Category: Cantabile

• Henry VIII, Pasttime with good company
• Quant je boy du vin claret tout tourne
• Sermisy, Vive la serpe
• Dowland, All ye whom love or fortune hath betraid, Can she excuse my wrongs
• Smith, Slaves are they that heap up mountains
• Ravenscroft, To Portsmouth

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm.

The Tuesday, June 6 meeting is cancelled. People are urged to take advantage of all the Boston Early Music Festival events instead.

After that, stay tuned for location. We met at my place in Cambridge on May 30, and it worked pretty well. So we may have one more meeting in Arlington to celebrate our hosts’ hospitality and get me some help removing all the stuff we’ve been cluttering up their place with. But in general, the meetings will now be at 233 Broadway in Cambridge.

• Josquin, Mille regrets
• Senfl, Es wollt ein Fraw zum Weine gahn
• Sermisy, Vive la serpe
• Dowland,  All ye whom love or fortune hath betraid
• Purcell, Five reasons

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm at the home of Wendy Goble and Richard Schmeidler in Arlington Center. Please let me know if you want to come.

The Tuesday, June 6 meeting is cancelled. People are urged to take advantage of all the Boston Early Music Festival events instead.

There is a bathroom. I have cleared enough boxes from the dining room that we could actually meet there, but the boxes that are currently where the refrigerator is going to go will probably move into the middle of the dining room. (They also have to be unpacked into cabinets they are currently blocking access to.)

Eversource is saying “We cannot come this week, but we will surely come on Tuesday.” When they come, there will be a bathroom with hot and cold running water.

The occupancy permit is apparently quite close. My contractor is still vague on what he’s claiming when he applies for an occupancy permit, but he thinks it needs the gas hookup, the bannister for the stairs up to the second floor, and the appliance (or at least the stove) delivery. If the gas company really comes on Tuesday, this could in theory all happen before our next meeting on June 13. Stay tuned. In any case, we can have meetings there even without the occupancy permit, if we get enough boxes out of the way.

I’m getting a puppy. He’s currently scheduled to leave Arkansas on June 6, and get here 4-6 days later. They’re calling him Fred at the moment; we’ll see when he gets here what he wants to be called.

Some people say that his current striking blue eyes are likely to turn some other color, but other people say that if he still has blue eyes after more than two months, they’re likely to stay blue. Possibly a darker blue.

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm at the home of Wendy Goble and Richard Schmeidler in Arlington Center. Please let me know if you want to come.

We have gotten some walls clear to move the furniture to, and found some of the notebooks with the music we play. I’m getting some friends to help, and maybe we’ll get all the music we need in the next week or so.

I wouldn’t move the rehearsals there until there’s a bathroom which should be soon, but it’s going slower than I like. In any case, there won’t be hot water until the gas company comes. It’s been a year since we requested the connection and over a week since we told them we had done everything they (eventually) said they wanted.

We played:

• Isaac, Ein frohlich Wesenth
• Dowland, Me, me and none but me
• Holborne: 58. The fruit of love; 22. Galliard; 63. The fairie-round; 55. The night watch
• Lassus, In me transierunt irae tuae

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm at the home of Wendy Goble and Richard Schmeidler in Arlington Center. Please let me know if you want to come.

The electricity is there and the floors are done, and the electrical work is close to done, although I still don’t have an ethernet line between the two floors.

The plumber is supposed to start my finish plumbing on Monday, and the gas company is supposed to connect the gas on Tuesday.

I’ve been having nightmares about moving for almost three years now, and one of them happened Friday. I think it’s all fixable, but it’s going to be days or weeks of hard work.

The people from the storage company showed up as scheduled with a giant truck and four guys. They started bringing things in, and I was telling them what room the things went in. My picture of this was that the furniture would end up where I wanted it, and then I could unpack the boxes onto the shelves and drawers and cabinets I wanted it in.

