Category: Cantabile

I actually probably feel better than I have either of the last
two weeks, but I now have a diagnosis (pneumonia) that justifies
feeling crummy. So I’m going to cancel the meeting tonight, to
avoid being tempted to clean or transcribe music or cook when I
should be napping instead.

Unfortunately, there will also not be dropin meetings on either
Tuesday, September 7 or Tuesday, September 14, because some of us
will be rehearsing for a concert on September 19.

So the normal dropin meetings will resume on Tuesday, September
21, at 7:45 PM at my place.

I’ll attempt to call people who normally come and who might not read email between
now and this evening. If you’ve been coming regularly, if you can let me know that you got this,
it will save me trying to dig up your phone number.

We played:

• Métoyen, Serpent duet
• Gervaise,
  Dix
  Bransles Gays
• Morley,
  V. Hould out my hart, (transposed)
• Morley,
  VII. Whither away so fast, (transposed)
• Morley,
  Deep
  lamenting
• Holborne,
  7. Pavan.
• Holborne,
  8. The
  Marie-Golde.
• Holborne,
  1. Bona Speranza,
• Holborne,
  2. The teares of the Muses.
• Morley,
  Hard by a crystal fountain
• Berg, Let us drink and be merry

Schedule

For the month of August, we’ll be having dropin meetings as
usual on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM at my place.

We played:

• pieces from At the sign of the crumhorn
• Wilbye,
  Adieu,
  sweet Amaryllis
• Wilbye,
  Weep,
  weep mine eyes
• Morley,
  Hard
  by a crystal fountain
• Wilbye,
  Draw
  on sweet Night
• Weelkes,
  Death
  hath deprived me of my dearest friend, a remembrance of my
  friend M. Thomas Morley
• Three wise men of Boston

Schedule

For the month of August, we’ll be having dropin meetings as
usual on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM at my place.

We played:

• Country Dance tunes from Pipers’ Fancy
• Wilbye,
  Adieu,
  sweet Amaryllis
• Farmer,
  Fair
  Phyllis
• Campian,
  Never
  weather-beaten saile
• Campian,
  Babylon
  Streams
• Entre
  vous qui aymés
• Mundy,
  Lightly
  she whipped o’re the dales,
• Purcell, The glass was just timed

Schedule

For the month of August, we’ll be having dropin meetings as
usual on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM at my place.

We played:

• Spanish group from Crumhorns 3
• Holborne:
  9. Pavan
  and 10. Galliard
• Entre vous qui aymés
• Cavendish,
  Come,
  Gentle Swains
• Morley,
  Arise,
  awake, you silly shepherds sleeping
• Sermisy,
  Martin menait son pourceau au marché
• Crequillon, Plaisir n’ay plus
• Ravenscroft, To Portsmouth

Schedule

For the rest of August, we will be having our normal dropin
meetings on Tuesdays starting at 7:45 PM at my place.

We played:

• English Country Dances from Pipers’ Fancy
• de
  l’Estocart, Psaume CXXXVII
• Josquin, Faute
  d’Argent
• Arcadelt
  , Margot
  labourez les vignes
• Lassus,
  Margot
  labourez les vignes
• Cave
  ndish,
  Come,
  gentle Swains
• Ravenscroft, He that will an alehouse keep

Schedule

For the next few weeks, we will be having dropin meetings as
usual on Tuesdays at my place
starting at 7:45 PM.

Other events

There’s another Wakefield Summer Band concert, with me on Tuba,
this Friday, July 23, at 7 PM, at the bandstand on the Wakefield town green.

Report written by Aram Hollman

We played:

• Durante, “Danza, danza, fanciulla gentile”
• Anon., “The Dark is My Delight”
• Le heurteur, “Quant je boy du vin claret”
• Gervaise, “Dix Bransle Gays”
• Susato, #37-41
• Purcell, “The glass was just timed”

We played:

• Pipers’ Fancy English Country Dances
• Sermisy, Jouissance vous donnerai
• Willaert, Faute
  d’Argent
• Sermisy, Je
  ne suis pas si sot
• Wilbye,
  Sweet
  honey-sucking bees

Schedule

The meeting next week, Tuesday, July 13, will take place in
air-conditioned comfort at Stuart Soloway’s, starting at the
usual time: 7:45 PM. He will be sending
out directions.

After that, we will resume our normal dropin meetings on
Tuesdays at my place.

Other Events

The Wakefield Summer Band (with Laura Conrad on tuba) will be playing four concerts this
summer, at the bandstand on the Wakefield Common on the shore of
Lake Quannapowitt. The first one will be this Friday, July 9, at
7 PM. Others will be:

• Friday, July 23, 7 PM
• Friday, August 6, 7 PM
• Friday, September 3, 6:30 PM

We played:

• Gervaise,
  Dix
  Bransles Gays
• Holborne:
  • 5. The
    Cradle.
  • 6. The
    New-yeeres gift.
• Sermisy, Jouissance vous donnerai
• Josquin, Faute
  d’Argent
• Willaert, Faute
  d’Argent
• Ravenscroft, Three Blinde Mice, A Round of 3 Voices

Schedule

Next week, there will be a dropin meeting as usual on Tuesday,
July 6, at my place,
starting at 7:45 PM.

The following Tuesday, July 13, I will be out of town, so the
meeting will be at Stuart’s. He’ll send out directions later. If
you want to come to that meeting, it will be good if you let me or
Stuart know by next Tuesday, so that Stuart can take the
appropriate music.

After that, I don’t know any reason to not have our normal
Tuesday dropin meetings at my place for the next few months.

We played:

• Morley,
  Canzonets
  to two voyces
• Byrd:
  • Susanna
    Fair
  • The
    Eagle’s Force
  • Lord,
    in thy rage rebuke me not
  • I
    have been young
• Berg,
  Let
  us drink and be merry
• Purcell, Five Reasons

Schedule

We will be having our usual dropin meetings on Tuesdays at
7:45 PM at my
place for the next two weeks.

It looks likely that there will be a meeting elsewhere on July
13 — stay tuned for details.