Category: Cantabile

We played:

• Amy souffres que je vous aime
• de Antiquis: Fantasia secunda
• Morley: La Rondinella, Do you not know
• Rhau, Dulces Exuviae
• Byrd, Of flatt’ring speech
• Du lenze gut

We will meet at Stuart’s on Tuesday, August 24 at 7:45 pm. Please let both me and Stuart know if you’re planning to come.

We played:

• Campian, The peaceful western wind, Never weather-beaten saile
• Morley, Cease mine eyes
• Purcell, Cakes and Ale, ‘Tis Women

We will not be meeting this week, August 10.

The following week (August 17) we will meet at 7:45 pm at Stuart’s in Somerville. Please let both me and Stuart know if you’re coming.

A violent thunderstorm hit about 20 minutes before the meeting time, so we all had to battle it to get there. So we selected several pieces with thunderstorms in them.

We played:

• Campian, The peaceful western wind
• Byrd, Upon a summers day
• Morley, Lady if I though grief
• Dowland, Clear or cloudy

We will meet next Tuesday at 7:45 pm at Stuart’s in Somerville. Please let both me and Stuart know if you’re coming.

We played:

• Isaac, Innsbruck
• Morley: Now must I die, Now is the month of Maying
• Verdelot, Dormendo un giorno
• Du lenze gut
• Wise, When the plague was in town

The July 27 meeting will be a Stuart’s in Somerville at 7:45 pm. Let both me and Stuart know if you’re coming.

We played:

• Morley: La Rondinella, Miraculous Love’s wounding
• de Antiquis: Fantasia secunda
• Amy souffres que je vous aime
• Morley:, Thirsis
• Arcadelt, Nous voyons que les hommes
• Wise, When the plague was in town

There will be no meeting on July 13. People are out of state and running around to other meetings.

The July 20 meeting will take place at 7:45 pm at Stuart’s in Somerville. Let both me and Stuart know if you’re coming.

We played:

• Morley: La Rondinella, It was a lover and his lass, O flye not
• Isaac, Innsbruck
• Josquin, Mille regrets

The meeting on Tuesday, July 6 will be at Stuart’s in Somerville and 7:45 pm. Please let both me and Stuart know if you’re planning to come.

The sluggishness I reported last week turned out to be anemia, probably from an upper GI bleed. So she is on some tummy medicine in addition to the antibiotic and the immunosuppressant. The tummy medicine has to be squirted into her mouth, which takes at least three hands to do effectively. And it has to be taken at least two hours away from food, whereas the antibiotic needs to be taken with food. So from her point of view, she’s getting tortured 4 times a day instead of only twice. She’s eating normally, but still slowing down a lot on a walk of over a mile.

We played:

• Morley: It was a lover and his lass, Farewell, disdainful
• Arcadelt, Dormend’un giorno
• Ravenscroft, As I mee walked

We will be meeting this week (Tuesday, June 29) at Stuart’s in Somerville. Please let both me and Stuart know if you are coming.

She was at the vet on Thursday and she seemed to be normal, and her platelet count has returned to normal. The vet expects to taper her off the medications over the next few weeks. This morning she seemed sluggish, but my sister thinks it’s the heat.

There was no meeting. Maia was sick and I had to spend time taking her to the vet and giving her pills, and other people decided not to have it.

We’ll be meeting tomorrow, June 22, at Wendy Grey’s house in Newton Corner. Let both me and Wendy know if you’re coming.

She was obviously listless and had discharge from her eyes, and was walking really slow. The only numeric abnormality the vet found was a very low platelet count. Which could mean lots of things, the most likely of which are either an infection or an auto-immune disorder.

So she’s been taking antibiotic and immunosuppressant pills and immediately started feeling much better. The next day her platelet count was up about 20%.

She seems pretty normal now. I’m taking her back to the vet today.

We played:

• Rhau, Dulces Exuviae
• Morley, Blow, shepherds, blow
• Josquin, Mille regrets

This week we will be back in Somerville at Stuart’s. Tuesday, June 13, at 7:45 pm. Let me and Stuart know if you’re coming.

We played:

• Gibbons, For Deliverance from a public Sickness
• Morley: Whither away so fast
• Lassus, In me transierunt irae tuae
• Wise, When the plague was in town

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm. Our regular host, Stuart, has another commitment this week, so the Tuesday, June 8, meeting will be at Wendy Grey’s in Newton Corner.

Please let both me and Wendy know if you’re coming.