SEASON 2018/19 INSPIRING JOY FREE CONCERT! New Masterpiece series subscribers receive a free ticket to our May “American Mavericks” concert for each subscription purchased! Jung-Ho Pak, Artistic Director & Conductor, photographed at the Kelley Chapel, Historical Society of Old Yarmouth, on November 2, 2017. 1 SPECIAL OFFER Because you’ve purchased Cape Symphony tickets in the past, we’re sharing our incredible FREE new season of musical experiences with you. Take advantage of the savings by becoming a CONCERT! subscriber and get the best seats available before tickets go on sale to the general public. New Masterpiece series subscribers receive a free ticket to our May “American Mavericks” concert for each subscription TABLE OF CONTENTS purchased! PASSPORT TO AMERICA BEETHOVEN UNLEASHED September 22 & 23 . 4 April 6 & 7 . 11 SYMPHONY AT THE DISCO LEGENDARY LOVE STORIES October 13 & 14 . 5 May 4 & 5 . 12 MAGNIFICENT MOZART THE VERY BEST OF November 3 & 4 . 6 RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN June 8 & 9 . 13 HOLIDAY ON THE CAPE November 30, December 1 & 2 . 7 Cape Conservatory . 14 NEW YEAR’S DAY PARTY How to Renew Your Subscription . 16 January 1 . 8 Box Office Information . 17 OPERA WITHOUT WORDS January 19 & 20 . 9 General Information . 18 THE WIZARD OF OZ IN CONCERT Concert Schedule . 19 February 9 & 10 . 10 Masterpiece and CapePOPS! Series Title Sponsor “The Cape Symphony plays beautiful music live, and with love.” Jung-Ho Pak, photographed at the Benjamin ALL PHOTOS BY PAUL BLACKMORE (UNLESS NOTED) Hallet Blacksmith Shop, Historical Society of 2 DESIGNED BY ALISON CARON DESIGN –MARLA PERKEL, NORTH TRURO Old Yarmouth, on November 2, 2017. 3 MASTERPIECE 1 CapePOPS! 1 PASSPORT TO SYMPHONY AT AMERICA THE DISCO SAT September 22, 2018 7:30 PM SAT October 13, 2018 3:00 PM & 7:30 PM SUN September 23, 2018 3:00 PM SUN October 14, 2018 3:00 PM Jung-Ho Pak, Conductor Jung-Ho Pak, Conductor The Chatham Chorale Boogie Wonder Band Joseph Marchio, Music Director ELLIS ISLAND: THE CIRCUS POLKA: FOR DREAM OF AMERICA A YOUNG ELEPHANT Peter Boyer Igor Stravinsky THE STAR SUNSET SPANGLED BANNER BOULEVARD SUITE Igor Stravinsky Franz Waxman AMERICA, AN OVERTURE TO Join us as we open our season with a journey to our own country, featuring Ellis Island: The Get ready to celebrate good times! The Boogie Wonder Band joins the Cape Symphony for EPIC RHAPSODY IN DREAM OF THE THREE PARTS RED CHAMBER Dream of America, a powerful celebration of the historic immigrant experience by composer a unique experience where disco meets classical music in a high-energy show that knocks (PART 3) Bright Sheng Peter Boyer . This innovative work brings together soaring music, historical images and text your socks off! We turn the concert hall into Studio 54, bringing traditional disco to a whole Ernst Bloch from the Ellis Island archives, and the voices of real people who entered the United States in new level, loaded with violins, violas, cellos, trumpets, trombones and more . Groove in your pursuit of the American dream . Among those who came here in the 20th century were many seat to hits like “Night Fever,” “On the Radio,” and “Disco Inferno”! No velvet rope here — important composers — we present works by some of these talented immigrants, including the everyone is welcome to join the party! brilliant Igor Stravinsky. 4 Guest Artist Partner 5 MASTERPIECE 2 CapePOPS! 2 MAGNIFICENT HOLIDAY ON MOZART THE CAPE SAT November 3, 2018 7:30 PM FRI November 30, 2018 4:00 PM & 8:00 PM SUN November 4, 2018 3:00 PM SAT December 1, 2018 3:00 PM & 7:30 PM Jung-Ho Pak, Conductor SUN December 2, 2018 1:00 PM & 5:00 PM Musica Sacra Jung-Ho Pak, Conductor Mary Beekman, Artistic Director The Chatham Chorale Joseph Marchio, Music Director Vintage Vocal Quartet Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart REQUIEM EINE KLEINE NACHTMUSIK In a famous scene from the movie “Amadeus,” Mozart dictates his final opus to his rival Salieri, Our annual tradition is the way you start the holiday season! Celebrate home and hearth, the feverish on his deathbed as he hears the beautiful music in his head . We look at the myths warmth of family and friends, and the music that brings it all back, year after year . Revel in and facts behind his Requiem, an extraordinary affirmation of the power of the human spirit, classic holiday songs, gorgeous carols, and a Celtic Christmas celebration . Raise your voices and with Musica Sacra, Boston’s premier early music choral ensemble, we perform the choral in song, along with the orchestra and our good friends the Chatham Chorale . We welcome musica masterpiece from our hearts. Incredibly, the Cape Symphony has never played Mozart’s “Eine special guests the Vintage Vocal Quartet — their swinging sound is a delight. Spend the sacra Kleine Nachtmusik” (A Little Night Music) until now, although this tuneful serenade may be his holidays with us! MARY BEEKMAN ARTISTIC DIRECTOR most popular work . 