- Event dates: June 14 & 15, 2025
- Showtimes: Sat 7:30pm, Sun 3:00pm
- Featured Artists:
James Blachly, Conductor
Sonja Tengblad, Soprano
Bradford Gleim, Baritone
Metropolitan Chorale of BrooklineLocation:
Barnstable Performing Arts Center
744 West Main Street, Hyannis MA 02601 - Buy Tickets: /to-the-sea-tickets
Masterpiece 5
Led by Music Director Candidate James Blachly
The grandeur of the sea has enthralled the artistic imagination since the dawn of time. Like painters and poets, composers from Beethoven to Wagner and Rimsky-Korsakov to Led Zeppelin have aspired to capture the massive force of our oceans in their work. Our fascination with this natural resource is primal and unceasing. In this program, the music of Maurice Ravel, Toru Takemitsu, and Ralph Vaughan Williams brings the sea to the concert stage, from its calmest to its most majestic beauty.
Program
Une Barque sur l’Ocean from Miroirs
MAURICE RAVEL
Towards the Sea ll
TORU TAKEMITSU
Symphony No. 1 (“A Sea Symphony”)
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
James Blachly, Conductor
James Blachly is a Grammy®-winning conductor and composer dedicated to enriching the concert experience by connecting with audiences in memorable and meaningful ways. He serves as Music Director of the Experiential Orchestra and the Johnstown Symphony Orchestra, and is a versatile guest conductor with such orchestras as the New York Philharmonic, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic.
Ticketholders are invited to get to know the guest conductor, who is a candidate to be Cape Symphony's next Music Director, at a Q&A session led by Assistant Conductor Joe Marchio. These sessions begin one hour prior to each Masterpiece Series concert.