Author: Laura Conrad

We played:

* Anonymous, ??Duo 113??
* Susato, ??Rondes??
* Byrd, ??The Greedy Hawk??
* Cavendish, ??Come, gentle swains??
* Josquin, ??La plus des plus??
* Ravenscroft, lyrics by Laura and Sunny, ??Dog walking round??
* Anonymous, ??Sumer is icumen in??

h3. Schedule

We are resuming our regular dropin meetings on Tuesdays from 7:45 to 10 PM.

We will be having a party on June 2, starting at about 5 PM. If the weather is good, we’ll gather in the back yard and grill things, then move up to my apartment and play and sing for a while; otherwise it will be like the Christmas party, where we eat and drink indoors and then play and sing for a while. Come and tell everybody you know to bring everybody they know. The food and drink are pot luck.

We will probably not meet on Tuesday, June 12, since most people will be doing “Boston Early Music Festival”:http://www.bemf.org stuff.

On Saturday, June 30, the “Boston Wort Processors”:http://www.wort.org are having their summer picnic in Freetown, Massachusetts. This year they will be roasting a whole pig. If a few of us come, we can sing some drinking songs and maybe play a few things we know well.

The Project Bread Walk for Hunger is this Sunday, May 6. This means two things:

* The Cantabile Renaissance band will be playing at a beautiful site on the banks of the Charles River, at the Cambridge-Watertown line on Greenough Boulevard. If you’re out and about (or if you’re one of the walkers), stop by and listen. We’ll be there from 10 AM to 3 PM, with the following schedule:
** 10-11: solos and duets.
** 11-12: Quilisma Consort
** 12-1: Cantabile Renaissance Band
** 1-2: Quilisma Consort
** 2-3: Cantabile Renaissance Band
* The dropin meetings resume on Tuesday May 8. If you weren’t able to perform with us, please start coming now that we’re back to being a dropin group. I have actually been typesetting a fair amount of new stuff, with no chance to play it while we were working on the program for the Walk. So over the next few weeks we’ll be playing things like ??The Greedy Hawk?? by William Byrd and ??Come, Gentle Swains?? by Michael Cavendish.

We played:

* Ravenscroft ??O my fearful dreams??
* Morley, ??Good morrow, fair ladies of the May??
* Susato group:
** ??Entre du fol??
** ??Danse du Roy??
** ??Bergerette??
** ??Bergerette: Sans roch??
** ??La Morisque??
** ??La Battaille??
** ??Passe et medio??
* Dowland, ??O mighty God??, all three parts, that is, including ??When David’s life by Saul was often sought?? and ??When the poor cripple by the pool did lie??
* Purcell, ??He that would an alehouse keep??

h3. Schedule

The rehearsals for the next two months are restricted to people who will be performing with us. So I’ll probably be sending these detailed reports to that list rather than the wider list. If you want to see what we’re working on in general, I’ll be keeping the “spring performance page”:http://laymusic.org/wordpress/?page_id=318 up to date.

h3. Performing

In theory the deadline for signing up to perform was yesterday, but I’m letting a couple of people dither a little longer, so there’s still time if you want to join us, but act soon. The rules are:

* If you want to play on March 24, you must come to the rehearsal on March 20, and to at least one and preferably both of the rehearsals on March 6 and March 13. Recorder players are especially welcome at this performance.
* If you want to play on May 6, you must come to most of the rehearsals between now and then, except that if you aren’t also playing on March 24 you shouldn’t come on March 20. We can discuss the meaning of the word “most”, but anyone with an absolute commitment to being somewhere else more than half the time certainly shouldn’t sign up. Probably both the April 17 and the April 24 rehearsals will be compulsory.
* To be a performer, you have to be willing to treat this as a serious performing group, not as a dropin group. This means treating rehearsal time as a scarce resource by arriving on time, saving most conversation for the beer-drinking part of the evening, bringing the instruments you intend to perform with, having your music in order, etc.

We played:
* Marcello, ??Sonata III??
* Mozart ??Andante??, Arranged David Goldstein
* Dowland, ??M. Thomas Collier his Galiard??
* Gabrielli:
** Canzon á 5
** Canzon septimi toni á 8
* Wilbye:
** Weep, weep mine eyes
** Draw on sweet night
* Rounds:
** Cakes and Ale
** He that drinks is immortal
** Let us drink and be merry

h3. Schedule

I gave a detailed schedule “a couple of weeks ago”:http://laymusic.org/wordpress/?p=314, so I won’t repeat it here, except to remind people that you need to let me know by next week whether you’re planning on performing with us this Spring. So far, we have me, Paul, Bonnie, and Ishmael, all for both gigs. I think a couple of other people have told me things informally, but if you’re not on this list, please let me know officially. I especially need to know about March 24.

I have heard from the Walk for Hunger people, and it looks like we will have the usual time and place again this year.

We played:

* Lassus Duet
* Dowland Group:
** My thoughts are winged with hopes
** If my complaints
** Can she excuse my wrongs
** Sir John Souch
** The Earl of Essex Galliard
** Captain Digory Piper’s Pavanne
** Susanna Galliard (attributed)
** M. Bucton’s galliard
** All ye whom love or fortune hath betraid
** Sleep wayward thoughts
* Rounds:
** Slaves are they that heap up mountains
** Cakes and Ale

h3. Schedule

I gave a detailed schedule “last week”:http://laymusic.org/wordpress/?p=314, so I won’t repeat it here, except to remind people that you need to let me know by next week whether you’re planning on performing with us this Spring. At the moment, nobody has officially signed up, so I’m working hard on my van Eyck solo recorder music.

h3. Party pictures

Here are some pictures from the “Christmas Party”:http://serpent.laymusic.org/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=Christmas-at-Lauras%2C-2006