Category: Cantabile

We played:

• Lassus,Fantasia
  13
• Lupachino, Fantasia
  12
• Morley:
  • Leave
    now mine eyes lamenting
  • Fyre
    and Lightning
  • Il
    Grillo
  • Flora,
    wilt thou torment me?
  • Il
    Lamento
• Clemens
  non Papa, Ich
  stuend an einem Morgen
• Josquin,
  Adieu,
  mes amours
• Mouton,
  Adieu
  mes amours
• Josquin:
  • En l’ombre d’ung buissonet (double canon)
  • Recordans de mia segnora
  • La
    plus des plus
• Three wise men of Boston
• Purcell, Down with Bacchus

Schedule

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

Margot labourez les vignes, by
Arcadelt and Lassus
was our first act closer. We played the Arcadelt on a 4-foot
recorder consort, then sang it, and then played it with the loud
band, with cornetto, fiddle, 5-string fiddle, and serpent.

Then we sang the rest of the story (underlay completely
editorial) to the Lassus setting in two verses, and then played a
slow, wistful version on 8-foot recorders.

Here’s an
MP3 of the whole thing, with what I remember as some fairly
awkward choreography between verses edited out by our recording
engineer Ishmael Stefanov.

We played:

• Lanzetti, Opus 1, Sonata 1
• Gervaise, <a href="Dix Bransles de Champaigne
• Isaac,
  Innsbruck,
  ich muss dich lassen
• Senfl,
  Wohl
  kumbt der Mai
• Dowland:
  
  • Lacrimae
    Antiquae.
  • Flow
    my tears
  • Lachrimae Antiquae Novae
• Le
  Heurteur, Troys
  jeunes bourgeoises
• Wilbye,
  Weep,
  weep mine eyes
• Ravenscroft, O My fearefull dreames

Schedule

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

The Cantabile Band will return to being a dropin group on
Tuesday, May 18. The meeting will begin at 7:45 PM, at the usual
place.

If you want to see what we’ve been doing since we last had
dropin meetings, you should come to our performance
at 1:30 PM, Saturday, May 15, 2010, at the ALL Gallery
246 Market St., Lowell. The performance is free and open to the
public. There will be light refreshments after the performance.

The Walk for Hunger performers will be playing a slightly
expanded version of the Walk for Hunger program at the ALL Gallery, 246 Market St.,
Lowell, at 1:30 PM, Saturday, May 15. It will also be the first
day of Sharon
Levy‘s gallery show Earthly Connections
III.

There’s a flyer
for the concert. Please print it out and post it, especially if
you live in the Lowell area.

Schedule

This will probably mean that the first two Tuesdays in May will
be performers’ only meetings, and that dropin meetings of the
Cantabile Band will resume on May 18.

We played:

• Susato,
  Pavane III: Mille ducas and
  2. Galliard X: Mille ducas
• En
  passant par la Lorraine
• Arcadelt,
  Margot
  labourez les vignes
• Lassus,
  Margot
  labourez les vignes
• Isaac,
  Innsbruck,
  ich muss dich lassen
• de
  l’Estocart, Psaume CXXXVII
• Randall, Haverhill
• Billings,
  Easter
  Anthem
• Mundy,
  Lightly
  she whipped o’re the dales,
• Farmer,
  Fair
  Phyllis
• Ravenscroft,
  Well
  fare the nightingale
• Ravenscroft,
  As
  I me walked in a May morning

Schedule

People who aren’t playing the Walk for Hunger should
remember that the rehearsals in April are limited to those who are
playing it. People who are playing should remember that the
Tuesday rehearsals are compulsory, and no longer “Drop in, come
when you feel like it, music will be provided.”

We played:

• Morley,
  Deep
  lamenting
• Sermisy:
  • Je
    ne mange point de porc
  • Martin menait son pourceau au marché
• Holborne,
  7. Pavan.
  and 8. The
  Marie-Golde.
• Wilbye,
  Sweet
  honey-sucking bees
• Purcell,
  I
  gave her cakes and I gave her ale

Schedule

Next week, March 31, will be a regular dropin meeting, at 7:45 PM at my place.
April meetings will be restricted to people playing the Walk for Hunger on May 2.

We played:

• Morley:
  
  • Leave
    now mine eyes
  • Fire and Lightning
• Playford, The Indian Queen
• Dowland:
  • A
    shepheard in a shade
  • Cleare or cloudie sweet as Aprill showring,
• Sermisy,
  Languir me fais
• Wilbye,
  Sweet
  honey-sucking bees

Schedule

There will be two more dropin meetings before we start formal
rehearsals for the Walk for
Hunger: March 23 and March 30, at 7:45 PM at my place.

In April the Tuesday meetings will be restricted to the people
playing the Walk. Dropin meetings will resume in May.

If you’re not playing with us, come and hear us on May 2,
between 10 and 3, on Greenough Boulevard across from the Cambridge
Cemetery.

We played:

• The New-made Ship
• Sermisy,
  [3]
  C’est une dure despartie (original key)
• Dowland,
  It
  was a time when silly Bees could speake,
• Wilbye,
  Sweet
  honey-sucking bees,
• Purcell, Five Reasons

Schedule

In March, regular dropin meetings will be held on Tuesdays, at
7:45 PM at my
place.

We now have 8 people signed up for the Walk for Hunger on May
2: Me, Norah, Barney, Aram, Anne, Bea, Dick, and Ishmael. Paul
Ukleja will be playing during our breaks. Anyone is welcome in
the morning for the informal solos and duets.

The April meetings will be limited to the people playing at the
Walk for Hunger. Drop in meetings will resume in May.

We played:

• Morley,
  Good
  Morrow, Fair Ladies of the May
• Gabrielli,
  Canzon
  II a 6
• Mundy,
  Lightly
  she whipped o’re the dales,
• Dowland, Come again:

Schedule

In March, regular dropin meetings will be held on Tuesdays, at
7:45 PM at my
place.

We have 7 people signed up for the Walk for Hunger on May
2: Me, Norah, Barney, Aram, Anne, Bea, Ishmael. If I’m listing
you wrong, either because you’re on the list and didn’t sign up,
or because you did sign up and you’re not on that list,
please let me know.

The April meetings will be limited to the people playing at the
Walk for Hunger. Drop in meetings will resume in May.