News of the week of February 22, 2011

Meeting report

We played:

• Charlton, Suite Canadiana
• Sermisy, J’ayme le cueur
• Holborne,

  13. Pavane
  14. Galliard

15. Pavane
16. Galliard

• Arcadelt,
  Il
  bianco e dolce cigno
• Vecchi, Il bianco e dolce cigno
• Ravenscroft:
  • Now
    God be with old Simeon
  • Jolly
    Shepheard
  • Oaken
    Leaves
  • Hey
    ho, to the greenwood
• Stefanov, Laura’s
  Band

Schedule

Because the Walk for Hunger program will be piggybacking on the
NEFFA workshop (which has to be accessible to dropins), we can be more liberal about when we turn from a
dropin group into a performing group this year than we have been in the recent past.

We will be spending March and the first part of April largely
working on the repertoire for those two events, but you are
welcome to drop in on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM at my place if you’re interested in that repertoire, even
if you think you won’t be able to make either event.

However, see below.

The last two Tuesdays in April will be rehearsals for the Walk
for Hunger, and restricted to performers in that event.

However, see below.

Walk for Hunger

In order to plan the repertoire for the Walk for Hunger, I do
need to know who is planning to come. Here are the
requirements:

• You should be available for the performance, from roughly
  noon to 3 PM on Sunday, May 1.
• You should be able to make a substantial number of the
  Tuesday rehearsals in March and April, and both the April 19 and
  the April 26 rehearsals. I’d also really like to schedule an
  outdoor, daylight rehearsal, but that’s been difficult in the
  past, and will probably continue to be so.

So let me know if you’re interested in playing. It’s probably
the only chance you get to play for an audience in the 10’s of thousands.