Author: Laura Conrad

Meeting Reports

November 20

We played:

• Dowland: Come again, Can she excuse my wrongs
• Lots of Praetorius Bransles
• Farmer, Fair Phyllis
• Purcell, Cakes and Ale

November 27

We played:

• Morley:
  Say
  deere will you not have me, See,
  see myne own sweet jewel
• Praetorius, Bransles
• Praetorius, Bransle de la torche
• Holborne: Hey, ho, holiday, As it fell on a holy eve
• Byrd, Lullabye my sweet little baby

Schedule

We meet Tuesdays at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, as
long as enough people have told me by Monday night that they want
to come.

Party

It looks like we have decided to have the usual holiday music
party on January 1, starting at 4pm. I will likely still be
one-footed, so other people will have to do more of the work than
usual, but if the first people to come set up and the last people
to leave help with cleanup and trash disposal, and anyone who
wants to eat fancy cooking brings it, it should still be a good
party.

Meeting Report

We played:

• Lassus: Beatus
  Vir, Beatus
  homo,
• Farmer,
  Fair
  Phyllis
• Isaac,
  Innsbruck,
  ich muss dich lassen
• Lots of Praetorius Bransles
• Wilbye,
  Weep,
  weep mine eyes

Schedule

We meet Tuesdays at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, as
long as enough people have told me by Monday night that they want
to come.

Meeting report

We played:

• Praetorius Bransles
• Schein, Canzon
  23
• Cavendish,
  Come,
  gentle swains
• Bennet,
  All
  creatures now are merry
• Mundy:
  My
  prime of youth, In
  deep distress

Schedule

We meet Tuesdays at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, as
long as enough people have told me by Monday night that they want
to come. .

Meeting Report

We played:

• Praetorius bransles
• Byrd,
  Come
  to me grief forever
• Josquin,
  Deploration
  sur la mort d’Ockheghem
• Wilbye,
  Draw
  on sweet night
• Josquin,
  Faute
  d’argent

Schedule

We will be meeting as usual next week, contrary to previous
reports.

We meet Tuesdays at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, as
long as enough people have told me by Monday night that they want
to come.

Meeting report

We played:

• Busnois,
  Fortuna
  desperata
• Lots of Praetorius Bransles
• de l’Estocart, Etans
  assis
• Arcadelt,
  Je
  ne suis pas si sot
• Ravenscroft,
  Now
  God be with old Simeon

Schedule

We meet Tuesdays at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, as
long as enough people have told me by Monday night that they want
to come. Contrary to former information, this will probably
also be true on election day, November 6.

Bad news of the week

I broke my ankle last Wednesday night. I had an operation to
get everything pinned into place on Friday, and
they expect me to recover but I’ll be
non-weightbearing for a couple of months.

Meeting report

• Morley,
  Good
  morrow, fair ladies of the May
• East:
  Follow
  me, Hence,
  stars, to dim of light
• Isaac,
  Innsbruck,
  ich muss dich lassen

Schedule

We meet Tuesdays at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, as
long as enough people have told me by Monday night that they want
to come.

A possible exception to the above is November 6, Election Day.
I’ll be working at the polls, and will be unlikely to be able to
participate in the music-makiing part of the evening. But Anne
has offered to open my house up so that other people can meet as
usual. I can probably join for some of the social part of the
evening. The people who were there last Tuesday were divided on
whether they wanted to do that, so if you have a strong opinion
that you’d like and election day meeting, let me know.

Concert

Not our music, but some of the performers are people who also
play our music, and when this group did the Haydn “Creation” last
spring, it was fun.

Grande
Harmonie will be playing Gluck’s
“Alceste” with the Harvard University Choir under the
direction of Edward Jones . The performance will take place in
Harvard’s historic Memorial Church in Harvard Yard, and admission is
free! This will happen on Saturday, October 20 at 7:30 pm.