In celebration of National Poetry Month, the Cape Cod Chamber Orchestra and the Cape Cod Writers Center present a concert of song and music inspired by poetry. This concert will feature Cape poet Judith Askew with the premiere of a musical setting of her poetry "Here at the Edge of the Sea" by composer Francis Snyder. The musical program also includes the music of Debussy, Elgar, Grieg, and Boston-based mezzo-soprano Zaray Rodriguez singing Mahler's Songs of a Wayfarer.

Student poetry from Monomoy Regional High School will be recognized and displayed at the concert.

Program:

DEBUSSY Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun

ELGAR Chanson de Nuit & Chanson de Matin

SNYDER Here at the Edge of the Sea: Three Poems by Judith Askew

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MAHLER Songs of a Wayfarer, Zaray Rodriguez, mezzo-soprano

GRIEG Holberg Suite