Here’s the “Boston Globe review”:http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2007/06/18/long_ago_and_far_away_for_young_and_old_alike/?rss_id=Boston.com+%2F+A%26E+%2F+Music+-+CD+and+music+reviews%2C+news+and+clips
of Saturday’s Festival Concerts.
This was the Purcell concert I was hoping for on Thursday night, and didn’t quite get then. My introduction to early music as something that could really sound different was hearing the Deller Consort do ??Come, come ye sons of art?? on the radio. I still sing some of those tunes to myself when I’m feeling particularly exhuberant (as I was after this concert).
Besides the florid and exuberant theater music, this concert also included some of the music written for the rich culture of 17th century amateur music. A setting for guitar and voice by Cesare Morelli and Samuel Pepys of Hamlet’s “To be or not to be” soliloquy was particularly illuminating.
h3. You too can play this music.
Everybody who plays with “my group”:htto://www.windband.html who was there wanted to sing the catch, ??Sir Walter enjoying his damsel one night??, so I woke up early on Sunday morning and “transcribed it”:http://www.laymusic.org/music/sp/html/pieces/414.html.
There are other catches by “Purcell”:http://www.laymusic.org/music/sp/html/bycomposer.html#44 on this site, and there will probably be even more in the future. Most of them are also in the “drinking songs book”:http://www.laymusic.org/drinking.html.
LayMusic.org 
This was my favorite concert of the week. Tragicomedia’s late night program has such a feeling of merriment and intimacy with the audience, and the musicians are just really enjoying and appreciating one another. The core group has a real knack for putting together a first-class ensemble for the Festival. Thanks to you, Laura, for transcribing “Sir Walter.”