Sarasa: All in the Family

The Sarasa Ensemble takes a closer look at the extended Bach family and its many musical talents in a performance titled “All in the Family,” Friday, May 8, at 7 p.m.

The program highlights works for oboe, strings and continuo by sons Wilhelm Friedemann and Carl Philipp Emanuel, cousin Johann Bernhard, wife Anna Magdalena, and the master himself, Johann Sebastian Bach. “Johann Sebastian Bach belongs to a family that seems to have received a love and aptitude for music as a gift of Nature to all its members in common.” ~ CPE Bach, 1754.

Musicians include Daniel Bates, oboe; Christina Day Martinson, Rebecca Nelson and Danilo Benina, violins; Anna Griffis, viola; Jennifer Morsches and Timothy Merton, cellos; and John McKean, harpsichord.

A collective of international instrumentalists and vocalists, the Sarasa Ensemble performs classical music of outstanding quality, spanning the 17th to the 21st centuries, on both period and modern instruments, and brings this music to diverse communities.