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Developing the Gift of Talent - Workshop Performance
Workshop Day at the Festival brings student and adult quartets together with the Portland String Quartet to study major works from Classical to the modern American repertoire. Portland String Quartet arrangements of Shaker Hymns will also be included in this culminating Master Class performance in the historic 1794 Meeting House. This performance is FREE OF CHARGE to the general public.
The Maine Festival of American Music: Its Roots and Traditions provides a rare opportunity to experience Shaker music and history in the context of the wider world of classical and folk music, while also celebrating American musicians, composers, historians and craftsmen. The Shakers host the festival with all concerts taking place in their 1794 Meeting House, one of Maine's most beautiful and acoustically superb venues for vocal and instrumental performances.
Shaker music, received mostly by spiritual inspiration rather than deliberate composition, is a product of one of Americas most unique communal religious experiences. The majority of Shaker songs originate from the mid-19th century and have been preserved by the Shakers through oral tradition. There were at one time in excess of 25,000 Shaker songs and, today, as many as 1000 remain a part of the active repertoire of the Sabbathday Lake Shakers. One of these living songs, Simple Gifts has achieved lasting significance outside of the Shaker Church. Written originally in 1848 by Maine's Elder Joseph Brackett, Simple Gifts in its best known adaptations has been used by Aaron Copland to create Appalachian Spring and by Martha Graham for her avant-garde dance performance The Shakers. By its quintessential nature, this song ties together the performances presented throughout the Maine Festival of American Music.
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LocationSabbathday Lake Shaker Village (View)
707 Shaker Rd
New Gloucester, ME 04260
United States
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| Kid Friendly: Yes! |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: No |
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