Author: Laura Conrad

Meeting Report

We played:

• Morley:
  When
  lo by break of morning, Sweet
  nymph, Miraculous
  love’s wounding
• Tallis:
  Psalm
  67, If
  ye love me
• Dowland:
  Lachrimae
  Antiquae, Lachrimae
  antiquae novae, Lachrimae
  gementes, Lachrimae
  tristes, Lachrimae
  coactae, Lachrimae
  amantis, Lachrimae
  verae, Semper
  Dowland, semper dolens

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.

Concert

Renaissonics is playing a
CD release concert on Friday, May 25 at 8pm at First Church in
Cambridge, 11 Garden St.

Meeting report

We played:

• Giamberti duos
• Motets
  from Bicinia

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:

• Morley:
  Go
  ye my canzonets, When
  lo by break of morning, Sweet
  nymph, Il
  Doloroso
• Byrd:
  The
  Nightingale, Right
  blest are they, Susanna
  fair, Who
  looks my leap
• Rosenberg duet arrangements of Susato
• Morley,
  La
  Sirena

Performance Report

The weather was cool and cloudy — perfect for the walkers.
There were 5 raindrops at about noon, but nothing to justify how
freaked out some of the new performers were by the idea of playing
in the rain.

Our sets of dances by Susato and Holborne went well. We played
the Fairie
Round on almost no rehearsal and people clapped and
cheered.

A welcome improvement this year was that we had a guest group
who alternated sets with us. This meant that our breaks could be
long enough to get to the bathroom and back, and that we got to
hear as well as play beautiful music. They opened with a
poignantly beautiful Il
bianco e dolce cigno. Also striking was their arrangment
of “Quem Pastores”.

Meeting Report

We played:

• Josquin,
  O
  Venus bant
• Cavendish,
  Come,
  gentle swains
• East,
  Hence,
  stars you dazle but the sight
• Mundy,
  Lightly
  she whipped o’er the dales
• Purcell,
  Down
  with Bacchus

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.

Walk for Hunger

We’ll be playing at our usual spot on Greenough Boulevard,
right on the river, on the Cambridge/Watertown line. Come by and
say hello, or even sit in for a tune or two. We’ll have a group
alternating sets with us who actually rehearse together, so they
should be fun to listen to as well.

Meeting report

We played:

• Giamberti Chaconne
• Wilbye,
  Weep
  o mine eyes
• Entre
  vous qui aymés
• Farmer,
  Fair
  Phyllis
• Mundy,
  My
  prime of youth, In
  deep distress
• Campian, Never weather-beaten
  saile
• Ravenscroft, As I mee walked in a May morning

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.

Walk for Hunger

We’ll be playing at our usual spot on Greenough Boulevard,
right on the river, on the Cambridge/Watertown line. Come by and
say hello, or even sit in for a tune or two. We’ll have a group
alternating sets with us who actually rehearse together, so they
should be fun to listen to as well.

Meeting Report

We played:

• Rosenberg Susato duet arrangements
• Susate:
  Mille
  regretz à 3, Les
  miens aussi (Responce) à 3
• Lots of Susato
• Willaert,
  Baisez moi tant

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.

If you’re signed up to play the Walk for
Hunger, don’t forget to put both the
rehearsal at 2pm on April 28, and the
performance on May 6 from 11 to 4 on your
calendar. This is a performance for 10’s of
thousands of people, not a casual drop-in
group like most of our meetings.

Meeting Reports

March 20

We played:

• CompèreDisant
  adiu madame
• Lots of Susato
• Josquin,
  Mille
  Regrets
• Arcadelt,
  Margot
  labourez les vignes
• Sermisy,
  Tant
  que vivrai
• Entre
  vous qui aymés
• Wise,
  Judith
  and Holifernes

March 27

No meeting; Laura was indisposed and out of town.

April 3

We played:

• CompèreVa-t-en, regret
• Susato
• Josquin,
  Mille
  Regrets
• Wilbye,
  Sweet
  honey-sucking bees
• Ravenscroft:, He
  that will an alehouse keep

April 10

We played:

• Tapper duets
• Arcadelt,
  Dormend’un
  giorno
• Busnois,
  Fortuna
  desperata
• Byrd,
  Right
  blest are they
• Weelkes,
  Strike
  it up tabor
• White sand and grey sand

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:

• Cima:
  O
  dulcedo meliflua
• 
  Byrd, Susanna
  fair
• Compère
  , Va-t-en,
  regret
• Wise, Judith and Holofernes

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.

Walk for Hunger

It’s on May 6, and we’ll be playing from 11 to 4. If you can
come, please let me know soon.

Meeting report

We played:

• Susato duet arrangements
• Compère:
  Aqui
  dirage mes pensees, Va-t-en,
  regret
• Arcadelt,
  Il
  bianco e dolce cigno
• Dowland,
  Me
  me and none but me
• 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.

Walk for Hunger

Plans for the Walk for Hunger are coming along. We have a
quartet who will be alternating sets with us, so
everyone will have breaks long enough to get to
the bathroom.

It’s on May 6, and we’ll be playing from 11 to 4. If you can
come, please let me know soon.

Meeting report

We played:

• Tapper duets
• Lassus: Justus cor suum, Expectatio justorum laetitia, Qui
  sequitur me
• Sieg, Umdaniso ophaphazelayo (floating dance)
• Morley: I should for grief and
  anguish,O thou that art so cruell

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.

Walk for Hunger

We have again been asked to play for the Walk for
Hunger. This will be on Sunday, May 6. This
year we will be playing from 11 to 4, instead of
our former 10 to 3.

This year it will be mostly a recorder group. We are again
looking for a group that could alternate with us
so that everybody gets good breaks. We’d also
like to recruit some recorder players who like
playing Renaissance dance music to play with us. I’m planning on
just one rehearsal, so they should be reasonably
good sightreaders. Encourage anyone you know who
might be willing to help to talk to me about the details.