Press Release
30th Season of Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival Set for August at Six Venues
Highlights to Include Performances by Tokyo, Jupiter, and Borromeo String Quartets, plus a Commissioned Work by Paquito D’Rivera
North Chatham, Massachusetts, May 12, 2009—The 30th season of the Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival will get underway on Sunday, August 2, and run through August 21, at six dispersed venues.
“We are delighted to be producing this milestone Festival,” said Jon Nakamatsu and Jon Manasse, who are returning for their third season as artistic directors. “With each new season, we have sought to offer diverse and distinctive programs performed by top-caliber musical talent—and this year’s season is no exception. In addition to the Borromeo and Jupiter String Quartets – which have pleased our audiences in the past – we are looking forward to hosting the renowned Tokyo String Quartet for the first time, as well as a roster of fine individual musicians, some in their debut appearances here, others veterans from the earliest Festival seasons with Samuel Sanders.
“We are also excited to be premiering a specially commissioned new work for clarinet and piano – ‘The Cape Cod Files’ – by Paquito D’Rivera, a Cuban-born composer and clarinetist,” the directors said, adding that “the piece will certainly be a festival highlight.” ‘The Cape Cod Files’ encompasses four movements: “Benny @ 100”—a “classical”-jazz celebration of Benny Goodman’s 100th birthday; “Bandoneon”— a tango; “Lecuonerías”—solo clarinet improvisations of melodies composed by famed Cuban composer and pianist, Ernesto Lecuona; and “Chiquita Blues”—a synthesis of American blues, a traditional Cuban dance (Danzon), and contemporary atonal music, all inspired by Antonio Orlando Rodríguez’s novel, ‘Chiquita.’
Other hallmarks of the season, according to Executive Director Elaine Lipton, will be the unveiling and printing of a 30th Anniversary poster by artist Jim Dine, who designed the posters for the Festival’s first four seasons, as well as the addition of a new performance venue: the Dennis Union Church. The other venues, as in previous seasons, will be: Provincetown Art Association Museum, First Congregational Church (Wellfleet), First Congregational Church (Chatham), Cape Cod Museum of Art (Dennis), and Cotuit Center for the Arts.
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