The debate will be webcast and broadcast live by MPBN on radio and television 8-9 p.m. from the Olin Concert Hall at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, 75 Russell St., Lewiston. Because seating is limited, most seating will be by advance invitation by MPBN and ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College. A limited number of non-invitation free tickets will become available on a first-come, first-served basis at 10 a.m. Oct. 25, available  at  yourvote2010@bates.edu <yourvote2010[at]bates[dot]edu>.

While no questions will be taken from the audience during the live debate, MPBN welcomes questions received prior to the debate for consideration by its moderator and two questioners. Those questions should be submitted to talk@mpbn.net <talk[at]mpbn[dot]net> before noon Oct. 28.

All five candidates on the state ballot have committed to participating in the Oct. 28 debate at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½: independent candidate Eliot Cutler, Republican nominee and Waterville Mayor Paul LePage, Democratic nominee and Senate President Elizabeth Mitchell and independent candidates Shawn Moody and Kevin Scott.

This and prior debates will all be available on demand at as part of MPBN’s  “Your Vote 2010” election coverage, and will be rebroadcast over the weekend.

MPBN gubernatorial debate broadcast times:

10/28 Thursday 8 p.m. LIVE – Also live radio simulcast, and webcast at www.mpbn.net

10/29 Friday 1 p.m. – Radio

10/29 Friday 8:30 p.m. – TV

10/31 Sunday 11 a.m. -TV

10/31 Sunday 4:30 p.m. – TV

11/1 Monday 3 p.m. – Radio

The debate will also be available on demand at www.mpbn.net following the live event.

For the second consecutive season, the orchestras of ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ and Bowdoin colleges combine forces for a concert at each institution. The ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ and Bowdoin College Orchestra performs with renowned pianist Frank Glazer as a soloist at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 13, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St. Admission is free, but tickets are required.

Conducted by Hiroya Miura of the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ faculty, the program’s featured work is Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor. Also in store is Beethoven’s “Leonore” Overture No. 3 and Schumann’s Symphony No. 1 (“Spring”).

Miura conducts the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Orchestra and teaches composition and music theory. A native of Sendai, Japan, he has been active as a composer and performer in North America. Acclaimed by Allan Kozinn of The New York Times as “acidic and tactile” in his composing, Miura has written music for Speculum Musicae, the New York New Music Ensemble, American Composers Orchestra, le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne and members of Reigakusha, an ensemble based in Tokyo.

He is also a founding member of the electronic improvisation unit NoOneReceiving, whose debut album won critical acclaim in Italy, Portugal, and the United States.

The 95-year-old Glazer has been an artist in residence at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ since 1980.  A vital presence on the music scene in Maine and beyond, he was a student of Artur Schnabel and Arnold Schoenberg and is at home in every style of music from Bach to contemporary. He has concertized in more than 24 countries; appeared on his own television show; made more than 50 recordings and performed 30 world premieres.

Last season, Glazer’s many concerts at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ included the complete cycle of 32 Beethoven piano sonatas. In April, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ released his CD .

Ethan Lipton, the Brooklyn-based playwright also known as a songwriter who, as an NPR commentator put it, can be “hilarious, dark, sophisticated, schleppy and sad all at once,” has added a question-and-answer session to his Oct. 1 visit to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College.

Expected to range through myriad aspects of living the creative life, from the business of creativity to the specifics of writing lyrics vs. spoken lines, Lipton’s Q&A takes place at 4:15 p.m. Friday, Oct. 1, in Room 104 of the Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St.

Lipton and His Orchestra perform at 7:30 p.m. that day in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall. The Q&A is open to the public at no cost. Concert tickets are $10 and available through the website www.batestickets.com. For more information, please contact 207-786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu.

A playwright whose work has been produced in Los Angeles, New York and Edinburgh, Lipton is also a singer-songwriter whose three-man band provides spare arrangements that range through the stylebook of American music.

Likened to “a peek into a curio shop from a hundred years ago” by The Village Voice, Lipton’s songs explore the depths of subjects like bicycles, life, death, guilt and pets.

The Brooklyn-ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ connection resumes two days later as Naomi Shelton and The Gospel Queens perform in the Olin concert hall at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 3. The ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Gospelaires, a student ensemble, open. Tickets are $15 and $8.

Based in Brooklyn and known for a long and vibrant career in New York soul clubs, Shelton grew up singing with her sisters in their Alabama church. “What people really hear from us is the gospel sound, but with the nightclub beat,” Shelton told The Village Voice. “It’s like the ‘everything bagel’ — you throw in a little of this and a little of that.”

