Sarasa Chamber Music Ensemble: Past Season 2004-05

"La Clemenza di Tito" by Mozart -- a Prism Opera collaboration

Friday, September 17, 8:00 pm
Sunday, September 19, 3:00 pm
Ellsworth Theatre at Pine Manor College, (Chestnut Hill, MA) [campus map]
Tickets and information: 1-888-236-8181, www.prismopera.org

Prism Opera (http://www.prismopera.org) in collaboration with Sarasa presents opera on a chamber scale. In previous seasons, Prism Opera has performed operas of Britten, Vaughan Williams, and Holst under the direction of conductor/stage director Thomas Stumpf, who is a pianist and vocal coach (formerly at Boston University).

In this production of Mozart's "La Clemenza di Tito" the cast will include Pamela Dellal, Paul Guttry, Susan Trout, Krista River, and Arthur Rishi. It will be a rather "unusual" production in that it will be translated into English (in a new translation by Thomas Stumpf) and the recitatives will be replaced by spoken dialogue as in the Magic Flute. The setting will be changed from Rome to something else--the concept is still being worked on.

The music in this collaboration will be played by single strings and winds, by well-known Sarasa musicians include: Richard Earle, oboe; Alison Bury and Kinloch Earle, violins; Jennifer Stirling, viola; Timothy Merton, cello; Anne Trout, double bass. Clarinet and basset clarinet will be played by Diane Heffner and fortepiano, Thomas Stumpf.

The musical transcription is one that was made for the Welsh National Touring Opera.

Buxtehude to Bach

Handel "La Lucrezia," Bach arias, and music by Buxtehude, Telemann, and Kuhnau

Krista River, mezzo soprano
Judy Linsenberg and Christoph Wald, recorders
Richard Campbell, viola da gamba
Timothy Merton, cello
Charles Sherman, harpsichord

8PM, Saturday, October 23, 2004
Friends Meeting House (Cambridge, MA)

7PM, Sunday, October 24, 2004 Parish Hall, First Parish Church (Concord, MA)

Krista River, mezzo soprano

Music of Schumann & Harbison

Schumann Piano Quartet and Piano Trio and Harbison "November 19, 1828: Hallucinations in four episodes"

Robert Merfeld, piano
Mowry Pearson, violin
Betty Hauck, viola
Timothy Merton, cello

8 PM, Saturday, November 13, 2004
Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall at the Longy School of Music (Cambridge, MA)

7 PM, Sunday, November 14, 2004Sanctuary, First Parish Church (Concord, MA)

Robert Merfeld, piano

Early String Quartets, Boccherini Quintets, and music with soprano

[Non-subscription concert]

Dominique Labelle, soprano
Elizabeth Blumenstock, violin
Kinloch Earle, violin
Jennifer Stirling, viola
Phoebe Carrai, cello
Timothy Merton, cello
Charles Sherman, harpsichord

7:30 p.m. Friday, January 21, 2005
at Arts and Humanities Series, Ecumenical and Cultural Center
Framingham State College
100 State Street
Framingham, MA

For tickets, please call (508) 626-4985

Dominique Labelle, soprano

Evolution of the String Quartet

Scarlatti, Durante and Haydn Quartets and Boccherini Quintets

Elizabeth Blumenstock, violin
Kinloch Earle, violin
Jennifer Stirling, viola
Phoebe Carrai, cello
Timothy Merton, cello

8 PM, Saturday, January 22, 2005
Friends Meeting House (Cambridge, MA)

7 PM, Sunday, January 23, 2005 at Parish Hall, First Parish Church (Concord, MA) -- note corrected location

Elizabeth Blumenstock, violin

Kinloch Earle, violin

Sarasa with Michael Chance: Amor hai Vinto

[Non-subscription concert] Highlights of the German and Italian Baroque (note same program as the regular series concert (April 23-24).

Michael Chance, countertenor
Elizabeth Blumenstock, violin
Kinloch Earle, violin
Hilary Walther Cumming, violin/viola
Jennifer Stirling, viola
Timothy Merton, cello
Maggie Cole, harpsichord

7:30 p.m. Friday, April 22, 2005 at Keiser Concert Series St. Paul's School (Concord, NH)

Ticket information: For tickets please call (603) 229-4680

Amor hai Vinto ("Love, You Have Conquered") with guest countertenor Michael Chance

Highlights of the German and Italian Baroque [Buy Tickets]

Michael Chance, countertenor
Elizabeth Blumenstock, violin
Kinloch Earle, violin
Hilary Walther Cumming, violin/viola
Jennifer Stirling, viola
Timothy Merton, cello
Maggie Cole, harpsichord

8 PM, Saturday, April 23, 2005
Friends Meeting House (Cambridge, MA)

7 PM, Sunday, April 24, 2005 Parish Hall, First Parish Church (Concord, MA)

Concert Program
Handel - Aria from Rinaldo "Ogni indugio d'un amante"
Castello - Sonata XV a quattro per stromenti d'arco
Vivaldi - Violin Concerto "L'Amoroso"
Vivaldi - Cantata "Amor hai Vinto"

J.C. Bach - Lamentatio "Ach, dass ich Wassers gnung Hätte"
Biber - Sonata 3 in d minor
J.S. Bach - Harpsichord Concerto in g minor BWV 1058
J.S. Bach - Cantata BWV 54 "Widerstehe doch der Sunde"

Michael Chance, countertenor

Sarasa with Michael Chance

[Non-subscription concerts]

Lane Series in Vermont

7:30 p.m. Friday, April 29, 2005 at the Lane Series, University of Vermont Recital Hall (Burlington, VT)

Ticket information: please call (802) 656-4455 or go to www.uvm.edu/laneseries

At the Frick Collection

5 p.m. Sunday, May 1, 2005 at the Frick Collection, One East 70th St. (between Madison and Fifth Avenues); New York, NY 10021-4967

Ticket information: "Tickets, limited to two per applicant, are issued in response to written requests received on the third Monday before the concert. Please direct requests to the Concert Department, enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Each request should be for only one concert. No hand-delivered, faxed, e-mail, or telephone applications can be accepted. Children under ten are not admitted." -- from the Frick Collection website

Visit www.frick.org/html/cal2f.htm for more information.

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