Music

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."

Folger Consort intersperses readings from 14th-century poet Geoffrey Chaucer’s A Parlement of Foules with medieval music and a world-premiere composition by acclaimed composer and Guggenheim Fellow Juri Seo, capturing the wit and charm of Chaucer's avian world through music.

Folger Consort Artistic Director Robert Eisenstein leads a lively virtual seminar that offers a sneak peek at the music performed in the Folger Consort’s upcoming "Kings and Commonwealth: The English Civil War."

Folger Consort performs music from the court of King James I and King Charles I that reflects the political and religious upheavals in early 17th century England, including political ballads of Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot.