Listen to Maine Calling's discussion on Maine music through the decades.
This show is part of our ongoing coverage of topics relating to Maine's bicentennial.
A Maine music historian joins us to look back at the remarkable music that’s been made in Maine over the past 200 years. This includes music from: the Wabanaki and Passamaquoddy tribes; a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, Walter Piston of Rockland; the country’s first superstar teen idol, Rudy Vallee; country music stars Donald Doane, Sr., and the Katahdin Mountaineers; folk music pioneers such as Mellie Dunham; Hermann Kotzschmar and the Merrill Auditorium organ named in honor of him; and many more.
Guest: Aaron Robinson, award–winning American composer, conductor, musicologist and best-selling author