Books & Music
Beloved Colby historian Ernest Cummings Marriner '13 documents Robert E. Lee Strider's nineteen years as president of Colby College. Marriner is also the author of the definitive History of Colby, which covers the period up to the Strider presidency.
With a musical career spanning more than 60 years, including 33 years at Colby College and music directorship of the Bangor Symphony Orchestra, Peter Re's String Quartets No. 1, 2, & 3 is expertly fashioned . Performed by the Portland String Quartet, each work contains three short movements that are ideally proportioned and rich with Re's expressive vocabulary, lush textures, and long-lined lyrical generosity.
Featuring Colby staff Bruce McDougal & Abe Vinick, Sun's Comin' Up is 14 original adult contemporary songs with very tight vocal harmonies, great hooks, and echos of Beatles, Physh, CSNY, John Hyatt.
Includes tracks such as, "Never Gonna Stop," "Up & Disappear," and "Bad Man Boogie." 10 tracks total. CD.
The Colbyettes, founded in 1951, are Colby College's oldest all-women's a cappella group. This two disc set includes more than thirty songs, both modern, and classics given new life in fun arrangements. Two CD set.
"The Wonder" is a collection of 9 original songs by Waterville musician, songwriter, and recording engineer Floyd White. Some of Maine's finest musician's, including three from Colby, collaborated on these exciting and eclectic works that combine world beat, jazz, rock, folk, blues, and even country music in a mix the Face Magazine called "...a rare gem." This album has been featured on WERU, WMHB, and Maine Public Radio and brings a smile to all who listen. CD.
The Megalomaniacs are a co-ed a cappella group at Colby College. May 2013 release. Tracks include Shark in the Water, Wide Awake in Paradise, and Unwritten. CD.
Since the death of Thomas Hardy in 1928, literary biographers and other avid Hardy readers have desired access to the huge cache of letters preserved by Hardy at his estate, Max Gate. In the absence of reliable information, inaccurate reports about the number and content of these letters have been circulated. With the publication of this volume, conjecture may cease. Hardcover. 238 pages.
Some of the best of the Colby Eight from 1955-1963! Tracks are from the classic albums While We're Young, Have a Ball..., The Colby Eight Sings the Old and the New, and Lullaby of Broadway. Twenty-six great tracks, including a new cover song recorded in April 2013. Favorites include The Halls of Ivy, Someone To Watch Over Me, I Got Rhythm, Take The A-Train, and Everything's Coming Up Roses. CD
The story of Waterville and its surrounds is one of astonishingly rapid growth and prosperity. The city flourished on the wave of the Second Industrial Revolution. Its ever-multiplying mills drew workers from around the world, and its streets were filled with merchants of every kind.
Growing Old Disgracefully presents Andrew and KT Dodge's Wedding EP. This album includes two tracks, "Found," and "New Moon Woman." 2 tracks total. CD.
College Historian Earl H. Smith tracks the growth of the museum, focusing more on people than on the art they helped collect. The names are familiar: Lunder, Cummings, Abbott, Katz, Schupf, Strider and Cotter, among others. Smith reveals their roles in the museum's evolution from the early years, when a collection of primitive portraits hung in Foss dining hall, to the present, when the gift of the Lunder Collection made national news. Supporters of the museum have created "a most remarkable masterpiece indeed."