Category: Cantabile

Meeting report: February 4

We played:

• Mozart, K.292
• Guerrero,Es menester que se acierte
• Morley:
  • Whither
    away so fast,
  • Blow,
    Shepherds, blow
  • Deep
    lamenting
  • Farewell disdainfull
• Clemens
  non papa, Ich stuend an einem Morgen

Schedule

We will be meeting as usual on Tuesdays on 7:45 pm at my place.

Performing schedule

Church Service

We’ve been asked to perform on April 6 at the Community Church of
Boston for their 11am service. I’m thinking we might do some
of the Guerrero we’ve been enjoying.

Walk for Hunger

We have again been invited for the same slot as we’ve had since
1998 or so. This will be 10am until 3 pm on Sunday, May 4 on the
Charles River at the Cambridge-Watertown line. I’m thinking we’ll repeat whatever we end up
performing on April 6, and add some Spring music.

Signing up

If you want to perform at either or both of the above places,
please let me know. I can’t decide on repertoire until I know
who’s coming.

Exactly how much rehearsing for how long of a program (on May
4) is negotiable, but please plan on coming at least to the
rehearsal immediately preceding the performance. If you don’t
play with us regularly and know all our music, you should probably
come to a few more
rehearsals than that.

Other events

Delight Consort at Loring-Greenough

The Delight Consort will be performing a Presidents’
Day Special Program at the Loring-Greenough House, 12 South Street,
Jamaica Plain, MA, on February
16 at 3pm.

Aria di Commedia

Renaissonics and “Pazzi Lazzi” will perform An Evening of
Commedia dell’Arte and Italian Renaissance Music on February 21 at
7PM at the Fenway Center of Northeastern University.

Meeting report: January 28

We played:

• Hunt, English Country Dances
• Morley:
  • See,
    Myne Owne Sweet Jewell
  • 
    Joy, Joy doth so arise
  • Cruel,
    you put away too soone
  • Ladie
    those eyes
  • Hould out my hart,
  • Good
    morrow, fair ladies of the May
  • Whither away so fast,
• Clemens
  non papa, Ich stuend an einem Morgen

Schedule

We will be meeting as usual on Tuesdays on 7:45 pm at my place.

Meeting reports

Meeting of January 7, 2014

We played:

• Quem Pastoris
• Carol of the Field Mice, melody by Barbara Blair, harmony by
  Ishmael Stefanov-Wagner
• Guerrero,Per Signum Crucis
• Holborne:
  The
  Fairie-round, The
  New-yeeres gift, As
  it fell on a holie Eve, The
  night watch,
  Posthuma, Hermoza
• Ring in the New Year

Meeting of January 14, 2014

We played:

• Eccles, Internationale Merry-Go-Round
• Hymn tune warmups
• Guerrero,Petre
  Ego
• Josquin,
  Faute
  d’Argent
• Guerrero,Adios
  mi amor
• Cavendish,
  Come,
  gentle Swains
• Smith,
  Slaves
  are they that heap up mountains

Schedule

We resume our usual meetings on Tuesdays on 7:45 pm at my place.

Other events

Music
for Viols and Friends will perform the complete Dowland
Lachrimae at 8pm on Saturday January 25 and 3 pm on Sunday January
26.

Convivium Musicum will
perform Puccini’s Tosca with the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra
on Sunday January 19, and a program entitled “Lost” on January 25
and 26.

No meeting reports
since we haven’t had a meeting since the last one. There was a
snow storm, and then it was Christmas Eve, and then it was New
Year’s Eve.

Regular meeting

There will be a meeting as usual tomorrow
night, January 7, at 7:45pm but my furnace isn’t working, so it
will be at Stuart’s. He lives at 1328 Broadway, Unit #2, in
Somerville, and his phone number is (617) 776-0065.

Another party

Although we just had a party, we’ve decided it’s time for
another one. Barney Gage will be in town for the weekend, so
anyone who wants to is welcome to come over to my place on Sunday
evening, January 12. Some of us will be at West Gallery in Newton
Highlands until 5, so the party can’t get started until 6 or so.

We will do some combination of eating, drinking, playing,
singing, and telling war stories. Let me know if you want to come
and whether you’re bringing food.

I’ve been counting votes in Cambridge instead of putting out
meeting reports, so here are several.

Meeting report, November 26

• Loeillet, Sonata in A minor
• Hymn tune warmups
• Byrd, O Lord my God
• Palestrina, Vestiva i Colli
• Adieu mes amours, Des Prez, Moutons
• Guerrero, Adios me amor
• Cavendish, Come, gentle swains

Meeting report, December 3

• Lots of Susato
• Des Pres, Mille regrets
• Susato, Les miens aussi
• Lassus, Bonjours mon coeur
• Certon, Chantons Noël
• Praetorius, Lo how a rose
• Star in the east

Meeting report, December 10

• Deloach, A Baroque Christmas
• Gaudeamus Pariter
• Quem Pastores Laudavere
• Arbeau, Bransle Officiele
• Praetorius, Psallite, Von Himmel Hoch, In dulci jubilo, Puer
  Natus
• Josquin, Adieu mes amours, Mille regrets, O Venus bant
• Carols

Schedule

We will meet as usual on December 17.

