Category: Cantabile

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.

We played:

• Josquin, Scaramella
• Rore: Ancor che col partire, Signor mio caro, and Carità di signore
• Dowland: Fine knacks for ladies
• Sermisy, Vive la serpe
• 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 will not be meeting on Tuesday, November 8, as it’s election day. Please vote.

The Boston Recorder Society is resuming in-person meetings this month, with a meeting on Sunday, November 6, 6:30-9:00PM. The Loud Wind group will be coached by Bruce Randall. The recorders will be coached by Eloise Degrugillier.

Note that “Loud Winds” is interpreted very loosely. It has often included both recorders and string players.

If you want to go, you should register in advance on the BRS site. I won’t be going this month, because it’s too busy of a week to do that much driving for that little playing, but I’m sure the people who go will have fun.

Sue Cornwall, who played with us briefly in 2009, died on Monday, October 31. During that time, she hosted a particularly memorable meeting, with good food, good beer, and a kitchen wall full of rat cages.

People who saw her after 2018, remember her constant companion, Bizzi. She told me about taking him with her on a trip to France. Aparently French restaurants are as welcoming to dogs as one remembers, but museums are not, so she didn’t see as many museums as she expected.

Her funeral will be next Saturday, Nov 12, at First Parish UUA, 14 Bedford Rd. Lincoln. I have her husband’s address for sympathy notes, if anyone would like to send one.

We played:

• Henry VIII,Pasttime with good company
• Ruffo, Trinitas in unitate
• Heurteur, Quand je bois du vin claret
• Arcadelt, Gravi pene in amor, Il bianco e dolce Cigno
• Purcell, ‘Tis women

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 will not be meeting on Tuesday, November 8, as it’s election day. Please vote.

We played:

• Willaert, Allons allons gai
• Ruffo, Trinitas in unitate
• Dowland: Come away, come sweet love; Think’st thou then by thy faining; Go, crystall teares
• Ravenscroft: 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.

I have submitted our application for NEFFA. We should hear the committee decision by January 15.

We played:

• Henry VIII,Pasttime with good company
• Morley, Thirsis
• Byrd, The Nightingale, Susannah Fair
• Heurteur, Quand je bois du vin claret

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, The Nightingale, Susannah Fair
• Morley: O flye not; Farewell, disdainful; Goe ye my canzonets; Sweet nymph

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

It sounds like a critical mass is interested in performing at NEFFA, so I will be putting in an application in the next couple of weeks.

I set up a page for our application last year. If you’re interested in performing, let me know, and let me know of any suggestions for improvement.

We played:

• Dowland, Flow my tears, Go, crystal teares
• Josquin, Scaramella
• Byrd, O Lord my God
• Lassus, Bonjour, mon coeur

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

If we want to perform at NEFFA, we have to put in an application by October 30. Last year, we decided we wanted to perform if and only if NEFFA was live, and it turned out to be virtual. So if we have people who want to do it, we could put in the same application. Or of course, if people have better ideas, we could put in a new application.

I set up a page for our application last year. If you’re interested in performing, let me know, and let me know of any suggestions for improvement.

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.

Barney Gage, a member of this group from its inception until he moved to upstate New York to care for his father, died last month. My plan is to write something more with more pictures, later. But we have missed him.

We played:

• Henry VIII,Pasttime with good company
• Arcadelt, Gravi pene in amor
• Dowland: My thoughts are wingd with hopes, If my complaints, Can she excuse my wrongs, Now, O now, I needs must part, Fine knacks for ladies
• Willaert, Irons nous toujours coucher

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.