We mostly played pieces from the Christmas party book, and Bruce’s West Gallery Christmas handout. We did also do a new round, Give me the sweet delights of love.
It sounds like there won’t be a meeting next week, January 8. Tobi Hoffman invites everybody to come play with her group in Framingham.
The following week, January 15, Stuart Solloway has offered to host if I’m not yet able to. He will be emailing the list with information.
I’ve actually been transcribing at the usual rate, but not
putting things up on the site. So I decided to make a start on catching up.
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I hope everybody is having a good holiday season.
If you want to listen to some live music tomorrow, Thursday,
December 27, you should come hear me, Ishmael, and Norm Nichols
play at the Boston Public Library. Here’s the program.
We’re also going to play and sing some more holiday related
music on January 1 at the regular dropin meeting at my place.
I hope to see you at either or both of these events.
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I apologize for the late notice, but we’re going to have to rehearse
for the December 27 performance tomorrow night, and will not be able
to have our usual dropin rehearsal.
We had to add a new person only yesterday to replace Bonnie, and we
really need the time to redo the arrangements and figure out the new
playlist.
So I hope to see you all at the party, this Sunday, December 16, from
4 PM on, and also at the regular dropin meeting on January 1, at the
usual time (7:45 PM) and place
.
We played:
After that, stay tuned for more medical bulletins.
We played:
We’ll discuss whether someone else is interested in hosting meetings in January while I’m not at home.
The December 8 Boston Recorder Society concert, Songs in the Ground, with Clea Galhano, should be worth hearing. If you want to work more with Clea, you can go to the December 9 meeting.
Three members of the Cantabile Renaissance Band, (Laura, Ishmael, and Bonnie) will be performing a program called To Drive the Cold Winter away: Party music from Renaissance England at the Boston Public Library on December 27 at 2 PM.
We played:
We had two votes for having the party on December 16, and one for December 15, and I slightly prefer the sixteenth, so that’s when it will be. I’ll get a hardcopy invitation out by next week, but it will start at 4 and go until it ends.
We’ll have regular dropin rehearsals on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM at my place on November 27, December 4, and December 11. We will not meet on Tuesday, December 18, nor on Christmas Day, December 25.
I would actually like to meet on New Year’s Day, if anyone wants to come. I’ll be having hip replacement surgery on January 4, so we might have to miss some rehearsals (or have somebody else host them) in January.
We played:
Our regular dropin meetings will continue on Tuesdays at 7:45
PM at my
place.
It’s probably time to start scheduling the party. I’ll be leaving town on December 23, so while the 22nd would be possible, I’m not really thrilled about not having a day to clean up before packing to go. So that means we have to schedule it on the 15th or 16th. Which is what everybody else with a December event will be doing, too.
So if you want to come to the party, let me know which of those days is impossible for you, and which is preferable if they’re both possible. We’re talking about a party that starts in the late afternoon and goes until everybody leaves, so it’s possible to combine it with a concert that isn’t too far away.
We played:
The November 6 meeting will be at the home of Stuart Solloway, near Teale Square in Somerville. He will be sending directions to the list. Bonnie has several of our notebooks in her car, but if you’re coming and have something particular you want to do, it might make sense to print several copies and bring them.
After that, our regularly scheduled dropin sessions at my place will resume on Tuesdays starting at 7:45 PM.
We will be working on memorizing some of the easier things in our repertoire, with an eye to doing more of our performance with less note reading and less music stand setup time and space. So if you want to perform with us, you might be interested in memorizing:
If you’re only doing the group as a dropin and sightreading group, we will continue to have music available for people who haven’t memorized it.
Please remember that the official start time of our meetings is 7:45 PM. If you arrive after that and have complicated setup and tuning before you can start playing, please consider doing it in the living room, rather than keeping other people who have arrived and set up promptly from playing.
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