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The Cape Symphony Orchestra presents “Defying Gravity: The Best of Broadway!” at the Barnstable Performing Arts Center on Saturday, October 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM and 7:30 PM, and Sunday, October 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM.

There's just something special about show tunes... a unique energy, emotion, and excitement that no other kind of music hits quite the same way. You don't even have to have seen the whole show for its signature hit to bring smiles, tears, goosebumps, or pure joy. Sometimes, it's all in the vocals. For Defying Gravity: The Best of Broadway! on October 18 & 19, 2025, Cape Symphony brings a wealth of Broadway talent to the stage to make it happen.

Here are our sensational guest artists. From left to right:

For Cape Cod residents Evie and Ron Rencurrel, Cape Symphony Orchestra concerts are a mainstay of their cultural and social lives.

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.