Tompkins County Public Library

Saturday, April 16, 2011

LIBRARY TO CELEBRATE NATIONAL POETRY MONTH WITH POETRY AND MUSIC


The Tompkins County Public Library will celebrate National Poetry Month with “The Music of Shakespeare’s Time,” a performance of English lute songs and Spanish poetry by internationally-recognized early music duo Elizabethan Conversation, Saturday, April 16 at 2:00 PM in the BorgWarner Community Room.

Joined by acclaimed vocalist Rebecca Leistikow, Elizabethan Conversation’s principals Susan Sandman, a Wells College music professor emerita, and instrument craftsman Derwood Crocker, will showcase, through period instruments and voice, a variety of musical sounds from the cosmopolitan renaissance of Shakespeare’s time. 

This program is free and appropriate for an all-ages audience.  For more information, contact Carrie Wheeler-Carmenatty at (607) 272-4557 extension 248.

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