The Cape Symphony Orchestra will present “A Salute to Service” Nov. 15 and 16 at the Barnstable Performing Arts Center.
Guest conductor Guillaume Pirard will lead a program of music by Dudley Buck, Morton Gould, Maurice Ravel, Samuel Barber and Aaron Copland, according to a community announcement. The concert is a tribute to veterans.
“It’s about remembrance,” concertmaster Jae Cosmos Lee said. “And about honoring those who’ve served, taking care of the person to the left of them, and to the right of them.”
The performance will open with Buck’s “Festival Overture on the American National Air,” “The Star Spangled Banner,” followed by Gould’s “An American Salute,” Ravel’s “Le Tombeau de Couperin,” and Barber’s “Adagio for Strings.”
After an intermission, the orchestra will perform Copland’s beloved “Symphony No. 3.”
“When people talk of American sound in classical music, it is Copland’s sound they imagine,” Pirard said. “In his music there are bustling streets, rumbas danced in a cafe, the immense sky, and the prairie. He really captured America like no others before or since.”
Pirard is a highly respected artist and educator with a deep belief in the power and essentiality of collaborative music making. He has conducted the New York University and Cornell University Orchestras, Ensemble X, Opus Ithaca, the Philharmonic of Moravia, the Metamorphosis Chamber Orchestra, the Lviv Philharmonic, the Mannes School of Music Opera, and the Mannes Orchestra, and served as assistant conductor for the Buffalo Philharmonic and Ensemble 21.
He is currently music director of the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra in Ithaca, New York. Born in Belgium, Pirard studied at the Brussels Royal Conservatory of Music and at Juilliard, and earned a master’s degree in orchestral conducting from The New School. He has served on the faculties of New York University, San Diego State University, Ithaca College and Cornell University.
Donations are being sought to give concert tickets to local veterans. Each $50 gift provides a ticket to be given to local vets through Cape & Islands Veterans Outreach Center, Vet Center of Hyannis, Nicholas G. Xiarhos Foundation, Heroes in Transition and 22Mohawks Veteran Suicide Prevention. Donate online at capesymphony.org/donations under “A Salute to Service.”
“A Salute to Service” will be presented at 4 p.m. Nov. 15 and at 3 p.m. Nov. 16 at the Barnstable Performing Arts Center, 744 West Main St., Hyannis. Ticketholders are invited to a talk about the concert program by former Cape Symphony trombonist George Scharr one hour before each performance.
For tickets, visit capesymphony.org, call the Cape Symphony Box Office at 508-362-1111, email [email protected], or visit the box office at 2235 Iyannough Road in West Barnstable, Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tickets are discounted 20% for veterans and active military and 50% for students aged 6-22. Only tickets purchased on Cape Symphony’s secure website or through the Cape Symphony Box Office are legitimate and guaranteed.
The Cape Symphony Orchestra’s Masterpiece series concerts are sponsored by Cape Cod 5. Visit capesymphony.org for more information.
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