News of the week of February 7, 2012

Meeting Report

We played:

• Gibbons, Song 67
• Bach, Ich halte treulich still
• Crequillon,
  Alix
  avoit aux dens la malerage,
• Morley, About
  the Maypole
• Byrd,
  This
  sweet and merry month of May,
• Holborne,
  9. Pavane
  and 10. Galliard
• Ravenscroft,
  As
  I me walked in a May morning,

Schedule

We will be meeting as usual on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM at my place.

Tuesday February 28 will not be a dropin rehearsal, as the
Morley group will pre-empt that time.

On March 6, I will be working at the polls for the presidential primary, so someone
will have to open up if we want to meet that night.

Walk for Hunger

We have again been invited to play at the Walk for Hunger, in
our usual time and place. This year it’s on May 6, and we’ll
probably be playing informally starting at 10 am and doing our usual two
sets at noon and 2 pm.

If you’d like to play, please let me know as soon as possible. In
addition to being available on May 6, you should also plan to come
for both of the Tuesdays immediately before that (April 24 and May
1), and as many other Tuesdays in March and April as you need to
learn the music.

I would like to have a playlist by the beginning of March, but
I can’t do that until I have the list of performers, so please let
me know as soon as you can.

Also let me know if there are pieces you’d particularly like to
play, or pieces that would cause you to not want to play if they
appeared on the playlist. We would like to have a mix of the
complicated polyphony we spend most of our time on and simpler
polyphony that comes across better in the noisy outdoor setting.
We need to spend at least half the time on instruments, since it’s
quite strenuous singing in that setting.