Category: Cantabile

Meeting Report

We played:

• 
  Ruffo
  
  ,
  
  Il Capriccioso
  
• 
  Sermisy, Claudin de
  
  ,
  
  Martin menait son pourceau au marché
  
• 
  Courtois, Jean
  
  ,
  
  Petit Jacquet
  
• 
  Certon, Pierre
  
  ,
  
  J’ai le rebours
  
• 
  Dowland, John
  
  ,
  
  Cleare or cloudie sweet as Aprill showring,
  
  and
  
  If floods of teares could cleanse my follies past,
  
• 
  Ravenscroft, Thomas
  
  ,
  
  To Portsmouth
  

Schedule

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

my place

.

Other events

The Wakefield Summer Band, with me on my new (to me) tuba, will be
playing its second concert of the year tomorrow, Friday, July 26 at 7
PM on the Wakefield Common if it doesn’t rain, and at the

First Parish Congregational Church

, One
Church St., right next to the Common, if it does rain.

Meeting Report

We played:

• 
  Morley
  
  ,
  
  Il Grillo
  
• 
  Ruffo
  
  ,
  
  La Brava
  
  and
  
  Quand io penso al martire
  
• 
  Arcadelt
  
  ,
  
  Quand io penso al martire
  
• 
  Rore
  
  ,
  
  Nel’aria in questi di fatt’ho un si forte Castel
  
• 
  Holborne, Anthony
  
  ,
  
  63. Galliard: The Fairie-round
  
  and
  
  62. The Widowes myte.
  

Schedule

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

my place

.

Meeting Report

We played:

• 
  Morley
  
  ,
  
  La Rondinella
  
  and
  
  Leave now mine eyes
  
• 
  Ruffo
  
  ,
  
  Quand io penso al martire
  
• 
  Morley
  
  , large selection from the
  
  Canzonets for three voices
  
• 
  Ami souffrez que je vous aime
  

Schedule

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

my place

.

Meeting Report

We played:

• Bach, Nicht so traurig
• Bourgeois, Rendez à Dieu
• Gibbons, Song 1
• 
  Arcadelt
  
  ,
  
  Quando io penso al martire
  
  and
  
  Il bianco e dolce cigno
  
• 
  Vecchi
  
  ,
  
  Il bianco e dolce cigno
  
• 
  Billings
  
  ,
  
  Lamentation over Boston
  
• 
  Rore
  
  ,
  
  Tanto mi piacque
  
• Ward, Materna
• 
  Smith
  
  ,
  
  Slaves are they that heap up mountains
  

Schedule

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

my place

.

Other events

This Friday, July 6, is the first concert of the Wakefield Summer
Band with Laura Conrad on tuba. It’s on the Wakefield Common on the
shore of Lake Quannapowitt at 7pm. Bring a chair and a picnic and
watch the sun set over the lake.

Meeting Report

We played:

• Bourgeois/Goudimel, Nunc Dimitis
• Isaac/Bach, Innsbruck
• 
  Ruffo
  
  ,
  
  El Chiocho
  
• 
  Rore
  
  ,
  
  Signor mio caro
  
  and
  
  Carità di signore
  
• 
  Isaac
  
  ,
  
  Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen
  
• 
  Wise
  
  ,
  
  Judith and Holofernes
  

Schedule

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

my place

.

Other events

On Sunday, July 1 at 4:00 PM, Columbia’s Musick (Richard C. Spicer, director and harpsichord;
Margaret Lias, mezzo-soprano; Thomas Gregg, tenor; Peter H. Bloom,
baroque flute; Judy Bedford, baroque bassoon) will play a concert
called “The World of Washington: Man and Myth in Music” at the
Longfellow House, 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, Free Admission.
For more information call 617-876-4491.

Meeting Report

We played:

• Dowland arrangement of “Old 100th”
• Winchester New
• 
  Ruffo
  
  ,
  
  Martin menait son porceau au marché
  
• 
  Wilbye
  
  ,
  
  Draw on sweet night
  
• 
  Byrd
  
  ,
  
  This sweet and merry month of May
  
• 
  Sumer is icumen in
  

Schedule

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

my place

.

Meeting Report

We played:

• Bourgeois, Rendez  à Dieu
• Gibbons, Song 1
• 
  Janequin
  
  ,
  
  Martin menait son pourceau au marché
  
• 
  Dowland
  
  :
  • 
    Sir Henry Umpton’s Funerall
    
  • 
    M. John Langtons Pavan
    
  • 
    The King of Denmarks galliard
    
  • 
    The Earle of Essex galliard
    
  • 
    Sir John Souch, his galliard
    
  • 
    M. Henry Noell, his galliard
    
  • 
    M Giles Hoby his Galiard
    
  • 
    M Nicholas Gryffith his Galiard
    
  • 
    M. Thomas Collier his Galiard with two trebles
    
  • 
    Captaine Digorie Piper his Galiard
    
• 
  Purcell
  
  ,
  
  ‘Tis Women
  

Schedule

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

my place

.

Other News

John Tyson

reports that his new CD of Vincenzo Ruffo pieces is now
available on both

CD Baby

and

Amazon

. It’s also available on iTunes
if you search for Renaissonics.

Meeting Report

We played:

• Genevan Psalter of 1551, Toulon
• Genevan Psalter of 1551, St. Michael
• Gibbons, Song 24
• 
  Arcadelt
  
  ,
  
  O felici occhi mei
  
• 
  Ruffo
  
  ,
  
  O felici occhi mei
  
• 
  Byrd
  
  ,
  
  This sweet and merry month of May
  
• Purcell, Under this stone

Schedule

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

my place

.

Meeting Report

We played:

• Gibbons, Song 24
• Joseph, Angelus
• 
  Ruffo
  
  ,
  
  Dormend’un giorno
  
• 
  Verdelot
  
  ,
  
  Dormend’un giorno
  
• 
  Arcadelt
  
  ,
  
  Je ne suis pas si sot
  
• East, Hence Stars, to dim of light
• 
  Ravenscroft
  
  ,
  
  As I me walked
  

Schedule

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

my place

.

Other events

The John Tyson student recital I mentioned

last week

will only be
about an hour long, and will probably start about 1:30.

This Sunday, June 3,

The Loring-Greenough House

concert series will
feature music of 1812, played by the

Gloucester Hornpipe Society

,
which includes our friends

Jonathan Gilbert

and

Lynn Noel

.

Meeting Report

We played:

• 
  Morley
  
  ,
  
  La Sirena
  
  and
  
  La Torella
  
• 
  Ruffo
  
  ,
  
  La Sol Fa Re Mi
  
  and
  
  Ut re mi fa sol la
  
• 
  Arcadelt
  
  ,
  
  O felici occhi miei
  
• 
  Verdelot
  
  ,
  
  Dormend’un giorno
  
• 
  Purcell
  
  ,
  
  Down with Bacchus
  

Schedule

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

my place

.

Other events

John Tyson’s student recital takes place this year on June 2 from 1-4
pm at Lindsey Chapel, First Church, Cambridge on Garden St. across
from the Cambridge Common. I’m going to be playing some Holborne with
a group that includes Barney, Ishmael, John, and Miyuki. If you’re
interested in seeing what people who take recorder lessons do, this is
a good opportunity – there will be lots of recorder playing on all
kinds of levels.