Category: Cantabile

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).

Meeting report

We played:

• Busnois,
  Fortuna
  Desperata
• Willaert,
  Ricercar
  Secunda
• Farmer,
  Fair
  Phyllis

Schedule

We will not meet next week, June 9, because we’re all busy with
the Boston Early Music
Festival.

After that, we will resume our regular Tuesday meetings.

Meeting report

We played lots of Dowland:

• Now, O now, I needs must part,
• Whoever
  thinks or hopes of love for love
• My
  thoughts are wingd with hopes
• Can
  she excuse my wrongs
• Come
  again:
• Awake,
  sweet love, thou art returnd:
• Come
  heavy sleepe the image of true death;
• Sorrow
  sorrow stay,
• Fine
  knacks for ladies,
• Shall I sue

Schedule

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

We will not meet on Tuesday, June 9, because of the Boston Early Music Festival.

Playing opportunity

The Boston
Recorder Society loud wind group will have a special meeting
this Sunday, May 31 from 1-3 at Marilyn’s house in Auburndale.
She says she’d be happy to have a couple of extra players if
anyone else (who plays early brass or reeds) wants to come. Let
me know if you need more information.

Meeting report

We played:

• From Primo Libro a due voci: 36
  and 34
• Willaert,
  Se’l
  veder voi m’ancide and Allons, allons gai
• Busnois, Fortuna Desperata

Schedule

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

We will not meet on Tuesday, June 9, because of the Boston Early Music Festival.

Meeting report

We played:

• From Primo Libro a due voci: 36 and 34
• Clemens non papa, Ich stuend an einem Morgen
• Willaert, Ricercar Prima
• Busnois, Fortuna Desperata
• Josquin, Fortuna d’un gran tempo
• Willaert, Ricercar X

Schedule

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

Meeting report

We played:

• Mouton, Adieu mes amours
• Senfl, Wohl kumbt der Mai
• Willaert, J’aime par amour
• Gibbons, Now each flowry bancke of May
• Palestrina, Vestiva i colli

Schedule

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

Performance report

The weather was a little warm for the walkers, which means it
was perfect for us — the walkers were encouraged to stop and
listen for a while instead of having to barrel on to get out of
the wind and the rain and cold.

The program was a little bit too long and difficult, but we
played most of it four times, and we know it a lot better than we
did before.

Pictures

Schedule

We are back on our usual schedule of dropin meetings every
Tuesday at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway, Cambridge. Come and tell
everybody you know to bring everybody they know.

Meeting report

We played:

• Music
  for the Walk for Hunger
• Ravenscroft,
  A
  round of three country dances in one

Schedule

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

This coming Tuesday, the meeting will feature John Tyson
coaching us on the music for the Walk for Hunger, so we’re going
to limit it to people who will be playing with us then.

The last meeting in April will be restricted to and
compulsory for the people playing the Walk for Hunger.

Otherwise, please come join us.

Meeting report

We played:

• Music
  for the Walk for Hunger
• East,
  Hence Stars, to dim of light

Schedule

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

We will be concentrating on the music for the Walk for Hunger,
but people who won’t be playing with us then are welcome to come.
We expect to have some time at most rehearsals for other
music.

The last couple of meetings in April will be restricted to and
compulsory for the people playing the Walk for Hunger.