Author: Laura Conrad

I wrote:

The January 1 date for our annual party has been
working out well. But this year, January 1 is a Friday, and I
don’t see that the Saturday or Sunday would be any worse than the
Friday. So let me know by Friday if you’d prefer to come on one of
those dates instead of January 1.

So far I have heard a murmur against January 2, and no
enthusiasm for January 3, so it will be January 1.

So bring your voice, bring your instruments, bring your
friends, bring food and drink if you have some you want to share, to 233 Broadway, Cambridge on
January 1, 2016. We’ll start at 4, and continue until everyone
turns into a pumpkin.

As usual, here are printable invitations:

• This
  one is one page with our flyer on the back.
• And This
  one can be folded in four to be pocket sized.

Meeting report

We played:

• Hayne
  van Ghizeghem, De tous biens plaine
• Willaert,
  Ricercar
  Quarto
• Hayne
  van Ghizeghem, Ales
  regres
• Henry
  VIII, Pasttime with good company

Schedule

We will be meeting as usual on Tuesdays at 7:45pm at 233
Broadway, Cambridge.

Party planning

The January 1 date for our annual party has been working out
well. But this year, January 1 is a Friday, and I don’t see that
the Saturday or Sunday would be any worse than the Friday. So let
me know by Friday if you’d prefer to come on one of those dates instead of
January 1. I want to start getting invitations out.

Other event

The annual Pub Carol Sing, sponsored by the Folksong Society of Greater Boston and
the West
Gallery Quire will be this Sunday, December 6 at 2 pm at
Doyles Cafe in Jamaica Plain.

(non)Meeting report

With people out of town and rehearsing for other groups and
having just returned from being out of town, we didn’t have a
quorum for a regular meeting.

However, there was a 5-part piece we’d been wanting to
proofread for a while, so two of us joined 3 players at John
Tyson’s place and proofread Valle che de’ lamenti miei
se’ piena by Giaches de Wert

Schedule

We will be meeting as usual on Tuesdays at 7:45pm at 233
Broadway, Cambridge.

Party planning

The January 1 date for our annual party has been working out
well. But this year, January 1 is a Friday, and I don’t see that
the Saturday or Sunday would be any worse than the Friday. So let
me know if you’d prefer to come on one of those dates instead of
January 1.

Meeting Report

An all-Willaert evening.

• Ricercar I
• Vecchie letrose
• Dulces exuviae

Schedule

We will be meeting as usual on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm at 233
Broadway, Cambridge.

Meeting report: November 3, 2015

We played:

• Byrd, Of flattring speech
• Clemens non Papa, Ich stund an
  einen Morgen
• Agricola, De tous biens
• Amy, souffrez que je vous aime
• Ghizeghem, De tous biens
  plaine
• Dowland: What if I never
  speed, Me, me and none but me, It
  was a time when silly bees could speak

Meeting report: November 10, 2015

We played:

• Lassus, Justi tulerunt
• Ruffo, La Danza and Trinatas in unitate
• Agricola,
  De
  tous biens
• Ghizeghem, De tous biens
  plaine
• Morley,
  Love
  learns by laughing
• Josquin, O Venus bant and Scaramella
• Agricola,
  Crions
  Nouel
• Senfl, Wohl kumbt der Mai

Schedule

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

A Banquet of Love — Frans Floris

Meeting report

We played:

• Josquin: La plus des plus and O Venus bant
• Nola, Madonn’io non lo so perchè lo fai
• Willaert, Madonn’io non lo so perchè lo fai
• Sermisy, Martin menait son porceau
• Entre vous qui aymés

Schedule

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

This will be true next week, November 3, because David will be
there on time to open the door.

Meeting report:

We played:

• Busnois, Fortuna Desperata
• Josquin,
  Fortuna d’un gran tempo
• Willaert, Giunto m’à Amor fra belle et crude braccia
• Lots of Holborne
• Wise,
  Judith and Holifernes

Schedule

We are meeting regularly on Tuesdays
at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway.

As usual, on November 3, Election Day, I won’t be there for
most of the meeting, so either someone else will have to to be there to
open the door and find the music, or the meeting will have to be
somewhere else.

Performance opportunity

Last chance to sign up for the Wort Processor’s cider picnic on
Sunday, October 25 from noon to 3pm at Cider Hill in Amesbury.

It’s free and if some people wanted to come play after we eat
and drink enough, it would be fun. It’s a nice orchard with a
good store for buying apples and such. (The cider donuts have
been highly praised.)