Category: Cantabile

Meeting Report

We played:

• Morley:
  • ,
    Goe
    ye my canzonets
  • When
    loe by break of morning
  • Sweet
    Nymph
  • Miraculous
    Love’s wounding
  • See,
    myne own sweet jewel
  • Joy,
    joy doth so arise
  • Cruel,
    you pull away too soone
  • Ladie,
    those eyes
• Weelkes:
  • The
    nightingale, the organ of delight
  • O
    now weep now sing
• Ravenscroft:
  • To
    Portsmouth
  • He
    that will an alehouse keep

Schedule

Reminder, we will not meet this week, July 18.

After that, we resume our regular schedule of meeting every
Tuesday, as long as enough people have told me they want to come.

Schedule

Reminder: we are not meeting tomorrow, July 4. Go see
fireworks.

We will meet as usual next week, July 11, at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway, Cambridge.

We will not meet the following week, July 18.

After that, we resume our regular schedule of meeting every Tuesday, as long as enough people have told me they want to come.

Listening opportunity

John Tyson’s annual student recital will take place on Thursday, July 6, at 5:30pm at the Congregational Library, 14 Beacon St. Boston. This year the recital had to split in two, and this is the shorter half, so it isn’t quite the recorder playing
marathon it sometimes is. I’ll be playing 17th century duets with John, a Morley duo with a potential group member, and a trio with John and Ishmael.

Schedule

There will be no meeting tomorrow, June 27, 2017. Too many of
us are sick.

We also will not meet next week, July 4. It’s too hard for
people who need to use cars to get here, or to get home if they
manage to get here and park.

The following week, July 11, we will meet as usual, if we all
live that long.

The week after that, July 18, we will not meet at my place,
since I will be out of town.

After that, we should resume meeting as usual, every Tuesday at
7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway, Cambridge.

Meeting report

• Didier, Susanne ung jour
• Morley, Whither away so fast
• Isaac,
  Un
  dì lieto giammai
• Hewitt, Lang and The Boston Brigade March
• Dowland: Woeful hart with griefe
  oppressed, Come ye heavy states of night

Schedule

We generally meet every Tuesday, at 7:45pm, at 233 Broadway, as
long as enough people have let me know by Monday night that they
want to come.

There will be two Tuesdays in July where this will not be
true. July 4 is not a good day to drive here, as you would be
competing with hundreds of thousands of other people who want to
see the Pops concert and the fireworks, so if we meet that week,
it will be on some other night. The week that includes July 17, I
will be at The
Amherst Early Music Festival, so there will not be a meeting
at my place.

Meeting report

• Giamberti duos
• Cruger, Nun danket all’
• Vulpius; harmonized Bach: Das neugeborne Kindelein
• Agricola,
  De
  tous biens
• Praetorius,
  XXIII
  Bourrée
• de
  l’Estocart, Psaume
  CXXXVII
• Entre vous qui aymés

Schedule

Reminder: we are not meeting tonight, June 13, because of the Boston Early Music
Festival.

We generally meet every Tuesday, at 7:45pm, at 233 Broadway, as
long as enough people have let me know by Monday night that they
want to come.

There will be two Tuesdays in July where this will not be
true. July 4 is not a good day to drive here, as you will be
competing with hundreds of thousands of other people who want to
see the Pops concert and the fireworks, so if we meet that week,
it will be on some other night. The week that includes July 17, I
will be at The
Amherst Early Music Festival, so there will not be a meeting
at my place.

Meeting Report

We played:

• Giamberti duets
• Sermisy, On en dira ce quon vouldra
• Wilbye, Weep, o mine eyes a 3

Schedule

We meet on Tuesdays, starting at 7:45pm, at 233 Broadway,
Cambridge, as long as enough people have told me they plan on
coming by Monday night.

The next modification to that schedule that I know about will
be on June 13, which is the Boston Early
Music Festival week. We will not meet on that day.

