The concert Saturday was a success, and now we can resume our casual, drop-in sessions, with lots of sightreading exciting new music, and playing any old music people want to see again. We will meet tomorrow, Tuesday, July 25, at 7:45 PM at my place.
Bonnie and I have both been transcribing at close to our usual rate, and we haven’t been having time to check it all out, so there are several new things to try. I think there’s some Ravenscroft that we haven’t done, and I’ve done the Josquin Mille regrets. I’ve also done an Orlando Gibbons In Nomine. And of course, there are several things we’ve tried and haven’t had time to work on like the new Byrd (Lord in thy Rage rebuke me not) and the Jenkins Pavanne‘s.
If we do feel like working on something specific, I’d like to solidify the Swan set.
If there’s something specific you’ve been looking forward to singing now that we’re singing anything we want to, let me know so that I can have the music out instead of fumbling for it in rehearsal.
Concert report
It was a good concert, and we helped make that happen. The compliments I got afterwards specifically mentioned that they liked hearing the singing with the cello.
I was pleasantly surprised with the variety in the other sets. I especially liked the Shaker dance demonstration and the solo singer who sang some of the tunes in the Primitive Baptist style.
Last meeting
As expected, we worked mostly on the program for Sunday’s concert, but we finished our second run-through with 15 minutes to spare, so we sang Come again.
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