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March 2019
Keynote Event: C.R. Lawn, “The FEDCO SEED CATALOG: More Than a Marketing Tool”
C.R. Lawn, the founder of Fedco Seeds, will tell how its graphic-laden, horticulturally-rich, liberated literacy offered tools to combat the corporate takeover of the seed industry, restore the seed commons and teach others how to rein in out-of-control privatization and uber-marketed corporate capitalism run…
Find out more »Meet the Energy Behind FEDCO Seeds
What does it take to run a $5 million consumer-worker cooperative, filling more than 40,000 orders a year of everything from seeds to trees? Talk with workers who own this 40 year-old business and watch them in action. Limited to 12. Register at goldleaf@maine.edu…
Find out more »April 2019
Steven Pane, BEETHOVEN SYMPHONY NO. 6 “PASTORAL” (Franz Liszt piano transcription)
World-class pianist and UMF Professor Dr. Steven Pane performs Franz Liszt's 1838 piano transcription of BEETHOVEN'S SYMPHONY NO. 6 "PASTORAL." Dr. Pane has performed at universities and in major halls throughout the country including the Academy of Music in Philadelphia, Aaron Davis Hall in New…
Find out more »Steven Pane, BEETHOVEN SYMPHONY NO. 6 “PASTORAL” (Franz Liszt piano transcription)
World-class pianist and UMF Professor Dr. Steven Pane performs Franz Liszt's 1838 piano transcription of BEETHOVEN'S SYMPHONY NO. 6 "PASTORAL." Dr. Pane has performed at universities and in major halls throughout the country including the Academy of Music in Philadelphia, Aaron Davis Hall in New…
Find out more »Haffner Sinfonietta Conducted by Jinwook Park, BEETHOVEN SYMPHONY NO. 6 “PASTORAL” (with Introduction by Steven Pane)
The 32-piece Haffner Sinfonietta (conducted by Jinwook Park) visits Farmington to perform the entirety of BEETHOVEN'S SYMPHONY NO. 6 “PASTORAL." Dr. Steven Pane (Professor of Music at UMF) will provide an introductory lecture.
Find out more »The New Commons Film Series: IN SEARCH OF BEETHOVEN
Enter the world and creative processes of Ludwig van Beethoven through this comprehensive 2009 documentary directed by Phil Grabsky! This film follows Beethoven through his notable compositions (and features dozens of performances by top musicians) while exploring the historical and social context in which they were…
Find out more »Roundtable on the Pastoral with Dan Beachy-Quick, Steven Pane, and Kristen Case
Join Dan Beachy-Quick (Professor of English at Colorado State University), Dr. Steven Pane (Professor Music at UMF), and Kristen Case (Associate Professor English at UMF) for an examination of the pastoral, an artistic mode utilized in BEETHOVEN'S SYMPHONY NO. 6 “PASTORAL" that focuses on the…
Find out more »Steven Pane, BEETHOVEN SYMPHONY NO. 6 “PASTORAL” (Franz Liszt piano transcription)
World-class pianist and UMF Professor Dr. Steven Pane performs Franz Liszt's 1838 piano transcription of BEETHOVEN'S SYMPHONY NO. 6 "PASTORAL." Dr. Pane has performed at universities and in major halls throughout the country including the Academy of Music in Philadelphia, Aaron Davis Hall in New…
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