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.

Meeting report

We played:

• Morley:
  • Farewell, disdainfull,
  • O flye not,
  • Thirsis
• Agricola, Crions Nouell
• Josquin, La plus des plus

Schedule

We are meeting as usual on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm at 233 Broadway
Cambridge.

Next week, September 22, will be an exception, as the Tuesday
meeting is reserved for rehearsing for the September 24th gig.

News of the week of September 1, 2015

Meeting report

We played:

• Pieces from the Performance
  booklet
• des
  Prez, La
  Deploration de la morte de Johannes Ockeghem
• Senfl,
  Fortuna–Ich
  stuend an einem morgen
• Guerrero, Adios mi amor

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.

Sad News

Tom Zajac died last Monday afternoon. That was why we sang the
Deploration. Many of us will miss him as a coach, performer, and friend.

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.