News of the Week of July 22, 2025

We played:

• Weelkes, Come, Sirrah Jack, Ho!
• Lassus, Fiera Stella/Ma tu prendi
• Morley: Now is the month of Maying; April is in my mistress’ face
• Wise, Judith and Holofernes

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.

Our new warmup piece is Come, sirrah Jack, Ho!, transposed down a fifth. (The link in the playlist above is only transposed down a fourth, which is what we played last week, but won’t in the future, so don’t use that for printing.)

If you’re coming, also let me know if you need me to print it for you.

Several people like the idea of performing at a porchfest or similar event. It looks like we’ve been too slow to organize for any of the ones we know about this summer (how Cambridge expected anyone to organize an application in the time they gave us is baffling), but in future we should be more on the ball. So if you’re connected with anything like that, please let me know when the applications and performances are happening some time in advance of when we’d have to do them.

To explain, in order for there to be a performance, there have to be people who commit to being at the performance time and place, and at some rehearsals before the performance date. None of this happens by magic – every performance you’ve ever seen has happened because someone did some organizing for it.