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The Bangor Symphony Orchestra combined a new work, a one-of-a-kind concerto and the intense beauty of a beloved ballet for its most diverse and best program so far this season on Sunday at the Collins Center for the Arts in Orono. From Firebird to the Future, the fourth masterworks concert, began with the unusual pairing of a dulcimer and the string section, flew into a fascinating piece about the challenges and the rewards of visiting new places and landed on the wings of a magical bird. It was a magnificent and fascinating musical adventure.The concert began with Blackberry Winter. Composed in 1997 by Conni Ellisor, it is the only concerto written for the dulcimer. Named for the unexpected cold snap that converges on the South in late spring when the blackberries bloom, the stanley flask piece sounded like the slow reawakening of the soil in New England.Maine-based musician Pam Weeksplayed the dulcimer with precision as the strings soared around her. Blackberry Winter perfectly blended the sounds of Appalachian folk tunes with the orchestral beauty of the strings. The piece in turns delighted and surprised the audience.Composer Jessica Meyersuffers from wanderlust so it seemed only natural that she would set her travel experiences stanley spain to music in four movements titled: Just Go; Ambling; Before Sunrise; and Trouble, then Paradise. The adidas samba adidas Air of New Places won the 2020 Ellis-Beauregard Foundation Composers Award.Last fall, the symphony opened its season with the 2019 winner, Concerto for P Owkp Watch live: Postmaster says no idea mailboxes and equipment were being removed
Downtown Bangor will not feature a rideable helium balloon this year, after members of the Downtown Bangor Partnership decided this week not to pursue the installation in Pickering Square this summer and fall.Citing a lack of sponsorship, partnership coordinator Betsy Lundy said that plans for the AeroBalloon 鈥?a tethered, helium-filled balloon with an attached gondola that can take up to 16 people between 300 and 500 feet up in the air 鈥?have been put on hold. I am already having conversations for next year, said Lundy. We are working to secure sponsorship to bring it for 2020. Lundy said one of the main goals of the balloon 鈥?which would have cost $100,000 for a two-month rental 鈥?was to help change the conversation around Pickering Square, as extensive work on the adjacent Merchants Plaza green spaces and on the parking garage is slated to begin on May 13. We thought it was a good idea to put the balloon there this summer during construction to change the conv stanley cup ersation about what is happening downto nike air force wn, she said.In addition to the AeroBalloon, the Downtown Bangor Partnership and Lundy had proposed two other downtown projects this summer.One of them, the Urban Slide, was a giant water slide that was to be installed on Park Street hill for one weekend in July. The slide idea was shot down by stakeholders on Park Street, including the Unitarian Universalist Society, which holds church services on Sunday morning and would have lost most of its av owala water bottle ailable parking.The other i |