We will not meet on December 24.

I’m easy about meeting on December 31, but I would expect most
poeple to feel that they had something either more exciting or
less exciting that they’d prefer to do that evening, given we’re
having the party on January 1. Let me know by the December 17
meeting if you would like to come over on December 31. And
consider it a commitment – I’ll be annoyed if I turn down
invitations or don’t go to First Night and then nobody
shows up. I’ll schedule a meeting if at least two people want one.

The Christmas party is on January 1 at 4 PM. Please invite all
your friends, especially people you feel might be interested in
joining us on Tuesdays some of the time.

After that, we will resume meeting as usual on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM at my place.

Meeting report

We played:

• Hymn tune warmup
• Josquin,
  Faute
  d’Argent and Tu
  solus qui facis mirabilia
• Palestrina, Vestiva i colli
• Gibbons,
  The Silver Swan

Schedule

We will be meeting as usual on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM at my place.

Please remember to let me know whether you’re coming or not (or
if you’ve already said, if what you’ve said changes).

Other events

Coro Flauto Dolce Gala Concert

Twelve Renaissance Recorders!
works of
Josquin, Gervaise, Morley, Praetorius, Vecchi, Viadana, and more

Thursday, December 12,
8:00pm,

Jewett Hall,
First Church in Cambridge,
11 Garden Street,
Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Admission Free ~ Donations Appreciated. For more information email
John Tyson or call him at
(617) 460-4653.

Meeting Report

We played:

• Campian,
  When
  the god of merry Love
• Pange Lingua:
  • After Cabanilles
  • Guerrero
    I
  • Guerrero II
• Tomorrow shall be my dancing day
• Fortuna Desperata
• Josquin,
  Adieu
  mes amours
• Mouton,
  Adieu
  mes amours
• Senfl,
  Wohl
  kumbt der Mai
• Sermisy:
  • Tant
    que vivrai (C major)
  • Jouissance vous donnerai

Schedule

We will be meeting as usual on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM at my place.

Please remember to let me know whether you’re coming or not (or
if you’ve already said, if that changes).

Meeting Report

We played:

• Charlton, Traditional Music of Many Lands
• Genevan Psalter, Old 124th
• Deus Tuorum Militum
• Gibbons, Song 14
• Josquin, Adieu mes amours
• Mouton, Adieu mes amours
• Guerrero, two Pange Lingua‘s
• Obrecht, Meskin es hu
• Purcell,
  The Glass was just timed

Schedule

We will not be meeting on November 5. After that we will
resume our regular meetings November 12.

Our regular meetings are on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM at my place. If
you haven’t already told me you’re coming, let me know by 10 in
the morning of the day of the meeting. If you have told me you’re
coming, and something comes up so that you can’t, please let me
know as soon as is practical.

Meeting Report

We played:

• Ingalls, Fellowship, Experience
• Festa,
  Se mai vedete amanti, deh piacc’al cielo
• Byrd,
  Susannah
  Fair, Whyle that the Sunne
• Wilbye,
  Adieu,
  sweet Amaryllis
• The dark is my delight
• Pilkingt
  on,
  Rest
  sweet nymphs
• Farmer,
  Fair Phyllis
• Campian,
  Never
  weather-beaten saile
• Ravenscroft, To Portsmouth

Schedule

We will be meeting as usual on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM at my place.

Tuesday, November 5, is an election day, and I will be working
until 9 or so, so either someone should volunteer to open up and
start the rehearsal, or we can skip that day.

New Format

What I said last
week about wanting to know on Tuesday morning how many people
would be here on Tuesday evening doesn’t seem to have worked, so I
will be more specific this week.

One of the ways this group works, when it does, is that I go to
the computer after breakfast on Tuesday morning and transcribe a
piece of music I hope will be suitable for the group that night.
It used to be quite rare that the piece I picked was unsuitable in
the sense that it had the wrong number of parts for the group, but
it has become increasingly common that I transcribe something that
we can’t play because I don’t know who’s coming. And there’s a
very nice 5 part piece I transcribed last Spring that still hasn’t
really had a reading.

So what I want in the future is that everybody who usually
comes, tells me by 10 on Tuesday morning whether they’re coming
that night. And everybody who doesn’t usually come, if they
decide to come on a given Tuesday, you should tell me by 10 in the
morning that you’re doing that.

And if you frequently miss more than half the meeting, you
should tell me whether that’s likely for that meeting.

And whatever you have or haven’t told me, you should feel some
obligation to honor that commitment. I don’t want to go so far as
saying you aren’t welcome if I didn’t know at 10 AM that you were
coming, or that if a serious illness comes on between 10 AM and 8
PM you should come anyway, but casual or postponable distractions
should be avoided.

So that’s a pretty mild form of not being a drop in group, but
as of this week, we are no longer purely a drop in group.