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At this season’s Holiday on the Cape concerts on December 5, 6, & 7, 2025, Cape Symphony will lead a Holiday Pops Care Drive in collaboration with The Cape and Islands Veterans Outreach Center (CIVOC). CIVOC’s mission to provide comprehensive life sustaining services for veterans and their families is one we fully support, and we know our audiences do, too.

The Cape Symphony Orchestra presents “A Salute to Service” at the Barnstable Performing Arts Center at 4:00 PM on November 15 and 3:00 PM on November 16, 2025.
Ticketholders are invited to a discussion of the concert program led by George Scharr one hour before each performance.

Sally Joyce had a front row seat to the power of music therapy before she’d even heard of it as such. “Way back as a teenager,” she says, “I was a counselor at a camp for developmentally delayed children. Many were nonresponsive, with very little participation in activities. But when I did music with those kids, there was singing and moving!”

Cape Symphony Youth Orchestra students aren’t just talented kids in a great program; they’re hardworking musicians and kind, supportive colleagues. Principal Oboe Charlotte Skinner and Principal Flute Hannah Chung are an “iconic pair,” with a friendship founded in their shared love of music.

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: