The Goliards
Past Performances
The Goliards presented The Sibyls will explored the music of Hildergard of Bingen in December, 2010.
Read the Program Notes or the Texts and Translations.
The Goliards presented Cleaning Out the Attic, a retrospective view of works selected from their performances of the past four years, in May, 2010.
The anonymous works in the program included Irish and Scots folk music, Sephardic romances, two Italian ballate, a Cantiga de Santa Maria, a sequence from the Las Huelgas Codex, and a Welsh battle song that traces its origin to the Battle of Bosworth Field (1485).
In October, 2009, The Goliards presented a program titled Florence 1359. The program consisted of a cross-sectional view of the musical life of Florence from a time that was just ten years after the Black Death wiped out from thirty to sixty per cent of the population of Europe. Read the detailed program notes here.
In May, 2009, Everyman Duo (made up of members of the Goliards) performed a harp and strings concert as a thank you to the parish of St. Paul's for the support of rehearsal space.
In December, 2008, with Ensemble Con Spirito, we presented a progam titled A Season of Mary, a Marian lessons and carols.
The Goliards also performed A Medieval Christmas at Jekyll Island's Faith Chapel to a sold-out house.Prior to that, the Goliards presented a concert titled Alba: The Golden Hour of the Troubadours in November, 2008.
The performance featured courtly love songs from the first three generations of troubadours, roughly 1150-1210. Sung in the Occitan language (Old Provençal) the music is accompanied by instruments of the period (medieval fiddles, harp, lute and straight-bore recorder).
If you're interested in learning more, read the entire Program Notes here.
We have also prepared a Troubadour Crib Sheet with definitions of terms, and you may also enjoy the vidas, or biographies of the troubadours.
Previously, the Golliards presented a program of love songs of the Sephardic Jews.
Read this article from Connect Savannah on what inspired founder John Hillenbrand to start the Goliards.Read about founder and viellist John Hillenbrand in Coastal Senior magazine.