Author: Laura Conrad

Meeting Report

We played:

• Lassus, Justi tulerunt spolii
• Nun freut euch, from Geistlicher lieder, 1535
• Willaert, Amor, Fortuna
• Dowland: Go, crystall teares
  and Now, o now, I needs must part

Schedule

We continue to meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm at 233 Broadway,
Cambridge. But only if a critical mass of people have told me by
Monday night that they want to come.

November 8, election day, will probably be an exception to
this. Based on what happened four years ago, it’s unlikely that
I’d be able to make any of it, and another regular has a
competing commitment, so we won’t meet that day.

Performance opportunity

The Boston Wort Processors
are having their annual Cider picnic at Cider Hill orchards in
Amesbury, MA on Sunday, October 30. If you come as my guest, you can drink lots of
cider, eat good food, and maybe play or sing some drinking songs.
Let me know if you’re interested.

Upcoming concerts

• BEMF presents Fretwork with
  Susie LeBlanc performing Byrd, Gibbons, Dowland and Byrd on
  Friday, October 7 at 8pm at First Church Cambridge.
• Blue Heron performs
  Ockhegem’s Missa Ecce ancilla domini on Saturday, October 15 at
  8pm at First Church Cambridge.
• Viols and Friends
  performs Gems of the Italian early Baroque with Michael
  Collver, Carol Lewis and Chris Hendriksen on Thursday, November
  10 at 8pm at LIndsay Chapel, First Church, Cambridge.

Listening

I located a 2-disk album of Willaert settings of Petrarch at Naxos.
The group might be worth listening to for other repertoire as
well.

The album includes both Amor, Fortuna and Lasso chi ardo

Meeting Report

We played:

• Giamberti duets
• Byrd, The eagle’s force
• Verdelot, Donna leggiadr’e bella
• Willaert, Or suis je bien
• Dowland, Go, crystall tears
• Ravenscroft, To Portsmouth

Schedule

We continue to meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm at 233 Broadway,
Cambridge. But only if a critical mass of people have told me by
Monday night that they want to come.

Meeting report

We played:

• Willaert:
  Allons,
  allons gai, As
  tu point veu, J’aime
  par amour, Ricercar
  Prima, Le
  dur traveil
• Dowland, Unquiet thoughts

Schedule

We continue to meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm at 233 Broadway,
Cambridge. But only if a critical mass of people have told me by
Monday night that they want to come.

Meeting report

We played:

• Vierdanck duets
• Giamberti duets
• Willaert,
  As
  tu point veu
• Susato: Mille Regretz à 3 and
  Les
  miens aussi à 3
• Purcell,
  Cakes
  and Ale

Schedule

We continue to meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm at 233 Broadway,
Cambridge. But only if a critical mass of people have told me by
Monday night that they want to come.

Playing opportunities

West Gallery Quire

I was busy, or lazy, last week and didn’t get the news of the
week out until Monday, so I couldn’t tell you that the first
meeting of the West
Gallery Quire was last Sunday. But it’s usually the second
Sunday of the month, and the next one will be on October 9. This
is your best place for getting to sing with a serpent on the bass
line, and a chance to sing or play the vocal music of rural
England in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Boston Recorder Society

The first meeting of the Boston Recorder
Society will be this Sunday. They welcome recorders, strings,
and loud wind instruments.

New Piece

Our new piece for the week, As
tu point veu, didn’t come from CPDL
with a translation.

Google Translate
didn’t seem to know any more of the words than I did.

So we put our heads, our school French, and our creative
writing skills together and decided it was a piece about a
Vicountess who painted and powdered her face green like a
parrot.

If anyone knows more sixteenth century French than we do, and
would like to emend or amplify our translation, here are the
words:


As tu point veu la viscontine,

tant popine,

tant godin'et qui a son chef bien pigné.

Ell'a donné la torre'a lespine.

sus sa mine,

la plus fine.

Qui soit point au refondoir.

il y a esté en reloupe dessus son verdillon
net,

dessus son verdillonnet.

Et si a esté painct et broulé vert comme'ung papegay,

fa ri fan lan lan...


Meeting report

We played:

• Susato: Mille Regretz à 3 and
  Les miens aussi à 3
• Willaert, Lasso, chi ardo
• Susato, Mille Regretz
• Josquin, Mille Regretz

Schedule

We continue to meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm at 233 Broadway,
Cambridge. But only if a critical mass of people have told me by
Monday night that they want to come.

Meeting Report

We played:

• Giamberti duos
• Morley, Il Lamento
• Byrd, The Nightingale
• Dowland, All ye whom love or
  fortune has betrayed

Schedule

We will be meeting on Tuesday evenings, starting at 7:45, at
233 Broadway, Cambridge, as long as enough people have told me by
Monday night that they want to come.

Meeting report

We played:

• Byrd: Susanna faire and Upon a
  summer’s day
• Asola, Hor che la terra

Schedule

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

This coming Tuesday, August 16, a large fraction of the
regulars have told me that they are not coming, so if you want
there to be a meeting, you are definitely going to have to let me
know.

The following Tuesday, August 23, I will not be in town, so if
you want to meet, you’ll have to do the organizing yourself.

But as far as I know, the Tuesday after that, August 30, is
back to normal.