Category: Cantabile

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.

We played:

• Dowland: Come away, come sweet love
• Praetorius: Psallite, Geborn ist Gottes Sönnelein, En natus est Emanuel
• Billings, Boston
• Wise, When the plague was in town

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:

• Isaac, Ein frohlich Wesenth
• Byrd, The Nightingale
• Morley: Now must I die
• Ravenscroft: Three blind mice, Now God be with old Simeon

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:

• Dowland: Lachrimae Antiquae, A shepherd in a shade
• Lassus, In me transierunt irae tuae
• Rore, Cantai mentre ch’i’ arsi del mio foco
• Josquin, Scaramella

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
• Ruffo, La Piva
• Morley: O flye not; Thirsis
• Arcadelt, Gravi pene in amor
• Byrd, Susannah Fair

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.