A warm and dynamic presence on stage, Shelton ensures that everyone in the room feels connected to the music and to the singer herself. “The audience will feel the band working every minute, and will enjoy every second,” says Seth Warner, manager of the Olin concert hall. Shelton’s band includes her musical director of more than three decades, bandleader and keyboardist Cliff Driver, and former James Brown bassist Fred Thomas.

Baroque ensemble Musica Nuova brings to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ a program called It’s Complicated -– a name borrowed from Facebook — at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 24, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St. Focused on music by Italian composers from the early 1600s, this highly entertaining concert illustrates that love and its complexities haven’t changed so much over the years.

Tickets are $5 and available from . Proceeds benefit the 2010 . For more information, please conatct 207-786-6135 or this olinarts@bates.edu.

Founded in 2008, reflects three years of collaboration between mezzo-soprano Amanda Keil and lutenist Scott Lemire, who actively perform as recitalists in Boston. They joined forces with Suzanne Cartreine, harpsichordist, and Joshua Schreiber Shalem, viola da gambist, to form a historically informed continuo ensemble

“What I love about this group is that they find ways to keep the music of the Baroque as fresh and vital as when it was new,” says Olin concert hall manager Seth Warner. “They mix drama, music, a modern sensibility and fun.”

The Auyrn Quartet performance, postponed from Saturday, Jan. 30, will take place today, Sunday, Jan. 31, at 3 p.m. in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College, 75 Russell St.

Tickets for Saturday’s postponed show will be honored today, Jan. 31.

Tickets are also available at www.batestickets.com, and 100 free tickets for ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ students will be available with I.D. today.

The concert is presented by the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Concerts Committee.

Recently celebrating 28 years of continuous membership, this quartet based in Cologne, Germany, reflects a “European tradition that blends elegance of sound with seamless phrasing and clarity of detail,” in the words of a writer for Cleveland’s Plain Dealer.

Having presented the complete cycle of Beethoven string quartets in Germany, Italy and Washington, D.C., the quartet continues a three-year Beethoven cycle for ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, offering two concerts per season.

Describing the quartet’s recording of the complete Beethoven quartets, “Auryn’s Beethoven,” an eight-CD set released by Tacet in 2005, a reviewer for Gramophone wrote: “There is no shortage of great and famous Beethoven cycles, but there are no performances such as these. For me, this is now the set to beat.”

The ensemble has developed into one of the most important quartets of its generation, touring extensively and performing regularly in the major concert halls of Europe, The Middle East, The Americas, Australia and Asia, including London’s Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, the Wiener Konzerthaus in Austria, and New York’s Frick Collection and Weill Recital Hall. Auryn’s Beethoven programs provide selections from each of the composer’s periods within each concert.

The Auryn Quartet series coincides with a season-long effort by renowned pianist and ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ artist in residence Frank Glazer, who resumed his performances of the complete Beethoven sonata cycle at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ on Jan. 17, with subsequent performances on Feb. 7, Mar. 19, and Apr. 9.

Regarded as one of the world’s foremost players of harpsichord and fortepiano, Andreas Staier comes to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College to perform fortepiano music by Haydn at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 15, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.

Tickets, costing $12 for general admission and $6 for seniors and students, can be purchased at . For more information, please contact 207-786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu.

The concert was originally scheduled for last fall, but postponed because of illness.

Performing on a Walther fortepiano replica built by R.J. Regier of Freeport, Staier will offer the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ audience sonatas and variations by Franz Josef Haydn. He is playing this particular program only twice during his current tour, at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ and at Carnegie Hall.

The artist’s extensive catalog of recordings includes a 2005 collection of this music on the German subsidiary of the Harmonia Mundi label.

Born in Göttingen, Germany, Staier studied modern piano and harpsichord in Hannover and Amsterdam. From 1983 to 1986, he was the harpsichordist of Musica Antiqua Köln, with which he toured and recorded extensively.

Today Staier performs throughout Europe, the United States and Japan as a soloist and with orchestras such as Concerto Köln, Freiburger Barockorchester, the Akademie für alte Musik Berlin and the Orchestre des Champs-Elysées Paris. Staier has made many recordings of works from the Baroque through early Romantic eras. His solo work is often broadcast on the BBC.

An iconic singer-songwriter, a pair of performances devoted to Beethoven’s string quartet cycle and a ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College alum who plays world music are among highlights at the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ this winter.

For information about all Olin Concert Hall events, please contact 207-786-6135 or this olinarts@bates.edu. The concert hall is located at 75 Russell St. Tickets for events with paid admission are available at www.batestickets.com.

