Presented by George Maurer
@ Bubala's, 185 Commercial St.
Running time: 90 minutes

Free Admission – Join us for an unforgettable evening of music and stories.

Festival favorite, virtuoso jazz pianist and theremin strummer, George Maurer presents the soundtrack of Williams’ summers in Provincetown, including musical settings of poems by the poet Harold Norse, who watched Tennessee Williams write The Glass Menagerie in the dune shack they shared in Provincetown.

Performed by the artists of the Festival: songs and stories based on remembering or forgetting, clear or cloudy visions.

In 1941, Anaïs Nin wrote in her summer diary

“The record that was played all summer, the musical motif of Provincetown, was called ‘Intermezzo.’

The theme from the film Intermezzo: A Love Story was titled “Escape to Happiness.”

In 1944, as the Russians pushed back the Germans, and Allied troops fresh from D-Day were moving into France, Williams declared himself suspended in Provincetown, like Gauguin in Polynesia:

“Reality seems to have entirely withdrawn …. usually it occurs in summer and on the ocean.”