We played:
We’re meeting with only “family” until this situation loosens
up a little. As soon as gatherings of fewer than 10 people are
allowed again, we will resume meeting for all who will on Tuesdays
at 7:45 pm.
We played:
We’re meeting with only “family” until this situation loosens
up a little. As soon as gatherings of fewer than 10 people are
allowed again, we will resume meeting for all who will on Tuesdays
at 7:45 pm.
We played:
We’re meeting with only “family” until this situation loosens
up a little. As soon as gatherings of fewer than 10 people are
allowed again, we will resume meeting for all who will on Tuesdays
at 7:45 pm.
Several people expressed interest in meeting remotely for
singing rounds, so we’ll start off our normal Tuesday meeting this
week (April 28) with that.
I suppose we’ve all spent enough time learning zoom that even
if we knew of something better, it wouldn’t make sense to use it,
so we’ll use zoom.
We’ll start with some of the less harmonically “interesting”
rounds in the Drinking
songs book.
Depending on time, we may do some learning rounds by ear.
Let me know if you want an invitation to the meeting.
We played:
We’re meeting with only “family” until this situation loosens
up a little. As soon as gatherings of fewer than 10 people are
allowed again, we will resume meeting for all who will on Tuesdays
at 7:45 pm.
At the Zoom Easter Brunch I attended, I made everyone sing
“Row, row, row your boat” just to see whether it was as bad to
sing music together as everyone assures me it is. It wasn’t. I’m
not saying it was a recording-quality performance, but it was the
kind of fun that singing Row, row, row your boat is.
I mentioned this at my sixteenth century music theory class,
and Sarah Mead said that rounds are probably the right thing to
do, since they have limited harmonic velocity, so latency
shouldn’t be as much of a problem as it is for other kinds of
music.
So if there’s interest, we can have a virtual round-singing
meeting some time. Let me know if you’d like to participate. We
might concentrate on the ones in the Drinking
Songs book. Or we could just sing the ones everybody’s known
for decades.
We played:
We are currently meeting with only the people who spend enough
time here to count as family. When the plague recedes, we will
resume meeting every Tuesday with anyone who wants to come.
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Amherst Early
Music continues their series of Weekend
Workshops.
Tina Chancey is
teaching an Improv
Class starting Friday, April 17. I’m sorry for the facebook
link — it’s all I can find. I hope it’s useful. She
demonstrates her qualifications for teaching the class
here. In the facebook discussion of this performance, someone
said, “Gee, you do have a music degree and all that too…” Tina
replied, “A few, and a fat lot of good they do you.”
We played:
We’ve been meeting with some of the people who consider
themselves family, and have been having enough contact over the
last few weeks that playing music together doesn’t increase our
risk of getting a virus by much if any. If you want to be
considered family (with all the rights and responsibilities that
entails), you’re welcome to come, too.
In any case, whenever this is over, we will resume meeting for
anyone who wants to come on
Tuesdays at 7:45 pm at 233 Broadway, Cambridge. I will not
predict when that will happen, but all the places I know to go for
music workshops in the summer have cancelled this summer.
The UMass department of Music and Dance is presenting a
sumposium on the musical legacy of 16th-century Italian poet
Torquato Tasso. Full information is available at
Amherst Early Music
is having a series of online classes on weekends. This weekend’s
are described here.
I’d probably take Liza’s Renaissance Wind Pedagogy if it weren’t
starting in the middle of my sister’s Zoom Easter brunch.
It’s not going to get more than 5 or 6 feet, but I only planted it a year and a half ago, so it’s doing pretty well.
We played:
The three of us who are sort of family have been getting
together on Tuesday nights. If you’d be violating a stay-at-home
directive (or whatever they call what we have now), you probably
don’t want to come. But some day the directive will be lifted,
and we will get back to welcoming anyone who wants to come on
Tuesdays at 7:45pm at 233 Broadway, Cambridge.
I remembered and dug up the source of the quote in yesterday’s
post.
It’s from Farnham’s Freehold by Robert
A. Heinlein.
The bomb has just hit, and the family in the fallout shelter
is evaluating damage. The patriarch says, ” “We seem to be
in fair shape, except for water. There are some
plastic jugs of water but we need to salvage the tank water; we may
have to drink it. With
Halazone tablets. Joe, we need utensils of any sort, and everybody
bail. Keep it as clean
as you can.” He added, “When Joe can spare you, Karen, scrounge some
breakfast. We’ve
got to eat, even if this is Armageddon.”
And the daughter replies, “And Armageddon sick of it.”
