[cantabile] Report from April 5 meeting

We got through a lot of stuff:

• Good morrow, fair ladies of the May. This will be done by a small
  group if at all.
• All the drinking songs on the setlist,
  except “To Anacreon in Heaven”. The ones that need more work are
  “Slaves are they that heap up Mountains” and “Vive la Serpe”.
• The River set, except the Swan ones that we did Saturday, and
  excluding the 5-part Vecchi Cigno, which we have decided to postpone
  until after the May performance. This set is in pretty good shape;
  the Billings needs work, and will sound better when we have everyone.
• The May music, except the Campian and “April is in my Mistress’
  Face”. We may drop April if it continues to sound as bad as it
  sometimes does these days.

Printing music

For the next meeting, please have your music printed and
organized. I decided not to do booklets for people, because we’ve
been doing a lot of this stuff for years, and most of it for months,
and many people have their own copies with helpful markings on them.
So I’ve felt that the work that I’ve put into having booklets hasn’t
always produced better performances. However, having everything
organized does produce better rehearsals. I’m happy to print things
for you, but you have to tell me what you need.

I have annotated the setlist,
so please check it if you have old music, to make sure you have
up-to-date copies in the right key.