MUSIC
THURSDAY, MAY 24*
7:00 PM

La Folía in Sound and Vision
Groupmuse
Mayday Space
176 St. Nicholas Avenue, Bushwick, Brooklyn

$25
https://www.groupmuse.com/events/6435-la-folia-in-sound-and-vision-our-may-massivemuse?utm_content=featured_event

Good Baroque music played in an intriguing multi-media setting.  Well, with a ringer:  the Norwegian nationalist Johan Halvorsen's neo-Baroque Sarabande con Variazioni after Handel (a moving piece you don't get to hear everyday) will be played while Brooklyn visual artist Lila Nadelmann creates an accompanying work in real time.  The Third Brandenburg (by Bach, duh) will simply be played.  But then, Filmelodic's short film La Folìa, dramatizing issues of body image in ballet, will be shown to a live performance of its soundtrack work, Geminiani's Concerto Grosso based on Corelli's Violin Sonata based on the titular theme (the Baroque was, well, baroque) -- an unforgettable chord progression much riffed on during that period.  The musical performances will be by Ensemble Leonarda.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Free beer at the show!!!!!!!!!!  Before or after, the venue is like a block and a half away from Ops Pizza, my most favorite new natural wine-and-pizza place (really one of my most favorite new places, period).