La Follia Austin Baroque

presents

“Animal House”

Saturday, August 27, 2016 at 8pm

Sunday, August 28, 2016 at 4pm

Both performances at First Presbyterian Church

8001 Mesa Drive, Austin, Texas (map)

Tickets: $30 General / $25 Senior / $10 Student

Available at the dooror pre-purchase online at lafolla.org

La Follia’s season opening concert is a family-friendly concert featuring great Classical music celebrating our furry and feathered friends, including a performance of Saint-Saëns’s Carnival of the Animals.

Special guests are Robert Faires, narrator; Maimy Fong, with Scott Donald, piano; Tim O’Brien, bass-baritone; Jenifer Thyssen and Meredith Ruduski, sopranos; Elise Winters-Huete, concertmaster; and Jeffrey-Jones Ragona, conductor. With a special (virtual) appearance by Nora the Piano Cat in the Catcerto!

Although music of the Baroque and Early Classical period is La Follia’s “bread and butter”, we occasionally enjoy presenting concerts on modern instruments which offer a wide range of repertoire based around a theme. And so it is here, where we present Baroque, Romantic, and modern music which all share a fascination with our animal friends, in a format that the whole family can enjoy.  

The Program

Handel – Larghetto and Allegro from the Organ Concerto in F major “The Cuckoo and the Nightingale”

Copland – I bought me a cat

Barry – Crazy Dog

Telemann – Allegro from the Concerto in A major, TWV 51:A4 (“The Frogs”)

Poulenc/Jean de Brunhoff- Coronation and Wedding from L’Historie de Babar (Robert Faires, narrator)

Rossini – Cat duet

Piecaitis- Catcerto

          INTERVAL

Bach/Stokowski – Sheep may safely graze

Mussorgsky – Mephistopheles “Song of the Flea”

Saint-Saëns/Ogden Nash- Carnival of the Animals (Robert Faires, narrator).