The Cape Community Orchestra will present its Fall Concert Series on Friday, November 20, at 7:30 PM at Yarmouth Senior Center, 528 Forest Road, in South Yarmouth, and Sunday, November 22, at 3 PM, at Our Lady of the Cape Parish Center, 468 Stony Brook Road, in Brewster. Note that the Sunday concert location has … Continue reading
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Falmouth Chamber Players Orchestra Presents Fall Concerts November 7 and 8
Katie Lynch Koglin performs Handel’s Harp Concerto with the Falmouth Chamber Players Orchestra November 7 and 8. Photo by Amanda Considine Robitaille, Shoreshotz Photography. The Falmouth Chamber Players Orchestra, John Yankee, Music Director, will present its fall concerts on Saturday, November 7, at 2 PM, and Sunday, November 8, at 3 PM, at John Wesley … Continue reading
Cape Community Orchestra Spring Concerts
The Cape Community Orchestra, under the direction of John P. Hagon, presented the first of two concerts yesterday, May 4, at the Church of the Holy Spirit in Orleans. The second concert in the series is Friday, May 9, at 7:30 PM at the Northside United Methodist Church on Airline Road at the Brewster/Dennis town … Continue reading
Falmouth Chamber Players Orchestra offers “A Very Masterful Concert”
Guest Harpsichord Soloist Linda Skernick The Falmouth Chamber Players Orchestra, John Yankee music director, will present its spring concert, “A Very Masterful Concert,” on Saturday, March 29, at 7 PM, and Sunday, March 30, at 3 PM, at John Wesley United Methodist Church, 270 Gifford Street, Falmouth. The orchestra will perform Johann Sebastian Bach’s … Continue reading
Falmouth Chamber Players Orchestra: Three Centuries
The Falmouth Chamber Players Orchestra will play a nicely varied program of Vivaldi, Haydn, and Douglas Townsend this weekend. Concerts are Saturday, November 16, at 7 PM, and Sunday, November 17, at 3 PM at Falmouth Academy. The Vivaldi piece is the lively “Concerto in C for Two Trumpets and Strings (RV 537), and the … Continue reading
Resilience and Hope
I was not ready for today’s Healing Our City prayer service at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston. I was not ready to be resilient. I a little more time wailing, keening, and weeping over the tragic deaths of two young women and a boy and the many devastating injuries caused by the bombings … Continue reading
Falmouth Chamber Players Orchestra Features Robert Wyatt
The Falmouth Chamber Players Orchestra will present music of George Gershwin, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in concerts on Saturday, April 13, at 7 PM, and Sunday, April 14, at 3 PM, at John Wesley United Methodist Church, Gifford Street and Jones Road in Falmouth. John Yankee is music director of this orchestra, … Continue reading
Chappaquoit Cellists
Almost a year ago, on January 28, 2012, the Chappaquoit Cellists performed at the Woods Hole Library, all students of Nikki Patton of West Falmouth. Two quartets performed: the Chappy Cellists (four middle school students) and the Chappaquoit Cello Quartet (four high school students). I videotaped the concert, but it took me a long time … Continue reading
Mastersingers by the Sea Pre-Concert Talk
Mastersingers by the Sea presents its fall concert, “Festivo! Music of Celebration” on Saturday, November 3, at 7:30 PM and Sunday, November 4, at 3 PM, at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church, 91 Main Street, in Falmouth. Directed by Dr. David MacKenzie, Mastersingers is a chamber chorus accompanied by instrumentalists from the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra, … Continue reading
Pianist Donna Kwong
Bonnie Simon, Stephen Simon, and Donna Kwong, at Falmouth Academy after Saturday evening’s performance. Pianist Donna Kwong was the guest soloist with the Simon Sinfonietta at Falmouth Academy for their season-opening performance on Saturday, September 15. She played Camille Saint-Saens’ Piano Concerto No. 2 in g minor. It was a magnificent–more on that later. Prior … Continue reading