News of the Week of May 7, 2024

• Isaac, Innsbruck
• Palestrina, Vestiva i colli
• Wilbye, Sweet honey-sucking bees
• Dowland: It was a time when silly bees could speak

Thanks to Ishmael for taking notes.

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA. Let me know if you want to come.

We decided we would say adieu to Innsbruck by playing it again for a short time this week, and then move on to a new warming up piece. Linda suggested Tant que vivray, which is again polyphonic but not aggressively so, reasonably familiar so people know what it should sound like, and includes the ranges and clefs we use most commonly in this group.

I will have copies for people to take home; let me know if you are coming and don’t need one.