• Friday, November 15, 2024 at 7pm at Brattleboro Music Center, Brattleboro VT (tickets at bmcvt.org)

• Saturday, November 16, 2024 at 7pm at Friends Meeting House, Cambridge

• Sunday, November 17, 2024 at 3:30pm at Follen Community Church, Lexington

Composers of the Occident gladly soaked up the sounds of the near Orient, adding extra spice and depth of flavor to their musical concoctions. A program that looks at those Eastern traditions influencing a wide swathe of Europe in a potpourri of Baroque and 20th-century music. Works by Lully, Rameau, Ali Ufkî Bey, Biber, Bartók, Kodály, and Vivaldi.

With Elicia Silverstein, Rebecca Nelson, Danilo Bonina, violins; Jenny Stirling, viola; Jennifer Morsches, Timothy Merton, cellos; John McKean, harpsichord

Program:

Marche pour la cérémonie des Turcs - Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687)
from Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (1670)      

L’Egyptienne for solo harpsichord - Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
from Nouvelles suites de pièces de clavecin (1727)      

Gavotte for three violins & cello (c.1950s) - Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967)

Duos for two violins, Sz. 98 (1932) - Béla Bartók (1881-1945)

No. 36 Bagpipes
No. 44 Erdélyi tánc (Transylvanian Dance) 
No. 42 Arab dal (Arabian Dance) 

Nikrîz Peşrev (Melody-type Prelude) (17th c.) - Ali Ufkî Bey (aka Wojciech Bobowski, c.1610-c.1675)

Mensa sonora, Pars VI, G minor, C 74 (1680) - Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644-1704)

Sonata (Adagio, Presto)
Aria
Canario (Presto)
Amener
Trezza
Ciacona
Sonatina (Adagio)

La Coulicam arr. for string sextet - J-P Rameau/ed. Camille Saint-Saëns
from Pièces en concert, No. 1 in C minor (1741)

Concerto in D major, RV 208 ‘Grosso Mogul’ (c.1713) - Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
for solo violin, strings and basso continuo  

Allegro
Grave - Recitativo
Allegro

Ticket Prices:

Tickets purchased ahead:
(online, or with check by contacting sarah@sarasamusic.org or 9787669408)

Adult: $25
Senior: $20
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 Community Church: 755 Massachusetts Ave, Lexington MA 02420