Flautist Cris Lansley and pianist Brad Howard will perform at the Oasis of Music beginning at 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 28, at Trinity Church in Lewiston. For this program, the duo will perform the music of Charles Callahan (b. 1951), an award-winning composer from Cambridge, Massachusetts. The program will consist of a group of […]
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Oasis of Music features avant-guard musician
Avant-guard musician Jessy Kendall will perform at the Oasis of Music beginning at 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept, 21, at Trinity Church in Lewiston. Kendall will present original composition involving improvisation in what he calls “experimental all-vocal loop layers – basically wordless ambient music meant to be as ignorable as it is listenable.” Kendall has […]
Trioli to perform ‘A Clarinet Potpourri’ at Oasis of Music
Clarinet trio Trioli will perform at the Oasis of Music on beginning at 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 7, at Trinity Church in Lewiston. Trioli will present a varied program they are calling “A Clarinet Potpourri.” Members are David Collier, Beth Whitney and Greg Anderson. Collier is a local music educator who has taught for […]
Oasis of Music wraps up season with tribute to local Leo Beaule
A tribute concert to the late local musician and violin maker Leo Beaule will close the 21-22 Oasis of Music season beginning at 12:30 on Wednesday, May 25, at the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Lewiston. A quartet of violinists, all playing with violins and bows made by Beaule, will perform three multi-movement […]
Midcoast High Winds Flute Choir to performing during Oasis of Music
The Midcoast High Winds Flute Choir will perform as part of the Oasis of Music concert series beginning at 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 18, at the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Lewiston. The flute choir is an ensemble of amateur and professional musicians from Maine’s Midcoast region that has been entertaining community […]
Fiddler Owen Kennedy to play at Oasis of Music
Maine fiddler Owen Kennedy will perform at the Oasis of Music in the lower chapel beginning at 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 11, at the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Lewiston. Owen Kennedy is a 16-year-old fiddler whose love of traditional music and enthusiasm for performing has captivated audiences from San Diego to […]
Piano concert featured at Oasis of Music
Brian Meldrum will perform on piano at this week’s Oasis of Music beginning at 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 4, at Trinity Church in Lewiston. Meldrum has prepared a program of shorter works by Mozart, Schubert, and Brahms. A Lewiston native, Meldrum studied for many years with the late Natasha Chances. Ms. Chances was a […]
Greg Boardman to play folk hymns at Oasis of Music
Greg Boardman will perform at the Oasis of Music beginning at 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 13, at Trinity Church in Lewiston. Boardman will be leading in folk hymns, from both the black enslaved and white Christian church traditions that speak to the events recounted in the Gospels leading to the Passion. These are songs, […]
Jewish music of Ukraine to be performed at Oasis of Music
Rabbi Sruli Dresdner will perform at the Oasis of Music at 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 16, at the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Lewiston. Dresdner will be playing accordion and singing Jewish music of Ukraine. He will be accompanied by Greg Boardman on viola. The Oasis of Music is a weekly music […]