Author: Laura Conrad

News of the week of May 21

Meeting report, May 21

We played:

Schedule

We will be meeting regularly on
Tuesday nights at 7:45 PM at

my place

.

An exception will be Tuesday, June 11, when

BEMF

will be happening.
I’m going to go see Emma Kirkby and Paul Odette.

News of the week of May 14

Meeting report, May 14

We played:

Schedule

We will be meeting regularly on
Tuesday nights at 7:45 PM at

my place

.

An exception will be Tuesday, June 11, when

BEMF

will be happening.
I’m going to go see Emma Kirkby and Paul Odette.

Other events


Convivium Musicum

will play a program titled “Music of the Spheres:
Music and Mathematics in the Renaissance” on Saturday, May 18 at 8pm
at Harvard-Epworth Church in Cambridge, and on Sunday, May 19 at 7pm
at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Brookline. Ockeghem will be the
featured composer.

News of the week of May 7

Meeting report, April 30

This report was contributed by Ishmael Stefanov. It was emailed, but
didn’t have the links, and didn’t get posted on the

blog.

We played:

Meeting report, May 7

We played:

Schedule

We will be meeting regularly on
Tuesday nights at 7:45 PM at

my place

.

An exception will be Tuesday, June 11, when BEMF will be happening.
I’m going to go see Emma Kirkby and Paul Odette.

News of the week of April 23

Meeting report, April 16

We played:

Meeting report, April 23

We played:

Schedule

We will be meeting regularly on
Tuesday nights at 7:45 PM at

my place

.

Next Tuesday, April 30, Anne has agreed to be there on time to open
the door for people, so we will meet as usual, although I won’t get
there until some time after 9 because of the election.

Walk for Hunger

People who are playing the Walk for Hunger are reminded that it is on Sunday
May 5, and we’re responsible for covering 10am until 3pm. I will be
there for the whole time; it would be good if someone else would
commit to being there by at least 10:30.

If you’re not playing, it’s a beautiful spot on the banks of the
Charles River (Greenough Boulevard, across from the Cambridge Cemetery), and you’re welcome to drop by. It’s pretty informal
this year, so if you drop by, you’ll be able to sit in if you
want to.

News of the week of April 9

Meeting report, April 9

We played:

Schedule

We will be meeting regularly on
Tuesday nights at 7:45 PM at

my place

.

Other events


Tonight

(April 10) and also on

Sunday

, John Tyson, recorder, joins El Dorado Ensemble (Carol Lewis, Janet Haas, Paul Johnson, Mai-Lan Broekman and Alice Mroszczyk, viols; Olav Chris Henriksen, lute and theorbo) to perform Italian diminutions, fantasias and dance music of the renaissance by Bassano, Dalla Casa, Rognoni, Terzi, Kapsberger and others.

Also tonight, Ishmael will be playing with

Seven Times Salt

at the Harvard Square English Country Dance.

Next weekend is

NEFFA

, a wonderful place to see and participate in singing, dancing and other folk arts. The

West Gallery Quire

will be having their workshop on Sunday at 11 am. This is one of the better places to sing with a serpent, if you haven’t had the chance to do that yet.

Judith Conrad, forte piano, and the Delight Consort will play on April 21, 2013 at
3:00 p.m., at the historic

Loring-Greenough House

, 12 South Street,
Jamaica Plain MA. The program will welcome back the reconditioned box forte piano, and will feature the late 18th
century genre of music for piano with instrumental accompaniment,
including works of C.F. Fischer, W. Williams, W.A. Mozart and J.C.
Bach.

News of the week of April 2

Meeting Report, March 27

We played:

Meeting report, April 2

We played:

Schedule

We will be meeting regularly on
Tuesday nights at 7:45 PM at

my place

.

Walk for Hunger

I’m assuming that I know about everybody who wants to play at the Walk
for Hunger. If this isn’t true, let me know soon.

News of the week of March 19

Meeting Report

We played:

Schedule

We will be meeting regularly on
Tuesday nights at 7:45 PM at

my place

.

Walk for Hunger

I have accepted our invitation to play the

Walk for Hunger

at the
same time and place as the last several years. (May 5, 10am to 3 pm,
on Greenough Boulevard across from the Cambridge Cemetery.)

If you would like to play with us, let me know by April 5. You should
bring your copy of Barnes English Country Dances, if you have it (I
recommend acquiring it if you don’t), and we may have group
playing of some Renaissance dance music and singing of rounds.

In the past, we’ve discouraged people from signing up if they only
play an instrument that doesn’t work in bad weather. Due to the
informal nature of this performance, this year we welcome our
fair-weather string-playing friends. Of course, if you also play
recorder, you can also come play a plastic recorder in the downpour,
blizzard, or hail, just like the rest of us.

If you’re working up a solo or duet that isn’t suitable for everyone
to join in on, let me know what it is and how long it will take so
that I can schedule things.

News of the week of March 12

Meeting Report

We played:

Schedule

We will be meeting regularly on
Tuesday nights at 7:45 PM at

my place

.

Walk for Hunger

I have accepted our invitation to play the

Walk for Hunger

at the
same time and place as the last several years. (May 5, 10am to 3 pm,
on Greenough Boulevard across from the Cambridge Cemetery.)

If you would like to play with us, let me know by April 5. You should
bring your copy of Barnes English Country Dances, if you have it (I
recommend acquiring it if you don’t), and we may have group
playing of some Renaissance dance music and singing of rounds.

In the past, we’ve discouraged people from signing up if they only
play an instrument that doesn’t work in bad weather. Due to the
informal nature of this performance, this year we welcome our
fair-weather string-playing friends. Of course, if you also play
recorder, you can also come play a plastic recorder in the downpour,
blizzard, or hail, just like the rest of us.

If you’re working up a solo or duet that isn’t suitable for everyone
to join in on, let me know what it is and how long it will take so
that I can schedule things.

News of the week of March 5

Meeting Report

We played:

Schedule

We will be meeting regularly on
Tuesday nights at 7:45 PM at

my place

.

Walk for Hunger

I have accepted our invitation to play the

Walk for Hunger

at the
same time and place as the last several years. (May 5, 10am to 3 pm,
on Greenough Boulevard across from the Cambridge Cemetery.)

People who want to play should let me know when they
plan to get there. I will need to know
who is coming, their t-shirt sizes, and who will need a vehicle
permit, by April 5.

If you’re working up a solo or duet that isn’t suitable for everyone
to join in on, let me know what it is and how long it will take so
that I can schedule things.

Serpents at BEMF 13

Pierre Ribo, from Brussels, Belgium, will be bringing 4 serpents to the Boston Early Music Festival in June, 2013.
Pierre Ribo, from Brussels, Belgium, will be bringing 4 serpents to the Boston Early Music Festival in June, 2013.

I got an email this morning from Pierre Ribo:

Let me introduce myself. My name is Pierre Ribo and I am a serpent
maker in Brussels, Belgium.

I will be present at the Boston Early Music Festival from June 12th
until the 15th to present four of my serpents (with four keys and 6
holes church serpent).

My purpose is to propose my instruments in the USA and also to meet
musicians, since their reactions are very important to me.

I would be pleased to meet you during my stay in Boston, if possible
for you.

In case you would know other musicians interested in the serpent, may
I ask you to forward this mail or spread the word around you?

The official concert schedule is as much of an early brass wasteland
as ever, but it looks like there will at least be a few serpents at
the exhibition.