News of the week of February 24, 2015

Meeting report

We played:

Schedule

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

Walk for Hunger

We will again be playing at the Walk for Hunger. We will be
concentrating on the repertoire for that in most of our March and
April meetings, so you should plan to make a substantial number of
those if you want to play with us.

If you’d like to come, and can’t make the rehearsals, we will
have a 5 hour slot to fill, so we need people who want to play in
between our sets.

Let me know if you want to do either of those things.

News of the week of February 3, 2015

Meeting report

We played:

Schedule

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

Walk for Hunger

We have again been invited to play for the Walk for Hunger. This year
it’s on Sunday, May 3rd.

We will spend a good part of the March and April meetings
working on the program we will perform for the tens of thousands
of walkers. So I need to know by then who is going to be playing
with us.

If you are available for two or three hours between 10am and
3pm on May 3, and can make some of the Tuesday
night meetings in March and April, please join us.

News of the week of January 13, 2015

Meeting report

We played:

Schedule

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

Upcoming concert

Countertenor and cornettist Michael Collver will join El Dorado
Ensemble (Carol Lewis, Janet Haas, Paul Johnson Mai-Lan Broekman &
Alice Mroszczyk, violas da gamba; Olav Chris Henriksen, vihuela &
archlute) in a concert of tientos, ricercadas, villancicos,
canciones and motets by Vasquez, Ortiz, Cabezón, Selma, Guerrero &
Trabac on Saturday, January 24, 2015, 8pm, at First Church
Cambridge.

Parking

Starting this week, the city of Cambridge has extended metered
parking in Kendall Square to 8pm instead of 6pm. This may mean
that they are also extending the hours that the parking control officers
work on my block. So if you arrive on time, and don’t have a
resident sticker, you should use the visitor permit, if you’re
parking in a permit only space.

News of the week of January 6, 2015

Meeting report

We played:

Schedule

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

Playing opportunity

The Boston
Recorder Society
is hosting a workshop on Saturday afternoon,
January 31, about playing matched Renaissance recorders,
specifically those of Tom Prescott. You can
sign up on the website.

Other news

We welcomed the new dog, Maia.

News of the week of December 30, 2014

Meeting report

We played:

  • Lots of Christmas music arranged by many people including
    Michael Praetorius and Ishmael Stefanov.
  • Agricola, Crions Nouell

Schedule

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

Party

The party is tomorrow, January 1, 2015 starting at 4 pm, also
at 233 Broadway. A sharp-eyed reader (who has probably been
proofreading lots of flyers and invitations and bulletins) noted
that yesterday I
invited you to a party on January 1, 2014. There was one, and it
was good, but you still have a chance to come to the one in
2015.

Please come and tell everyone you know to bring everyone they
know. I feel grateful to the people who tell me that they’re
coming and what they’re bringing to share.

News of the week of December 23, 2014

Meeting report

We played:

Schedule

We will be meeting on Tuesdays, including tonight, December 30,
as usual at 7:45 pm at 233 Broadway, Cambridge.

The party will be
on Thursday, January 1, 2015, starting at 4pm. Come and tell
everyone you know to bring everyone they know. Especially bring
people who might enjoy also coming on Tuesdays.

News of the week of December 16, 2014

Meeting report

We played:

Schedule

We will be meeting as usual on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm at 233
Broadway, Cambridge. This will be true on December 23; we have
not yet made a decision about December 30.

Party

This year’s party will be on January 1 starting at 4 pm, at 233
Broadway, Cambridge. More information is available here.

Please invite anyone you think would enjoy it, which is pretty
much anyone who likes eating, drinking, and/or singing or playing
Christmas music. But especially invite anyone who might enjoy
coming to our group on Tuesdays — the drop in nature of the group
means that the more people think about coming, the more likely we
are to have a good group on any given Tuesday.