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 2009–10 season
A Harmony of Friends:
Music of Italy and China
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
6pm
For its season-opening concert, the Folger Consort performs Italian and Chinese music circa 1610. Learn more about the music of Francesca Caccini (the first woman to compose an opera), Sigismundo d’India, Biagio Marini, and Italian composers, as well as traditional music from China, with a focus on the pipa, a Chinese version of the lute.
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Ballets and Brawls:
French Music of Court and Countryside
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
6pm
For its springtime concert, the Consort performs a program of French romance and wit circa 1610. Learn how French music developed in very different directions than Italian Baroque.
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A Musical Banquet:
Songs for Lute, Voice, and Viol
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
6pm
For its final concert of the 2009/10 season, the Folger Consort returns to its English roots with music from a 1610 anthology of songs entitled A Musicall Banquet, published by Robert Dowland, the son of the great lutenist John Dowland. Robert Eisenstein will discuss the emergence of the violin in English music and the English lute ayres, French court airs, and Italian monodies found in Dowland's collection.
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