Category: Cantabile

Meeting report

We played:

• Mozart, K.292
• Morley:
  Farewell,
  disdainful, O
  fly not
• Josquin, Fama,
  malum qua non aliud velocius ullum
• Obrecht,
  Meskin
  es hu
• Willaert,
  Madonn’io non lo so perchè lo fai

Schedule

We will be meeting as usual tomorrow, September 9, at 7:45 at
233 Broadway, Cambridge. David has agreed to open up and start
the rehearsal; I will be there as soon as I can after the polls
close.

We will continue to meet as usual on Tuesdays.

Playing opportunities

The Boston
Recorder Society is now taking registrations for the 2014-2015
season. They will be continuing their loud wind band, for those
who want a friendly place to play while learning a brass or reed instrument.

The West Gallery
Quire will be meeting as usual on the second Sundays of the
month, starting on September 14.

Meeting report

We played:

• Mozart, K.292
• Swedish Litany
• Kruger, Herzliebster Jesu
• Palestrina, Vestiva i colli
• Striggio, Nasce
  la pena mia
• 
  Josquin, Petite
  Camusette
• Willaert,
  Faulte
  d’argent, c’est douleur non pareille
• Morley,
  Hard by a crystal fountain

Schedule

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

On September 9, there’s an election, so as usual we will meet
then only if someone else opens up or hosts.

Monte, circa 2001 — August 25, 2014

I am sad to report that Monte, my sister’s australian shepherd
mix, passed away on Monday. He was a great lover of music until
he lost his hearing. He especially liked singing duets with
cornettos, but long-time Cantabile members remember the
cello/serpent/Monte trio fondly.

Meeting Report

We played:

• From Raw, Bicinia Germanica: Ein Frölich Wesen and
  Ein feste Burg
• Nun freut eich
• Ton y Botel
• Janequin,
  Martin
  menait son pourceau au marché
• Busnois, Fortuna
  Desperata
• Guerrero,Pange Lingua (I), and Pange
  Lingua (II)
• Palestrina, Vestiva i colli
• Cavendish,
  Come, gentle Swains

Schedule

We resume our regular weekly meetings on Tuesdays at 7:45pm, at
233 Broadway, Cambridge.

On September 9, there’s an election, so as usual we will meet
then only if someone else opens up or hosts.

Note that if you aren’t
registered to vote where you want to vote, today, Wednesday,
August 20, is the last day to do so. Most towns will have their
offices open late for this.

Meeting report

We had an all-Dowland
meeting this time:

• Time
  stands still with gazing on her face,
• His
  golden locks time hath to silver turnde
• Whoever
  thinks or hopes of love for love
• Can
  she excuse my wrongs
• If
  my complaints
• Awake,
  sweet love, thou art returnd:
• My
  thoughts are wingd with hopes
• I
  saw my Lady weepe,
• Fine knacks for ladies,

Schedule

We will not meet either on August 5 (when you should go to the
West Gallery
workshop) or on August 12.

The August 19 meeting will be dedicated to working on the
program for the August 22 performance, so if you aren’t planning
on performing, you should count on being a test audience some of
the time if you come.

After that, we resume our regularly scheduled meetings on
Tuesdays at 7:45pm at 233 Broadway, Cambridge.

Meeting report

We played:

• Hymn tune warmups
• Campian,
  Never
  weather-beaten saile
• Byrd,
  O
  Lord my God and Whyle
  that the Sunne
• Mundy,
  My
  prime of youth and In
  deep distress
• Cavendish,
  Come, gentle Swains

Schedule

We will meet as usual on July 28 at 7:45 pm at 233 Broadway,
Cambridge..

We will not meet on August 5. Consider going to the West Gallery workshop
by Francis Roads,
instead.

I will be in Spain on August 12. Stuart has offered to host a
meeting at his house in Somerville. Let him know if you want to
come, and he’ll post a message to the list if there’s a critical
mass.

After that, we will resume our usual Tuesday night meetings.

Performance opportunity

We have been asked to play at the Women’s Lunch Place from
11am to noon on Friday, August 22. Let me know if you’re
interested in playing. I would expect anyone who wants to play to
also come to the meeting on Tuesday, August 19, and we can decide
on repertoire when we know who we have.

Meeting report

We played:

• Newman/Consoli, Jewish Songs
• Byrd:
  The
  Nightingale, Susannah
  Fair, Upon
  a Somers day
• Josquin, Fortuna
  Desperata
• Obrecht,
  Meskin
  es hu
• Ravenscroft,
  He that will an alehouse keep

Schedule

There doesn’t seem to be a critical mass of people who want to
meet on July 15, so there won’t be a meeting.

