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Live Music & talk
1599 - a year in shakespeare's life

FREE!
Gary Thorpe, OAM, General Manager of 4MBS Classic FM, will highlight the year Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre first opened, and which saw some of Shakespeare’s most famous plays presented there. Sanctuary String Quartet will perform beautiful music inspired by his plays.

1-2pm Tue 1 Oct
Toowong Library

9 Sherwood Rd, Toowong

1-2pm Fri 4 Oct
Holland Park Library

81 Seville Rd, Holland Park
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1-2pm Fri 18 Oct
Grange Library
 79 Evelyn St, Grange
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LIVE MUSIC
QLD Wind Orchestra

FREE!
Shakespeare’s plays traditionally kicked off with a trumpet fanfare.
Let the Queensland Wind Orchestra 
energise you for the day!

12.45pm Sun 20 Oct
Einbunpin Lagoon Park
Cnr Lagoon St/Brighton Rd

Stay afterwards for SWORDPLAY and HAMLET! 
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LIVE MUSIC
YELLOW BIRD TRIO

FREE!
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Prepare for Shakespeare in style, as string ensemble Yellow Bird Trio serenades you with delightful chamber music before the play!

4pm Sat 26 Oct
The Amphitheatre, Roma Street Parkland 

Brisbane City
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Stay afterwards for SWORDPLAY and HAMLET! 


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LIVE MUSIC
Renaissance harp

FREE!
Hear the heavenly sounds of harp as Nicole Tate performs music of Shakespeare’s time, and music inspired by his plays.

4pm Sat 2 Nov 
In the Gasometer, Gasworks Plaza, Newstead 

76 Skyring Terrace, Newstead

Stay afterwards for SWORDPLAY and HAMLET! ​

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Radio broadcasts
SHAKESPEARE ON RADIO on 4MBS Classic FM 103.7

FREE!
Enjoy Shakespeare-themed music on these radio programs!
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Listen on 103.7FM or live online.

​Sat 19 Oct   
DAYBREAK CLASSICS    

6am Shakespeare-inspired brass band music​
6.30am ‘Vienna & Beyond’, Shakespeare-inspired

Mon 21 Oct
MUSIC OF THE DAY
9am Shakespeare music by Brisbane composers plus Mendelssohn, Nicolai, Barber and Walton

THURSDAY NIGHT OPERA at 8pm
Thu 10 Oct
Edward German’s Merry England (set in Shakespeare’s time)
Thu 17 Oct  
The story and music of Gounod’s Romeo & Juliet
Thu 24 Oct  
The story and music of Verdi’s Otello
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