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Midcoast Symphony woodwind principals to perform

Bates News — Fri, 13 Sep 2002 13:15:15 +0000

The Midcoast Woodwind Quintet, composed of the principal woodwind players of the Midcoast Symphony Orchestra, performs a program of mostly 20th-century music at Bates College at 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 21, Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell Street. Admission is free.

The quintet’s members are: Linda Brunner, flute; Barbara Burt, horn; Kristen Fox, oboe; Carol Furman, clarinet; and William Kennison, bassoon. Their Bates program consists of music by Vincent d’Indy, Eric Ewazen, Jacques Ibert, Paul Hindemith, Adrien Barthe and Francis Poulenc.

The Midcoast Woodwind Quintet was founded in 1990, the same year the Topsham-based Midcoast Symphony Orchestra began. The quintet performs frequent public concerts as well as at private events and in rural Maine schools under the auspices of the orchestra’s Music-to-Go grant from the Maine Communities Fund.

Here is the quintet’s Bates program: “Sarabande and Minuet” (Op.24-bis), by Vincent d’Indy; “Roaring Fork,” a 1997 work by Eric Ewazen; “Trois Pieces Breves,” by Jacques Ibert; “Kleine Kammermusik fuer fuenf Blaeser” (Op. 24, No.2), by Paul Hindemith; “Passacaille,” by Adrien Barthe, the only 19th-century work on the program; and Francis Poulenc’s Sextet.

The members of the quintet bring a wide variety of professional experience to the Olin stage, including past and current affiliations with the Bangor Symphony, the Maine State Ballet Orchestra, the Androscoggin Valley Community Orchestra, the Casco Bay Concert Band, and Castlebay, a Celtic folk music group. Clarinetist Furman teaches at Bates College.

Noonday Concert Series to continue

Bates News — Thu, 24 Sep 1998 19:09:16 +0000

The Bates College Noonday Concert series continues its fall season with a selection of programs throughout the month of October. The free concerts, open to the public, will be held on Tuesdays from 12:30 to 1 p.m. in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall.

The artist for the Oct. 6 concert will be announced. Anthony Shostak, banjo, will perform Oct. 13. Bates applied music instructors Carol Furman, clarinet; Julia Adams, viola; and Mark Howard, piano, will perform works from Mozart Trio Oct 20. Pianist Brian Franck will perform works by Russian composer Alexander Scriabin Oct. 27.

Additional information about the Bates Noonday Concert Series is available by calling the Olin Arts Center at 207-786-6135.

Noonday concerts to resume at Bates

Bates News — Fri, 20 Feb 1998 19:53:18 +0000

The Bates College Noonday Concert series continues its winter season with a selection of programs throughout March. The free concerts, open to the public, will be held Tuesdays from 12:30 to 1 p.m. at the college’s Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, located on Russell Street in Lewiston.

March 3: Michelle Vigneau, instructor in oboe at Bates, pianist Julie Morris-Meyers and cellist William Meyers will perform works by C.P.E. Bach and Poulenc.

March 10: Carol Furman, instructor in clarinet at Bates, pianist Mark Howard and Kathleen Foster, instructor in cello at Bates, will play “Trio in A minor, Opus 114″ by Johannes Brahms.

March 17: A concert by Bates flute students will be given.

March 24: Meredith Haviland, a senior trumpet player from Beverly, Mass., and pianist John Corrie, assistant in music instruction and choir director at Bates, will perform.

March 31: The piano students of Natasha Chance, instructor in piano at Bates, will perform. Additional information about the Bates Noonday Concert Series is available by calling the Olin Arts Center at 207- 786-613.