Category: Cantabile

Meeting Report

We played:

• Giamberti duos
• Bicinia:
  Beatus
  Vir, Beatus
  homo, O
  Maria mater pia, Oculus
  non vidit
• Morley,
  Where
  art thou wanton?
• Sermisy, Changeons propos

Schedule

We meet Tuesdays at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, as
long as enough people have told me by Monday night that they want
to come.

Meeting report:

We played:

• Morley:
  La
  Sampogna, La
  Sirena, La
  Torello
• de
  la Rue, Nos debemus gratias agere
• Busnois,
  Fortuna
  desperata
• Byrd,
  The
  Nightingale

Schedule

We meet Tuesdays at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, as
long as enough people have told me by Monday night that they want
to come.

Concert

The Wakefield Summer Band, with Laura Conrad on trombone, plays
its last concert of the summer on Friday,
August 17 at 6:30pm on the Wakefield
Common, overlooking Lake Quannapowitt. If
it rains, it will be in the First
Congregational Church hall. There will be
a music-sorting party afterwards.

Meeting Report

We played:

• Hayne
  van Ghizeghem, De
  tous biens plaine
• Guerrero,
  Benedictus,
  de la misa Dormendo un giorno
• Isaac,
  Ein
  Frolich wesenth
• Bransles from Praetorius’ Terpsichore
• Dowland:
  
  Come away, come sweet love, All
  ye, whom love or fortune hath betraid

Schedule

We meet Tuesdays at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, as
long as enough people have told me by Monday night that they want
to come.

Meeting Report

We played:

• Morley,
  In
  nets of golden wyres
• Lots of Praetorius Bransles from Terpsichore
• Rarmer,
  Fair
  Phyllis
• Wilbye,
  Adieu,
  sweet Amaryllis
• Tallis,
  If
  ye love me

Schedule

We meet Tuesdays at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, as
long as enough people have told me by Monday night that they want
to come.

The next Tuesday that might be an exception is September 4,
which is an election day. I mention this early because if you
live in Massachusetts and want to vote in the Primary Election,
you need to be registered by August 15, which is quite soon.

Meeting report

We played:

• Byrd,
  The
  Nightingale
• Lots of Bransles from Praetorius’ Terpsichore
• Holborne:
  The
  night watch, The
  fruit of love, Spero
• Wise,
  Judith
  and Holifernes
• Ravenscroft:, He
  that will an alehouse keep

Schedule

We meet Tuesdays at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, as
long as enough people have told me by Monday night that they want
to come.

Meeting Report

I was in New London celebrating the 600th anniversary end of
the Avignon papacy, but I’m told the people who were here
played:

• Morley,
  See,
  myne own sweet jewel
• Lots of Susato
• Dowland:
  Now, O now, I needs must part, Burst forth my tears

Schedule

We meet Tuesdays at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, as
long as enough people have told me by Monday night that they want
to come.

Concert

This Tuesday through Thursday, Nathaniel Cox, cornettist, will
be playing the SOHIP
concert series. He’ll be improvising on 16th century tunes.

Meeting Reports

July 3, 2018

We played:

• Josquin</a,
  En
  l’ombre d’un buissonet>
• Lots of Praetorius Bransles
• Dowland:
  Unquiet
  thoughts, If
  my complaints, Can
  she excuse my wrongs, Now,
  O now, Burst
  forth my tears
• Welcome
  every guest

July 10, 2018

We played:

• Morley:
  Miraculous
  Love’s wounding, Go
  ye my canzonets, When
  lo by break of morning, Sweet
  nymph, Il
  doloroso, La
  Girandola
• Byrd,
  Attend
  mine humble prayer, Lord
• Quand
  je boy du vin claret
• Tappster,
  drynker

Schedule

We usually meet Tuesdays at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, as
long as enough people have told me by Monday night that they want
to come.

This coming Tuesday, the meeting will be on the other side of
Central Square, since I will be out of town. Let me know if you
want to go, and I will tell you the address.

Meeting report

We played:

• Morley,
  Il
  Lamento
• de
  la Rue, Nos
  debemos gratias agere
• Bransles and Gavottes by Praetorius
• Gibbons,
  The
  silver swan
• Arcadelt,
  Il
  bianco e dolce cigno
• Welcome
  every guest

Schedule

We meet Tuesdays at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, as
long as enough people have told me by Monday night that they want
to come.

The next exception to that is likely to be July 17, when I will
be out of town. If you want someone to organize something for
that night, you should let us know.

Meeting report

We played:

• O
  Maria mater pia
• Byrd,
  Susannah
  fair
• Entre
  vous qui aymés
• de
  la Rue, Nos debemus gratias agere

Schedule

We meet Tuesdays at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, as
long as enough people have told me by Monday night that they want
to come.

Meeting report

We played:

• Morley:
  Leave
  now mine eyes, Fyre
  and Lightning, Il
  Grillo, Flora
  wilt thou torment me
• Byrd,
  Susannah
  fair
• Morley:
  Ladie those eyes, Love learns by
  laughing, Cease
  mine eyes
• Ravenscroft, To Portsmouth

Schedule

We meet Tuesdays at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, as
long as enough people have told me by Monday night that they want
to come.