Leonard Bernstein Festival
of the Creative Arts

Produced by Too Cheap for Instruments with Victoria Carter '15, Sathvika Reddy '15 and Alison Thvedt '15. 

• 1:00 - 1:40 p.m. Patti DeRosa’s fans describe her as "a little Joss Stone, a little Tracey Chapman, a little Sheryl Crow, but happier and funnier."
• 1:50 - 2:30 p.m. Hillary Reynolds Band is a dynamic quintet featuring tight harmonies and traditional instruments.
• 2:40 - 3:20 p.m.  Hana Kahn is an up and coming singer-songwriter with influences ranging from Ingrid Michaelson to Adele. She will be accompanied by Boston-based guitarist Norwood Pearson.
• 3:30 - 3:50 p.m.  Brandeis’ Too Cheap for Instruments sing folk and pop songs with a cappella irreverence. 
• 4:00 - 4:40 p.m.  Lindsay Straw is a Boston-based guitarist, bouzouki player and vocalist who specializes in folk and traditional Irish music. 
• 4:50  - 5:30 p.m. Driftwood, one of the most prominent national acts to come out of the Binghamton, N.Y. music scene, is at heart a rock band, though the ghost of traditional American folk music lives in their palette.
  

Cast in order of appearance: Gretchen (a rich girl in the village) – Tamar Forman-Gejrot  '16; Therese (Gretchen’s sister) – Sarah Pace '13; Charlotte (Emilia’s little sister, 11 years old) – Sophie Travis '13; Emilia (in love with Hans) – Ariella Stein '13; Hans (Emilia’s boyfriend) – Ben Gold '13; Franz (in love with Therese) – Matthew Chernick '16; Sigmund (in love with Gretchen) – Ford Draper; Friedrich (10 years old) – Jonah Hirst '15; Lise (Emilia’s and Charlotte’s mother) – Miriam Goldman '15.

The haunting classical Greek tales of Orestes and Iphigenia are re-imagined as twin visions of an ancient storyteller who relates the creation of the world, climaxing with the creation of the Furies.

A new adaptation of Euripides’ “Orestes” and “Iphigenia at Tauris,” adapted and directed by Eric Hill.

Translated by Leonard Muellner and Brandeis students; movement by Aparna Sindhoor and Anil Natyaveda of the Navarasa Dance Theater.

$20/$15/$5.
Purchase tickets at Brandeis Tickets in the Shapiro Campus Center, online, or call 781-736-3400.

A limited number of free tickets are available for this performance as part of the Festival of the Creative Arts on a first-come, first-served basis. Call 781-736-3400 or stop by the Brandeis Tickets box office in the Shapiro Campus Center. Use the code IMAGINE. (Not available online.)

These films were produced in the spring and summer of 2012 with an overlapping Brandeis crew and a cast of Boston-area professionals.

 A Q&A with the filmmakers follows screenings.

Also: “Café Neon: Fantasy on Greek Songs and Dances,” by Boston composer and conductor Steven Karidoyanes.

Neal Hampton, director.

In conjunction with the exhibition 'Berber Jews: Space, Memory and Identity' by Chamae Mechtaly '15.