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The Cape Symphony Orchestra presents “A New Era” at the Barnstable Performing Arts Center at 4:00 PM on September 20 and 3:00 PM on September 21, 2025. 
Ticketholders are invited to a discussion of the concert program, led by Assistant Conductor Joe Marchio one hour before each performance. 

If you’re ever lucky enough to get in conversation with Cape Symphony Concertmaster and Managing Artistic Principal Jae Cosmos Lee, you might miss your next appointment, but you won’t care. When you meet a friendly, fun person who knows an awful lot about a great many things, and is always jazzed to learn more, time just doesn’t seem to matter.

Excitement is building for your Cape Symphony Orchestra’s opening concert of the 2025/26 season. A New Era features George Walker’s Pageant and Proclamation, Camille Saint-Saëns’s Cello Concerto No. 1, and Johannes Brahms’s Symphony No. 1. Guest conductor David Charles Abell and soloist Sofia Hernández-Williams shared some thoughts about the program.  

For Sarah Fachada, joining the Cape Symphony faculty is a kind of homecoming. She taught here in her early years on the Cape, and also at Cape Cod Academy for 25 years. Following a hiatus during the pandemic, “I felt a hole in my soul… I knew I had to go back to music.” Today she teaches and music directs productions at Cape Cod Community College, and is accepting new voice and piano students at our West Barnstable campus.

Before each Masterpiece performance in the Cape Symphony Orchestra’s 2024/25 concert season, I’ll introduce our guest conductor and Music Director candidate here in the Concertmaster’s Corner. Today we chatted with Alyssa Wang, who will conduct Fantastique on November 16 & 17, 2024.

The nonprofit Mark Hennessy Foundation was founded in 2023 to support and provide opportunities to music students, established musicians, and those seeking to further their music careers through education, empowerment, innovation, and celebration. MHF believes that music transforms the lives of youth, families, and communities by empowering those who wish to express themselves through a creative outlet.