2011 Portland Chamber Music Festival Opening Night to Be Broadcast Live on Mpbn Radio

(PORTLAND, Maine) – The Maine Public Broadcasting Network is proud to announce its upcoming broadcast of the opening night of the 2011 Portland Chamber Music Festival on Thursday, August 11th at 8pm, live on MPBN Radio and online at MPBN.net. This broadcast is part of a brand new MPBN initiative titled “Maine Arts Live.”

Portland Chamber Music Festival will kick off its 2011 season with a program entitled Leclair, Vaughan Williams and Mendelssohn, and MPBN Radio is thrilled to provide its listeners with a front row seat to the start of this critically-acclaimed series. Classical music fans will delight in hearing the program hosted by MPBN Radio’s Morning Classical Music host and MPBN’s Music Director, Suzanne Nance. Ms. Nance is the Executive Producer of MPBN’s “Maine Arts Live” series and will provide thoughtful insight into the pieces and performers alike and will conduct interviews during the broadcast.

Held at the Abromson Center at the University of Southern Maine, the program will feature Jean-Marie Leclair’s Sonata in C major, Op. 3 No. 3, Ralph Vaughan Williams’ On Wenlock Edge and Felix Mendelssohn’s Octet in E flat major, Op. 20, This program will feature famed tenor John McVeigh. A Maine resident, Mr. McVeigh has performed with the Metropolitan Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago.

The Portland Chamber Music Festival has garnered nationwide attention since its inception in 1994. The festival’s five-concert series has been broadcast on National Public Radio and WGBH in Boston and has been awarded two grants from the Aaron Copland Fund for Music.

MPBN’s broadcast of this performance is sponsored by Garrand, a Portland-based marketing and communications company committed to bringing the arts live to audiences in Maine and beyond. The Portland Chamber Music Festival’s opening night concert is sponsored by IDEXX Laboratories and Pierce Atwood LLP.

For more information, visit mpbn.net and PCMF.org.

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