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[[Folger Consort]] performed ''Seven Songs of Love: Entrancing Love Songs from the Galician Poet'' from February 15 to February 17, 2008. The Gallician poet/singer Martin Codax's ''Seven Songs of Love'', Western Europe's first song cycle, depicts the longing of a woman waiting on the beach at Vigo for her lover to return from the sea. Treating love in all its guises, the songs of the troubadours and lively dances for fiddles, harps, citole, flutes, and percussion celebrate the joy of love requited. | [[Folger Consort]] performed ''Seven Songs of Love: Entrancing Love Songs from the Galician Poet'' from February 15 to February 17, 2008. The Gallician poet/singer Martin Codax's ''Seven Songs of Love'', Western Europe's first song cycle, depicts the longing of a woman waiting on the beach at Vigo for her lover to return from the sea. Treating love in all its guises, the songs of the troubadours and lively dances for fiddles, harps, citole, flutes, and percussion celebrate the joy of love requited. | ||
[[File:Miranda Folger Consort 2008.jpeg|250px|left|thumb|[http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/8jfo08/ Detail] of ''Miranda'', by Frederick Goodall, in ''The Graphic Gallery of Shakespeare's Heroines'' (plate 7, 1886).]] | |||
==Artists== | ==Artists== | ||
===Folger Consort=== | ===Folger Consort=== | ||
''Artistic | [[File:Johana Arnold Folger Consort.jpeg|200px|right|thumb|Johana Arnold, soprano.]] | ||
''Artistic directors'' | |||
*Robert Eisenstein: vielle, recorder | *Robert Eisenstein: vielle, recorder | ||
*Christopher Kendall: lute, citole, harp | *Christopher Kendall: lute, citole, harp | ||
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*Johana Arnold: soprano | *Johana Arnold: soprano | ||
*Mary Springfels: vielle, citole | *Mary Springfels: vielle, citole | ||
==Staff== | ==Staff== | ||
*Janet Alexander Griffin, Artistic Producer | *Janet Alexander Griffin, Artistic Producer | ||
[[Category: Public programs]] | |||
[[Category: Folger Consort]] | |||
[[Category: 13th century]] | |||
Latest revision as of 15:14, 21 September 2014
Folger Consort performed Seven Songs of Love: Entrancing Love Songs from the Galician Poet from February 15 to February 17, 2008. The Gallician poet/singer Martin Codax's Seven Songs of Love, Western Europe's first song cycle, depicts the longing of a woman waiting on the beach at Vigo for her lover to return from the sea. Treating love in all its guises, the songs of the troubadours and lively dances for fiddles, harps, citole, flutes, and percussion celebrate the joy of love requited.
Detail of Miranda, by Frederick Goodall, in The Graphic Gallery of Shakespeare's Heroines (plate 7, 1886).
Artists
Folger Consort
Artistic directors
- Robert Eisenstein: vielle, recorder
- Christopher Kendall: lute, citole, harp
Guest artists
- Johana Arnold: soprano
- Mary Springfels: vielle, citole
Staff
- Janet Alexander Griffin, Artistic Producer