Get "Behind the Music" with the Folger Consort and learn more about upcoming concerts. Led by Folger Consort Artistic Director Robert Eisenstein, these lively and insightful seminars give music lovers a detailed look at the composers and their world. A light-fare reception is also included.
Tickets are $15.
From the 2011/12 season
A New Song
Celebrating the 400th Anniversary of the King James Bible
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
6pm
Folger Consort is joined by vocal ensemble Washington National Cathedral's CATHEDRA to celebrate the anniversary of the King James Bible, with musical settings of sacred works by Gibbons, Purcell, and others. Learn more about the biblical verse of the reigns of James I and II, and the musical compositions that complemented them respecitively.
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The Songbird
Francesca Caccini at the Medici Court
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
6pm
For its springtime concert, the Consort is joined by celebrated soprano Michele Kennedy in honoring Francesca Caccini's revolutionary achievements in early music. Learn more about Caccini's wide range of musical compositions, including the first opera by a woman, La Liberazione di Ruggiero.
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City of Ladies
The Musical World of 15th-Century Burgundy
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
6pm
For its final concert of the 2011/12 season, the Folger Consort performs music honoring influential writer Christine de Pizan, featuring acclaimed countertenor Drew Minter. Learn more about the French and Burgundian courts of the early 15th-century, and the culture that inspired de Pizan to write City of Ladies.
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