Plans for the December 6 meeting

[cantabile] Plans for the December 6 meeting

The next meeting of the Cantabile Renaissance Band is on Tuesday,
December 6, at 7:45 PM at my place. This meeting is finally back to
being a drop-in meeting.

We have lots of good new music to play, as well as all the old
music that we haven’t been doing because we’ve been rehearsing
for the performances.

• Bonnie’s learned to transcribe into ABC, and has done
  several new Ravenscroft rounds for us.
• At the Merry Wives of Windsor, they played a tape with an
  arrangement of the Holborne “Fairie Round” with words in the top
  line, so we may try doing that.
• I can bring the Christmas box out, and we can do all the
  stuff we haven’t done for at least a year.
• I have transposed the vocal “Canzonets for two voices” by
  Thomas Morley down so that most of us can sing them, so if we
  have a small group, we’ll do those.

Schedule

The Christmas Party will be on Sunday, December 18, starting at
around 5 PM. This is a come and tell everybody you know to
bring everybody they know (and enough food to feed them) party.
There will be lots of good food, drink, and especially music.
There’s an invitation you can print out to give people.

We should be having our regular drop-in Tuesday rehearsals on
December 6 and 13. This week’s poll is about whether we want to
meet on December 20. If I didn’t have the meeting, I would go
to the Renaissonics CD
release party. I’m willing to meet if lots of people want to
come, but if most people have other things they want to do as
well, we can consider the party as replacing the meeting.

On December 27, I’d definitely like to meet, as long as at least one or two
people would like to come.

Performing report

Thanks to everyone who participated in the performances over the
last month.

The Merry Wives of Windsor performances (Laura, Barney, Anne,
Bruce, Bonnie, Stuart, and Ishmael) brought live music to a
venue that usually doesn’t have it. The cast and audience both
felt that it added a great deal to the experience.

The Lowell performance (Laura, Frank Jones in his debut with the
group, Anne, Bonnie, and Paul) was in a really nice space, with
a very appreciative audience. I think we played as well as this
group is capable of at this time. The organizer who gave me the
check said she hoped we would be able to come back. I have a
tape of the second half, which we can listen to after Tuesday’s
rehearsal.

Future performing plans

We have several gigs lined up for the spring:

• I expect to do the Walk for Hunger on Sunday, May 7, as we
  have for the last several years.
• We will be playing on June 21 for an art exhibition opening
  on June 21. The theme of the exhibition is
  Dreams, so we will be learning some music related
  to that theme for this gig.
• We are also discussing a concert sometime in July of the
  work of Jeremiah Ingalls.

So we may have a pretty busy spring and summer, so let’s relax and enjoy the
drop-in group while we have it.

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Laura Conrad

Last modified: Sat Dec 3 12:09:48 EST 2005