Laura Conrad

News of the Week of April 1, 2025

Meeting report

We played:

Thanks to Ishmael for taking notes.

Schedule

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA.

Please let me know if you would like to come. Also let me know if you want me to print you a copy of the warmup piece.

News of the Week of March 25, 2025

Meeting report

We played:

Thanks to Ishmael for taking notes.

Schedule

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA.

Please let me know if you would like to come. Also let me know if you want me to print you a copy of the warmup piece.

News of the Week of March 18, 2025

Meeting report

We played:

Thanks to Ishmael for taking notes.

Schedule

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA.

Please let me know if you would like to come.

Warmup piece

We’ll stick with three part Willaert, but move on to a different piece: As tu point veu.

If you’re coming, let me know if you want me to print it for you.

News of the Week of March 11, 2025

Meeting report

We played:

Thanks to Ishmael for taking notes.

Schedule

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA.

Please let me know if you would like to come. This is especially important this week, since several regulars are going to be out of town, so if I haven’t heard from a quorum by the time I go to bed on Monday night, I will cancel the meeting, so that everybody can wake up on Tuesday morning knowing whether they have something scheduled in the evening.

Note that the warmup piece these days is not online yet, so if you need me to print you one, you should mention that when you say you’re coming.

Concert

The Delight Consort and the Fall River Fipple Fluters are giving a joint concert on Saturday, March 15 at The Ignition Space, 44 Troy St., Fall River, from 2 to 4 p.m.

Information from the press release is in The Fall River Herald News. if you have the right relationship to Facebook, you can see a post including the program on either my timelline or my sister Judith Conrad’s.

News of the Week of March 4, 2025

Meeting report

Thanks to Ishmael for taking notes.

Schedule

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA.

Please let me know if you would like to come. Note that the warmup piece these days is not online yet, so if you need me to print you one, you should mention that when you say you’re coming.

Happy 74th Birthday to me

Thanks to everyone who sent birthday wishes, either in person, by phone, email, or post.

Celebration

The actual birthday was on Tuesday, which means I have half a dozen friends over for playing music. So I baked a cake (sourdough rye chocolate cake) and opened a bottle of bubbly stuff.

Then on Saturday when I was at my sister’s, we opened another bottle bubbly stuff and had a flan from Pollo 2go which opened recently around the corner from me.

Unfortunately, we also watched Anora, which we were glad we’d seen when it won the Academy Award, on the grounds that one should be in touch with popular culture, but not something either of us enjoyed watching while it was happening. If you saw the ceremony, one of the clips they used was of the actress screaming, and as I remember it that went on for minutes or tens of minutes at a time. I have no problem with people in a scary situation screaming for a few seconds, but then the plot should move on.

General well-being

I don’t seem to have made one of these posts last year, but looking at the one from two years ago, I’ve come a long way. I am back in my house; I have a dog; the band is meeting regularly with 5-8 people…

The house has been stuck at two rooms with too many boxes for quite a while, but I am now making progress again. This is unfortunately for a sad reason – one of my neighbors owns a house but doesn’t have enough money to fix the roof or the plumbing or (most recently and urgently) the furnace. So I told her she could sleep here, and she has been energetically helping me clear boxes out of the guest room. So soon, the computer room will be the only one with too many boxes.

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Faramir is two now. He still turns into a marauding little puppy more often than I like, but he is taking me on good walks. Every morning we go to the park across the street and he runs around with his dog friends and I chat with the human friends.

I haven’t managed yet to get back to transcribing music, but we’ve found that the bad works better if we read the same piece of complicated music every week for a while than if we sightread a different piece of complicated music every week.

I don’t have the excuse for not transcribing music of the computer setup being bad – my computer is fine, and even knows how to take books out of the library without booting windows.

News of the Week of February 25, 2025

Meeting report

Willaert, Allons allons gai
Rore, Hor che’l ciel e la terra, Così sol d’una chiara fonte viva
Byrd, This sweet and merry month of May
Dowland: The King of Denmark’s galliard; The Earle of Essex galiard; Can she excuse my wrongs

Thanks to Ishmael for taking notes.

Schedule

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA.

Please let me know if you would like to come.

Warmup piece

We are currently using the Willaert Allons allons gai, but we are transposing it down a fourth, which version isn’t yet on the website. So when you let me know you’re coming, also let me know if I should print you a copy.