Category: Cantabile

(non)Meeting report

With people out of town and rehearsing for other groups and
having just returned from being out of town, we didn’t have a
quorum for a regular meeting.

However, there was a 5-part piece we’d been wanting to
proofread for a while, so two of us joined 3 players at John
Tyson’s place and proofread Valle che de’ lamenti miei
se’ piena by Giaches de Wert

Schedule

We will be meeting as usual on Tuesdays at 7:45pm at 233
Broadway, Cambridge.

Party planning

The January 1 date for our annual party has been working out
well. But this year, January 1 is a Friday, and I don’t see that
the Saturday or Sunday would be any worse than the Friday. So let
me know if you’d prefer to come on one of those dates instead of
January 1.

Meeting Report

An all-Willaert evening.

• Ricercar I
• Vecchie letrose
• Dulces exuviae

Schedule

We will be meeting as usual on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm at 233
Broadway, Cambridge.

Meeting report: November 3, 2015

We played:

• Byrd, Of flattring speech
• Clemens non Papa, Ich stund an
  einen Morgen
• Agricola, De tous biens
• Amy, souffrez que je vous aime
• Ghizeghem, De tous biens
  plaine
• Dowland: What if I never
  speed, Me, me and none but me, It
  was a time when silly bees could speak

Meeting report: November 10, 2015

We played:

• Lassus, Justi tulerunt
• Ruffo, La Danza and Trinatas in unitate
• Agricola,
  De
  tous biens
• Ghizeghem, De tous biens
  plaine
• Morley,
  Love
  learns by laughing
• Josquin, O Venus bant and Scaramella
• Agricola,
  Crions
  Nouel
• Senfl, Wohl kumbt der Mai

Schedule

We continue to meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm at 233 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA.

A Banquet of Love — Frans Floris

Meeting report

We played:

• Josquin: La plus des plus and O Venus bant
• Nola, Madonn’io non lo so perchè lo fai
• Willaert, Madonn’io non lo so perchè lo fai
• Sermisy, Martin menait son porceau
• Entre vous qui aymés

Schedule

We continue to meet on Tuesdays at 7:45pm, at 233 Broadway,
Cambridge.

This will be true next week, November 3, because David will be
there on time to open the door.

Meeting report:

We played:

• Busnois, Fortuna Desperata
• Josquin,
  Fortuna d’un gran tempo
• Willaert, Giunto m’à Amor fra belle et crude braccia
• Lots of Holborne
• Wise,
  Judith and Holifernes

Schedule

We are meeting regularly on Tuesdays
at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway.

As usual, on November 3, Election Day, I won’t be there for
most of the meeting, so either someone else will have to to be there to
open the door and find the music, or the meeting will have to be
somewhere else.

Performance opportunity

Last chance to sign up for the Wort Processor’s cider picnic on
Sunday, October 25 from noon to 3pm at Cider Hill in Amesbury.

It’s free and if some people wanted to come play after we eat
and drink enough, it would be fun. It’s a nice orchard with a
good store for buying apples and such. (The cider donuts have
been highly praised.)

Meeting report

We played:

• Lassus,
  Sicut rosa
• Agricola, De tous biens
• Senfl, Ein meidlein zu dem brunnen ging,
• Willaert,
  J’aime par amour, I and II

Schedule

We are meeting regularly on Tuesdays
at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway.

As usual, on November 3, Election Day, I won’t be there for
most of the meeting, so either someone else will have to to be there to
open the door and find the music, or the meeting will have to be
somewhere else.

Meeting report

We played:

• Lassus:
  Qui
  vult venire post me, Sicut rosa
• Willaert:
  J’aime
  par amour, Allons, allons gai
• Morley:
  
  Doe you not know,, Where art thou, wanton,
• Agricola, De tous biens
• Ghizeghem,
  De tous biens plaine

Schedule

We are meeting regularly on Tuesdays
at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway.

As usual, on November 3, Election Day, I won’t be there for
most of the meeting, so either someone else will have to to be there to
open the door and find the music, or the meeting will have to be
somewhere else.

Meeting Report

We played:

• Heurteur,
  Quant
  je boy du vin claret tout tourne
• Sermisy,
  Vignon, vignon, vignon, vignette
• Agricola,
  Crions
  Nouell
• Isaac,
  Benedictus

Schedule

We are meeting regularly on Tuesdays
at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway.

As usual, on November 3, Election Day, I won’t be there for
most of the meeting, so either someone else will have to to be there to
open the door and find the music, or the meeting will have to be
somewhere else.

Performance opportunity

The Boston Wort Processors
are having their annual Cider Picnic on Sunday, October 25 at noon
at Cider Hill in Amesbury. In the past we’ve played drinking
songs and dance music; we could maybe try out our new shawm band
if people wanted to come.

There is no admission charge, but they do like to have a
headcount, so let me know if you want to come. There’s also an
opportunity to buy unpasteurized cider, which must be ordered in
advance, so let me know if you want cider, and how many gallons.

Meeting report

We played:

• Pasttime with good company
• Bunois, Fortuna Desperata
• Ravenscroft, We be three poor mariners
• Byrd:
  • Of flatt’ring speech
  • Susannah Faire
  • Upon a Somer’s day
• Susato, Ronde IV
• Farmer, Fair Phyllis

Schedule

We are meeting regularly on Tuesdays
at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway.

Meeting Report

We played:

• Pieces from the Premier Cahier de Contredanses
• Morley:
  • Now must I die,
  • Lady, if I through grief,
  • Cease mine eyes,
  • Love
    learns by laughing
• Knapp, Great Monarch of the World
• Ingalls, Melodious Sonnet
• Purcell, Cakes and Ale

Schedule

We are meeting regularly on Tuesdays
at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway.

Contrary to what was previously announced, there will not be a
gig on Thursday, September 24, and the Tuesday, September 22
meeting will be a normal drop-in meeting.