Pastime with Good Company: Music from the Court of Henry VIII (2010)
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The 2010/11 season began Pastime with Good Company: Music from the Court of Henry VIII, 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 presented secular songs, dances, and abstract instrumental music, as well as ornate and solemn chapel music. The Folger Consort preformed Pastime with Good Company from October 1 to October 3, 2010, in the Folger Elizabethan Theatre.
Artists
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