It Fell Upon a Holly Eve

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Folger Consort performed It Fell Upon a Holly Eve December 11 and 12, 1987. This program spanned 700 years of Christmas and Advent music from 11th-century Southern France to late-18th-century England. A great variety of musical styles were represented, learned and rustic, complex and engagingly simple. Yet all of these pieces told a Christmas story.

Folger Consort

Artistic Directors

Robert Eisenstein: vielle, viol, rebec, lute, and recorder
Christopher Kendall: lute, harp and mandora
Scott Reiss: recorders, psaltery, and percussion

Guest Artists

Johana Arnold: soprano
William Sharp: baritone
The Landon School Boys Choir
Thaddeus P. Cavuotti: director at Landon School