Welcome to our October Newsletter!
Some autumnal images to get you into a seasonal mood!
Don Quixote, Knight Errant
Sarasa’s September Season Opener was a much welcome return to live music, albeit with a reduced but very appreciative audience. We performed two sittings of the popular Baroque program Don Quixote, Knight Errant, which was then live-streamed on our website for a couple of weeks. You can still view selections from the concert here:
Please share This FUN PROGRAM with your friends and family!
Sarasa Ensemble performs Don Quixote, Knight Errant Live from the Brattleboro Music Center, September 18, 2020
ANNOUNCEMENT: NOVEMBER CONCERT-SET TO BE MOVED TO THE 1ST WEEKEND IN DECEMBER!
Our next concert-set, originally scheduled for November 21/22 is now being moved to the first weekend in December. The performing numbers have been reduced to a smaller group of musicians: Christopher Lowrey, countertenor, Jennifer Morsches, Baroque cello, and Michael Leopold, lute, who will present a beautiful program of songs and instrumental works by Purcell, Dowland, Blow, and others. Music for Awhile will celebrate the intimacy and reflective necessity of music for each and every one of us.
Similar to the September viewing options, there will be two sittings of the 60-minute program for a reduced, masked live audience, all properly physically distanced — this time at our Cambridge home— at Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church on Friday, December 4th at 6pm & 8pm. A total of 25 people will be allowed in the venue at each sitting, and with its enormous sanctuary you will feel very safe. We will also film the program to live-stream it on our website for a few weeks afterwards, so that all of our Sarasa friends and family may view it and enjoy this sublime music. We also hope to offer this program at First Parish in Lexington on Saturday December 5th or Sunday, December 6th; we are awaiting the final decision by their COVID Response Team.
Our website will have all updated information and we shall also send out more specific details soon, but please mark your calendars now! We had such a positive response from our most recent live-stream, which was viewed widely across the USA and further across the globe. An enormous thank you for your continued support during these critical and challenging times.
Sarasa would like to stress that the November program Chromatic Alchemy will be re-scheduled for another time, when the pandemic is not causing so many restrictions on movement and the numbers at public gatherings. Most importantly, we at Sarasa hope all of you are doing well, staying safe, sane and remaining as positive as possible with the days getting shorter and the nights getting longer.
#StaySafe #LetTheMusicPlay #SarasaEnsemble
Cooler days call for autumn leaves….and maple syrup!
Merton’s Maple Syrup will be available at two local farmer’s markets:
• Thursday, October 22nd 2-6.30pm at Belmont Farmer’s Market
• Tuesday, October 27th 2-6pm at the Lexington Farmer’s Market https://www.lexingtonfarmersmarket.org/
Be sure to stop by to say hello— Tim would love to see you! And here is a yummy cookie recipe that calls for some of that liquid gold: https://leitesculinaria.com/289602/recipes-glazed-soft-maple-cookies.html
Remembering Lewis Counts
Sarasa would like to pay special tribute to Lewis (“Lew”) Counts, who passed away earlier in September. We befriended him immediately when we moved our regular concert series to First Parish in Lexington in 2017. A committed member of its parish, he was an avid music lover and generously shared his excellent photography skills at our concerts. We shall miss his tall and smiling presence greatly. You will find some Sarasa moments he captured on camera below.
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx?n=lewis-w-counts-lew&pid=196852288
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.
— Leonard Cohen “Anthem” ©1992
