- Event dates: March 12, 2027
- Showtimes: 7:00 PM
- Featured Artists:
Cape Cod Museum of Art
60 Hope Lane
Dennis, MA 02638
- Buy Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/beginnings-farewells-strauss-chopin-tickets-2003010237540
Cape Symphony Presents welcomes two of Cape Cod’s exceptional classical artists, award-winning pianist Ana Glig and Cape Symphony Principal Cellist Jacques Lee Wood, for an intimate evening of breathtaking chamber music at the Cape Cod Museum of Art. Beginnings & Farewells: Strauss & Chopin brings to life two deeply expressive works written at remarkably different moments in their composers’ lives, offering audiences a rare opportunity to experience these extraordinary musicians up close.
The evening begins with the Cello Sonata in F Major, Op. 6 by Richard Strauss, a work of youthful confidence, sweeping Romantic melodies, and exhilarating virtuosity. Strauss completed the sonata at just 19 years old, years before the operas and orchestral tone poems that would make him one of the towering musical figures of his generation. Even here, the brilliance, drama, and larger-than-life musical personality of the young composer are unmistakable.
At the other end of a great career stands Frédéric Chopin’s Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 65. Completed during the final years of Chopin’s life and published in 1847, the sonata is one of his rare major chamber works and among the last compositions he brought to publication. Intimate, searching, passionate, and unmistakably Chopin, the piece places cello and piano in an extraordinary musical conversation filled with lyricism and emotional depth. Together, the works create the arc of Beginnings & Farewells: the exuberant voice of a young Richard Strauss discovering the composer he would become, paired with the mature voice of Frédéric Chopin looking back through one of his final masterpieces.
Meet the Artists
Ana Glig, piano: Award-winning Georgian-American pianist Ana Glig has performed throughout the United States and Europe as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral soloist. Audiences may recognize her from her performances as a soloist with the Cape Symphony Orchestra. A member of the Cape Symphony Conservatory faculty, Glig brings virtuosic technique and an expressive, deeply personal approach to the piano. Her training includes the Mannes School of Music, NYU Steinhardt, and Tbilisi State Conservatoire.
Jacques Lee Wood, cello: Principal Cellist of the Cape Symphony Orchestra since 2018, Jacques Lee Wood is a dynamic performer whose work spans classical chamber music, historically informed performance, new music, improvisation, and cross-genre collaboration. A graduate of New England Conservatory and Yale University, Wood performs regularly as a chamber musician and has appeared with ensembles including A Far Cry, the Handel and Haydn Society, and Trinity Baroque Orchestra.
An intimate night at the Cape Cod Museum of Art
There may be no better way to experience chamber music than from just a few feet away. The Cape Cod Museum of Art provides a lovely setting for this program, bringing audiences close enough to experience the smallest musical details — the resonance of the cello, the color of the piano, and the constant musical exchange between two extraordinary performers. Located in Dennis and surrounded by the artistic legacy of Cape Cod and the Islands, the Museum is one of the region’s cultural landmarks, with seven galleries, a sculpture garden, and year-round arts programming. Cape Symphony Presents has previously brought chamber music to the Museum through its Cosmos Sessions, making it a natural home for another beautiful evening of music and art.
Come hear two extraordinary artists, two remarkable composers, and two very different moments in a musical life — a beginning and a farewell.
Tickets are $60. Seating is limited to just 100 guests. Purchasing tickets in advance is strongly recommended.
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