Category: Cantabile

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:

• Farrant
• Nun Danket
• Jouissance je vous donnerai
• Wilbye,
  Flora
  gave me fairest flowers,
• Fair Phyllis I saw sitting all alone
• Lots of Rore
• He that will an alehouse keep

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.

Meeting report

We played:

• Immortal, invisible, God only wise
• lots of Holborne
• Wilbye,
  Ye
  that do live in pleasures plenty,
• Rore, Ancor
  che col partire,
• Rore, Tanto
  mi piacque, (Parts with divisions are here)
• Rore, Signor
  mio caro and Carità
  di signore,
• He
  that will an alehouse keep

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.

Meeting report

We played:

• Gibbons, Song 67
• Wilbye,
  Thus
  saith my Cloris bright,
• Wilbye,
  Adieu,
  sweet Amaryllis
• Wilbye,
  Draw
  on sweet Night
• lots of Holborne
• Judith and Holofernes

Schedule

We continue our open drop in meetings every other week. So we
will be meeting on October 18 and November 1.

If you need to know whether a particular Tuesday is an open
drop in meeting, use the
calendar. The link is also on our page.

Ciderfest

The Boston Wort Processors
will be hosting the annual Ciderfest
on Sunday afternoon, October 16, at Carlson Orchards in
Harvard, Massachusetts.

A few of us have usually gone and played and sung for a while.
If you’d like to go, let me know by Tuesday, October 11, and I
will sign you up as my guest. There doesn’t seem to be a charge
for coming, but people are expected to bring a side dish, so if
you know what you want to bring, tell me. Also tell me if you’d
like to buy any cider at $3/gallon. You have to bring your own
container.

Meeting Report

We played:

• T’Andernaken
• Gibbons, Song 1
• da
  Rore:
  • Ancor
    che col partire
  • Tanto
    mi piacque,
• Swan songs
• Rounds

Schedule

Remember that the dropin meetings are now every other week, and
this is the week the dropins aren’t meeting. So the next dropin
meeting will be on Tuesday, September 20, at 7:45 PM at my place.

Other events

The Delight Consort (Judith Conrad, Paul Ukleja, Frank
Fitzpatrick and Otto Guzman) will be performing two concerts,
Friday, September 16th. 2011 at 7:30 PM Lutheran Church of the
Good Shepherd, Old North Road, Kingston RI, and Sunday, September
25th, 2011 3:00 PM Christ Church, 57 Main St. Swansea MA. For
more information, go to Judith’s
web site.

Meeting report

We played:

• T’Andernaken
• Byrd,
  Susanna
  Fair
• Egypt
• da
  Rore:
  • Tanto
    mi piacque,
  • Signor mio caro
  • Carità
    di signore
• Sermisy,
  Tant
  que Vivray
• Entre
  vous qui aymés
• Ravenscroft,
  
  Jolly
  Shepherd

Schedule

Starting this month, the dropin portion of the group will move
to an every other week schedule, so that a few of us can work on
a concert performance of the Morley Canzonets for 2 voices.

We will be meeting on September 6 and 20, but not on
September 13 and 27.

When they happen, the meetings will be on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM
at my place.

Meeting report

We played:

• Gervaise,Dix
  bransles de Champagne
• T’Andernaken
• Obrecht, T’Andernaken
• Lapicida, T’Andernaken
• Entre
  vous qui aymés
• d
  e l’Estocart, Etans
  assis

Schedule

Until further notice, we’ll be having dropin meetings as usual on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM
at my place.

Meeting report

We played:

• Gervaise,Dix
  bransles de Champagne
• Obrecht, T’Andernaken
• deWilde, Joli
  amours
• Obrecht, Tsat
  een meskin
• Smith,
  Slaves
  are they that heap up mountains

Schedule

Until further notice, we’ll be having dropin meetings as usual on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM
at my place.

Meeting report

We played:

• Recorder trios
• Lots of Holborne
• Monteverdi, Si ch’io vorrei morire
• Monteverdi, Sfogava con le stelle
• Wilbye,
  Draw
  on sweet Night
• Mundy,
  Lightly
  she whipped o’re the dales,
• Purcell, He
  that drinks is immortal

Schedule

Until further notice, we’ll be having dropin meetings as usual on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM
at my place.

Meeting report

We played:

• Gervaise,
  XII Bransles de Champagne
• Several Holbornes
• Monteverdi, Si ch’io vorrei morire
• Wilbye,
  Sweet
  honey-sucking bees
• Purcell,
  Cakes
  and Ale

Schedule

We’ll be having dropin meetings as usual on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM
at my place.

Meeting Report

We played:

• Gervaise,
  Huict
  bransles de Poictou
• De Wilde, Joli amours
• Dowland:
  • Lachrimae
    Antiquae
  • Lachrimae
    Tristes
  • Lachrimae
    Coactae
• Morley,
  Hard
  by a crystal fountain
• Wilbye,
  Draw
  on sweet Night
• Purcell,
  Five
  Reasons

Schedule

We’ll be having dropin meetings as usual on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM
at my place.

Other events

At 7:30 PM on Thursday, July 21, the West Gallery Quire will
be hosting a special workshop, led by Francis Roads. It will be
at the Pleasant
St. Congregational Church, 75 Pleasant St., Arlington, Mass.
More details, and pointers to the music are here.