Unfortunately, they started putting boxes next to the walls where the shelves and drawers will have to eventually go, so the living room and dining room are essentially full of a mix of boxes, bookcases, etc. and there’s no way to unpack the boxes until you move the furniture where it has to go. I think the boxes are all less than 50 pounds, but many of them are much more than I want to move.

When they were taking things upstairs, they usually asked me what room they should go in, and I told them pink, yellow, or blue. But with the pieces of the bed, I don’t think they asked. They just assumed that the large bed should go in the larger and sunnier of the bedrooms. I have tried both rooms and have decided that sunny and a view of the large street are not figures of merit for a bedroom, so I had the good bed in the back bedroom. It was taken apart for the move, and has now been put together in the wrong room.

A complication is that the storage room where I would expect to be able to put boxes that I didn’t want to unpack yet is cluttered with all the stuff that the movers didn’t move back in 2020 because it was quitting time on Friday.

I’m sure I can get some assistance from the contractors, and if I call the storage company, they may even come back and move the bed for me. But I can’t just open some boxes and get the large notebooks that we used to play out of at Cantabile meetings.

We have been mostly or entirely playing out of the booklet for NEFFA.

If you’re going to NEFFA tomorrow (Sunday, April 23, 2023), please stop by our event, Pasttime with good company. The original title, which was less interesting but more descriptive, was “Social Polyphony”. It’s the music English-speaking people in the 16th and 17th centuries sang and played together in social settings. There will be rounds, part songs, lute songs, and hymns. The audience will be given music and encouraged to join in.

We will not meet on Tuesday, April 25, 2023. Several people can’t come, and the rest of us could use a break. Otherwise:

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm at the home of Wendy Goble and Richard Schmeidler in Arlington Center. Please let me know if you want to come.

My electricity was connected on Friday. The flooring people are coming on Monday. There are still other things that need to happen before I can move back, but I have no reason to believe that any of them will be as difficult as the electricity was. A couple of days before the Eversource trucks arrived (6 of them, with 8 people), our contacts were still implying that it would be weeks before we could be put on a schedule. So I assume someone made a phone call. Many thanks to whoever helped and/or sympathized.

We played:

• Ravenscroft: (Note: all of these are in the booklet for the 2013 Walk for Hunger)
  • He that will an Alehouse keep
  • Well fare the nightingale
  • Oaken leaves
  • O my fearful dreams
• Morley, It was a lover and his lass
• Rhau, Dulces Exuviae

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm at the home of Wendy Goble and Richard Schmeidler in Arlington Center. Please let me know if you want to come.

We played:

• Ravenscroft: (Note: all of these are in the booklet for the 2013 Walk for Hunger)
  • To Portsmouth
  • Of all the birds
  • We be soldiers three
  • We be three poor mariners
• Campian:
  • When Laura smiles
  • I care not for these ladies
  • Never weather-beaten saile
• Byrd, O Lord my God
• Purcell, Cakes and Ale

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm at the home of Wendy Goble and Richard Schmeidler in Arlington Center. Please let me know if you want to come.

We played:

• Busnois, Fortuna Desperata
• Byrd, Attend mine humble prayer, Lord
• Ravenscroft: (Note: all of these are in the booklet for the 2013 Walk for Hunger)
  • To Portsmouth
  • As I mee walked
  • We be three poor mariners
  • We be soldiers three
  • Of all the birds
  • Hey ho, to the greenwood
  • Now God be with old Simeon
• Henry VIII, Pasttime with good company

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm at the home of Wendy Goble and Richard Schmeidler in Arlington Center. Please let me know if you want to come.

We are scheduled to lead a workshop at NEFFA at 11:30am on April 23. Please let me know if you want to be in the group – I can list you as a performer if I know soon. You should expect to come to some Tuesday rehearsals if we do that.

Otherwise, please come and participate that day. I expect the pent-up NEFFA energy after three years of online festivals to be impressive.

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm at the home of Wendy Goble and Richard Schmeidler in Arlington Center. Please let me know if you want to come.

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm at the home of Wendy Goble and Richard Schmeidler in Arlington Center. Please let me know if you want to come.