Regular meetings will resume on July 22 and 29, starting at
7:45pm at 233 Broadway, Cambridge.

August 5 we will not meet so that people can go to Francis
Roads’ West Gallery workshop.

On August 12, I will be in Spain, but if people want to meet at
Stuart’s in Somerville, it can be arranged. But you do have to
express your interest before I leave so that appropriate music can
get there.

After that, normal meetings resume.

Meeting report

We played:

• Genevan psalter, Psalm 42
• Wachet auf, harmonized by J.S. Bach
• Morley:
  April
  is in my Mistress’s face, Now
  is the month of Maying, Sing
  we and chant it,
• Arcadelt,
  Je
  ne suis pas si sot
• Wilbye,
  Draw
  on sweet Night
• Purcell, Five Reasons

Schedule

We will meet as usual tomorrow, July 8, at 7:45 PM at 233
Broadway, Cambridge.

Next week, July 15, I will be at the Amherst Early Music
Festival. Stuart has kindly offered to host the meeting in
Somerville, with air conditioning. Since the obvious way to get a
suitable portion of the music library to his place is for him to
take it tomorrow night, let me know by then if you’re interested
in going.

Longer term, we will meet as usual on July 22 and 29. We will probably
not meet at all on August 5, so that people can go to the Francis
Roads West Gallery workshop. On August 12, I will be in Spain,
but Stuart has offered to host again. And then we resume our
normal every Tuesday in Cambridge schedule.

At the meeting of June 17, we played the
Picforth,In
Nomine à 5 for our new piece.

Meeting report, June 24

We played:

• Campian:
  • The
    peaceful western winde
  • Though
    your strangeness frets my heart
  • Never
    weather-beaten saile
• Dowland:
  
  • Sorrow
    sorrow stay,
  • Can
    she excuse my wrongs
  • Deare,
    if you change
  • Say
    love if ever thou didst find,
  • Awake,
    sweet love, thou art returnd:
  • Now, O now, I needs must part,

Schedule

Being dogless at the moment, I’m doing some traveling this
summer. So we will be meeting as usual on Tuesdays at 7:45pm at
233 Broadway, Cambridge, except maybe when I’m not here.

The Tuesdays I won’t be here are July 15, August 5 and August
12. If there’s a critical mass of people who want to meet, the
meetings will happen. We can arrange for them at my place, or
possibly some other group member will want to host.

I’ll be surprised if there’s a critical mass on August 5, when
Francis Roads will be leading a West Gallery Quire
Workshop at 7:30 that day. But if you want to come to a
Cantabile meeting any of those days, let me know, and I’ll try to
set something up.

Other events

The 7 Hills
Renaissance Wind Band will be playing on the SOHIP Concert Series next
week.

Meeting Report

We played:

• Campian,
  V. My
  love hath vowd hee will forsake mee and Though your strangeness frets my heart
• Dowland:
  • Sorrow
    sorrow stay,
  • Come
    heavy sleepe the image of true death;
  • Awake,
    sweet love, thou art returnd:
  • Can
    she excuse my wrongs
  • If
    my complaints
  • Whoever
    thinks or hopes of love for love
  • Now, O now, I needs must part,

Schedule

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

Please remember that with as few regular attenders as we have
right now, we especially appreciate dropin members, but we also
really appreciate them letting us know by Tuesday morning if
they’re dropping in.

Other events

David Fillingham will be singing with the Cambridge Chamber
Singers on Saturday, June 7 at 8PM at First Church Cambridge,
11 Garden St.

On Sunday, June 15, I’ll be playing in John Tyson’s student
recital at 2pm in the Carr Organ Room at New England
Conservatory.

On Saturday, June 21, the Wort
processors will be having their annual Pig Roast in
Somerville. If I brought a few people as guests, we could eat and
drink and play some music. Let me know if you want to come.

Meeting report

We played:

• Tapper, duets
• Morley:
  Whither
  away so fast, and Deep
  lamenting
• Guerrero:
  Divina
  ninfa mía and Dexó
  la venda, el arco y el aljava

• Ravenscroft,
  We
  be three poor Mariners,

Schedule

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

Please remember that with as few regular attenders as we have
right now, we especially appreciate dropin members, but we also
really appreciate them letting us know by Tuesday morning if
they’re dropping in.