Schedule 2019

Our concerts have included the participation of a wonderful variety of excellent musicians from many genres and traditions. The concerts from 2019 are archived here in appreciation for the musicians and their fine performances.

  • THE HYANNIS SOUND

    June 9th

    THE HYANNIS SOUND

    a Cape Cod vocal tradition

    The Hyannis Sound is Cape Cod’s all-male professional a cappella group. Comprised of ten young men from around the country, the group has entertained audiences of all shapes and sizes since its inception in 1994. Boasting a diverse repertoire aimed to please anyone from age 5 to 95, The Hyannis Sound’s members are charming, talented and laugh-out-loud funny. Don’t let the ties fool you: this is no formal event. Bring the whole family along and prepare for a high-energy concert of great music, stories and antics. The Hyannis Sound’s upbeat, dazzling and moving performances are an exciting part of Cape Cod’s musical culture.

  • BROADWAY GOES TO THE MOVIES

    June 16th

    BROADWAY GOES TO THE MOVIES

    featuring the Great Music on Sundays @5 Broadway ensemble

    John Thomas   music director & pianist

    Another season of great Broadway concerts begins during the Provincetown International Film Festival with a celebration of songs from stage musicals that became movie musicals, as well as cinematic musicals that reverse migrated to Broadway. Our Broadway concerts are wildly popular audience favorites. Curtain up!

  • RUFFLED HENS

    June 23rd

    RUFFLED HENS

    Celtic string band/chamber ensemble

    Denya LeVine   fiddle, ukulele & vocals

    Pat Nash   guitar, foot percussion & bodhrán

    Laura Geiges   cello

    Ruffled Hens blends diverse genres to create a unique presentation of traditional music from the Celtic countries and the USA. LeVine is a Wellfleet musician who has entertained solo and with folk and ethnic bands for 40 years. Nash plays in multiple Celtic groups and sessions and is a mover and shaker with the Wellfleet Outermost Contra Dance series. Geiges is a classical musician who performs regularly at The Well Tavern Celtic music sessions in Wellfleet and with her classical trio. Come and experience the exhilaration of this wonderful music.

  • BROADWAY WITHOUT BORDERS

    June 30th

    BROADWAY WITHOUT BORDERS

    featuring the Great Music on Sundays @5 Broadway ensemble

    John Thomas   music director & pianist

    Combining two perennial favorite Broadway concert themes – musicals with an American ambience and those with an international setting – this event takes Broadway to a true global level in a cultural extravaganza that includes history, politics, peace, war, love, loss, community, migration, home… all the great themes of musical theater presented by our wonderful singers. Join us for this moving and thrilling concert.

  • THE BEAUTY OF BAROQUE

    July 7th

    THE BEAUTY OF BAROQUE

    Bach, Handel & Britten

    Christopher Lowrey   countertenor

    Krishan Oberoi   tenor

    Frederick Jodry   piano

    Lowrey is making an international career as an operatic countertenor. Winner of the 2011 London Handel competition, he will perform a bouquet of arias from Handel’s sublime Italian operas. Handel’s vocal writing was unsurpassed in the Baroque era. His arias might be languid or filled with lament or bristling with anger and intense vocal flourishes, and they are always fascinating. Boston-based tenor Oberoi will join Lowrey in Benjamin Britten’s church canticle Abraham and Isaac. Keyboard wizard Jodry will offer Bach preludes and fugues from The Well-Tempered Clavier Book II.

  • FINDING HOME

    July 21st

    FINDING HOME

    friends reuniting & journeys to come

    Christopher Sidoli   tenor

    Halcyone Hurst   mezzo-soprano

    Trish LaRose   mezzo-soprano

    John Thomas   piano & baritone

    The 2019 Provincetown theater summer season features Sidoli, Thomas, Hurst & LaRose in major productions of Sweeney Todd at Provincetown Theater and the Peregrine Theatre Ensemble’s Cabaret. They join together for a powerful and joyous concert that focuses on families and friends and the homes we create in our hearts and in our world. The music includes Broadway, classical, film, popular and international songs that bring us all closer to home.

  • SONDHEIM!

    August 4th

    SONDHEIM!

    featuring the Great Music on Sundays @5 Broadway ensemble

    John Thomas   music director & pianist

    Legendary composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim has written two dozen musicals during half a century of creativity. He has an Academy Award, 8 Tony Awards, 8 Grammy Awards, a Pulitzer Prize and more. The New York Times writer Frank Rich calls him “the greatest and perhaps best-known artist in the American musical theater”. Sondheim is the Great Music on Sundays @5 Broadway ensemble’s favorite musical theater composer/lyricist. The Sondheim concert is always spectacular and filled with well-known and obscure gems. We are thrilled to be presenting it again.

  • GENDER BENDER BROADWAY!

    August 11th

    GENDER BENDER BROADWAY!

    featuring the Great Music on Sundays @5 Broadway ensemble

    John Thomas   music director & pianist

    A favorite of the Broadway ensemble singers and audience, this special theme features men singing songs originally performed by women, and women belting out tunes originally performed by men. The concert runs the gamut from wild humor to sweet poignancy and is a hugely popular event.

  • ENCHANTED BROADWAY!

