Report on the January 29 meeting

We played:

• Campian, Though your strangeness frets my heart
• Charlton, Suite on French Folk Tunes
• Morley, Farewell, Disdainful
• Gizeghem, De tous biens plaine
• Cavendish, Come, gentle swains
• Weelkes, Hark, all ye lovely saints above
• What a queer bird the frog are
• Purcell, Cakes and Ale

Schedule

We have been invited to play again for the Walk for hunger. I’ve been informally assured that we’ll have our usual place and time. The Walk is on Sunday, May 4, and we usually fill the time (alternating with another group) between 10 AM and 3 PM.

For those of you who haven’t done this before, this means that sometime in March we will stop having dropin meetings and start having regular rehearsals. For a dropin meeting, you expect the leader to provide the music, and you don’t worry if you end up coming late, or needing to borrow instruments, or even end up not showing up at all. For a real rehearsal, you show up on time (or rather, early enough to do setup and tuning before the official start time), with your music in an order where you can find things easily, and with the instruments you expect to play in performance. If you turn out not to be able to come, you let the director know as much in advance as possible.

I’d like to know who wants to play by early March. There are 5 Tuesdays in April, so we may not need more than one or two March Tuesdays to be real rehearsals. But please don’t sign up to play if you aren’t going to be able to make most of the rehearsals in late March and April.

I will attempt to have a fairly firm playlist by early March. Of course, it’s hard to make a real playlist until I know who’s playing, but I understand that the playlist may influence how much you want to play. So discuss probabilities with me if you have issues.

Until the end of March, I expect that we will have our regularly scheduled dropin meetings every Tuesday at 7:45 PM at my place.