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The Passamaquoddy Bay Symphony Orchestra (PBSO) is pleased to announce preparations for 2022 fall concerts. Rehearsals begin Thursday, Sept 15 from 6-8:30pm in Calais. New musicians are welcome to join; no auditions required. Concerts will feature Symphony No. 1 in G minor by Peter Tchaikovsky, and Enchanted Island by Ernst Bacon. Concert dates are December 2, 3, 4. PBSO is a constituent member of the Eastport Arts Center with Music Director and Conductor Trond Saeverud. For more information or to join the orchestra, contact June Romeo by phone at 440-781-5675 or by email at romeo.june@yahoo.com.

ST. JOHN’S ORGAN SOCIETY, BANGOR, MAINE ANNOUNCES A CELEBRATION OF CÉSAR FRANCK
October 10-12, 2022

St. John's Organ Society presents three evenings of organ and chamber music in honor of the 200th Anniversary of the birth of Belgian-born French composer, pianist, organist and teacher César Franck (1822-1890). 

On Monday through Wednesday, October 10 - 12, a distinguished group of musicians will perform organ and chamber music by Franck, his teacher François Benoist, and related compositions of the period.  All three recitals begin at 7:30 pm at St. John’s Catholic Church, 207 York Street in Bangor.  Admission is free, and donations are appreciated. 

Featured performers are organists Kevin Birch (St. John’s Organ Society), Jonathan Moyer (Oberlin Conservatory), Dana Robinson (University of Illinois), violinist Anatole Wieck (University of Maine), and pianist Carmen Peralta (Middlesex Community College).

Featured instruments include St. John’s E. & G. G. Hook Organ, Opus 288, (1860), Maine’s largest 19th-Century mechanical-action pipe organ, and a Parisian harmonium by Alexandre Père & Fils made in 1860.

Monday, October 10 - 7:30pm
Music for Violin, Piano, Harmonium, Organ
Featuring Anatole Wieck, violin; Carmen Peralta, piano; and Kevin Birch, organ and harmonium
César Franck's Sonata for Violin and Piano (1886), Chorale No. 3 for Organ (1890), and related works
E. & G. G. Hook Organ, Opus 288 (1860) and Harmonium by Alexandre Père & Fils (1860)

For more information please access our website www.hookopus288.org.

ST. JOHN’S ORGAN SOCIETY, BANGOR, MAINE ANNOUNCES 
A CELEBRATION OF CÉSAR FRANCK
October 10-12, 2022

St. John's Organ Society presents three evenings of organ and chamber music in honor of the 200th Anniversary of the birth of Belgian-born French composer, pianist, organist and teacher César Franck (1822-1890). 

On Monday through Wednesday, October 10 - 12, a distinguished group of musicians will perform organ and chamber music by Franck, his teacher François Benoist, and related compositions of the period.  All three recitals begin at 7:30 pm at St. John’s Catholic Church, 207 York Street in Bangor.  Admission is free, and donations are appreciated. 

Featured performers are organists Kevin Birch (St. John’s Organ Society), Jonathan Moyer (Oberlin Conservatory), Dana Robinson (University of Illinois), violinist Anatole Wieck (University of Maine), and pianist Carmen Peralta (Middlesex Community College).

Featured instruments include St. John’s E. & G. G. Hook Organ, Opus 288, (1860), Maine’s largest 19th-Century mechanical-action pipe organ, and a Parisian harmonium by Alexandre Père & Fils made in 1860.

Tuesday, October 11 - 7:30pm
Featuring Jonathan Moyer, organ 
César Frank's monumental Grand Piece Symphonique and works of Franck's teacher François Benoist (1794-1878)
E. & G. G. Hook Organ, Opus 288 (1860) and Harmonium by Alexandre Père & Fils (1860)

For more information please access our website www.hookopus288.org.

ST. JOHN’S ORGAN SOCIETY, BANGOR, MAINE ANNOUNCES A CELEBRATION OF CÉSAR FRANCK
October 10-12, 2022

St. John's Organ Society presents three evenings of organ and chamber music in honor of the 200th Anniversary of the birth of Belgian-born French composer, pianist, organist and teacher César Franck (1822-1890). 

