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Early Music Seminar: Tale of Two Cities
Early Music Seminar: Tale of Two Cities
Folger Consort Artistic Director Robert Eisenstein leads a lively seminar that offers a sneak peek at the music performed in the Folger Consort’s upcoming Tale of Two Cities: Music of Florence and Venice.
Wednesday, Sept 11, 2024 at 6pm
Tale of Two Cities
Tale of Two Cities
Both Florence and Venice were European power centers in the 16th and 17th centuries. Both also had exciting musical cultures. The Consort will offer pieces by important composers who worked in each city: Claudio Monteverdi and his colleagues who created at San Marco in Venice, and Florentine composer Francesca Caccini, among others.
September 13 – 15, 2024
Early Music Seminar: A Mass for Christmas Eve
Early Music Seminar: A Mass for Christmas Eve
Folger Consort Artistic Director Robert Eisenstein leads a lively seminar that offers a sneak peek at the music performed in the Folger Consort’s upcoming Mass for Christmas Eve: Baroque Music for the Season.
Wednesday, Dec 4, 2024 at 6pm
A Mass for Christmas Eve
A Mass for Christmas Eve
Composed in 1694, Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s "Messe de Minuit pour Noel" is based on captivating, folksong-like noels steeped in the composer’s characteristic balance of irresistible dance rhythms and sophisticated harmonies. The Consort will complement Charpentier’s Mass with haunting English "Balulalows" for voices set amid joyful instrumental concertos by Italian baroque masters.
December 6 – 15, 2024
Early Music Seminar: The Love Birds
Early Music Seminar: The Love Birds
Folger Consort Artistic Director Robert Eisenstein leads a lively seminar that offers a sneak peek at the music performed in the Folger Consort’s upcoming The Love Birds: Chaucer’s A Parlement of Foules.
Wednesday, Feb 12, 2025 at 6pm
The Love Birds
The Love Birds
Geoffrey Chaucer’s charming and trenchant A Parlement of Foules contains the first reference to St. Valentine as patron saint of lovers. The 14th-century poet's vision of avian politics will be interspersed with bracing and intricate music of his times from England and France, perfectly mirrored by the newly-composed music of composer Juri Seo.
February 14 – 16, 2025
Early Music Seminar: Kings and Commonwealth
Early Music Seminar: Kings and Commonwealth
Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 6pm
Kings and Commonwealth
Kings and Commonwealth
The music from the court of King James I reflects the political and religious upheavals in early seventeenth century England. The Folger Consort will perform political ballads of Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot, along with instrumental music from both James’ and Charles I’s courts and swaggering and silly political songs from Thomas D’Urfey’s Pills to Purge Melancholy.
May 2 – 4, 2025