Here’s the concert schedule from January into April:

In a concert rescheduled from last fall, German fortepianist Andreas Staier opens the season performing sonatas and variations by Franz Joseph Haydn on Friday, Jan. 15, at 7:30 p.m. ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ and Carnegie Hall are the only two venues at which Staier plays this particular program on his current tour. Tickets cost $12 for general admission and $6 for students and seniors.

Frank Glazer, a renowned pianist and ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ artist in residence, continues his survey of the complete cycle of Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas with a concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 17. The performance is open to the public at no cost, but tickets are required.

Glazer performs the remaining concerts in the series at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 7; 7:30 p.m. Friday, Mar. 19; and 7:30 p.m. Friday, Apr. 9.

Glazer’s series coincides with the Auryn Quartet’s performances of the Beethoven string quartet cycle, which started at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ in early 2009, sponsored by the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Concerts Committee. The quartet completes the series at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 30, and 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 31, in Olin. Tickets are $10 for general admission and $4 for seniors and students.

One of the most distinctive singer-songwriters of her generation, Suzanne Vega is in residence at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ for two days in January. She offers workshops on writing and the business of making art, and will give two performances on Saturday, Jan. 23, at 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. in the Olin auditorium. Tickets are $15 for general admission and $5 for seniors and students.

Glazer and mezzo-soprano Elizabeth Patches perform Schubert’s song cycle “Winterreise” at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 28. Admission is free, but tickets are required.

Two highly esteemed French musicians, cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras and pianist Alexandre Tharaud, perform sonatas of Bach, Debussy and Poulenc, as well as the popular “Arpeggione” sonata of Schubert, at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 10. Tickets are $12 for general admission and $6 for seniors and students.

The ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Gamelan Orchestra, directed by Gina Fatone, plays traditional Indonesian music at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 13. The concert is open to the public at no cost.

Conducted by Hiroya Miura, the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Orchestra performs at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 20. Admission is free, but tickets are required.

A composer and multi-instrumentalist, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ alumnus Simon Hutchinson will perform a program inspired by nature and musical styles from around the globe at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 25. The performance is open to the public at no cost, but tickets are required.

Morten Lauridsen’s “Requiem” and other works will be performed by the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Choir, directed by John Corrie, at 8 p.m. Friday, April 2, and Saturday, April 3. Admission is free, but tickets are required.

The ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Jazz Band, conducted by well-known Maine pianist Tom Snow, performs at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 7, in a location to be announced. Admission is free, but tickets are required.

Frank Glazer, a pianist of international renown whose professional career began during the 1930s, continues his 2009-10 survey of the complete cycle of 32 Beethoven piano sonatas in concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 9, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.

All performances in the series and a related Nov. 8 lecture are open to the public at no cost, but tickets are required. For more information contact 207-786-6135 or use this olinarts@bates.edu.The program comprises the three Op. 10 sonatas and the Op. 13 (“Pathétique”).

Glazer’s series coincides with a parallel effort by the Auryn Quartet, which resumes its performances of the Beethoven string quartet cycle at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ in January, presented by the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Concert Committee.

Asked about the characteristics of Beethoven’s music that particularly strike him, Glazer points to the composer’s imagination — one so fertile that he scarcely needed to reuse an idea.

It was this capacity that enabled the composer to, as Glazer puts it, “modulate to any key from anywhere.” More broadly, Beethoven had “the ability to extend a simple idea and have it continue and evolve. He also had such a sense of proportion that, at the point when you are just about to become bored, he changes — he knows just where to change so that you’re always alert to what he’s doing.”

“Frank Lloyd Wright once told me that Beethoven was his favorite composer,” says the 94-year-old Glazer, “because he was a great constructer.”

Here are the remaining concerts in the series:

7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 6, with the Op. 14, 22, 26 and 27 sonatas, the last set including the popular “Moonlight” sonata;

3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 6, with the Op. 28 and the three Op. 31 sonatas;

3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 17, with the Op. 49, 53, 54 and 57 (“Appassionata”) sonatas;

3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 7, with the Op. 78, 79, 81A and 90 sonatas;

7:30 p.m. Friday, March 19, with Op. 101 and 106 (“Hammerklavier”);

and, finally, at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 9, with the Op. 109, 110 and 111 sonatas.

In a related lecture, Glazer discusses his approach to and preparation for this musical feat at 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 8, in the Olin auditorium. A reception follows. The event is sponsored by the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Friends of Music.

Glazer has taught at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ since 1980, coming from a faculty position at the Eastman School. “This being my 30th year at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, I thought it would be a good idea for me to do all the sonatas,” he says. In a professional career spanning more than 70 years, “I have played all of them but four.”

