LENOX, MA
FREE! JULY 2–AUGUST 20, 10:15PM ELAYNE P. BERNSTEIN THEATRE BAR
Thursday Night Cabarets hosted & accompanied by BILL BARCLAY
Spherical Sounds Series Be with us throughout the summer as our Resident Music Director Bill Barclay periodically hosts an eclectic program of poetry, chamber music and new independent music. $20/$10 under age 25. Reserved seating.
July 19, 8:30pm – Bernstein Theatre
Music of the Spheres
presented by BILL BARCLAY with live PERFORMERS from Boston’s ORFEO group
Is music a universal language? From acoustics to astronomy, Kepler to Cleopatra, Bill Barclay uses the science and philosophy of ancient beliefs in planetary harmony to bring together musics from around the globe.
AUREA Ensemble
A talented ensemble of actors and musicians including celebrated artists Charles Sherba, Consuelo Sherba, Nigel Gore and Chris Turner present the language of poetry accompanied by chamber music:
Free live music immediately following the show. Mingle with Company actors from our stages while encountering new sounds, artists, and ideas. J ULY 2 Too Darn Cole!
Tenor PETER DAVENPORT
JULY 9
The Rubber Violin
Fiddle phenom Alexander Sovronsky
july 16
Crazy for Gershwin Soprano Joelle Lurie
july 23
The Bowed Metal Ensemble
The Boston-based ensemble perform rich, shifting, resonant and other-worldly textures with artfully bowed cymbals, bells, rods, and tuned glass.
july 30
Tongues and Bones: The Music of Bill Barclay
A CD release crafted from the songs of last summer’s All’s Well That Ends Well.
august 6
The Pretty Pennies!
The Boston folk-rock outfit joins us fresh off the release of their first full-length album.
august 13
The Shakespeare Songs by Roger Quilter
Featuring baritone ALEX LAWRENCE from the Tanglewood Music Center.
ugust 20 a Open-Mic Cabaret!
Calling all community friends and Fall Festival Alumni!
July 12, 8:30pm – Founders’ Theatre
Strange Fits of Passion I Have Known
The poetry of Keats, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Blake, Wordsworth and others, with music by Dvorak, Turner, Schumann, Brahms.
Bill Barclay and Shakespeare & Company are participants in the Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellowships, funded by the William and Eva Fox Foundation and administered by Theatre Communications Group.
Sept 6, 8:30pm – Bernstein Theatre
Under a Latin Moon
Music of Ginastera, Villa Lobos, Piazzolla, poetry of Neruda, Lorca, Jimenez and Andrade in English and Spanish.
Funded in part through Meet The Composer’s MetLife Creative Connections program.
play on! shakespeare.org or 413-637-3353