Library Celebrates Shakespeare
With Week-long Festival of Events
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Scottish Society presented a concert in the new program room on April 9. |
One of the most exciting features of our new library is the program room, a dedicated space with comfortable seating for an audience of 100 people, excellent acoustics and a state-of-the-art sound and projection system. We're celebrating this new facility in the last week of April with "Will Power," a seven-day series of free films and live performances inspired by the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's passing.
"Will Power" opens on Sunday, April 24, with a 1 p.m. presentation of Falstaff, Verdi's final masterpiece, on the program room's new 12-foot movie screen. This film presents a production conducted by James Levine and recorded live at the Metropolitan Opera.
Two films are scheduled for screening on Monday, April 25: Romeo and Juliet (1968) at 2 p.m. and Othello (1995) at 7 p.m.
Tuesday's film lineup presents Henry V (1989) at 2 p.m. and Twelfth Night (1996) at 7 p.m.
On Wednesday, the library will screen King Lear (1996) at 2 p.m. and Macbeth (2015) at 7 p.m.
Films on Thursday, April 28, are Hamlet (1990) at 2 p.m. and Much Ado About Nothing (1993) at 7 p.m.
On Friday, the Shakespeare for the Masses troupe will perform The Taming of the Shrew at 7 p.m.
And on Saturday, April 30, the "Will Power" festival will conclude with "Songs from Shakespeare" by the Duo Marchand -- a 7 p.m. performance featuring lute, voice and renaissance harp.
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