Pause for Art - John Lithgow '67

Pause for Art: Creative Moments from Harvard is a video series produced by the Office for the Arts at Harvard to offer beauty, comfort and connection. Here is Emmy and Tony Award winning actor John Lithgow '67 reading "Fear no more the heat of the sun" from Shakespeare's play "Cymbeline." Lithgow was the 2017 Harvard Arts Medalist. April 23 is the day on which Shakespeare's birth and death are commemorated.

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[ScottRaia]

I remember Mr. Lithgow shared this poem (he called it a song, Shakespeare's great eulogy) in an interview with Bill Moyers in 2008 or 2009. It was my first time hearing or reading it. It has become a part of me in the years of love and loss since then. Thank you for sharing.

[arthurjacobson]

The great English composer, Gerald Finzi, set "Fear no more the heat of the sun" to music along with four other Shakespeare songs. The set is called "Let Us Garlands Bring: Five Shakespeare Songs". One can, of course, hear this on YouTube. Run, do not walk!

[arthurjacobson]

By the way, I graduated Harvard College in 1969. I remember vividly John as a great actor in his college days.

[tomburgess]

A lovely reading. I remember John from Utopia Limited. Tom Burgess '66

[leif]

Dear god isnt this really depressing with come tpndust referring to death i presume? Isnt this even more depressing snd discouraging especially during the pandemic?