David Katz’s play ‘Muse of Fire’ is an homage to Charles Bruck, the influential master at a school for musicians and conductors in Hancock.
Bob Keyes
Bob Keyes writes about the visual and performing arts for the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram. He appreciates that his job requires him to visit museums and attend plays and concerts across Maine, and most enjoys interviewing artists in their studios. He’s a New Englander by birth, and has lived in Maine off and on, most recently since 2002. He lives in Berwick with his wife, Vicki, and their son Luke.
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Arts Planner
This week • The Midcoast Symphony Orchestra, with guest conductor Graybert Beacham at the podium, presents “Spring the Light Fantastic,” a concert featuring the music of Suk, Debussy, Pierne and Schumann, at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Franco-American Heritage Center in Lewiston and at2:30 p.m. March 20 at Orion Performing Arts Center, Topsham. The concerts […]
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Bob Keyes: Transplant blossoming in Manhattan
NEW YORK – It’s a mild late-winter morning as Nancy Margolis steps from the cab on a busy street in Chelsea. She pays her fare and walks up a short flight of stairs to begin another day doing what she loves most. It’s been almost 20 years since Margolis traded her art gallery space on […]
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Life in art
That Jerry Day Mason, 91, is still painting surprises no one who knows her.
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Arts Dispatches
DAMARISCOTTA Submissions wanted for spring River Arts exhibition River Arts seeks submissions for its fine crafts exhibition, scheduled to open May 6 at River Arts Gallery II on Route 1. Noted Maine art critic Carl Little will juror the show. Submissions will be taken digitally until March 31. Little is a regular contributor to Ornament […]
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At 87, Nason’s still a hard worker
PORTLAND — Robert Nason always starts his story at the beginning. “I was born in 1923 to a middle-class family in a middle-class neighborhood,” says the grizzled old man. “The first world war had really just ended, and by the time I was in high school, the Depression was just letting up. But by then, […]
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Feature Obituary: Robert C. Gushee, 82, diligent landlord and community leader
ROCKLAND – Bob Gushee’s formal education ended as a high school sophomore, but he never stopped learning and eventually earned his way to the top of the Rockland business community, where he was known as a diligent landlord and community leader. “Bob didn’t graduate from high school, but he was a hardworking man,” his wife, […]
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Three teens arrested in Westbrook drug case
An alleged drug deal at Westbrook Middle School has resulted in the arrest of three local teens, according to police. The three face felony drug charges following a Wednesday incident at the school. Police said a 13-year-old boy was charged with four felony counts of aggravated trafficking in scheduled drugs after selling prescription medication to […]
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Newest Maine poet laureate brings poetry to the people
Wesley McNair is named at the Maine State Poetry Out Loud competition.
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LePage appoints new state poet laureate
Wesley McNair receives appointment at Lewiston ceremony.