Category: Cantabile

The Cantabile Renaissance Band

News of the weeks of December 18 and 25, 2012, and January 1, 2013

Meeting Report

We played:

Schedule

Tomorrow, January 1, we will be having our annual holiday party, which
this year is on New Year’s Day, since there wasn’t a good weekend day
in December to schedule it. So if you show up at the usual time,
there will be people to play with and things to eat and drink, but
since the party starts at 4, you might miss some of the best food, or
not be able to talk to people who have already left.

After this, we will return to our regularly scheduled meetings on
Tuesday nights at 7:45 PM at

my place

.

Party

There are invitations in two formats:

foldable into quarter-page,

and

two-sided, with a Cantabile Band flyer on the back

.

Print them out and give them to all your friends who might be
interested. We need to do some rebuilding this year, since we’ve at
least temporarily lost a couple of good people, and this is a good way
for people who might be interested in playing with us to get their
feet wet.

Let me know if you intend to come, especially if
you’re bringing something useful, but also feel free to drop in.

They seem to have fixed the bug where 2012 was hard-coded in the
Parking Consideration Application, so I have submitted it. (Probably
by hard-coding 2013.) I suspect
it doesn’t matter and they will be treating New Year’s Day as an
honorary Sunday, where permit parking restrictions don’t apply. I
will have two visitor permits, and can probably borrow some more, so
if the consideration doesn’t come through and you’re worried, we can
probably get you a permit. If the permit does come through, I think
there will be something I can print so you can put it on your
windshield. If you have RSVP’d and live outside of Cambridge, I can
email you the thing to print out.

Other Event

If you haven’t sung the Messiah in too long, or you would like to play
it, there will be a SING IT YOURSELF MESSIAH on Sunday, January 6,
2013 at 3:00 p.m. directed from the piano by Judy Conrad.

Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd
383 Old North Road
Kingston, Rhode Island

Instrumentalists welcome

We will sing most of Part One plus Hallelujah and Amen;

All arias will be sung by sections; other arias and choruses will be included by request.

A Simple Soup Supper follows the event.

Admission free but donations, which will benefit Welcome House, are
encouraged. Scores and instrumental parts will be provided, or bring
your own.

News of the week of December 11, 2012

Meeting Report

We played:

Schedule

We will be having dropin meetings as usual on Tuesdays
at 7:45pm at

my place

. Christmas, December 25 will be an exception, and the
January 1 meeting will be replaced by a party.

Party

There are invitations in two formats:

foldable into quarter-page,

and

two-sided, with a Cantabile Band flyer on the back

.

Print them out and give them to all your friends who might be
interested.

Let me know if you intend to come, especially if
you’re bringing something useful, but also feel free to drop in.

I will apply for parking consideration, if I can find a browser/os
combination that knows how to run the online application form. (It
looks like it isn’t the browser or the os – there’s just a bug in the
javascript that seems to have hard-coded 2012.) But I
suspect it isn’t necessary, and they just treat New Years Day as a
Sunday, the way the do Thanksgiving. There will be parking permits
around if you’re nervous about it.

News of the week of December 4, 2012

Meeting Report

We played:

Schedule

We will be having dropin meetings as usual on Tuesdays
at 7:45pm at

my place

. Christmas, December 25 will be an exception, and the
January 1 meeting will be replaced by a party.

Party

There are invitations in two formats:

foldable into quarter-page,

and

two-sided, with a Cantabile Band flyer on the back

.

Print them out and give them to all your friends who might be
interested.

As I said last week, let me know if you intend to come, especially if
you’re bringing something useful, but also feel free to drop in.

I will apply for parking consideration, if I can find a browser/os
combination that knows how to run the online application form. But I
suspect it isn’t necessary, and they just treat New Years Day as a
Sunday, the way the do Thanksgiving. There will be parking permits
around if you’re nervous about it.

News of the week of November 27, 2012

Meeting Report

We played:

Schedule

We will be having dropin meetings as usual on Tuesdays
at 7:45pm at

my place

. Christmas, December 25, will be an exception, and see below
for New Years, January 1.

