We played:
We will be having our usual dropin meetings on Tuesdays at
7:45 PM at my
place.
At some point we will be scheduling a cookout on a weekend day,
where we can eat and drink first and play later.
We played:
We will be having our usual dropin meetings on Tuesdays at
7:45 PM at my
place.
At some point we will be scheduling a cookout on a weekend day,
where we can eat and drink first and play later, and some of the people
who like playing with us but have problems with Tuesday can come.
We played:
We will be having our usual dropin meetings on Tuesdays at
7:45 PM at my
place.
At some point we will be scheduling a cookout on a weekend day,
where we can eat and drink first and play later.
The John Tyson student recital will take place on Saturday,
June 7, from 10 AM until whenever we’re through. I’ll be playing
selections from an
18th century French suite by Delavigne.
It’s a lot of amateur recorder playing to listen to. I
may know more about when I’m playing by the middle of next week.
If you want to see only part of it, but want that part to
include me, let me know you want to come.
We’re attempting to clean the important things out of Bonnie’s
house before we sell it or get in someone with a dumpster and a
shovel to do it for us. If you want to help, the estate buys you
lunch and you get snarfing rights for anything of modest value
that you want. There are stacks and stacks of music, some
intriguingly modified instruments, a garden with good plants and
gardening equipment, the
usual amount of kitchen stuff…
If you come either here or there, bring any empty boxes you
have lying around. If you want to go help there, I go up a couple
of times a week, so let me know and we can arrange a mutually
convenient time.
We played:
We will be having our usual dropin meetings on Tuesdays at
7:45 PM at my
place.
At some point we will be scheduling a cookout on a weekend day,
where we can eat and drink first and play later.
We played:
Regular drop-in meetings will continue for the forseeable
future, on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM at my place.
It’s been suggested we have a cookout some weekend, with eating
and drinking first, and then playing. Because of the situation
with Bonnie, I haven’t been feeling much like scheduling things,
but if there’s enthusiasm, we could do it either in an impromptu
manner, or with the understanding that it will get cancelled if it
conflicts with a Bonnie event.
If you’re getting this by email, you should be aware that it’s
also being posted to the cantabile
category of the
laymusic.org blog.
So if you want to look up what we
were playing last October, it’s pretty easy.
We played:
The drop in sessions will continue to meet regularly for the
forseeable future. The meetings are on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM at my place.
If you’re free on Sunday, May 4 (or if you’re walking the Walk for
Hunger), you might want to stop by and listen to us play. We’ll
be on Greenough Boulevard at the Cambridge-Watertown line. It’s
on the banks of the Charles River, and across from the Cambridge
Cemetary.
Dropin meetings resume on Tuesday, May 6, at 7:45 PM at my place.
Sunday, May 4, at 3 PM, Judith Conrad, fortepiano, and Mike
Shand, baroque flute, will be playing a concert at the
Loring-Greenough House. Tea will be served following the
concert.
The last meeting of the year for the Boston Recorder Society
will be on Sunday, May 18 at 7 PM at Painters’ Hall, 20 Colgate
Rd., Roslindale. If you’ve thought about joining the BRS, this
would be a good meeting to go to, as all the classes play for each
other, and you get a chance to see what people actually do at the
meetings that break up into small groups.
We played:
Tuesdays in April are rehearsals for the Walk for Hunger. If you’re not performing with us, please come to the next dropin meetings in May. Also consider coming by the Walk for Hunger performance any time between 10:AM and 3 PM on Sunday, May 4, on the Cambridge side of the Charles River at the Cambridge/Watertown line.
We played:
Remember that next week, March 25, is the last dropin meeting before we switch to having rehearsals for the Walk for Hunger program which are limited to the performers. The meeting will start at 7:45 and be at my place.
As you may have noticed, all the music on this site is released under the Gnu Public License. This means you are free to use it any way you like, and modify it for your own purposes, with a few not very onerous conditions.
I do this because I don’t expect everybody to want to use it exactly the way I do. Specifically, I often find dead-tree printed music is in the wrong key or has the wrong clefs, or too many bar lines or something that makes it harder for me or the people I play with. And then I wish I had a copy in lilypond or ABC or even MIDI so that I could just change it. So when I publish my transcriptions, I put up not only the PDF file my group plays from, but the ABC and/or lilypond source and the MIDI output.
I got an email last week from Christoph Dalitz, who said:
I am pleased to let you know that some of your music editions
published under the GPL have found an unexpected use in a
use in a research study on automatic staff line removal
(a preprocessing step in OMR). The study has meanwhile
been finished and that the results have just been published
in IEEE TPAMI:C. Dalitz, M. Droettboom, B. Czerwinski, I. Fujinaga:
A Comparative Study of Staff Removal Algorithms.
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence,
vol. 30, no. 5, pp. 753-766, May 2008
You can read the study here
So when you wonder what use free information is, think of the future generation of automated music scanners which will be better because of the people who put free music up on the web. As well as of the people who can play my music in the clef and key they want it in.
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