Author: Laura Conrad

News of the week of December 4, 2012

Meeting Report

We played:

Schedule

We will be having dropin meetings as usual on Tuesdays
at 7:45pm at

my place

. Christmas, December 25 will be an exception, and the
January 1 meeting will be replaced by a party.

Party

There are invitations in two formats:

foldable into quarter-page,

and

two-sided, with a Cantabile Band flyer on the back

.

Print them out and give them to all your friends who might be
interested.

As I said last week, let me know if you intend to come, especially if
you’re bringing something useful, but also feel free to drop in.

I will apply for parking consideration, if I can find a browser/os
combination that knows how to run the online application form. But I
suspect it isn’t necessary, and they just treat New Years Day as a
Sunday, the way the do Thanksgiving. There will be parking permits
around if you’re nervous about it.

News of the week of November 27, 2012

Meeting Report

We played:

Schedule

We will be having dropin meetings as usual on Tuesdays
at 7:45pm at

my place

. Christmas, December 25, will be an exception, and see below
for New Years, January 1.

Party

It looks like the only possible weekend day in December for a party
would be December 8, which nobody, including me, is enthusiastic
about. In my case, it isn’t that I don’t want to invite all my
friends and cook and clean, but that’s just too early to put up a
Christmas tree. I spent some time trying to figure out how to have an Advent
wreath be decorative but not in the way of people being able to put
down plates and glasses, and I couldn’t.

So we decided that this year the party will be instead of our regular
meeting on Tuesday, January 1. I know some people won’t be back from
their Christmas travels in time for that, so we will attempt to also
be festive for them before they leave and after they come back.

I’ll be sending out the normal invitation for inviting all your
friends with, but it will start at 4 in the afternoon and include our
usual food, drink, and music of the season that you might not have a
chance to sing anywhere else. If you know you’re coming and what you
want to bring to share, I’d be happy to know about it in advance, but
don’t be shy about just dropping in.

Other events

Don Hodgkins sends an invitation to the
seventh annual Wakefield
Community Messiah Sing,
Friday, December 14, 7:30 pm, First Parish Congregational
Church, Wakefield. For more information, call Don at (781) 246-3847.

News of the week of November 20, 2012

Meeting Report

We played:

  • Telemann, Sonata in G
  • Loeillet, Sonata in A minor and Sonata in G major
  • Chédeville le Cadet, from Les Idées Françoises ou les Délices de Chambray: Les Jumaux, La Sandrillon, and March des Signes
  • Beatles duets

  • Weelkes,


    Four arms, two lips, one breathing

Schedule

We will be having dropin meetings as usual on Tuesdays
at 7:45pm at

my place

.

Party

We need to schedule the Christmas party, if we’re going to have one.
So if you want to come, let me know which if any of the following
dates will work for you:

  • Saturday, December 8
  • Saturday, December 15
  • Saturday, December 22

We’ll start as usual at 4 or 5 in the afternoon, so if you have an
evening concert you can drop in before or after.

News of the week of October 30, 2012

Meeting Report

We played:

Schedule

We will be having dropin meetings as usual on Tuesdays
at 7:45pm at

my place

.

Anne has agreed to come open my door on November 6, election day, so
there will be a meeting then.
I will leave some suitable music out on the counter, including the
Morley canzonets for two and three voices and the Ruffos and the
Dowland third book.

You should be able to find some of the other stuff we do all the time
– the things in books are lying sideways on the eight inch shelves,
and the other stuff is in the notebooks labeled things like “Four
parts”, “Four Parts English” “> Four Parts”.

It’s likely to be a fairly late night at the polls. They registered
10,000 new voters by the October 17th deadline, and they had 3500
absentee ballots already more than a week before the election. But it’s the other
guy’s turn to go to the count, so I may be able to get there by 9:30
or even a bit earlier.

News of the week of October 23, 2012

Meeting Report

We played:

Schedule

We will be having dropin meetings as usual on Tuesdays
at 7:45pm at

my place

.

Anne has agreed to come open my door on November 6, election day.
She would prefer that someone with more familiarity with what music I
keep where also come to help keep the rehearsal going. I’m willing to
give anyone who wants it a “tour of the notebooks” on Tuesday October 30.

News of the week of October 16, 2012

Meeting Report

We played:

Schedule

We will be having dropin meetings as usual on Tuesdays
at 7:45pm at

my place

.

November 6, election day, I’ll be working as usual, so if we want to
meet then, someone else will have to open up and keep things going
until I get there some time after nine.

News of the week of October 2, 2012

Meeting Report

We played:

Schedule

We will be having dropin meetings as usual on Tuesdays
at 7:45pm at

my place

.

November 6, election day, I’ll be working as usual, so if we want to
meet then, someone else will have to open up and keep things going
until I get there some time after nine.

This week (October 9), people who play F recorders will have a chance
to try out the Ralph Netsch Renaissance alto in F that I’m checking
out. So we’ll try to do something with two alto range parts, so we
can see how it sounds with my Ralph Netsch G alto.

News of the week of September 4, 2012

Meeting Report, August 28, 2012

Sorry, I’m a week behind on these. My memory of the week before last
is fuzzy.

We played:

Meeting Report, September 4, 2012

We played:

Schedule

We will be having dropin meetings as usual on Tuesdays
at 7:45pm at

my place

.

Parking and Building Access

Is close to back to normal for you. We have our sidewalk back, and
all of the No Parking signs apply only from 7 AM to 4 PM, so parking
should actually be easier than usual for evening visitors.

Cantabile gets nationwide publicity


The American Recorder

magazing Fall issue has a paragraph about our
walk for hunger performance. They say:

During the May 6 Walk for Hunger in the Boston (MA) area, 43,000
people walked a 20-mile course, raising over three million dollars to
fund soup kitchens, food pantries and community gardens. At many
stations, entertainment is provided for walkers resting their weary
bones. Since 1999, Cantabile Band (www.laymusic.org/renband.html) has
provided entertainment at Mile 13, a beautiful spot on the Charles
River. This year, seven band members sang and played recorder, fiddle
and viol on a program including Morley, Dowland, Holborne, Wilbye and
Ravenscroft.

Playing out of doors for that length of time is challenging, with the
wind and noise (motorcycles, boomboxes, helicopters, amplified
directions to boats racing on the river…). Cantabile members bring
lots of clothespins, and have invested in tent pegs and ground staples
to keep music stands from blowing over.

They also included a picture of

me and Ishmael playing.

News of the week of August 21, 2012

Meeting Report

We played:

Schedule

We will be having dropin meetings as usual on Tuesdays (including
today, August 28) at 7:45pm at

my place

.

Parking and Building Access

They have now torn up the sidewalk in front of my building. Parking
for people who don’t live here is probably a little easier than usual,
since the whole block is marked no parking 7am to 4 or 5 pm, so you
aren’t competing with residents. But you do have to get to my door
over a narrow path of packed earth instead of sidewalk, and to
remember that the bottom step is higher than usual, because of the
sidewalk being gone. I’m OK when I remember it, but Sammy is having
trouble with how high it is.

I’ll let you (at least the regular attendees) know if this changes
between now (10am) and when the workers leave at 4. I am not looking
forward to when they actually pour the new concrete.