Sarasa, Golka have colorful weekend

BRATTLEBORO - The Brattleboro Music Center will present two concerts this weekend.
On Saturday, November 20, at 7:30 pm, the BMC’s Guest Series will continue with the return of the Sarasa Ensemble, who will present “Kaleidoscope.” Tickets are $20 general/senior, students $10, under 18 free.  
The concert will feature colorful, ever-changing shapes in music with youthful Rimsky-Korsakov, timeless Purcell, and the genius of CPE Bach. Two new short works by Mariel Mayz and Li Qi, co-commissioned by David Stern and Sarasa Ensemble, round out the program.
On Sunday, November 21, at 4 pm, the Brattleboro Music Center Chamber Series will welcome Polish-American pianist Adam Golka. Tickets are $25.
The concert will include works by Bach, Brahms, Ligeti, and Ginastera. The program will also include Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 26 in E-flat major, op. 81a “Les Adieux,” as well as Kapustin’s Concert Etude Op. 40 No. 7: Intermezzo; Golka’s own Relevant Etude; Bacewicz’s Sonata No. 2; and Liszt’s Piano Sonata in B minor, S.178.
Golka first performed all of Beethoven’s piano sonatas when he was 18 years old, and he considers the 32 masterpieces to have been his saving grace during the COVID-19 crisis.
For everyone’s safety, proof of vaccination or negative results of a COVID-19 PCR test within 72 hours is required for admittance to events at the Brattleboro Music Center. Masks must be worn at all times while at the venue.
Tickets may be purchased at www.bmcvt.org. For more information contact the BMC at (802) 257-4523 or email info@bmcvt.org.