originally published: 10/01/2015
(ATLANTIC CITY/BRIDGETON, NJ) -- Exquisite, sublime musical masterpieces of youth and innocence—a suite by Maurice Ravel and Gustav Mahler’s most lyrical symphony—will herald the opening of the Bay Atlantic Symphony’s 2015-16 subscription concert season on October 31 and November 1.
The concerts will take place on Saturday, October 31, at 8 p.m., at the Frank Guaracini, Jr. Fine and Performing Arts Center, Cumberland County College, College Drive, Vineland, NJ; and Sunday, November 1, at 2 p.m., at the Stockton University Performing Arts Center, Jimmie Leeds Road, Galloway Township, NJ.
For this season’s subscription concert series, reduced ticket prices—$30 per concert ($25 for the December Holiday Concert)—will be for all seats in all venues, subsidized by the generosity of sponsorship by Woodruff Energy. Service charges will apply for Stockton tickets.
Tickets may be ordered by calling the Guaracini Fine and Performing Arts Center box office at (856) 692-8499, or the Stockton University Performing Arts Center box office at (609) 652-9000.
The opening concerts, conducted by Bay Atlantic Symphony Music Director Jed Gaylin, marks the return of acclaimed soprano Jennifer Casey Cabot, as the soloist in Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 in G major. The symphony, smaller in scale than the composer’s other symphonies, reflects a child’s view of heaven—depicted in the soprano solo in the final movement. The program will also include one of Ravel’s most profound scores, perfect in scope— his Mother Goose Suite (Ma mère l’oye).
All Bay Atlantic Symphony performances will be preceded one hour prior to starting time with a “Pre-Concert Conversation with the Maestro.” The Symphony’s pre-concert lectures are open to the public.
These concerts are also made possible through funding from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation.
About Jennifer Casey Cabot
Soprano Jennifer Casey Cabot is making her third appearance with the Bay Atlantic Symphony. The San Diego Tribune said of one of her performances that it was “of such luminous grace and vocal beauty that her soul remains visible to us when she leaves the stage.”
Her career includes many of opera’s greatest heroines—Violetta, Mimi, Manon, Susannah, Musetta, Donna Elvira, Countess Almaviva, Pamina, and Konstanze with such opera companies as Boston Lyric Opera, Washington Opera, New York City Opera, Calgary Opera, Florida Grand Opera, and Central City Opera. She has also appeared at the Metropolitan Opera in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro and Verdi’s La Traviata. Recent performances include Ellen Orford in Britten’s Peter Grimes with the San Diego Opera and Konstanze in Mozart’s The Abduction from the Seraglio with the Minnesota Opera.
In addition to her previous appearances with the Bay-Atlantic Symphony, Cabot has recently appeared with the National Symphony Orchestra under Leonard Slatkin, in the Athens Concert Hall under Sir Neville Marriner, and with the New York Philharmonic under Alan Gilbert.
Her concert career has included Strauss’ Four Last Songs, Villa Lobos’ Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5, Mahler’s Fourth and Eighth Symphonies, Mozart’s Exsultate Jubilate and Mass in C minor, Handel’s Messiah, and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
Cabot was also a resident soloist with the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Staadtstheater Braunschweig.
About The Bay Atlantic Symphony
The aim of the Bay Atlantic Symphony is to share and develop a love for transcendent, live, concert music in southern New Jersey communities through performance and education. Since its founding as the Bridgeton Symphony in 1983, the orchestra has been recognized for its world-class performers, diverse programs and outstanding community services. Under the talented baton of passionate Music Director Jed Gaylin since 1997, the Bay Atlantic Symphony is the only professional orchestra to serve the five southern-most counties of New Jersey. The orchestra makes great music accessible through live concerts with low ticket prices at the Richard Stockton Performing Arts Center, the Guaracini Performing Art Center, the Avalon Symphony by the Sea Series, the Cape May Music Festival and Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa. More information on the Bay-Atlantic Symphony can be obtained by calling (856) 451-1169, visiting the Symphony’s website at www.bayatlanticsymphony.org, or by visiting them on Facebook.
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