Month: March 2005

Personnel

Here’s who I think is playing with us:

On April 2:

• Laura
• Anne
• Bruce
• Bonnie
• Ishmael

At the Walk for Hunger on May 1:

• Laura
• Barney
• Patricia
• Anne
• Bonnie
• Stuart
• Ishmael
• Paul

If I’m missing anyone, or including anyone erroneously, let me know as
soon as possible.

Dates to save

• March 8, only for people playing one of the gigs who can make it
  easily.
• March 15. We’ll be meeting with John Tyson and concentrating on
  the April 2 music. This meeting may take place at John’s place,
  details later.
• March 22, only for people playing one of the gigs who can make it
  easily.
• March 29 (this will be limited to and compulsory for the
  people playing the April 2 gig.)
• Saturday, April 2, 2-4 PM, Central Square Library. We will be
  playing for 15 minutes, either the river music or the drinking songs
  set.
• April 5, only for people doing the Walk for Hunger who can make it
  easily.
• April 12, only for people doing the Walk for Hunger who can make it
  easily.
• April 19, with John Tyson, again. We’ll be able to discuss the
  April 2 performance, and do some of the stuff for the Walk for Hunger.
• April 26 (limited to and compulsory for the people doing
  the Walk for Hunger.) Stuart (I think) told me he was mostly
  concerned about Roaring Jelly rehearsals before NEFFA, and didn’t mind
  missing this one.
• Sunday, May 1, Walk for Hunger. I haven’t set the schedule, but
  it’s likely that it will be like last year, where we play the same 45
  minute program twice, with someone else playing a set in
  between ours, ending at about 3 PM. So plan on 12:30 to 3:00,
  and coming to the Bugaboo Creek Steakhouse afterwards.

If you’re on the list of people who are playing, and you can’t make
the compulsory rehearsals, please let me know.

Between 10 inches and snow and a contra dance at MIT, this was another
low-attendance rehearsal.

• Phalese Bicinia:
  • O Maria, mater pia
  • Per illud ave prolatum
  • Qui sequitur me
  • Sancti mei
  • Fulgebunt justi
  • Sicut rosa
• Campian, My love hath vowed he will forsake me
• Dowland two-part songs from Second Book:
  • Flow my tears
  • Sorrow, sorrow stay
  • Dye not before they day
  • Mourne, mourne
• I gave her cakes and I gave her ale

Performing notes

On the Campian, “My love hath vowed he will forsake me” we decided
that we will sing 4 verses, with solos on the A sections of 1-3.
Everyone not playing the bass will sing all B sections, and the A
section of verse 4. The bass part isn’t idiomatic for serpent, so it
will be played by cello and/or viol.

The next meeting of the Cantabile Renaissance Band will be on March 1,
2005, at 7:45 PM, at my place.

We’re going to run a few doubtful pieces from the setlist.

Then we’ll work pretty hard on the River music set for the April 2
BRS performance.

I’ve started typesetting the next Dowland, Lasso vita mia, but I
think it might make sense to get back to new Dowlands after the Walk
for Hunger. But if there’s demand for sightreading difficult music
instead of just working on what we’re going to be performing, I will
finish it and we’ll do it. I didn’t feel that we got that much out of
the new Dowland we did last time, though.