Category: Cantabile

We played:

• Busnois, Fortuna Desperata
• Clemens non Papa, Ich stuend an einem Morgen
• Arcadelt, Nous voyons que les hommes
• Byrd, Attend mine humble prayer, Lord
• Morley, Love learns by laughing
• Frere Jacques

We will meet on Tuesday, February 8, 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.

There will be no meeting tomorrow, January 11. One of our hosts has what is probably a cold, but feels it would be prudent to cancel. And between the weather and all of everybody’s commitments, nobody much wanted to come anyway.

God willing, we will meet on Tuesday, January 18, 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 are coming.

We played:

• Isaac, Lo how a rose
• Star in the East
• Billings, Boston
• Praetorius: Psallite, Geborn ist Gottes Sönnelein, En natus est Emanuel
• Palestrina, Adoramus te
• Certons, Chantons Noël
• Dowland: Fine knacks for ladies
• Shepherds rejoice
• Cranbrook
• Otford

We will meet on Tuesday, January 11, 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.

We played:

• Campian, Now winter nights enlarge
• Lassus, Hodie apparuit in Israel
• Agricola, Crions nouell
• Arcadelt, Gravi pene in amor
• Byrd, Of flatt’ring speech
• Isaac, Ein frohlich Wesenth
• Rhau, Dulces Exuviae
• Purcell, Five reasons

• December 28, regular meeting. We will meet on Tuesday December 28 at the home of Wendy Goble and Richard Schmeidler. Please let me, Wendy, and Richard know if you are coming.
• January 1, Holiday Party. Starting at 4 pm, also at the home of Wendy and Richard. Let me know if you want to come, and if so what if anything you would like to contribute to the food and drink. If you have holiday music (or any music) that you especially want to play in this environment, either bring a few copies or let me know what it is and I will try to print some. If you don’t want to come, polite regrets are welcome.

We played:

• Arcadelt, Nous voyons que les hommes
• Agricola, Crions nouell
• Campian, Now winter nights enlarge
• Morley: Cease mine eyes, Thirsis, O flye not
• Ravenscroft: Now God be with old Simeon

We will meet on Tuesday, December 21, at 7:45 pm, at the home of Wendy Goble and Richard Schmeidler in Central Square. Please let me, Wendy, and Richard know if you are coming.

I said last week that we didn’t have any place to hold a holiday party this year. Wendy Goble, who has been hosting our meetings, said that she’d be happy if people came over and partied at her place. I understand that people are stiill (again?) worried about large indoor gatherings, but her place is big enough that our normal turnout wouldn’t end up being so very large, although of course with all the eating and drinking and wind instruments, there might not be as much mask wearing as some people might like.

So we’ll be partying on January 1, starting at 4pm. We’ll sing and play for a while, and eat and drink for a while, and repeat as people want to. Please let me, Wendy, and Richard know if you are coming, and what you’d like to bring to contribute to the food, drink, and music. The music we normally use is in storage, but I will do my best to bring the favorites.

We played:

• Je suis d’Allemagne
• Dietrich, Tota pulchra es
• Rore, Cantai mentre ch’i’ arsi del mio foco
• Holborne: The Honei-Suckle; The Marie-Golde
• Christmas music from Bruce’s Pub Carol Sing supplement:
  • St. Paul
  • Lo how a rose
  • There’s a star in the East
  • Cranbrook
  • Hark the herald angels sing

We will meet on Tuesday, December 14 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 are coming.

I have failed in my attempt to get chatter about who is coming when to take place somewhere besides the renband mailing list. So I have set almost everyone’s address to “moderated”. This means that I will get any email you send to the list and pass it on to the other people who should get it.

Unfortunately, we are still not in a position to have our usual holiday party where we eat, drink, and sing and play lots of holiday music. I’m not in a position to host anything remotely similar, but my sister is organist/choir director at the First Congregational Church, 282 Rock St., Fall River, MA, which is about an hour’s drive from our current meeting location (when there isn’t traffic). She is having two events, which because of Congregational Church policy won’t include drinking, but will include playing, singing, and eating. The church is a large, airy building, so social distancing is not a problem.

• There will be a lunchtime organ recital at noon on Friday, December 17. The performers – Judith Conrad on the Ernest Skinner organ and Robbie LePage on trumpet – will play a Christmas Carol sing straight out of the hymnal. Lunch will be served afterwards. It’s free with donations collected for Partners in Health.
• Messiah Sing on Sunday, January 2 at 3 PM. Free, and refreshments will be served. If you want to sing, just show up. If you want to play, you should let Judy know.

We played:

• Henry VIII, Pasttime with good company
• Arcadelt, Il bianco e dolce Cigno
• Lassus, In me transierunt irae tuae
• Dowland: A shepherd in a shade
• Isaac, Innsbruck
• Wise: When the plague was in town, Judith and Holofernes

We will meet on Tuesday, December 7, 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 are coming.

We played:

• Sermisy, Auprès de vous
• Je suis d’Allemagne
• Dietrich, Tota pulchra es
• Purcell, Five reasons

We will meet on Tuesday, November 30, 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 are coming.

The building permit came through on Wednesday. In theory, this means I’ll get my house back in a few months. In practice, I’m expecting there to be more bottlenecks, but maybe I’ll be pleasantly surprised this time.