Meeting report

We played:

• Pasttime with good company
• Bunois, Fortuna Desperata
• Ravenscroft, We be three poor mariners
• Byrd:
  • Of flatt’ring speech
  • Susannah Faire
  • Upon a Somer’s day
• Susato, Ronde IV
• Farmer, Fair Phyllis

Schedule

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

Meeting Report

We played:

• Pieces from the Premier Cahier de Contredanses
• Morley:
  • Now must I die,
  • Lady, if I through grief,
  • Cease mine eyes,
  • Love
    learns by laughing
• Knapp, Great Monarch of the World
• Ingalls, Melodious Sonnet
• Purcell, Cakes and Ale

Schedule

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

Contrary to what was previously announced, there will not be a
gig on Thursday, September 24, and the Tuesday, September 22
meeting will be a normal drop-in meeting.

Meeting report

We played:

• Morley:
  • Farewell, disdainfull,
  • O flye not,
  • Thirsis
• Agricola, Crions Nouell
• Josquin, La plus des plus

Schedule

We are meeting as usual on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm at 233 Broadway
Cambridge.

Next week, September 22, will be an exception, as the Tuesday
meeting is reserved for rehearsing for the September 24th gig.

News of the week of September 1, 2015

Meeting report

We played:

• Pieces from the Performance
  booklet
• des
  Prez, La
  Deploration de la morte de Johannes Ockeghem
• Senfl,
  Fortuna–Ich
  stuend an einem morgen
• Guerrero, Adios mi amor

Schedule

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

The Tuesday, September 22 meeting is restricted to performers
in the September 24 event.

Sad News

Tom Zajac died last Monday afternoon. That was why we sang the
Deploration. Many of us will miss him as a coach, performer, and friend.

Meeting report

We played:

• Pieces from the Performance
  booklet
• Willaert: J’ayme bien mon amy, versions II
  and I
• Holborne: Spero, Patientia, and The Night Watch

Schedule

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

The Tuesday, September 22 meeting is restricted to performers
in the September 24 event.

Other playing opportunity

The BRS Loud Wind band is having occasional uncoached meetings
and would be happy for other loud wind players to join us. The
next meeting will be here, 233 Broadway, on Sunday, August 30, at 2pm.

Edit: this meeting will be at 1pm, not at 2pm.

Meeting report

We played:

• Pieces from the Walk
  for Hunger booklet.
• Willaert, J’ayme bien mon amy
• Obrecht, Meskin es hu

Gig

We have an invitation to play at the JCHE on
September 24 at 10:30 in the morning. If you’d like to play with
us, let me know. You should expect to come to enough Tuesday
meetings to learn the music, and especially to the September 22
meeting.

The program will rely heavily on the Walk for Hunger one,
possibly replacing some of the Spring music with other music for
more parts.

Schedule

We will continue dropin meetings with new music and requests
from our repertoire on Tuesdays at 7:45pm at 233 Broadway,
Cambridge.

The September 22 meeting will be restricted to performers at
the September 24 gig.

Other event

The Wakefield Summer Band (me playing ophicleide on the tuba
parts) will play its final concert of the season on Friday at
6:30pm. There will be a party after the concert. If there isn’t
too much thunder and lightning, we’ll be outside at the bandstand;
otherwise we’ll be in the hall of the First Congregational Church.

Meeting report

We played:

• From Il Primo Libro a due voci by Lupacchino and Tasso: 17-20, 22, 34
• Willaert, Ricercar III
• Byrd:
  • Lord, in thy rage rebuke me not
  • Susannah faire
  • The eagle’s force

Schedule

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