The next rehearsal of the Cantabile Renaissance band will be on
Tuesday, October 25 at 7:45 PM at my place.
This meeting is limited to the people planning to play our November
public performances. Those people should let me know in advance if
they won’t be able to come.
We’ll be having John Tyson coach us on our performance. Please
make an extra effort to be on time and ready to play at 7:45.
Suggestions for where we could most use John’s help are welcome. Here
are the areas where I think the program most needs work:
- Work on a tuning discipline.
- We need to work on getting “Fair Phyllis” started at the right
speed for the group, and not slowed down after that. - “Vive la Serpe” sounded solid last week, but not the week before
that. So we definitely would like ot play it this week, and see what
John thinks. - The arrangements for Dulcina, Greensleeves, and Daphne (if we play
it) need work. - I think the Silly Bees are what would benefit most from John’s
“Your’re telling a story here” rap. - We need to get the dance sets under control, especially for the
nights when Bruce won’t be there. - I think there are still a couple of pieces Bruce hasn’t played
recently, so it would be good to do those.
Here’s a slightly modified version of the last playlist we
published.
Before the play
- He that will an Alehouse Keep
- Dulcina
- O Portsmouth
- Quand je Bois
- Daphne?
- Vignons, vignons
- Playford set, probably including Newcastle
- Fanfare, TBD
Intermission
- Greensleeves
- Fair Phyllis
- Silly Bees
- Shepherd in a shade
- Changeons propos
- Vive la Serpe
- Another dance set, probably Playford, suggestions welcome. The advantage of Playford is that we have 3-part
arrangements that some of us know pretty well. Since some of the
people who can play can’t play every performance, we want to keep this
as simple and fool-proof as possible.
Schedule
Please check your schedules for the week before November 11 to see
when you could possibly have a dress rehearsal. So far, nobody has
said that they couldn’t make Thursday, November 10.
We will be playing in Lowell on Thursday, December 1, from 5-6:30.
Anne, Bonnie, Ishmael, and Laura will be playing; Bruce is still
checking his schedule. This is a paying gig, so we need to be a
little more polished than sometimes. So we won’t be having drop-in
rehearsals until December.
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