Single Ticket sales begin July 1
Friday, September 18, 2026 at 7pm at Brattleboro Music Center, Brattleboro VT (tickets at bmcvt.org)
Saturday, September 19, 2026 at 7pm at Friends Meeting House, Cambridge
Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 3:30pm at Follen Church, Lexington
Music manuscripts from the Dresden Court rediscovered in a cabinet after 100 years of oblivion with rising star, tenor Richard Pittsinger. Works by Händel, Vivaldi, Lully, Campra, Locatelli, Telemann & Johann Pisendel. Plus a world premiere by Rebecca Scout Nelson.
With Richard Pittsinger, tenor; Rebecca Scout Nelson, composer/violin, Susanna Ogata, Nelli Jabotinsky, violins; Emily Dahl Irons, violin/viola; Jennifer Morsches, Timothy Merton, cellos; John McKean, harpsichord
Program:
Sinfonia funebra în F minor - Pietro Locatelli
Lamento: Largo; Alla breve ma Moderato
Non sempre folgora (from La costanza trionfante, 1716) - Antonio Vivaldi
Overture-Suite Les Nations in B-flat major, TWV 55:B5 - Georg Philipp Telemann
Menuet I & II
Cantata Il dolce pur amor l’affanno - Georg Friderich Händel
Il Sospetto | Concerto RV 199 in C minor - Vivaldi
Andante
*World premiere of new work - Rebecca Scout Nelson
from L’Europe Galante - André Campra
Troisième entrée L’Espagne, scène première | Dom Pedro Air “Sommeil, qui chaque nuit jouissez de ma belle”
intermission
Persée Acte III sc. i - Jean-Baptiste Lully
Récit accomp. « J’ai perdu la beauté qui me rendit si vaine »
Air « Je porte l’épouvante et la mort en tous lieux »
Imitation des charactères de la Danse - J.G. Pisendel
Loure, Rigaudon, Canarie, Bourée, Musette, Polonoise, Presto
from L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, HWV 55 - G.F. Händel
Air “Let Hymen oft appear”
Sinfonia La verità in cimento, RV 739 - Vivaldi
Allegro, Andante, Allegro e forte
La tiranna avverso folgora sorte (from Arsilda regina di Ponto, 1716) - Vivaldi
Overture-Suite Les Nations in B-flat major, TWV 55:B5 - G.Ph. Telemann
Les Turcs, Les Moscovites
Ticket Prices:
Tickets purchased ahead:
(online, or with check by contacting sarah@sarasamusic.org or tel. 978-766-9408)
Adult: $26
Senior: $21
Student/Under 35: $10
Under 18: free
Tickets purchased in person:
(at the door by cash, credit card, or check)
Adult: $30
Senior: $25
Student/Under 35: $10
Under 18: free
Tickets to Brattleboro concerts at the Brattleboro Music Center are available for $20 in advance at their website www.bmcvt.org, or $25 at the door.
Venues:
Brattleboro Music Center: 72 Blanche Moyse Way, Brattleboro VT 05301
Friends Meeting House, 5 Longfellow Park, Cambridge MA 02138
Follen Church: 755 Massachusetts Ave, Lexington MA 02420
Tickets for Sarasa Music concerts in Brattleboro VT are available at the Brattleboro Music Center’s website, https://bmcvt.org.