On Monday through Wednesday, October 10 - 12, a distinguished group of musicians will perform organ and chamber music by Franck, his teacher François Benoist, and related compositions of the period.  All three recitals begin at 7:30 pm at St. John’s Catholic Church, 207 York Street in Bangor.  Admission is free, and donations are appreciated. 

Featured performers are organists Kevin Birch (St. John’s Organ Society), Jonathan Moyer (Oberlin Conservatory), Dana Robinson (University of Illinois), violinist Anatole Wieck (University of Maine), and pianist Carmen Peralta (Middlesex Community College).

Featured instruments include St. John’s E. & G. G. Hook Organ, Opus 288, (1860), Maine’s largest 19th-Century mechanical-action pipe organ, and a Parisian harmonium by Alexandre Père & Fils made in 1860.

Wednesday, October 12 - 7:30pm
Featuring Dana Robinson, organ
César Franck's Trois Pièces (1878) and related works for organ and harmonium
E. & G. G. Hook Organ, Opus 288 (1860) and Harmonium by Alexandre Père & Fils (1860)

For more information please access our website www.hookopus288.org.

The Passamaquoddy Bay Symphony Orchestra (PBSO) is pleased to announce preparations for 2022 fall concerts. Rehearsals begin Thursday, Sept 15 from 6-8:30pm in Calais. New musicians are welcome to join; no auditions required. Concerts will feature Symphony No. 1 in G minor by Peter Tchaikovsky, and Enchanted Island by Ernst Bacon. Concert dates are December 2, 3, 4. PBSO is a constituent member of the Eastport Arts Center with Music Director and Conductor Trond Saeverud. For more information or to join the orchestra, contact June Romeo by phone at 440-781-5675 or by email at romeo.june@yahoo.com.

ASMI Chamber Ensemble - with violinist Emil Altschuler, pianist Thomas Pandolfi, and cellist Allison Eldredge - is based in the Altschuler Summer Music Institute, which develops musicians of all ages through participation in masterclasses, private lessons, and performances with renowned artists. The ASMI Chamber Ensemble is a collaboration between ASMI’s world renowned faculty and selected young artists. This piano trio performed brilliantly in October, 2021, in Portsmouth, and PACM is delighted to welcome them back!

Daughter of Irish-American painter Patrick McArdle, Deirdre McArdle is the founder of The Winter Harbor Music Festival and served as the Executive Director of Harbor Music; The Artur Balsam Ensemble Classes for Piano and Strings, led by Edmund Battersby in Prospect Harbor for many memorable summers. Pulitzer Prize winning music critic and author, Tim Page of the New York Times, considers her “… a virtuosic flutist with an unusually full and lustrous tone.”

Deiran Manning has given performances across the United States, Ireland, England, France and Italy at notable venues such as Merkin Concert Hall, Weil Recital Hall at Carnegie, the National Concert Hall in Dublin and the New York City Mayor’s residence, Gracie Mansion. Originally a Maine native, Mr. Manning spent his formative years in New York City at LaGuardia High School, eventually earning his undergraduate and masters degree from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music.

Violins that survived the Holocaust: watch the documentary film followed by live conversation between PSO Music Director Eckart Preu, Concertmaster Charles Dimmick (violin in hand), and Violins of Hope co-founder Avshi Weinstein on their use inupcoming PSO performances of Verdi Requiem. Then join us in the foyer for a wine and passed hors d'oeuvres reception.

The Passamaquoddy Bay Symphony Orchestra (PBSO) is pleased to announce preparations for 2022 fall concerts. Rehearsals begin Thursday, Sept 15 from 6-8:30pm in Calais. New musicians are welcome to join; no auditions required. Concerts will feature Symphony No. 1 in G minor by Peter Tchaikovsky, and Enchanted Island by Ernst Bacon. Concert dates are December 2, 3, 4. PBSO is a constituent member of the Eastport Arts Center with Music Director and Conductor Trond Saeverud. For more information or to join the orchestra, contact June Romeo by phone at 440-781-5675 or by email at romeo.june@yahoo.com.

2022 marks the fourth time that ChoralArt has joined the PSO in a performance of Guiseppe Verdi’s monumental Requiem. Few compositions offer such dramatic scope and delight of extraordinary orchestral writing together with sublime arias and ensembles that rival the best that Verdi ever composed. Come and be moved.