The Cantabile Renaissance Band
We played:
We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA. Let me know if you want to come.
We played:
We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA. Let me know if you want to come.
Several people said they would like to go on Sunday, August 6 at 8 pm. So we will meet on the Boston Common at 7 or thereabouts. If you tell me you want to go, I will send you the phone numbers of the other people who want to go, so we can end up in the same vicinity.
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We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm. Unless otherwise decided, we will be meeting at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA. Let me know if you want to come.
I’m back. The actual occupancy permit is just paperwork away, and I moved back to sleeping in Cambridge on Friday.
I’m still needing a lot of help moving things – Anne and I spent a lot of Friday evening moving boxes in my bedroom so I could go to bed. The TV set died after one day of showing the news, so I have ordered a new one, for which I will need help moving the living room around.
So it will be a while before the housewarming party, but at least it’s possible to make progress.
In general, I try to keep these emails to one a week, and mostly about what the group is doing. But it is a vibrant social institution, and people do want to use it for other things. So here are some of the recent attempted posts about such things.
Anne <alkalinelilac@gmail.com> writes:
Several of us have mentioned the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company free performances on the Boston Common (stage near corner of Tremont & Boylston) and wondered whether we might plan a group outing.
A few years ago some of us brought a picnic to share, attended Cymbeline, and brought some friends with us. Generally, if one gets there an hour ahead one can get a decent seat and enjoy a picnic before and during performances. There are some food trucks and ice cream (just a few) available also.
Macbeth preview sounded exciting. The performance schedule [for August] is as follows:
Tues-Fri, Sun, August 1-4, 6 at 8PM Sat, August 5, 6PM
So let Anne know if you’re interested, and which dates would work for you.
Pam <pamhsiehcambridge@gmail.com> writes:
Do any of you happen to have any musical instruments that are of no use anymore, so bad you can’t play them anymore? If so, I’m looking for some to paint a still life series. Thank you, Pam
Laura McMurray writes:
Small informal group of recorder players seeks 1-2 more to join us. Intermediate level; ideal if play both F and C instruments.
Now meeting in midCambridge on Sunday mornings. Contact laura.mcmurry24@gmail.com <laura.mcmurry24@gmail.com>
We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm. Unless otherwise decided, we will be meeting at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA. Let me know if you want to come.
We will not be meeting this coming week. You can’t get to my part of Cambridge from anywhere else on the 4th of July, and if you do get there, you can’t get away until after midnight. You can read in the next day’s paper how many tens or hundreds of thousands of people tried to drive by my house to get to and from the concert/fireworks.
In general, we meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm. Unless otherwise decided, we will be meeting at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA. Let me know if you want to come.
The picture above demonstrates that I now have a bannister up to the second (European first) floor. This was supposed to be the final item before applying for the occupancy permit, although there seems to be another inspection (of the building permit work) before we can apply for the occupancy permit. But the TODO list I set up for my contractor is getting pretty small. The major item is the air conditioner – the HVAC guy seems to have disappeared.
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We played:
We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm. Unless otherwise decided, we will be meeting at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA. Let me know if you want to come.
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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.
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.
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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 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.
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