Pastime with Good Company
Music from the Court of Henry VIII
In the Folger Elizabethan Theater
October 1-3, 2010
The 2010/11 season begins with a program devoted to music associated primarily with the court and chapel of King Henry VIII. What is most striking about most of this music is how uniquely English it is and how different it is in many respects from continental music around 1500. Using the sort of mixed instrumental consort known to be present at Henry’s court and a small vocal ensemble like the ones he favored, Folger Consort presents secular songs, dances, and abstract instrumental music, as well as ornate and solemn chapel music.
Folger Consort
Artistic Directors
Robert Eisenstein - viol, violin, recorder
Christopher Kendall - lute
Guest Artists
Mary Springfels - viol
Dan Stillman - dulcian, recorder, trombone
Tom Zajac - recorder, flute, bagpipe, trombone
Lionheart - vocalists
Lawrence Lipnick, countertenor
John Olund, Michael Ryan-Wenger, tenors
Jeffrey Johnson, Richard Porterfield, baritones
Kurt-Owen Richards, bass
