, A Passion For Sea Glass, at Lithgow Public Library on Tuesday, May 11 at 6:30 p.m. in the library’s Reading Room. The program is free and open to the public.
The program, which is free and open to the public, will take place in the library’s Reading Room. Dr. Coleman volunteered in Haiti in the week after the devastating earthquake, visiting rural clinics operated by Haitian Ministries, which provides health care for the northern region of the country. She will use photos, stories and personal observations to illustrate the situation in Haiti, with a focus on how to help in the future. For example, after a two-hour trek to reach a rural clinic, she was met by 170 people in the waiting room and treated 70 people in 1-1/2 hours.
Just a reminder of our program this Tuesday, Apr. 27 at 7 p.m., when Hallowell residents Anne and Ken Young will present a slide show and talk on their three weeks in Zambia last fall. Should be fascinating. Hope to see you there! Melody
The Maine State Museum concludes its spring lecture series, In Depth at the Maine State Museum, on Tuesday, April 27 at 6:30 p.m. with a talk by Nancy Carlisle
Musician and Music Venue Events for May, and Beyond – Keep Checking Back
Theater, Social and Public Events for May 2012 and Beyond – Updated Regularly!
Maine’s Office of Securities Issues Advisory to Warn Consumers about “Crowdfunding” Investments
Sam Whitman Band, w/ Megan Murphy, and The Golden Prize at Johnson Hall 5/19/12
Work by Cony High School Art Students on view at in Augusta Until July 7, 2012
Disc Golf Event to Benefit Issinryu Karate Academy in Randolph on May 20, 2012
REMINDER: Artists invited to an Art Critique with Abbott Meader at The Harlow on May 20, 2012
Maine Historical Society News for the Week of May 16, 2012
Natural Inclination Show at Monkee Tree to Benefit Natural Resources Council
Francine Reed on May 19th, Portland String Quartet on 22nd at Boothbay Opera House