Season Thirteen Twenty Summers, rooted in Provincetown’s Hawthorne Barn, celebrates artistic freedom, offering resources, residencies, and a platform for originality and innovation, honoring its rich legacy.

What the Eye Hears: A Concert of Music about Art

Musicians, painters, and poets often move in the same circles and, regardless of their medium, spur each other on to experiment. In this concert, we’ll explore those creative bonds in an evening of music and poetry that describe art. Given the richness of Provincetown’s artistic heritage, we’ll pay particular attention to the various painters who worked here and the music that inspired them. Violinist Katherine Winterstein and pianist Inessa Zaretsky will perform works by composers including J.S. Bach, Aaron Copland, John Cage, and William Grant Still, while award-winning novelists M. T. Anderson and Julia Glass will read selections from writers such as Kiran Desai, Frank O’Hara, Langston Hughes, and local painter Charles Hawthorne. Come join us and celebrate the ecstatic and the ekphrastic!