What: Talking About the Weather: Music to Chase Away the Gray
Presented by: The Cape Cod Concert Band
Tom Borning, Conductor
When: 2:00 p.m. Saturday, April 18, 2025
Where: Barnstable Performing Arts Center
Admission: FREE!!
Contact: Kate Whouley: kate@capecodconcertband.org
Tired of picking up twigs from the February blizzard under unsettled, un-spring skies?
Join the Cape Cod Concert Band for a musical reset. On Saturday, April 18, the Band
presents Talking About the Weather: Music to Chase Away the Gray. The concert begins
at 2:00 PM at the Performing Arts Center in Barnstable High School. Admission is free,
with audience donations welcome to fund future concerts.
The Cape Cod Concert Band, a 52-piece wind and percussion ensemble, is uniquely
positioned to conjur the stormy nights and sunshiny days experienced across our shared
planet. Aptly, Richard Saucedo’s Fanfare for the Third Planet, a rousing tribute to Earth,
opens the program, setting the stage for the musical meteorology to follow.
Windstorm by Vince Gassi, the first weather system on the program, offers up a multi-
metered depiction of the forward momentum of an advancing storm. Windy weather
arrives again in the pulsing final selection, Of Gale Force Winds. Sustained gusts send
Cape mariners to harbor, but the Band assures all concertgoers will be safe in their seats.
And fear not—it’s not all heavy weather—after all, spring is coming! Opening the second
half of the program is Yellow, from Robert W. Smith’s Krisanna’s Colors suite.
According to the young girl battling childhood cancer, yellow was the color of a bright
and joyful day. It’s also the weather of hope in George Harrison’s Here Comes the Sun,
performed by the CCCB in an arrangement by conductor Tom Borning.
The unusual sightings of the Northern Lights this past year come to life in another
featured selection on the program, Aurora Borealis by Rossano Galante. Galante, known
for his work in film, has composed a work that invites you to hear the twinkling stars and
experience the wash of sound that feels a lot like those swirling reds, greens and purples
that have been visiting Cape Cod. Close your eyes, listen, and you may just see the Lights!
Talking About the Weather is presented free of charge by the musical volunteers of the
Cape Cod Concert Band, under the direction of Tom Borning. The CCCB is supported by
audience donations, business sponsors, and a grant from the Cape Cod Melody Tent.
