Category: Cantabile

Meeting report

We played:

• Pieces from the Performance
  booklet
• Willaert: J’ayme bien mon amy, versions II
  and I
• Holborne: Spero, Patientia, and The Night Watch

Schedule

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

The Tuesday, September 22 meeting is restricted to performers
in the September 24 event.

Other playing opportunity

The BRS Loud Wind band is having occasional uncoached meetings
and would be happy for other loud wind players to join us. The
next meeting will be here, 233 Broadway, on Sunday, August 30, at 2pm.

Edit: this meeting will be at 1pm, not at 2pm.

Meeting report

We played:

• Pieces from the Walk
  for Hunger booklet.
• Willaert, J’ayme bien mon amy
• Obrecht, Meskin es hu

Gig

We have an invitation to play at the JCHE on
September 24 at 10:30 in the morning. If you’d like to play with
us, let me know. You should expect to come to enough Tuesday
meetings to learn the music, and especially to the September 22
meeting.

The program will rely heavily on the Walk for Hunger one,
possibly replacing some of the Spring music with other music for
more parts.

Schedule

We will continue dropin meetings with new music and requests
from our repertoire on Tuesdays at 7:45pm at 233 Broadway,
Cambridge.

The September 22 meeting will be restricted to performers at
the September 24 gig.

Other event

The Wakefield Summer Band (me playing ophicleide on the tuba
parts) will play its final concert of the season on Friday at
6:30pm. There will be a party after the concert. If there isn’t
too much thunder and lightning, we’ll be outside at the bandstand;
otherwise we’ll be in the hall of the First Congregational Church.

Meeting report

We played:

• From Il Primo Libro a due voci by Lupacchino and Tasso: 17-20, 22, 34
• Willaert, Ricercar III
• Byrd:
  • Lord, in thy rage rebuke me not
  • Susannah faire
  • The eagle’s force

Schedule

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

Meeting report

We played:

• Willaert:
  • Ricercar I
  • J’aime
    par amour
  • Irons nous tous jours coucher
• Isaac, Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen

Schedule

We will not be meeting next week, August 4. After that, we
will meet as usual on Tuesdays at 7:45pm at 233 Broadway,
Cambridge.

Playing opportunity

The Boston Recorder Society Loud Wind Group will be meeting on
Saturday afternoon at 1:30pm. Other players of loud wind
instruments would be welcome; let me know if you need more information.

Meeting report

We played:

• Songs from Ballard, XIV Livre de Chansons pour Danser et pour
  Boire
• Willaert:
  • Ricercar
    I
  • La jeune dame s’en va au moulin
  • Dulcis exuviæ, dum fata deusque sinebat
• Josquin,
  Adieu mes amours

Schedule

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

Other events

Wakefield Summer Band

On Friday, July 24 at 7pm, the Wakefiled Summer Band will be
playing a concert on the Wakefield Common. I will be playing
ophicleide on the tuba parts. The sun will set over beautiful
Lake Quannapowit. Unless there’s hail, in which case the sun will
still set, but the concert will be in the church hall of the First
Congregational Church in Wakefield.

Harvard Summer Chorus

David Fillingham writes:

I am singing with the Harvard Summer Chorus, with free concerts on
July 26 and 31. We are working with the Handel Haydn Orchestra.

On July 26th we are performing Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at Copley
Square out side! at 12:30 PM.

On July 31st we are performing Handel’s Oratorio Esther (His first
oratorio) at 8 PM at Sanders Theater, a free concert no ticket
required.

Meeting report

• Songs from Ballard, XIV Livre de Chansons pour Danser et pour
  Boire
• Berg, Let us drink and be merry

Schedule

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

Meeting Report

We played:

• Lupacchino, Number 9 from Il Primo Libro a due
  voci
• Morley:
  • See, see myne owne sweet jewel
  • Joy, joy doth so arise
  • Crewell you pull away to soone
  • Ladie, those eies
  • Hould out my hart,
  • God morrow, fayre ladies of the May
  • Whither awaie so fast,
  • Blow, shepherds, blow
  • Arise, get up my deere

Schedule

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

Meeting report

We played:

• Byrd:
  • Upon a somer’s day
  • While that the sonne
  • Who looks may leap
  • Susannah faire
• Attaignant, Tourdion
• Arcadelt, Il bianco e dolce cigno
• Dowland, All ye whom love or fortune hath betraid

Schedule

We will continue meeting on Tuesdays at 7:45pm at 233 Broadway,
Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Meeting report

We played:

• Morley:
  • Miraculous Love’s wounding
  • In nets of golden wyres
  • La Caccia
  • O thou that art so cruel
• Byrd: In winter cold, and Susanna fair

Schedule

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

Meeting report

We played:

• Susato: Danse du Roy and La morisque
• Byrd, This sweet and merry month of May
• Morley, Phillis, I fain would die now
• Willaert, Faute d’argent
• Sermisy, Tant que vivray

Schedule

We will continue meeting on Tuesdays at 7:45pm at 233 Broadway,
Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Other events

Movie night

My current Netflix movie is Mr. Turner,
a biopic of the
life of J.M.W. Turner. Based on the previews and reviews, it’s
visually quite good, although of course the plot is predictable.

I’ll be watching it on Thursday, starting around 8. If people want to
come over and watch with me, we’ll be organizing a pot luck supper about
7:30. Let me know if you’re coming and what you want to bring. I get
the giant box of greens from the farm share that day. I don’t yet know
what’s in in, but I’ll cook or dress some of it, and that will be my
contribution.

Recorder Recital

John Tyson’s student recital is this Saturday, June 20, at
5:30pm in the Carr Organ Room at New England Conservatory. If you
want to hear lots of recorder playing, this is a good
place to do it. I will be playing some of the Lupacchino and
Tasso duets from Il Primo Libro a due voci, mostly
with John on two recorders, but there will be one on serpent and
sackbut.

Pig roast

The homebrew club is having
their annual pig roast on Saturday, June 27, starting at 5 pm,
with the pig scheduled to be ready at 8 pm. If we want to play
anything from printed music, we should plan to do it before dark,
but impromptu music without stands and dots on paper is possible
at any time. Let me know if you want to come, and I’ll sign you
up as my guest.

Serpent Publications booth at Amherst Early Music Festival
exhibition

On July 11 and 12, Serpent Publications will have a booth at
the Amherst Exhibition in New London, Connecticut. The idea is
that we’ll have lots of music printed, and encourage people to try
playing from it. So if you’d like to be a booth babe, let me
know. I’ll be staying around Saturday evening and going to the
concert (not usually a great concert, but a good way to see what early
music people are doing these days) and the party (usually pretty good).