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FOLIA, entertainments of the 17th & 18th c.Sunday, May 11 at 5 PM MAP IT
FREE EVENT XIV LOUIS XV: Chamber Music & Dance from 18th century France A taste of the entertainments from the stage and from the intimate chambers and salons of Paris and Versailles in the time of Louis XIV and Louis XV, performed on instruments of the period with Baroque dancers and elegant reconstructions of early choreography in full period costume. Performers FOLIA Leah Gale Nelson, violin Martha McGaughey, viola da gamba Arthur Haas, harpsichord with Caroline Copeland & Carlos Fittante, Baroque dancers Program The program will include: COUPERIN Second Concert from Concerts Royaux LULLY Entrée d’Apollon from Le Triomphe de l’Amour Choreography: Raul Auger Feuillet (c1653–c1709) LULLY, arr. D'ANGLEBERT Passacaille d’Armide Choreography: Guillaume-Louis Pecour (1653-1729) DETOUCHES Sarabande d’Isse Choreography: Anthony L’Abeé (c. 1700) RAMEAU Selections from Pièces de clavecin & music by Louis-Nicolas Clérambault About the Performers FOLIA brings the grace and elegance of seventeenth and eighteenth-century chamber music to life for the twenty-first-century audience. The performers honor the music’s original context with their collective understanding and exploration of rhetorical musical gesture, indulging the imagination and evoking human passions, pains and joys, that transcend time - joining early music with modern performance. Using music facsimiles, early printed editions, gut strings, baroque and classical bows, wooden flutes, lutes, theorbo, and baroque guitar, chamber organ, harpsichord and forte-piano, among others, FOLIA brings together nationally and internationally known period performers offering a historical and impassioned approach to the repertoire. |
Martha McGaughey, Arthur Haas, Leah Gale Nelson at MOSA in February 2010
Photo: Anna Lee Campbell
Carlos Fittante dancing with FOLIA at MOSA in February 2010
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