Let's discover Baroque music with French ensemble Faenza

Monday, May 1, 2023 From 6:30 PM To 7:45 PM Add to Calendar 2023-05-01 18:30:00 2023-05-01 19:45:00 Let's discover Baroque music with French ensemble Faenza The French library is pleased to welcome ensemble Faenza. Did you know that baroque music was used for interactive concert forms and that the audience was playing a role during the performance? Come and be ready for the full baroque experience and be one of the actors of the concert! French Library, 53 Marlborough St, Boston, Massachusetts, United States America/New_York

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The French library is pleased to welcome the founder of French ensemble Faenza, Marco Horvat, who will be accompanied by musician and singer Francisco Mañalich. Did you know that baroque music was used for interactive concert forms and that the audience was playing a role during the performance? Come and be ready for the full baroque experience and be one of the actors of the concert! Our speakers/musicians will also describe the history of baroque music, where it comes from, what its main instruments are and why it has mostly disappeared.

At the end of this educational and family-friendly event, you will be taught how to sing along to a simple baroque song.

Event in French and in English

Member

$15

Non-member

$25

Ensemble Faenza

Marco Horvat founded ensemble Faenza – named after the famous early fifteenth–century musical manuscript, the Codex Faenza – in 1996, originally to focus on the medieval repertoire. Their first concert, based on music from that manuscript, was given in Paris at the Cité de la Musique (now Cité de la Musique-Philharmonie de Paris). With Faenza, Marco set out to explore the music of the ancien régime – the political and social system of France before the Revolution of 1789 – endeavoring to rediscover the spirit rather than the letter: whatever our degree of knowledge of historical sources, we can only reinvent, using the insufficient evidence that has come down to us in the form of scores, treatises, literary sources or iconographic materials. Marco's reflection focuses on the relationship between the audience and the performers on stage. The formal nature of the traditional concert, inherited from the nineteenth century, was not at all suited to repertoires conceived in and for convivial circles, of which the world had not lost track, but had lost the practice. That resulted in interactive concert forms. To develop such an approach, ensemble Faenza brought together a team of accomplished musicians capable of moving with ease from instrument to song, from song to speech, from the entre-soi of Baroque musicians to interaction with the audience.

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