Category: Cantabile

The Cantabile Renaissance Band

News of the week of September 4, 2012

Meeting Report, August 28, 2012

Sorry, I’m a week behind on these. My memory of the week before last
is fuzzy.

We played:

Meeting Report, September 4, 2012

We played:

Schedule

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

my place

.

Parking and Building Access

Is close to back to normal for you. We have our sidewalk back, and
all of the No Parking signs apply only from 7 AM to 4 PM, so parking
should actually be easier than usual for evening visitors.

Cantabile gets nationwide publicity


The American Recorder

magazing Fall issue has a paragraph about our
walk for hunger performance. They say:

During the May 6 Walk for Hunger in the Boston (MA) area, 43,000
people walked a 20-mile course, raising over three million dollars to
fund soup kitchens, food pantries and community gardens. At many
stations, entertainment is provided for walkers resting their weary
bones. Since 1999, Cantabile Band (www.laymusic.org/renband.html) has
provided entertainment at Mile 13, a beautiful spot on the Charles
River. This year, seven band members sang and played recorder, fiddle
and viol on a program including Morley, Dowland, Holborne, Wilbye and
Ravenscroft.

Playing out of doors for that length of time is challenging, with the
wind and noise (motorcycles, boomboxes, helicopters, amplified
directions to boats racing on the river…). Cantabile members bring
lots of clothespins, and have invested in tent pegs and ground staples
to keep music stands from blowing over.

They also included a picture of

me and Ishmael playing.

News of the week of August 21, 2012

Meeting Report

We played:

Schedule

We will be having dropin meetings as usual on Tuesdays (including
today, August 28) at 7:45pm at

my place

.

Parking and Building Access

They have now torn up the sidewalk in front of my building. Parking
for people who don’t live here is probably a little easier than usual,
since the whole block is marked no parking 7am to 4 or 5 pm, so you
aren’t competing with residents. But you do have to get to my door
over a narrow path of packed earth instead of sidewalk, and to
remember that the bottom step is higher than usual, because of the
sidewalk being gone. I’m OK when I remember it, but Sammy is having
trouble with how high it is.

I’ll let you (at least the regular attendees) know if this changes
between now (10am) and when the workers leave at 4. I am not looking
forward to when they actually pour the new concrete.

News of the week of August 14, 2012

Meeting Report

We played:

Schedule

We will be having dropin meetings as usual on Tuesdays (including
today, August 21) at 7:45pm at

my place

.

Other Events

The Wakefield Summer Band, Laura Conrad on tuba, will play its final
concert of the summer on Friday, August 24, at 6:30pm on the Wakefield
Common. Come watch the sun set over Lake Quannapowitt and afterwards
join us in the First Church Vestry for light refreshments.

Other playing opportunities


The Boston Recorder Society

is organizing its Fall meetings. They are
thinking about some more interesting ideas than they’ve been doing for
the last couple of years, such as a loud wind group, a baroque group,
and a large recorders group. They don’t yet have it together enough
to have put the information about their ideas on their website, but if
you’d like to know about them and aren’t on the BRS mailing list, email
me and I’ll send you the newsletter I got. Or email their contact
information and ask to be on the mailing list.

Parking

It’s gotten very difficult for residents on my block, but all the new
signs are effective only between 7am and 5pm, so it may actually be
easier for people who just come for the evening. In any case, Windsor
St., Market St., and Clark St. all have empty spaces most of the time,
and you can use the bus stop as a loading zone if you have more stuff
than you want to carry for a block or more.

News of the week of August 7, 2012

Meeting Report

We played:

Schedule

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

my place

.

News of the week of July 31, 2012

Meeting Report

We played:

Schedule

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

my place

.

News of the week of July 24, 2012

Meeting Report

We played:

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.

News of the week of July 17, 2012

Meeting Report

We played:

Schedule

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

my place

.

News of the week of July 3, 2012

Meeting Report

We played:

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.

News of the week of June 26, 2012

Meeting Report

We played:

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.