La Folia (Folías de España, based on Vivaldi), improvisation by Voices of Music; 4K video

Voices of Music performs improvisations on La Follia. Live video from our Musical Crossroads concert, January, 2019. For this musical work, each performer was given only a bass part and a simple tune--the “bare bones“ of the La Follia dance. The music was improvised, and each performance was different. Alana looks at each musician to show when it’s their turn to solo. Each solo turn is performed in a different style--baroque composers such as Telemann sometimes created suites combining different styles from different countries, so this is part of a long tradition. La Follia was a dance craze in the late renaissance and baroque. The instrument on the far left is a Kamancha. The Kamancha is played in Eurasia and the Middle East, and has four or five strings tuned similar to a violin. Imamyar plays in the Azerbaijan style. Peter Maund, seated on the left, is playing a frame drum. Frame drums are found all over the world and are one of the oldest types of instruments. David Tayler is