Call for Vocalists! Sopranos Altos/Countertenors/Boy Sopranos for one program and altos, tenors and basses for another! cape Ann Symphony Auditions for 2 concerts. News from Heidi Dallin.

Reminder! Don’t miss an opportunity to join a major tradition.

Cape Ann Symphony Chorus Director Brittany Betts is Conducting Auditions for Vocalists to Perform with Cape Ann Symphony in Two Heralded Programs (Concerts Sept. 28, Nov. 29, Nov. 30)

The Virtuoso Orchestra: September 28: 2 PM
&
The Holiday Pops:
November 29: 2 PM & 7:30 PM;
November 30: 2 PM

Audition details

“Cape Ann Symphony kicks off the 74th season on Sunday, September 28 at 2:00 pm with The Virtuoso Orchestra Concert featuring Gustav Holst’s majestic The Planets where a chorale is featured in the final movement, Neptune. Cape Ann Symphony’s annual Holiday Pops Concert on November 29 at 2:00 pm and 7:30 pm and November 30 at 2:00 pm features The Cape Ann Symphony Chorus. 

 Ms. Betts, entering her second season as CAS Chorus Director, is looking for Sopranos & Altos/Countertenors/Boy Sopranos who are able to read and render music quickly to perform with the chorus in Gustav Holst’s The Planets in The Virtuoso Orchestra Concert on September 28. To audition, please send a video to Brittany Betts at brittanybetts@gmail.com by August 1, 2025. The video should contain the following vocal material:  Sing a short piece you can sing well that showcases your range, especially your upper register; Sing a 9-Note Scale up and down at the top of your range on an “ah”; and Sing through 4 Octave Arpeggios (1, 3,5, 8, 5, 3, 1)on “ah” at the top of your range and holding the 8 for 4 long counts before returning to 1. If you are unable to create a recording, contact Ms. Betts at brittanybetts@gmail.com before the August 1 deadline to set up an audition.

 CAS Chorus Director Betts is looking for Altos, Tenors and Basses to sing in The Holiday Pops Concert in November. According to Betts, “We are not looking for Sopranos at this time.  The Soprano section is full for this year’s Holiday Pops Concert.” Altos, Tenors and Basses can contact Ms. Betts at brittanybetts@gmail.com to set up an audition appointment.  The audition deadline is August 10.”

About the upcoming season:

The Cape Ann Symphony’s 74th Season opens on Sunday, September 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM with The Virtuoso Orchestra Concert followed by the annual Holiday Pops Concert featuring The Cape Ann Symphony Chorus on Saturday, November 29 at 2:00 PM and 7:30 PM; and Sunday, November 30 at 2:00 PM. The  74th Season  continues in 2026 with The Mozart, Mendelssohn and Rodrigo Concert featuring Guitarist Grisha Goryachev on Sunday, March 16 at 2:00 PM and the season wraps up with The Rossini, Grieg and Tchaikovsky Concert featuring pianist Frederick Moyer on Sunday, May 10 at 2:00 PM. All concerts are held at the Manchester-Essex High School auditorium on 36 Lincoln Street in Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA

Tickets are ON SALE NOW for the Cape Ann Symphony’s 74th Season. For season subscriptions, single tickets and further  information, call 978-281-0543 or visit www.capeannsymphony.org

“Prevailing Wind & Whales” special MIT concert Saturday is all Gloucester Ocean Alliance, Parley, MIT Wind Ensemble 20th Anniversary & Humpback Whales

Parley X MIT: Prevailing Wind and Whales Saturday April 27, 2019

Reserve tickets here

From the press release:

7:00pm Parley SnotBot, EarBot & Drones for Whale Research
Parley Pre-Concert Talk Featuring Drs. Iain Kerr & Roger Payne, Ocean Alliance
Cyrill Gutsch, Founder, Parley for the Oceans

Join Dr. Roger Payne, Dr. Iain Kerr, and Parley founder Cyrill Gutsch as we dive into the world of whales and the new technologies that are changing the way that we study them.

8:00pm MIT Wind Ensemble 20th Anniversary Concert

Dr. Frederick Harris, Jr., Music Director
Kenneth Amis, Assistant Conductor
Stephen C. Massey, Guest Conductor
MITWE Alumni
Kathryn Salfelder and Michael Weinstein, Guest Composers
Drs. Roger Payne and Iain Keer, Guest Speakers, Ocean Alliance
Cyrill Gutsch, Guest Speaker, Parley for the Oceans

To celebrate its 20th anniversary, MITWE brings together traditional and new music, works commissioned by the ensemble, special guests, and alumni.  In tribute to its recent tour to the Dominican Republic and collaboration with Parley for the Oceans, the concert features “In Praise Of The Humpback,” prefaced by remarks by legendary biologist-environmentalist and whale song expert, Dr. Roger Payne.

Renowned music educator Stephen C. Massey leads Persichetti Symphony no. 6, and legendary wind ensemble conductor-historian Frank L. Battisti will be honored by performances of three works composed for his 85th birthday in 2016, by Kenneth Amis, Kathryn Salfelder, and Michael Weinstein. MITWE’s percussion ensemble performs a new work in honor of MITWE’s 20th anniversary and “Course Sax” performs Piazzolla’s famed “Cafe, 1930” from Histoire du Tango. MITWE alumni join current MITWE members to close out the program with Gustav Holst’s amiable Second Suite in F. 

MIT Wind Ensemble
https://mta.mit.edu/music/performance/mit-wind-ensemble

Parley For The Oceans
https://www.parley.tv/#fortheoceans

Ocean Alliance
https://whale.org/

Center for Coastal Studies (informational materials available at the concert)
http://coastalstudies.org/