In a era whose pianists often strive for the gloss of mechanical precision and a big sound, Glazer instead makes all else secondary to the music’s own message. “He has thought everything through and tried to get at the core of what the music is about. Everything he does is about that,” says colleague James Parakilas, a pianist himself and the James L. Moody Jr. Family Professor of Performing Arts at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½.

Glazer, of Topsham, has had a distinguished career that includes numerous recordings, solo recitals and performances with orchestras and chamber ensembles, including the New England Piano Quartette, of which he was a founder. With his wife, the late Ruth Glazer, he founded the Saco River Music Festival, held for many years in Cornish, Maine.

In October 2006, Glazer celebrated the 70th anniversary of his 1936 New York City debut by performing that debut program at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½. Last March, he reprised the program that he played in his Carnegie Hall debut, 60 years ago to the day.

Back-to-back concerts at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College explore the music of two composers associated with the formative years of Viennese classical music, Franz Josef Haydn and Luigi Boccherini.

The Parker Quartet becomes a fivesome when sits in for a performance of Boccherini’s “Fandango” Quintet for guitar and strings in a 7:30 p.m. program on Saturday, Oct. 17. The program also includes music by Haydn and Mendelssohn.

Regarded as one of the world’s foremost players of harpsichord and fortepiano, performs fortepiano music by Haydn starting at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 18. Staier will use a copy of a Walther fortepiano built by of Freeport.

Both concerts take place in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St. Tickets, at $12 for general admission and $6 for seniors and students, are available at www.batestickets.com. (One hundred free tickets for each concert will be available at the door to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ students on a first-come, first-served basis.)

The has been called “something extraordinary” by The New York Times. The Boston Globe hailed its “fiercely committed performances” and The Washington Post declared it “a quartet that deserves close attention.”

The quartet’s awards include first prizes at the 2005 Concert Artists Guild Competition and the Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition. They have performed in such series as Lincoln Center’s Great Performers, the Wolf Trap Discovery Series and Ravinia’s Rising Stars; and at such venues as Jordan Hall and Gardner Museum in Boston, and in New York’s Symphony Space and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall.

Warner, concert hall manager at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, is a multi-instrumentalist whose performances on guitar and lute were described as “ethereal” by the Portland Press Herald. On the Boccherini, he will play a reproduction of a 19th-century guitar by Viennese luthier Johann Anton Stauffer.

Born in Göttingen, Germany, Staier studied modern piano and harpsichord in Hannover and Amsterdam. For three years, he was the harpsichordist of Musica Antiqua Köln, with which he toured and recorded extensively.

Staier performs throughout Europe, the United States and Japan with orchestras such as Concerto Köln, Freiburger Barockorchester, the Akademie für alte Musik Berlin and the Orchestre des Champs-Elysées Paris. Staier has made several recordings of works from the Baroque through early Romantic eras, and his solo work is often broadcast on the BBC.

Pianist Duncan Cumming ’93 returns to his alma mater with violinist Hilary Cumming, his wife, to perform works of Schubert, Brahms and Dvorák at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 2, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.

The program also includes Duo, a composition by William Matthews, Alice Swanson Esty Professor of Music at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½. Admission is free, but tickets are required. For ticket reservations or more information, please contact 207-786-6135 or this olinarts@bates.edu.

Cumming is a Maine native, born in Presque Isle and raised in Wiscasset. He graduated with highest honors from ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ in 1993. His playing has been described by the Portland Press Herald as “technically flawless, thoughtful, deliberate and balanced.” Cumming has performed in some of the most prestigious concert halls in the United States and Europe including the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.; Merkin Hall and Carnegie Recital Hall in New York City; and the Wallenstein Palace in Prague, Czech Republic. In 2009, he received a grant to record music of Mozart and Weber on Weber’s own 1812 Brodmann fortepiano.

Also this year, Cumming’s book, The Fountain of Youth: The Artistry of Frank Glazer (Tower Books) was published. This book is a portrait of the , an internationally renowned pianist, who taught Cumming.

Cumming received a master’s degree in 1996 from the New England Conservatory, and in 2003 earned a doctorate from Boston University. He is a member of the faculties of Boston University’s Tanglewood Institute and the University at Albany.

Hilary Cumming studied at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Copenhagen, Denmark, and has performed around the world. An adjunct professor of violin at the University at Albany, her most recent CD recording was made in August 2008 with the Musicians of the Old Post Road and is available from Meridien Records.

Along with the cellist Sölen Dikener, the Cummings constitute the Capital Piano Trio, the ensemble in residence at the University at Albany. The Cummings have two daughters and a son.