News of the week of November 27, 2012

Meeting Report

We played:

• Mozart, duet
• Gibbons, Fantasia
• 
  Ruffo,
  
  
  La Piva
  
• Byrd, Fantasia
• 
  des Prez,
  
  
  En l’ombre d’un buissonet
  
• 
  Morley,
  
  
  Love learns by laughing
  

Schedule

We will be having dropin meetings as usual on Tuesdays
at 7:45pm at

my place

. Christmas, December 25, will be an exception, and see below
for New Years, January 1.

Party

It looks like the only possible weekend day in December for a party
would be December 8, which nobody, including me, is enthusiastic
about. In my case, it isn’t that I don’t want to invite all my
friends and cook and clean, but that’s just too early to put up a
Christmas tree. I spent some time trying to figure out how to have an Advent
wreath be decorative but not in the way of people being able to put
down plates and glasses, and I couldn’t.

So we decided that this year the party will be instead of our regular
meeting on Tuesday, January 1. I know some people won’t be back from
their Christmas travels in time for that, so we will attempt to also
be festive for them before they leave and after they come back.

I’ll be sending out the normal invitation for inviting all your
friends with, but it will start at 4 in the afternoon and include our
usual food, drink, and music of the season that you might not have a
chance to sing anywhere else. If you know you’re coming and what you
want to bring to share, I’d be happy to know about it in advance, but
don’t be shy about just dropping in.

Other events

Don Hodgkins sends an invitation to the
seventh annual Wakefield
Community Messiah Sing,
Friday, December 14, 7:30 pm, First Parish Congregational
Church, Wakefield. For more information, call Don at (781) 246-3847.