Classic rock fans will find two very different homages to the legendary band that first rose to prominence in the 1960s this weekend. The Falmouth Theater Guild kicks off the season with a return of the Beatles tribute band, while Hyannis’ Cape Cod Melody Tent concludes summer 2022 with a tribute show to Led Zeppelin.
Also offering a very different type of show for music lovers, the Cape Cod Chamber Orchestra looks back on recent history, especially the pandemic and 9/11, through contemporary music. See below for a selection of this weekend’s concert experiences.
“The Beatles Experience”
Falmouth’s show, A Day in the Life: A Beatles Experience, will run at 7:30 p.m. Friday, September 9 and Saturday, September 10 at the Highfield Theatre. , 58 Highfield Drive.
A collaboration between The Guild and A Day in the Life LLC, the Tour Theater Concerts will feature live performances covering The Beatles’ groundbreaking career, from The Ed Sullivan Show to Abbey Road. Over 30 songs are used, including songs without ,” according to the show’s description. There are multiple costume changes and video backdrops, including original band footage that creates a “complete and immersive concert experience”.
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Co-producer Rob Bowerman said in a press release that in response to sold-out shows in 2017 and 2019, when contacted by creator/producer Morgan Cates, guild leaders agreed to resume the show immediately. said. Than to bring our community together for this incredible journey?” asked Bowerman.
Cates, who plays Paul McCartney, has been an entertainment executive and artist for more than a decade, and is currently the guest experience manager for Broadway in Boston. He has managed concert tours in North America and Europe. Performed at venues such as the Lincoln Center for the Arts in New York City and Ely Cathedral in England. He shared the stage with McCartney family member Kenny Rogers and former First Lady Michelle Obama.
Tickets: $35, $30 over 62, $25 under 18. https://falmouth theater guild.org.
“Get LED Out”
At the Cape Cod Melody Tent, a tribute to Led Zeppelin will be called ‘An Evening to Get the Red Out’ on Saturday, September 10th at 8pm on the revolving stage at 51 Main Street, Hyannis.
According to the show description, a group of six Philadelphia-based veteran performers and multi-instrumentalists “captured the essence of Led Zeppelin’s recorded music and brought it to the concert stage.” I’m here. The show focuses primarily on the early years and includes “studio overdubs” that the band themselves have never performed, according to information from the tent. Like favorite acoustic sets like “Tangerine” and “Hey Hey What Can I Do,” it includes a “deeper cut.”
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Lead vocalist and harmonica player Paul Sinclair called the band’s music “timeless”, according to information from the show. “The members of Led Zeppelin are like the classical composers of the rock age,” he said. “I think 100 years from now they will be considered the Buck or Beethoven of our time.”
Other musicians involved are Paul Hammond and Jimmy Marciano on electric and acoustic guitar, with Hammond also playing mandolin and theremin and Marciano also contributing vocals. Andrew Ripke on keyboards, guitar, vocals and percussion. Adam Ferraoli on drums and percussion. Phil D’Agostino on bass. Eddie Klek on bass and vocals.
Tickets and information: https://melodytent.org/.
Orchestral “Quiet City”
“Quiet City,” the title and centerpiece of the opening concert of the fifth season of the Cape Cod Chamber Orchestra, was originally written by American composer Aaron Copland for the 1939 Irwin Shaw play is.
The play was not a success, but according to CCCO’s information, the music lived on, especially with the orchestra featuring trumpets, English horns and strings.
In announcing the recording of the song, the first music director and conductor, Matthew Sint, described it as “music filled with nostalgia and a desire to return to a past life.”
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Copland’s work “coaches the whole programme, because it deals with the story of loss and personal discovery of the protagonist of the play for which it was composed,” Scinto said in an email. We find parallels between the tragedy of 9/11 and the hardships artists faced during the pandemic: the protagonist often hears the sound of his late brother’s trumpet as a calling he should do. In contrast to his work as a salesman, he has pursued a career as an artist.
‘Quiet City’ kicks off the Harwich Harbor-based orchestra’s five-part concert season on September 11th until 5pm. Linking the date with the content of the concert is the Pilgrim Congregational Church, 533 Route 28, Harwich Harbor. Season 5 also includes his three small ensemble performances and begins the orchestra’s new Sandbar His Chamber series.
“Quiet City” features Kyle Spreaker, Principal Trumpet and Educational Programs Manager of the Cape Symphony Orchestra, and Mary O’Keeffe, who plays the English horn on a Copeland tune. During his globe-trotting career, Spraker has performed in orchestras, chamber ensembles, big bands, rock bands, and recording sessions for film and video games.
O’Keefe is a Boston freelance musician dedicated to exploring the intersection of music and social justice through benefit concerts and other activism. She has performed with the Boston Modern Opera Project, Far She Cry, Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, Chorus Pro She Musica and in 2021 the Borromeo Quartet Guest She was one of the winners of the She’s Artist Award.
Also on the orchestra’s September 11 program are “Source Code” by composer/violinist/educator Jesse Montgomery and “Introduction and Allegro” by Edward Elgar.
According to CCCO’s information, Montgomery’s first “source code” sketches began as transcriptions of the images of prominent African-American artists during the height of the civil rights era in the United States. Montgomery’s reinterpretation of gestures, sentences, and musical syntax is a nod to choreographer Alvin Ailey, poets Langston Hughes and Rita Dove, and jazz diva Ella Fitzgerald, and the orchestra’s “black man across the landscape.” We have created what we describe as the spirit of
Those inspirations and connections to New York City “happened me,” Scinto said in an email. Born from the city ”
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The inclusion of Elgar’s songs ties in nicely with the orchestra’s eventual return to the regular season. says Sint. “The whole theme, inspired by songs he heard in the English countryside, proved very reflective in nature.”
Tickets to The Quiet City are $35 and admission is free for students and children. Information and Reservations: capecodchamberorchestra.org, 508-432-1668; Tickets can also be purchased at the door with cash or credit card.
Please contact Kathi Scrizzi Driscoll at kdriscoll@capecodonline.com. Follow us on Twitter: @KathiSDCCT.
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