News of the week of October 4, 2016

Meeting Report

We played:

• Lassus, Justi tulerunt spolii
• Nun freut euch, from Geistlicher lieder, 1535
• Willaert, Amor, Fortuna
• Dowland: Go, crystall teares
  and Now, o now, I needs must part

Schedule

We continue to meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm at 233 Broadway,
Cambridge. But only if a critical mass of people have told me by
Monday night that they want to come.

November 8, election day, will probably be an exception to
this. Based on what happened four years ago, it’s unlikely that
I’d be able to make any of it, and another regular has a
competing commitment, so we won’t meet that day.

Performance opportunity

The Boston Wort Processors
are having their annual Cider picnic at Cider Hill orchards in
Amesbury, MA on Sunday, October 30. If you come as my guest, you can drink lots of
cider, eat good food, and maybe play or sing some drinking songs.
Let me know if you’re interested.

Upcoming concerts

• BEMF presents Fretwork with
  Susie LeBlanc performing Byrd, Gibbons, Dowland and Byrd on
  Friday, October 7 at 8pm at First Church Cambridge.
• Blue Heron performs
  Ockhegem’s Missa Ecce ancilla domini on Saturday, October 15 at
  8pm at First Church Cambridge.
• Viols and Friends
  performs Gems of the Italian early Baroque with Michael
  Collver, Carol Lewis and Chris Hendriksen on Thursday, November
  10 at 8pm at LIndsay Chapel, First Church, Cambridge.

Listening

I located a 2-disk album of Willaert settings of Petrarch at Naxos.
The group might be worth listening to for other repertoire as
well.

The album includes both Amor, Fortuna and Lasso chi ardo