Report on the March 14 meeting

[cantabile] Report on the March 14 meeting

We played:

• Christian Harmony group:
  • Experience
  • Hope
  • Judgement hymn
  • Haverhill
  • Night thought
• Gibbons, What is our life
• Dowland group:
  • Clear or cloudy
  • Come heavy sleep
  • O sweet woods
• Let us drink and be merry

We’re continuing to meet on a drop-in basis, but it’s time to be
thinking about the program for the Walk for Hunger. In broad
outline, I’m thinking:

• Spring group (some subset of the spring music we know,
  certainly including “Now is the month of Maying”. “Clear or
  Cloudy” sounded shaky last night, but it’s probably
  salvageable.

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• Elizabethan life group. Mostly Dowland,
  but we could use “My prime of youth” and/or “Daintie fine bird”
  if we learn them in time. I was thinking of including as many
  of the Essex Dowlands as we know well enough (certainly silly
  bees), and maybe some of the sleep or retirement Dowlands.

• Shape note group. Certainly including Lamentation over
  Boston and some of the Ingalls. Probably Haverhill. Maybe try
  to limit it to songs that include a river, but that’s not much
  of a limitation in that repertoire.

Comments or suggestions are welcome. As we have the last couple of
years, we want to keep the program
under an hour, and perform it twice with some other group in
between.

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Laura Conrad

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