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Announcing our 2020-2021 40th Anniversary Season
These are challenging times. La Follia has responded to this challenge with a season of innovative, flexibly-programmed concerts for you to enjoy online or hopefully, in 2021, live.
Highlights:
- October and November online concerts using multi-camera HD video and CD Quality Audio.
- Guest artist for both concerts: Anton Nel.
- Announcement in January regarding the timing and content of the remaining three concerts.
- Subscription to October and November online concerts available now.
Our October Concert (online only):
Baroque and Classical Chamber Music, with Anton Nel
La Follia performs a concert contrasting Baroque and Classical chamber music. Music by Bach, Telemann, Mozart and Beethoven. Performing are La Follia principals Stephen Redfield on violin, Eric Smith on gamba and cello, Keith Womer on harpsichord, and Anton Nel on fortepiano.
Subscription to this online concert is available now. Click Learn More.
Watch a FREE Online Concert of French Baroque Chamber Music
In this March, 2020 concert, La Follia performs French Baroque chamber music by Couperin, Rameau, Jacquet de la Guerre, Campra, Clerambault, Charpentier, Robert de Visée, and Boësset.
Performing are Jenifer Thyssen, soprano, Stephen Redfield, violin, Marcus McGuff, flute, Eric Smith, viola da gamba, Arash Noori, theorbo, and Keith Womer, harpsichord.
Shot in multi-camera HD with CD quality sound. Grab some wine and cheese, and enjoy the intimate chamber music of French Baroque masters.
At Home with the Herd of Harpsichords
Keith Womer, director of La Follia Austin Baroque, recently recorded a 30 minute video piece for KMFA Classical 89.5’s FaceBook Live series “Sound Ideas”. In it, he explores three of the harpsichords used in La Follia’s popular “Herd of Harpsichords” concerts, currently corralled at his home in Round Rock.
Learn what makes a harpsichord different than a piano, what makes Italian, French, and Franco-Flemish harpsichords different from one another, and what gives all harpsichords their special, magical sound. Included is a Q&A which was conducted after the presentation.
Your Quarantine Playlist
Tired of Haydn from the coronavirus? Wish you could get Bach to normal life? We do too.
Now you can enjoy your social distancing with La Follia! We've created a playlist with selections from our past concerts, for your listening pleasure.
It's free, and no account is required to listen. It's just our way of making quarantine a bit easier to Handel.