Party

It looks like the only possible weekend day in December for a party
would be December 8, which nobody, including me, is enthusiastic
about. In my case, it isn’t that I don’t want to invite all my
friends and cook and clean, but that’s just too early to put up a
Christmas tree. I spent some time trying to figure out how to have an Advent
wreath be decorative but not in the way of people being able to put
down plates and glasses, and I couldn’t.

So we decided that this year the party will be instead of our regular
meeting on Tuesday, January 1. I know some people won’t be back from
their Christmas travels in time for that, so we will attempt to also
be festive for them before they leave and after they come back.

I’ll be sending out the normal invitation for inviting all your
friends with, but it will start at 4 in the afternoon and include our
usual food, drink, and music of the season that you might not have a
chance to sing anywhere else. If you know you’re coming and what you
want to bring to share, I’d be happy to know about it in advance, but
don’t be shy about just dropping in.

Other events

Don Hodgkins sends an invitation to the
seventh annual Wakefield
Community Messiah Sing,
Friday, December 14, 7:30 pm, First Parish Congregational
Church, Wakefield. For more information, call Don at (781) 246-3847.

News of the week of November 20, 2012

Meeting Report

We played:

  • Telemann, Sonata in G
  • Loeillet, Sonata in A minor and Sonata in G major
  • Chédeville le Cadet, from Les Idées Françoises ou les Délices de Chambray: Les Jumaux, La Sandrillon, and March des Signes
  • Beatles duets

  • Weelkes,


    Four arms, two lips, one breathing

Schedule

We will be having dropin meetings as usual on Tuesdays
at 7:45pm at

my place

.

Party

We need to schedule the Christmas party, if we’re going to have one.
So if you want to come, let me know which if any of the following
dates will work for you:

  • Saturday, December 8
  • Saturday, December 15
  • Saturday, December 22

We’ll start as usual at 4 or 5 in the afternoon, so if you have an
evening concert you can drop in before or after.

News of the week of October 30, 2012

Meeting Report

We played:

Schedule

We will be having dropin meetings as usual on Tuesdays
at 7:45pm at

my place

.

Anne has agreed to come open my door on November 6, election day, so
there will be a meeting then.
I will leave some suitable music out on the counter, including the
Morley canzonets for two and three voices and the Ruffos and the
Dowland third book.

You should be able to find some of the other stuff we do all the time
– the things in books are lying sideways on the eight inch shelves,
and the other stuff is in the notebooks labeled things like “Four
parts”, “Four Parts English” “> Four Parts”.

It’s likely to be a fairly late night at the polls. They registered
10,000 new voters by the October 17th deadline, and they had 3500
absentee ballots already more than a week before the election. But it’s the other
guy’s turn to go to the count, so I may be able to get there by 9:30
or even a bit earlier.

News of the week of October 23, 2012

Meeting Report

We played:

Schedule

We will be having dropin meetings as usual on Tuesdays
at 7:45pm at

my place

.

Anne has agreed to come open my door on November 6, election day.
She would prefer that someone with more familiarity with what music I
keep where also come to help keep the rehearsal going. I’m willing to
give anyone who wants it a “tour of the notebooks” on Tuesday October 30.

News of the week of October 16, 2012

Meeting Report

We played:

Schedule

We will be having dropin meetings as usual on Tuesdays
at 7:45pm at

my place

.

November 6, election day, I’ll be working as usual, so if we want to
meet then, someone else will have to open up and keep things going
until I get there some time after nine.

News of the week of October 2, 2012

Meeting Report

We played:

Schedule

We will be having dropin meetings as usual on Tuesdays
at 7:45pm at

my place

.

November 6, election day, I’ll be working as usual, so if we want to
meet then, someone else will have to open up and keep things going
until I get there some time after nine.

This week (October 9), people who play F recorders will have a chance
to try out the Ralph Netsch Renaissance alto in F that I’m checking
out. So we’ll try to do something with two alto range parts, so we
can see how it sounds with my Ralph Netsch G alto.