Tag: Folger Library

  • “Weightless accuracy:” a review from the Washington Post

    “Weightless accuracy:” a review from the Washington Post

    The Washington Post came out this week with a review of our performance of Florence: Christmas Music of the Trecento. Here’s what they had to say about us: This is mesmerizing music and, performed with the quietly introspective vocal exultation of the women of Trio Eos, it was a powerful antidote to Mall Madness. Laude…

  • FLORENCE: Christmas Music of the Trecento

    In 14th-century Florence, lay religious fraternities began incorporating vernacular ceremonial songs known as laude into their worship. This popular form entered the homes of the city’s courtiers, learned clerics, and middle-class urbanites. Hear us perform these stirring laude along with cheerful dances and polyphonic works in joyous celebration of the season. With multi-instrumentalist Christa Patton,…