- Event dates: JUNE 2025
- 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
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 WDR Funkhausorchester.
Metropolitan Chorale of Brookline
The Metropolitan Chorale is a 100-voice auditioned chorus, and one of Boston's premier vocal ensembles. The Chorale unites singers from greater Boston who share a joy for learning and performing a diverse repertoire. Their varied programming engages and inspires performers and audiences. The Metropolitan Chorale is committed to building a richer, more diverse choral community in greater Boston through traditional and cross-disciplinary artistic collaborations. Dr. Lisa Graham has directed the Metropolitan Chorale since 2004. She is also Director of Choral Programs at Wellesley College, and a frequent conductor with the Handel + Haydn Society.
Sonja Tengblad, Soprano
Described as “radiant” by Opera magazine, soprano Sonja Tengblad has performed with A Far Cry, the Boston Philharmonic, the Boston Landmarks Orchestra, Boston Baroque, the Handel + Haydn Society, and many others. A champion of new music, she co-curated Modern Dickinson, a touring program featuring 21st century settings of Emily Dickinson’s poetry. Tengblad founded Beyond Artists, a coalition that pledges a portion of their concert fees to organizations they care about. She teaches at Wellesley College and Harvard University.
Bradford Gleim, Baritone
Baritone Bradford Gleim, praised by The Boston Globe for his “voluminous baritone” and “brilliant delivery,” performs throughout the United States and Europe with ensembles including the Handel + Haydn Society, Tage Alter Musik, Boston Baroque, San Francisco Early Music Society, Emmanuel Music, The Borromeo String Quartet, Laus Polyphoniae, Floremus, and many others. He is Artistic Advisor to the Renaissance music ensemble Cut Circle. Gleim teaches at Harvard University, Brown University, and Berklee College of Music.
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.
