Author: Laura Conrad

Meeting report

We played:

• Lots of Christmas music arranged by many people including
  Michael Praetorius and Ishmael Stefanov.
• Agricola, Crions Nouell

Schedule

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

Party

The party is tomorrow, January 1, 2015 starting at 4 pm, also
at 233 Broadway. A sharp-eyed reader (who has probably been
proofreading lots of flyers and invitations and bulletins) noted
that yesterday I
invited you to a party on January 1, 2014. There was one, and it
was good, but you still have a chance to come to the one in
2015.

Please come and tell everyone you know to bring everyone they
know. I feel grateful to the people who tell me that they’re
coming and what they’re bringing to share.

Meeting report

We played:

• Winchester Old
• The Music Theory Song
• Cavendish,
  Come, gentle Swains
• Mundy,
  Lightly
  she whipped o’re the dales,
• Byrd,
  Lullaby
  my sweet little baby
• Praetorius,
  Psallite, unigenito (Singt und klingt)
• Palestrina,
  Adoramus te

Schedule

We will be meeting on Tuesdays, including tonight, December 30,
as usual at 7:45 pm at 233 Broadway, Cambridge.

The party will be
on Thursday, January 1, 2015, starting at 4pm. Come and tell
everyone you know to bring everyone they know. Especially bring
people who might enjoy also coming on Tuesdays.

Meeting report

We played:

• Josquin, Adieu mes amours
• Byrd, Lullaby my sweet little baby
• Wilbye:
  Weep, weep mine eyes and Draw on sweet night

Schedule

We will be meeting as usual on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm at 233
Broadway, Cambridge. This will be true on December 23; we have
not yet made a decision about December 30.

Party

This year’s party will be on January 1 starting at 4 pm, at 233
Broadway, Cambridge. More information is available here.

Please invite anyone you think would enjoy it, which is pretty
much anyone who likes eating, drinking, and/or singing or playing
Christmas music. But especially invite anyone who might enjoy
coming to our group on Tuesdays — the drop in nature of the group
means that the more people think about coming, the more likely we
are to have a good group on any given Tuesday.

Who:

Anyone who likes eating, drinking, and/or singing or playing
Christmas music.

What:

Party to celebrate the New Year.

When:

January First, 2015, starting at 4pm, continuing until
people have stopped wanting to eat, drink and sing or play
Christmas music.

Where:

233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA USA

Why:

If you enjoy doing the things the Cantabile
Renaissance Band does every Tuesday night, you should come
meet us and see if you’d like doing them with us.

Here’s a (slightly) more conventional invitation
that you can print out and fold and put in your pocket.

Meeting report: November 11, 2014

We played:

• Lupacchino, Fantasy 2
• Hymn tune warmups
• Lupacchino, Sopra la Battaglia
• Josquin, Fama, malum
• Da
  Rore:
  Tanto mi piacque,
• Campian, Babylon streams

Meeting report: November 18, 2014

We played:

• Charlton, Canadiana
• Lupacchino, Sopra la Battaglia
• Sandrin, Douce Memoire
• Josquin, Mille Regrets
• Sermisy, Jouissance vous donnerai
• Janequin, La Guerre

Meeting report: November 25, 2014

We played:

• Lots of duets from “Il primo libro a due voci” of Lupacchino
  and Tasso
• Byrd, Susannah fair

Meeting report: December 2

We played:

• Mendelsson, Nocturne from a Midsummer Night’s Dream
• Hymn tune warmups
• Josquin, Fama Malum
• Janequin, La Guerre

Meeting report: December 9

We played:

• Bach/Riemenschneider
• Lots of duets from “Il primo libro a due voci” of Lupacchino
  and Tasso
• Morley: La Sampogna, I should for grief and anguish, La Sirena

Schedule

We continue to meet as usual on Tuesday evenings at 7:45 PM at
233 Broadway, Cambridge. We have agreed to meet on December 23;
we will still discuss whether there will be a meeting on December 30.

Party

The annual party will be on January 1, starting at 4 pm. As
usual, we’ll eat and drink until there’s critical mass for
playing, then sing and play for a while, then eat and drink some
more…

I will produce (more) formal invitations soon, but please start
telling everybody you know to bring everybody they know.

I missed it all, but I’m told we played:

• Time change song
• Willaert, Cingari simo venit’a giocare and Madonn’io no lo so perchè lo fai
• Da Rore: Tanto mi piacque, and
  Ancor che col partire
• Josquin, Fama, malum

Schedule

We continue to meet as usual on Tuesday evenings at 7:45 PM at
233 Broadway, Cambridge.

