August 20, 2011 Almost every week this summer, Lin Whitehead, director of the Falmouth Town Band, has turned over her baton to a new guest conductor to lead the band in “The Stars & Stripes Forever.” It has been fun for the band, the audience, and, the guest conductors, some of whom have never conducted … Continue reading
June 3, 2011 The Cape Cod Symphony Orchestra’s Music Memory program has high aspirations: to introduce children to great works of music and inspire in them a life-long appreciation of music. Now in its second year on Cape Cod, the program seems to be working. On Wednesday, 144 students from 10 of the 16 schools … Continue reading
April 16, 2010 Jung-Ho Pak, James Cockey, and Joseph Fire Crow Jung-Ho Pak created an outstanding program for the Cape Cod Symphony Orchestra, taking the much-loved, but often performed New World Symphony by Antonin Dvořák and giving it new brilliance and perspective by pairing it with African-American and Native American music. In his Symphony No. … Continue reading
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