6 Guest Artist Partner 7 SPECIAL EVENT MASTERPIECE 3 NEW YEAR’S OPERA DAY PARTY WITHOUT WORDS TUES January 1, 2019 3:00 PM Jung-Ho Pak, Conductor SAT January 19, 2019 7:30 PM SUN January 20, 2019 3:00 PM Jung-Ho Pak, Conductor Ji-Hae Park, Violin Symphonic excerpts from “When we went to our THE RING first Cape Symphony concert, Richard Wagner CARMEN FANTASIE we said to ourselves, ‘We Franz Waxman Kick off 2019 in style with the Cape Symphony New Year’s Day Party! Enjoy this light-hearted Before movies, opera was the grand stage upon which stories were told . With its mythic no longer need to go into LA SCALA DI SETA Boston to hear good music.” celebration, with lilting Viennese waltzes, lively marches and most of all, fun! Spend this battle between the forces of good and evil, an inspiration for modern heroic sagas like (THE SILKEN holiday afternoon with fellow lovers of live music and be entertained by a concert full of Star Wars and The Lord of the Rings, Wagner’s epic cycle The Ring requires an enormous LADDER) OVERTURE — ELAINE USHER, BREWSTER surprises to get your year started . orchestra to support the larger-than-life music. Another dramatic tale, Bizet’s Carmen Gioachino Rossini shocked audiences by telling a gritty tale of passion and jealousy. In Waxman’s “Carmen Fantasie,” the violin is Carmen, and international star Ji-Hae Park embodies her fiery virtuosity . The overture from Rossini’s comic farce The Silken Ladder provides levity amidst 8 the drama . The orchestra is the diva in this extraordinary event! 9 CapePOPS! 3 MASTERPIECE 4 THE WIZARD BEETHOVEN OF OZ UNLEASHED IN CONCERT SAT April 6, 2019 7:30 PM SUN April 7, 2019 3:00 PM SAT February 9, 2019 3:00 PM & 7:30 PM Martina Filjak, Piano SUN February 10, 2019 3:00 PM Jung-Ho Pak, Conductor Ludwig van Beethoven SYMPHONY NO. 1 32 VARIATIONS IN C MINOR Guest Artist Partner PIANO CONCERTO NO. 3 Follow the yellow brick road! In this rare concert presentation, the Cape Symphony partners Like a rock star, Beethoven wrote music that was raw, unfiltered and personal. Performing with Cotuit Center for the Arts to perform the original lush Harold Arlen score and the script of without a conductor to filter his singular voice, the Cape Symphony musicians are set free “Attending Cape Symphony The Wizard of Oz. The familiar songs like “Over the Rainbow,” “We’re Off to See the Wizard” to unleash the music of Beethoven . Concertmaster Jae Cosmos Lee takes the lead for the performances has greatly and “If I Only Had a Brain” transport you to the Land of Oz, where you meet up with old ebullient, uplifting Symphony No. 1 — the orchestra will literally be on its feet! Pianist Martina friends Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion . Fun for all ages! Filjak, compared by critics to a tiger for her fierce yet graceful playing, comes center stage enriched my life.” for piano pieces from the pantheon . — MARIE GATES, WEST YARMOUTH 10 11 MASTERPIECE 5 SPECIAL EVENT LEGENDARY THE VERY BEST OF LOVE STORIES RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN SAT May 4, 2019 7:30 PM SUN May 5, 2019 3:00 PM SAT June 8, 2019 7:30 PM Jung-Ho Pak, Conductor SUN June 9, 2019 3:00 PM The Chatham Chorale Peter Mansfield, Guest Conductor Joseph Marchio, Music Director Michelle Chassé, Director and Natasha Paremski, Piano Choreographer ROMEO AND JULIET Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky DAPHNIS AND CHLOE Passion and romance come together to create the greatest love stories ever set to music, like June is bustin’ out all over with our special tribute to the beloved music of Rodgers & SUITE NO. 2 Maurice Ravel the famous love theme from Tchaikovsky’s “Romeo and Juliet .” Many romantic movies come Hammerstein! Musicals like Oklahoma, Carousel, South Pacific, The Sound of Music, and The to life with the gorgeous 18th variation of Rachmaninoff’s “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini,” King and I are impossible to imagine without the iconic songs that we’re all still humming RHAPSODY ON A THEME most famously, Somewhere in Time. And Ravel’s score for the ballet “Daphnis and Chloe” today . Rodgers & Hammerstein created the Golden Age of musical theater and guest OF PAGANINI provides a sensuous background to the charming courtship that unfolds on a Greek island . conductor Peter Mansfield returns to the podium to take us there. Rising stars of Broadway Sergei Rachmaninoff Dynamic Natasha Paremski makes her Cape Symphony debut — see why she’s beloved around from the nationally acclaimed Boston Conservatory at Berklee Theater Division join the Cape the world .