    August 18th

    ENCHANTED BROADWAY!

    featuring the Great Music on Sundays @5 Broadway ensemble

    John Thomas   music director & pianist

    It’s Carnival time in Provincetown! This year’s “Enchanted Forest” theme is the inspiration for the mid-August Broadway concert of singing divas and divos delivering grand performances from musicals celebrating all things festive and fun and… enchanted. Start the weeklong party with an event full of joie de vivre and wonderful melodies.

  • PAST PRESENT

    August 25th

    PAST PRESENT

    memorable melodies from yesterday & today

    Laura Cappello   vocals

    John Thomas   piano & vocals

    Mark van Bork   guitar

    Cappello is well known to Cape Cod audiences for her popular performances as Patsy Cline in productions since 2002. Cape Cod Times hails Cappello’s “sweet and sometimes husky alto, and spot-on period stylings” and the ease in which she “mixes torch song with poignancy and honky tonk”. Cappello and Thomas first collaborated in the 2018 Provincetown Theater production Always… Patsy Cline. They expand their music world together with toe-tapping and heartfelt American music from “past and present” with memorable songs made famous by Cline and other vocalists.

  • LIGHTHOUSE CHAMBER PLAYERS

    September 1st

    LIGHTHOUSE CHAMBER PLAYERS

    music by Martinu, Duruflé & Fauré

    Bart Feller   flute

    Elizabeth Chang   violin

    Nardo Poy   viola

    Alberto Parrini   cello

    Alissa Leiser   piano

     

    The Lighthouse Chamber Players present a program of French chamber music for flute, strings and piano that represents three generations of composition by Bohuslav Martinu, Maurice Duruflé and Gabriel Fauré. Feller, principal flutist of the New Jersey Symphony and New York City Opera, joins Chang, Poy, Parrini and Leiser in the light and playful Madrigal Sonata by Martinu, PreludeRecitatif and Variations for flute, viola and piano by Duruflé, and one of the great works of French chamber music: Fauré’s Piano Quartet in C minor.

  • THE BEAUTY OF BAROQUE

    September 8th

    THE BEAUTY OF BAROQUE

    Bach & Telemann

    Phoebe Carrai   cello

    Frederick Jodry   harpsichord

    Roxanne Layton   recorder

    Katherine Winterstein   violin

    Four musical friends play delightful sonatas by two masters of Baroque music. Layton is beloved by Cape Cod audiences. Jodry has curated The Beauty of Baroque concerts for several years. Carrai is internationally known for her exquisite musicianship; she co-leads the Harvard Baroque Orchestra and teaches at the Juilliard School in New York City. Winterstein is concertmistress of the Boston Pops and plays with the Vermont Symphony. Layton holds a degree in early music performance from New England Conservatory where she worked with harpsichordist Jodry.

  • DAVID ROTH

    September 15th

    DAVID ROTH

    Folk, Joke, and Hope Songs

    Join David Roth on a roller coaster ride of song and story – holistic to hilarious, poignant to improbable – as he winds his way through offbeat observations and follies and foibles of living in this complicated world. Our well-traveled Orleans resident has been a full-time troubadour for three decades, thinking globally and occasionally singing locally. In search of some sanity amid the chaos? This is for you.

  • GEORGE GERSHWIN: RHAPSODY IN BLUE

    September 22nd

    GEORGE GERSHWIN: RHAPSODY IN BLUE

    Paul Bisaccia   piano

    Bisaccia is the first person in history to record all of the solo piano music of Gershwin, whose arrangements of his own compositions are legendary. For this special concert, he will perform Gershwin standards and favorites and the rarely played original solo piano version of Rhapsody in Blue. The American Record Guide notes, “For Gershwin interpretations Bisaccia wins hands down.” Michael Feinstein has praised Bisaccia’s “consummate musicianship”. The concert features a simultaneous live widescreen projection of the pianist’s hands as they use all 88 keys of the Steinway grand piano.

  • ENSEMBLE PASSACAGLIA

    September 29th

    ENSEMBLE PASSACAGLIA

    Old Wine in New Bottles

    Jan Elliott   recorder, concertina & pennywhistle

    Lisa Esperson   riqq, tar, dumbek & percussion

    Tom Hanna   lute, guitar, bouzouki & mandolin

    Molly Johnston   viola da gamba

    The quartet specializes in medieval, Renaissance and world music and plays a variety of melodies from Europe, the Middle East and the Americas. Their repertoire includes lute songs, madrigals, canzonas, processionals, and a variety of dance pieces from pavanes and galliards to Turkish melodies and Latin-inspired tangos and waltzes. Ensemble Passacaglia transports the audience to another time and place as they bring ancient music forward with fresh interpretations and emphasis on cross-cultural connections.

  • THE BEAUTY OF BAROQUE

    October 6th

    THE BEAUTY OF BAROQUE

    music by Louis & François Couperin & Johann Sebastian Bach

    Frederick Jodry   harpsichord & organ

    Two of the most prolific musical families in history were the Couperins and the Bachs: four generations of Couperins served French kings, and seven generations of Bachs worked in central Germany. Harpsichord music by Louis and François Couperin will be played, and Bach’s beloved Italian concerto will be included as well. Bach organ music will include chorale preludes and the Fugue in E-flat, the St Anne.

     

    (Oboist Kevin Darrow, originally scheduled for this concert, canceled his engagement.)

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