PASSPORT TO AMERICA Masterpiece and CapePOPS! Series Title Sponsor Passport to America: The Immigrant Story September 22 & 23, 2018 Cape Symphony Jung-Ho Pak, Conductor Chatham Chorale, Joseph Marchio, Music Director THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER Igor Stravinsky, arranger CIRCUS POLKA: FOR A YOUNG ELEPHANT Igor Stravinsky SUNSET BOULEVARD SUITE Franz Waxman 1. Prelude 3. The Studio Stroll 5. Norma as Salome 2. Norma Desmond 4. The Comeback 6. Paramount on Parade DREAM OF THE RED CHAMBER OVERTURE Bright Sheng AMERICA, AN EPIC RHAPSODY 1926: The Present – The Future Ernest Bloch INTERMISSION ELLIS ISLAND: THE DREAM OF AMERICA Peter Boyer Prologue Helen Cohen, emigrated from Poland in 1920 James Apanomith, emigrated from Greece in 1911 Lillian Galleta, emigrated from Italy in 1928 Lazarus Salamon, emigrated from Hungary in 1920 Helen Rosenthal, emigrated from Belgium in 1940 Manny Steen, emigrated from Ireland in 1925 Katherine Beychook, emigrated from Russia in 1910 Epilogue: "The New Colossus" (Emma Lazarus, 1883) 18 capesymphony.org Coming To America For this year’s Passport concert, been fined; contrary to popular we turn the lens on ourselves, belief, he was not jailed. focusing on music created Born in Switzerland, Ernest Bloch by immigrants and about the emigrated to the US in 1916. immigration experience in America. Inspired by his arrival in New York Our country was built by people Harbor, he composed America, who came from elsewhere, often An Epic Rhapsody, noting, “This fleeing difficult circumstances, Symphony has been written in love and our great American music for this country, in reverence to its was highly influenced by talented Past, in faith in its Future.” immigrant composers. German film composer Franz Russian Igor Stravinsky came to Waxman fled the Nazis in 1935. His the United States in September powerful Academy Award-winning 1939, weeks after war broke score for Sunset Boulevard was out. In 1944, he conducted his ranked as #16 of the top 25 greatest controversial arrangement of film scores by the American Film “The Star Spangled Banner” with Institute. What would the golden the Boston Symphony Orchestra. age of Hollywood have been without Stravinsky intended to give the immigrant composers and their national anthem the feeling of a European and classical influences? hymn; but a Massachusetts law prohibited the performance of Dream of the Red Chamber is the song “with embellishment.” an opera by Chinese-American Publicity led police to stand by composer Bright Sheng, a protégé of at the second concert. Stravinsky Leonard Bernstein who moved to the bowed to pressure and played the US in 1982. He’s now the Leonard traditional version. Had he played Bernstein Distinguished University his arrangement, he would have Professor of Composition at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. SEASON 2018/2019 19 THE STORIES OF Ellis Islandby Peter Boyer America is a nation of immigrants, and our immigrant history is a profound part of our American mythology. From 1892 to 1954, more than twelve million immigrants, over 70% of all immigrants to the United States, passed through Ellis Island, the processing station which was “the gateway to America.” The Ellis Island Oral History Project is a collection of interviews, housed at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum, with immigrants who were processed there. I examined over 100 interviews, and ultimately settled on a structure which includes seven stories of immigrants who came through Ellis Island from seven countries between 1910 and 1940. James Sandy P. Byrne Cerel (Manny Steen) (Lillian Galletta) An award-winning director, actor, designer, and A Rhode Island-based actor and director, Sandy has teacher producing theatrical experiences from Boston performed on dozens of stages throughout southern to Los Angeles, New York to New Orleans, James New England. Sandy has enjoyed a close relationship grew up at the Harwich Junior Theatre, and works with the composer Peter Boyer all his life. She is his extensively with the Cape Cod Theater Company/HJT. proud Mom! Christine Carryl Rathbun Lynn Ernst (Helen Rosenthal) (Lady Liberty) A native of Boston and Cape Cod, Carryl recently Christine is a writer, poet, performer, teacher, activist, and performed in “Wrinkles, the Musical” at the CCTC/ frequent speaker, focusing on the connection of wellness, HJT, and has appeared in True Blood on HBO and hope, and community. She performs as the Fat Ass Cancer NCIS on CBS. Carryl’s family came through Ellis Island Bitch and believes that the story will save us all. generations ago. 20 capesymphony.org GRAMMY-nominated THE ART OF Peter Boyer is one of COLLABORATION the most frequently The Cape Symphony is delighted performed American to be collaborating with the Cotuit orchestral composers Center for the Arts on this very special performance. We loved Danika Singfield Danika of his generation. His working together in 2017 and our recording of Ellis Island: creative partnership continues to The Dream of America was nominated for be truly rewarding. Many thanks to by Peter Boyer a GRAMMY Award for Best Contemporary David Kuehn, Executive Director Classical Composition. of Cotuit Center for the Arts and producer of Ellis Island: The Dream This is the second time the Cape Symphony of America; to Nina Schuessler, has performed Peter’s work; the first was The Producing Artistic Director of the Dream Lives On: A Portrait of the Kennedy Cape Cod Theatre Company/Harwich Ellis Brothers Junior Theatre and director of at the John F. Kennedy Centennial Island: The Dream of America; and Celebration in May 2017. J Hagenbuckle, assistant director. The stories of Ellis Island are stories of journeys. I hope that listeners may find these stories as fascinating, illuminating and inspiring as I do. – Peter Boyer Philip Sherrie Smith Scudder Scudder (Lazarus Salamon) (Katherine Beychook) Philip has a BFA degree from UConn and Sherrie has her BFA in Theatre, Music, and Dance performed at Nutmeg Summer Playhouse before from UConn and has acted on stages from Colorado returning to the Cape to work in his family’s to Massachusetts. Sherrie co-founded the Helikon business, Hy-Line Cruises. Philip co-founded the Theatre Company and recently appeared in "Wrinkles, Helikon Theatre Company on Cape Cod. the Musical" at CCTC/HJT. Deborah David Stringham Wallace (Helen Cohen) (James Apanomith) Deb is a veteran performer and choreographer of David holds a BFA in Theatre from BU and has performed many shows, including Off-Broadway, an international on Cape Cod for over thirty years. He has been blessed to tour, and summer stock/regional productions. Another have enjoyed and tested the patience of directors at Cape star of "Wrinkles, the Musical" at CCTC/HJT, Deb Rep, HJT, The Glasstown Players, The Barnstable Comedy teaches dance at Bridgewater State University. Club, and The Chatham Drama Guild. Byrne: A. Meagher. Cerel: Dual Edge Photography. Ernst: M. Ernst. Lynn: P. Gaspard-Nelson. P. Scudder: A. Meagher. S. Scudder: A. Meagher. Stringham: C. Copeland. Wallace: N. Schuessler. N. Wallace: Copeland. C. Stringham: Meagher. A. Scudder: S. Meagher. A. Scudder: P. Gaspard-Nelson. P. Lynn: Ernst. Ernst: M. Dual Edge Photography. Cerel: Meagher. A. Byrne: SEASON 2018/2019 21 COMING SOON OCT 13 & OCT 14 MAGNIFICENT MOZART NOV 3 & NOV 4 Holiday On The Cape NOV 30, DEC 1 & DEC 2 BOX OFFICE: 508.362.1111 • 1060 Falmouth Road, Hyannis • capesymphony.org.