Welcome to our May Newsletter!
Flowering Currants
Sarasa’s most recent and final program of this challenging 2020-21 season, Vivaldi’s Orphan Girls: Virtuosi della Pietà, was an enormous success. Once again, we were grateful to be performing live music together for reduced audiences this past weekend. We will be streaming the concert on our website and youtube channel on Saturday, May 22nd at 7:30pm for four weeks. What a joy it was to see familiar Sarasa friends and meet some new audience members, despite the face masks! Several commented they had not been to a live concert since the pandemic began— and welcomed this much needed collective experience greatly. For those who missed the live version, we hope we can encourage you to listen/watch the streaming, and return in person for our next season’s concert series! Please share with friends and family. Thank you!
Happy Sarasa musicians in front of Follen Community Church: Jenny Stirling, Susannah Foster, Timothy Merton, Susanna Ogata, John McKean, Jennifer Morsches, Kristen Watson, and Keats Dieffenbach
Vivaldi’s Orphan Girls: Virtuosi della Pietà
Celebrating the young orphan girls under Vivaldi’s tutelage, whose virtuosic talent and charisma created a musical mecca in 18th-century Venice.
Free streaming on www.sarasamusic.org from Saturday, May 22 at 7.30pm for four weeks!
All Vivaldi:
Sinfonia in G-major for strings & basso continuo, RV 146
Ascende laeta RV 635 for soprano, strings, & basso continuo
Concerto No. 1 in B-flat major RV 383a, from Op. 4 “La Stravaganza” for violin, strings, & basso continuo
Zeffiretti che sussurrate RV 749.31 for soprano, strings & harpsichord
Concerto No. 12 in E Minor RV 409 for violoncello solo, 2 violins, viola & basso continuo
Trio Sonata for 2 violins and basso continuo in F major, RV 68
In turbato mare irato, solo motet for voice, strings, & basso continuo in G major, RV 627
Kristen Watson, soprano; Susanna Ogata, Susannah Foster, Keats Dieffenbach, violins; Jenny Stirling, viola; Jennifer Morsches, Timothy Merton, cellos; John McKean, harpsichord
Sarasa Announces its 2021-22 Season: Imagination: Re-Set
Sarasa is delighted to announce next season’s programming for our concert series at the Brattleboro Music Center in Vermont (for VT tickets: www.bmcvt.org), Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church in Cambridge, MA and Follen Community Church in Lexington, MA. Please note we have had to move our Lexington venue due to the necessary upgrading of the ventilation system at First Parish in Lexington. So, please mark your calendars and your venue of choice! It will be wonderful to welcome you back for live music in person with full-length concerts, and we are hoping we can return to post-concert receptions as well! We will continue to stream all of our programs one week later on our youtube channel and homepage. We also look forward to bringing our programs back to the youth in detention centers in person!
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