Meeting Report

We played:

• Hinze, harmonized Bach, Salzburg
• Bohemian Brethren’s Kirschengesänge, Mit Freuden Zart
• Senfl, Im Mayen
• Billings: Jargon, Lamentation over
  Boston
• Arcadelt,
  Margot
  labourez les vignes
• Ravenscroft, O my fearful dreams

Schedule

We meet on Tuesdays, starting at 7:45pm, at 233 Broadway,
Cambridge, as long as enough people have told me they plan on
coming by Monday night.

The next modification to that schedule that I know about will
be on June 13, which is the Boston Early
Music Festival week. We will not meet on that day.

Meeting Report

We played:

• Giamberti duos
• Ravenscroft, Hey ho to the green
  wood
• Ghiselin, La Alfonsina
• Arcadelt, Dormend’un
  giorno
• Ruffo,
  Dormendo
  un giorno

Schedule

We meet on Tuesdays, starting at 7:45pm, at 233 Broadway,
Cambridge, as long as enough people have told me they plan on
coming by Monday night.

The next modification to that schedule that I know about will
be on June 13, which is the Boston Early
Music Festival week. We will not meet on that day.

Meeting Reports

May 2

We played the program for the Walk for Hunger, i.e. the same
pieces we played Last
week, except that we did fewer rounds and more Susato.

May 9

We played:

• Morley: Miraculous Love’s
  wounding, Il Grillo, In nets of
  Golden Wyres
• Willaert, Allons, allons
  gai
• Sermisy, On en dira ce quon
  vouldra
• Arcadelt, Dormend’un
  giorno
• Morley, Hould out my
  heart
• Byrd, Upon a somer’s day

Performance report

A lot of good things happened: it didn’t pour rain; there was a
critical mass of recorder players to just read through a lot of
music arranged for SATB recorders; we seemed to have
rehearsed the group set sufficiently.

On the minus side, the wind was very hard to deal with, and
between the people who were performing without rehearsing and the
people who had rehearsed but weren’t performing much, some of the
careful orchestrations got lost.

But on the whole, everyone had fun, and the crowd and the Walk
organisers seemed to appreciate us. The organisers gave us a huge
box of Entenmans blueberry muffins in one-ounce packages, about
half of which are still in a box on my dining room floor. They have a
sell-by date of June 17, so if anyone wants some, please come take
them.

Schedule

We meet on Tuesdays, starting at 7:45pm, at 233 Broadway,
Cambridge, as long as enough people have told me they plan on
coming by Monday night.

The next modification to that schedule that I know about will
be on June 13, which is the Boston Early
Music Festival week. We will not meet on that day.

Meeting Report

We played:

• Campian, The peacefull Westerne
  Winde
• Morley:
  Springtime mantleth every boughIt was a lover and his
  lass, Good Morrow, fair ladies of the
  May
• Farmer, Fair Phyllis
• Glogauer, Du
  lenze gut
• Isaac, Innsbruck, ich muss dich
  lassen
• Senfl, Wohl kumbt der Mai
• Sumer is icumen in
• Ravenscroft: As
  I me walked, He
  that will an alehouse keep, To
  Portsmouth, Now
  God be with old Simeon

Schedule

We meet on Tuesdays, starting at 7:45pm, at 233 Broadway,
Cambridge, as long as enough people have told me they plan on
coming by Monday night.

The meeting on Tuesday, May 2, will be limited to people who
are performing at the Walk for Hunger.

Walk for Hunger

The list above is essentially what we’ll be playing at the Walk for Hunger on Sunday,
May 7, between 10am and 3pm. We’ll also be playing some Susato, and there will be solos
and duets before the group gets going, and while the group is
taking breaks. We’ll be on the bank of the Charles River, on Greenough
Boulevard, at the Cambridge-Watertown line, across from the
Cambridge Cemetary.

Drop by and listen, or sit in for a bit.

Concerts

The Boston Recorder Orchestra, under the direction of John
Tyson, will be playing a concert on Sunday, April 30, at 7:30pm at
Old North Church, 93 Salem St., Boston. They play a lot of our
repertoire from a very different point of view. This will be a
good chance to see lots of the larger recorders that look like
small trees.