Category: Cantabile

Meeting report

We played:

• Music
  for the Walk for Hunger
• Monteverdi, Fugge il verno dei dolori
• East, How merrily we live
• Josquin, Fama, malum qua non aliud velocius ullum

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.

Meeting report

We played:

• Motets
  from Bicinia
• Obrecht, Kyrie from the Missa sub tuum praesidium
• Willaert, Allons, allons gai
• Verdelot, Dormend’un giorno
• Josquin, Faute d’argent

Schedule

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

Meeting Report

We played:

• Baldwin, Coockow as I me walked and A Browning
• Isaac, Carmen
• Morley: Springtime mantleth every bough
• Cornago, Kyrie from Missa Ayo visto de la mappa mundi
• Busnois, Fortuna Desperata
• Ravenscroft, As I mee walked in a May Morning

Schedule

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

Meeting report

We played:

• Ravenscroft, We be three poor mariners
• Isaac, Carmen
• Morley: Springtime mantleth every bough, It was a lover and
  his lass
• Cornago, Gloria from Missa Ayo visto de la mappa mundi
• Josquin, Fama, malum qua non aliud velocius ullum

Schedule

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

Meeting report

We played:

• Nola, Chi chi li chi
• de
  la Rue, Vexilla
  regis prodeunt, and Tous
  les regrets,
• Isaac, Carmen,
• Farmer,
  Fair
  Phyllis
• Josquin, Dulcis exuviæ, dum fata deusque sinebat

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.

Meeting report

We played:

• Program some of us are working on for the Women’s Lunch
  Place
• Josquin, Fortuna Desperata, Fortuna d’un gran tempo, La plus
  des plus

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.

Meeting report

We played:

• Weelkes, Strike it up Tabor
• Byrd, While that the sunne
• de la Rue, Vexilla regis prodeunt
• The dark is my delight
• Farmer, Fair Phyllis
• Des Pres, Mille Regrets
• Susato, Mille Regrets and Reponse: Les meins aussi

Schedule

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

Meeting report

We played:

• Morley: Thirsis, Now must I die
• Mouton: Qui ne regrettoit le gentil Févin, James, James
• Sermisy, Tant que vivray
• Jamque miralosoe en bon ick (Tant que vivray) and Gallicum
  from “Carmina Germanica et Gallica”, Hortus
  Musicus 137.

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.

Meeting report

We played:

• Lots of stuff from “Carmina Germanica et Gallica”, Hortus
  Musicus 137.
• Die
  Katzenpfote
• Sermisy, Jouissance vous donnerai and Tant que vivray

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.

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.