Get Lit: New Music, Ancient Poetry from Bettina Joy de Guzman

All Of It with Alison Stewart | May 28, 2021

We air the debut performance of "Briseis, Patroclus, and Achilles" that opened our May 24 Get Lit with All Of It book club event, by classicist and musician Bettina Joy de Guzman who uses traditional instruments to reconstruct and perform ancient music, drawing from classical poetry.

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