The Academy Art Museum and Shore Lit present acclaimed author Maud Casey in conversation with Shore Lit founder Kerry Folan about Casey’s latest book, City of Incurable Women. This hybrid text, which is braided with period photographs and medical documents, reimagines the “hysterical” women of Paris’s famed nineteenth-century Salpêtrière mental asylum in their own shimmering, lyrical voices.

SONOS, featuring Rachel Franklin, Christian Tremblay, and Jonathan Miles Brown, is returning to the Museum with their latest program, Tales for Halloween, which takes a playful look at the eternal fascination musicians have for the supernatural. They’ll explore what constitutes “scary” music and trace the haunting influence of literary and historic sources on the Gothic in their favorite creepy concert experiences! Works will include Tartini’s “Devil’s Trill,” De Falla’s “El Amor Brujo,” and a spine-tingling arrangement of Saint-Saëns’ “Danse Macabre,” plus some devilishly delicious jazz and folk!

Gold prize winners of the 2012 Chesapeake International Chamber Music Competition for Young Professionals, the Calidore String Quartet returns to Easton with a program of Beethoven, Shostakovich and Smetana that showcases the depth of their musicianship. From the sunlit colors of Beethoven’s Quartet Number 6 to the haunting emotion of Shostakovich’s Quartet Number 8 and the glowing folk-inspired melodies of Smetana’s Quartet No. 1, this will be a memorable evening.