We played:
* Ravenscroft ??O my fearful dreams??
* Morley, ??Good morrow, fair ladies of the May??
* Susato group:
** ??Entre du fol??
** ??Danse du Roy??
** ??Bergerette??
** ??Bergerette: Sans roch??
** ??La Morisque??
** ??La Battaille??
** ??Passe et medio??
* Dowland, ??O mighty God??, all three parts, that is, including ??When David’s life by Saul was often sought?? and ??When the poor cripple by the pool did lie??
* Purcell, ??He that would an alehouse keep??
h3. Schedule
The rehearsals for the next two months are restricted to people who will be performing with us. So I’ll probably be sending these detailed reports to that list rather than the wider list. If you want to see what we’re working on in general, I’ll be keeping the “spring performance page”:http://laymusic.org/wordpress/?page_id=318 up to date.
h3. Performing
In theory the deadline for signing up to perform was yesterday, but I’m letting a couple of people dither a little longer, so there’s still time if you want to join us, but act soon. The rules are:
* If you want to play on March 24, you must come to the rehearsal on March 20, and to at least one and preferably both of the rehearsals on March 6 and March 13. Recorder players are especially welcome at this performance.
* If you want to play on May 6, you must come to most of the rehearsals between now and then, except that if you aren’t also playing on March 24 you shouldn’t come on March 20. We can discuss the meaning of the word “most”, but anyone with an absolute commitment to being somewhere else more than half the time certainly shouldn’t sign up. Probably both the April 17 and the April 24 rehearsals will be compulsory.
* To be a performer, you have to be willing to treat this as a serious performing group, not as a dropin group. This means treating rehearsal time as a scarce resource by arriving on time, saving most conversation for the beer-drinking part of the evening, bringing the instruments you intend to perform with, having your music in order, etc.
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