Concerts

Pazzi Lazzi and Renaissonics will be playing at the Dante
Alleghieri Society, 41 Hampshire St., Cambridge, on Friday, November 7.

The Viola da Gamba Society of New England is presenting a
workshop and a concert with Convivium Musicum on the Dow Part
Books, a collection of music from the 1580’s. The concert will be at All Saints Church,
Belmont, 7pm on Saturday, November 8.

Meeting Report:

We played:

• Morley, Lady those eyes
• Arcadelt, At trepida et cœptis immanibus effera Dido
• Smith, New England
• Billings, Vermont
• Guerrero, Petre Ego
• Sermisy, Vignon, vignon

Schedule

Ishmael has agreed to open up and start the meeting on Tuesday,
November 4, Election Day, so we will meet as usual then.

Usual is 7:45 pm on Tuesday at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Meeting Report

We played:

• Trombone/Ophicleide duets
• Rock of Ages
• Abide with me
• Campian, Never weather-beaten saile
• Verdelot, Dormend’un giorno
• Palestrina, Vestiva i colli
• Holborne:
  Bona Speranza, Pavane, The Night Watch

Schedule

We will be meeting as usual on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm at 233
Broadway, Cambridge, MA. On election day, November 4, we will
meet only if someone volunteers to open up and get the rehearsal
started.

Meeting report, October 7

We played:

• Bach: Die goldne Sonne; Der lieben Sonnen Licht und Pracht;
  Der Tag is hin die Sonne gebet nieder; Der Tag mit seinem
  Lichte; Herr nicht schicke deine Rache; Wo ist mein Schäflein,
  das ich liebe
• Pevernage: Deux que le trait d’Amour/Ilz ont en mesme
  temps/C’est amour qui si rare
• Dowland: Sorrow, sorrow stay and Die not before thy day
• Lassus, Benedictus
• Palestrina, Benedictus from the Missa Papae Marcelli

Meeting report, October 14

We played:

• Ophicleide-trombone duets
• Agricola, Crions Nouell
• Byrd: In Winter Cold, The nightingale, Susanna fair
• Fortuna Desperata: Busnois, Josquin
• Josquin, Fortuna d’un gran tempo
• Guerrero, Benedictus, de la misa Dormendo un giorno
• Pasttime with good company

Schedule

We will be meeting as usual on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm at 233
Broadway, Cambridge, MA. On election day, November 4, we will
meet only if someone volunteers to open up and get the rehearsal
started.

Concerts

The New England Conservaroty of music is having a Festival of Music and
Dance this week. John Tyson, who is one of the organizers,
especially recommends tomorrow’s concert, which
will include Renaissonics playing both Renaissance and Baroque
dance music, as well as world-famous exponents of other dance
styles. All events are free.

Performing opportunities

There are two events this weekend which could include
performances if enough people wanted to go to them.

• A
  memorial gathering for Helen Conrad, where we will scatter
  my mother’s ashes under a ginkgo tree planted in her garden in
  her memory, to the accompaniment of music, poetry and
  remembrances by her friends and family. This will be in Fall
  River at 4pm on Saturday, October 25.
• The Wort
  Processors Ciderfest will be in Amesbury on Sunday, October
  25 from noon to 3pm.

Meeting report

We played:

• Metoyen, duets
• Ingalls, Channel of Mercy
• Morley,
  XII. Thirsis
• Byrd:
  In
  Winter Cold
• Guerrero,
  Benedictus, de la misa Dormendo un giorno
• Henry
  VIII, Pasttime
  with good company
• Josquin, Fortuna
  Desperata,
• Ravenscroft,
  We
  be three poor Mariners, and Now God be with old Simeon

Schedule

We continue to meet as usual on Tuesday evenings at 7:45 PM at
233 Broadway, Cambridge. Next Tuesday, October 7, will probably
be a small, intimate one, if you’ve been thinking of coming but
are intimidated by the idea of a crowd.

Upcoming concerts

The Loring-Greenough House will present Mignarda playing a lute song
program centered on the music of John
Dowland on Sunday, October 5, at 3pm. For more information
see
the Loring-Greenough website.

The Boston Early Music Festival
presents a program
of Monteverdi
madrigals on Saturday, October 11 at 8pm in Jordan Hall.