Author: Laura Conrad

• Isaac, Innsbruck
• Rore: Mia benigna fortuna
• Holborne: 25. Patiencia; 33. Heres paternus
• Ravenscroft, He that will an Alehouse keep

Thanks to Ishmael for taking notes.

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA. Let me know if you want to come.

We are trying out a slightly modified meeting format. We have found for some time that starting a meeting with everyone sightreading an aggressively polyphonic piece did not lead to good work on tuning and ensemble. So what we’ve been doing is starting with everyone sightreading from the hymnal, which does lead to good work on the tuning, but doesn’t directly address the problem of good ensemble playing from unbarred parts.

So what we’re going to try for a while is playing the same piece at the beginning of the rehearsal every week for a month or so. This will allow:

• People who aren’t comfortable sight reading in the ensemble to work on one or more parts on their own, or with a teacher if they’re taking lessons.
• People who want to learn a new instrument or a new clef or fingering to work on it on their own and not have to sight read cold.
• Everyone to have a chance to play or sing all the parts they want to.

For our first piece to tackle this way, I picked Innsbruck. If you weren’t here last week and are coming this week, you should either print it out or ask me to do it for you.

If you have suggestions for a suitable piece for next month’s non-sightreading segment, let me know.

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA. Let me know if you want to come.

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA. Let me know if you want to come.

We played:

• WIR GLAUBEN ALL MEIN GOTT
• EISENACH
• MACHS MIT MIR GOTT
• FARRANT
• Palestrina, Vestiva i colli
• Lassus, Fiera Stella/Ma tu prendi

Thanks to Ishmael for taking notes.

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA. Let me know if you want to come.

We played:

• Sermisy/arr. Bach, WAS MIEN GOTT WILL
• CWM RHONDDA
• DUNDEE
• Schein, EISENACH
• Dowland: His golden locks; Can she excuse my wrongs; Come heavy sleep
• Ravenscroft, To Portsmouth

Thanks to Ishmael for taking notes.

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA. Let me know if you want to come.

We played:

• Agricola, Dite moi toutes vos pensées
• Palestrina, Sicut cervus
• Sandrin, Douce memoire
• Sermisy, Contentez vous

Thanks to Ishmael for taking notes.

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA. Let me know if you want to come.

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA. Let me know if you want to come.

Tuesday, March 5, is the Presidential Primary in Massachusetts, so I am unlikely to make much if any of the meeting. Nevertheless, it sounded like there would be a quorum, so let me know if you want to come.

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA. Let me know if you want to come.

Tuesday, March 5, is the Presidential Primary in Massachusetts, so I am unlikely to make much if any of the meeting. People are still welcome to come meet here if they want to.

Hardly any, but I’m attaching a picture of the current state of the computer room. Faramir refused to pose, although he does spend a fair amount of time in the dog bed. The smaller futon could be unfolded into a guest bed. There would need to be more unpacking or at least serious moving before I could unfold the larger one.

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA. Let me know if you want to come.

Tuesday, March 5, is the Presidential Primary in Massachusetts, so I am unlikely to make much if any of the meeting. People are still welcome to come meet here if they want to.

The boxes of books went away, so I managed to salvage a little more of the computer room. It’s still not as easy to unpack boxes as I would have expected it to be – the boxes are mostly accessible, but the places I would want to put their contents are still clogged with boxes.

There is a box of jetsom which you’re welcome to look at. Mostly obsolete but possibly still useful technology. Notable item is my mother’s film camera, which was here because she wanted me to take it to a camera store and get it fixed, which I never did.

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA. Let me know if you want to come.

Tuesday, March 5, is the Presidential Primary in Massachusetts, so I am unlikely to make much if any of the meeting. People are still welcome to come meet here if they want to.

I have finally managed to finish putting together the stereo system, so if we organize a movie night, it will be in 4K and surround sound.

Someone is coming to take away boxes of books and records on Friday, February 16. So if you want to go through and snarf things, you should do it before that.

Linda has kindly offered to come over and help put boxes on the sidewalk on Thursday, February 15. So if anyone else wants to do that, we can do some eating and drinking together afterwards.