Category: Cantabile

The Cantabile Renaissance Band

News of the week of January 24, 2012

Meeting Report

We played:

Schedule

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

Other events

There are several concerts of Renaissance music this
weekend:

  • Convivium Musicum is
    playing works of Orlandus Lassus on Saturday, January 28 at 7 PM
    in the
    Cambridge Friends Meeting house and on Sunday, January 29 at at
    4 PM at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Brookline.
  • Music for Viols and Friends presents “The Tudor Consort,”
    music from the courts of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, performed
    by mezzosoprano Pamela Dellal, El Dorado Ensemble (Carol Lewis,
    Mai-Lan Broekman, Paul Johnson, Janet Haas and Alice Mroszczyk,
    viols; Olav Chris Henriksen, lute & renaissance guitar) and
    special guest Wendy Gillespie, viol. The concert features songs,
    dances, fantasies & solos by Henry VIII himself, van Wilder,
    Ferrabosco I, Tallis, Byrd, Johnson, Morley & others. It will be
    Friday, January 27, 2012 at 8 pm in Lindsay Chapel, First Church in
    Cambridge, Congregational, Cambridge MA, and also Sunday, January 29,
    2012 at 3 pm at the Somerville Museum.
  • Exultemus is playing
    double choir music for voices and brass on Saturday, January 28
    at 8pm in the University Lutheran Church, Harvard Square, and on
    Sunday, January 29, at 3pm at the First Lutheran Church of Boston.

News of the week of January 17, 2012

Meeting report

We played:

Schedule

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

Other event

Trium, literally “of three,” is a trio of superb sopranos
who have dedicated themselves to the exploration and performance
of music of three equal voices. On January 22, 2012, they will
present Portraits in Miniature.  In the tradition of the
Renaissance miniature portrait, a tiny detailed devotion to a
beloved subject, Trium will explore, luxuriate and
celebrate bite-size portions of a variety of periods and styles,
from the Notre Dame school in medieval Paris to the sixteenth
century Flemish motet, to the English Madrigal style, with a
soupcon of turn of the century and contemporary.  The concert will
take place at the historic Loring-Greenough House, 12 South
Street, Jamaica Plain MA, as part of the Sunday Afternoon at
the Greenough House parlor concert series.
Trium was founded in 1997 to perform a benefit concert at
Emmanuel Church in Boston, but Shannon Larkin, Margaret Johnson,
and Susan Trout are well known individually for their work with
Handel & Haydn Society, Boston Baroque, and Emmanuel Music.
Each of the voices has a distinctly unique quality, and when they
come together they make a gloriously blended sound that is even
greater than the sum of its parts. Margaret’s pure sweet tone and
stratospheric range surround each piece with a halo of brilliance.
Shannon’s clarion soprano weaves in with a shimmer and dips down
into mezzo warmth. Susan’s brilliantly radiant and richly warm
tone adds depth and beauty before carrying its strength to the top
of the staff. Whether they are singing a finely tuned dissonant
chord in a Renaissance motet or an exquisitely blended unison in a
contemporary art song, Trium makes music “of three” sound like so
much more.

Report on the December 13, 2011 meeting

Meeting report

I think they did Christmas hymns and Holborne before I got
there. Then we played:

Schedule

For the near future, we will be having our regular dropin
meetings on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM at my place.

Other events

The Delight
Consort Christmas Concert is on Sunday at the Loring-Greenough
House at 3 PM. Their schedule also includes several other holiday
events farther away from here.

News of the week of December 6, 2011

Meeting report

We played:

  • Hymns celebrating the spring weather we’ve been
    enjoying
  • Holborne
  • Cavendish, Come, gentle swains
  • Rore, Mia benigna fortuna
  • Ravenscroft, To Portsmouth

Schedule

We have resumed our every week dropin meetings on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM at my place. Anne has
kindly volunteered to arrive on time and let people in next week,
December 13,
when I’ll be running a special primary to replace Warren Tolman in
the state senate.

Party

This year’s Christmas party is on Sunday, December 11, at 4 PM
at my place.

If you know that you’re coming and what you’re bringing, let me
know, so I can coordinate. But please come at the last minute
even if you haven’t told me, and don’t have time to cook
anything. Potato chips and bottles are good contributions to a
potluck, and don’t need coordination since if more people
bring them than eat them, we just won’t open them all.

Invite your friends, especially if you know people who might be
interested in joining our group. There’s a printable
invitation if you want hard copy to give them.

News of the week of November 15, 2011

Meeting report

We played:

  • Thou God of all, whose spirit moves to
    Old 22nd from the Anglo-Genevan Psalter
  • Jouissance je vous donnerai
  • Je ne suis pas si sot bergere
  • Entre vous qui aimez
  • Ne l’aria in questi di fatt’ho un si forte Castel,
  • Tanto mi piacque
  • Cider Round

Report on November 1 meeting

We played:

Schedule

The good news is that we’re going back to a weekly schedule,
except for a few interruptions. The Morley rehearsals, which have
been preempting these rehearsals have now moved to Thursdays,
except when someone can’t make Thursday, in which case they will
still preempt the Tuesday dropin rehearsal.

The bad news is that two of the interruptions are in the next
two weeks.

So we will not be meeting next week, November 22, when we can’t meet on
Thursday because it’s Thanksgiving.

We can’t meet on Tuesday, November 29, because one of the
Morley performers can’t make the Thursday rehearsal that week.
However, if there’s interest, we could hold a dropin meeting on
Thursday. Let me know if you’d come if we did that.

The two weeks after that, December 6 and 13, are fine for
rehearsals, except that someone else will have to get them started
because they’re having a special election in part of Cambridge,
and I’ll be working at the polls.

News of the week of October 18, 2011

Meeting report

We played:

Schedule

For the moment, we continue our every-other-week dropin
meetings at 7:45 PM at my place. So
the next one is November 1 (maybe not too late for Halloween
songs) and the one after that is November 15.