The Cantabile Renaissance Band
We played:
We will be having dropin meetings as usual on Tuesdays at 7:45pm at
my place.
We played:
We will be having dropin meetings as usual on Tuesdays at 7:45pm at
my place.
Short version: it was a great space to sing in, not as large an audience as we’d have liked, but they seemed to enjoy what we did.
There aren’t as many photographs as from the previous week, since the photographer was performing, but see the video below, and here are some sound clips:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V48NfxkUEfw&feature=g-upl&context=G2b91881AUAAAAAAAFAA
I meant these to go on yesterday’s post, but I put it up without the pictures and then had to spend the rest of the day on other things. So here are the pictures.
The short answer is that everybody had a good time.
Unfortunately, the camera got packed up before the party got
going, so you can’t see the audience and performers staying around
to continue to enjoy themselves, or the glass harmonica party
music provided by our hostess, Vera Meyer.
A longer answer is that the performers agreed that we had done
a lot of good things musically, but had missed a few things that
we wanted to do. And we agreed that we’ve gotten really good at
recovering from mistakes, and we wished we could get a bit better
at not making the mistakes in the first place.
The bottom line is that I was catching myself smiling about it
for most of the next two days.
Come on Sunday, March 25, 2012, to the repeat performance at Gallery 263, 263 Pearl
St., Cambridge, MA. It might be even better than last Sunday.
We played:
Here’s the schedule for the next couple of months:
Remember that you should let me know as soon as possible
whether you want to play at the Walk for Hunger. A lot of what
we’re thinking about playing is five part music, and we shouldn’t
work on that unless we’re going to have at least five
performers.
Or more specifically, an announcement of another performance of
the same concert. Vera Meyer is graciously allowing us to perform
Shakespeare’s Neighbors
in her living room, at 3pm on Sunday, March 18. It’s free and
open to the public, and there will be a pot luck supper following
the concert. Please come, and bring all your friends.
The Cantabile Renaissance Band will be performing
“Shakespeare’s neighbors: an evening with Thomas Morley, William
Shakespeare, and others” on Sunday, March 25 at 7pm at the 263
Gallery, 263 Pearl St., Cambridge, MA.
This performance will include the complete Morley Canzonets
to three voyces, interspersed with readings from
Romeo and Juliet, Phillip Sidney, and The
Aminta by Tasso.
For more details, see the concert
webpage.
There’s a flyer you can print and paper your neighborhood with and
give to all your friends.
We are trying to set up other performances of this program,
which I will announce on this list as we finalize the
arrangements. If you have an idea for somewhere West or South of
the central metropolitan Boston area where we could do it, let me know.
We played:
We will be meeting as usual on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM at my place with
the following exceptions:
Next week, February 21, will probably be our last meeting for a
while where we will not be concentrating on the Walk for Hunger
program, and where we will have a new piece to sightread. So if
you have ideas about what you’d like to do, either for the new
piece or for old pieces that aren’t suitable for the Walk program,
let me know.
We will be performing again this year, as we have every year
since 1999, at the Walk for Hunger, in a beautiful spot on the
Charles River, at the Cambridge-Watertown line. Unless you’re a
major rock star, it’s probably your only opportunity to perform
for tens of thousands of people.
Let me know if you want to play. If you do, let me know what
you would like to play.
I’m leaning towards an all-English program, with some
Morley, Weelkes, Holborne, Dowland and Byrd. Let me know your
likes and dislikes in that range. Also, if that would leave out
your favorite upbeat walking music, let me know about that.
We played:
We will be meeting as usual on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM at my place.
Tuesday February 28 will not be a dropin rehearsal, as the
Morley group will pre-empt that time.
On March 6, I will be working at the polls for the presidential primary, so someone
will have to open up if we want to meet that night.
We have again been invited to play at the Walk for Hunger, in
our usual time and place. This year it’s on May 6, and we’ll
probably be playing informally starting at 10 am and doing our usual two
sets at noon and 2 pm.
If you’d like to play, please let me know as soon as possible. In
addition to being available on May 6, you should also plan to come
for both of the Tuesdays immediately before that (April 24 and May
1), and as many other Tuesdays in March and April as you need to
learn the music.
I would like to have a playlist by the beginning of March, but
I can’t do that until I have the list of performers, so please let
me know as soon as you can.
Also let me know if there are pieces you’d particularly like to
play, or pieces that would cause you to not want to play if they
appeared on the playlist. We would like to have a mix of the
complicated polyphony we spend most of our time on and simpler
polyphony that comes across better in the noisy outdoor setting.
We need to spend at least half the time on instruments, since it’s
quite strenuous singing in that setting.
We played:
We will be meeting as usual on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM at my place.
Tuesday February 28 will not be a dropin rehearsal, as the
Morley group will pre-empt that time. If there’s interest, we
could have a dropin meeting on Thursday, March 1 instead.
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