Category: Cantabile

The Cantabile Renaissance Band

Report on the February 23, 2010, meeting

We played:

Schedule

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

Remember that this is the last day to sign up to play for the
Walk for Hunger on May
2. We have 6 people signed up, which will be a good bunch, but we
could still use a couple more, especially if you sing bass and/or play a
bass instrument.

We don’t start exclusive rehearsals for the Walk for Hunger until
April, so even if you aren’t playing, you’re welcome to come in
March. We will be trying things out for the Walk, but people are
also welcome to request favorites even if they have nothing to do
with the Walk program.

Report on the February 16, 2010, meeting

We played:

Schedule

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

Please remember that you should let me know whether you’re
doing the Walk for
Hunger by the March 2 meeting. The Walk will be on May 2.
The Tuesday meetings in April will be restricted to the people
performing at the Walk.

Other events

Judith Conrad, Fortepiano

with the Delight Consort,

Sunday, March 7, 2010, 3:00, at

The Loring Greenough House, 12 South
Street, Jamaica Plain, MA.

Celebrating Fryderyk Chopin’s 200th Birthday

with parlor music by himself and his forbears. There’s more
information at my blog.

There’s also more information about this Sunday’s concert than
I told you last week at my
blog.

Report on the February 9, 2010, meeting

We played:

Schedule

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

Please remember that you should let me know whether you’re
doing the Walk for
Hunger by the March 2 meeting.

Other events

Music of Fryderyk Chopin, Judith Conrad, Pianist,
on Sunday, February 21, 2010, 3:00 PM at the First Baptist
Church, 228 North Main St., Fall River, MA. Polish pastries
will be served after the concert. Suggested donation, $10.
Donations will go to the Partners in Health hospital in Haiti
and to the Iraq Family Relief Fund. For further information
call (508) 674-6128 or email JudithConrad@mindspring.com.

Report on the February 2, 2010, meeting

We played:

Schedule

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

Walk for Hunger

I have told the Walk for
Hunger people that we will be playing again this year on
Sunday, May 2.

We won’t be having formal rehearsals for this until April, but
I’d like to have an idea of who’s playing by early March, since
who plays determines what we can play.

So you should be thinking about whether you want to do it. In
involves committing to most of the time between 11 and 3 on May
2, and to substantially all the Tuesday rehearsals in April.

In addition, you have to be willing to treat the group as a
performing group, not as a dropin group. This means arriving at
rehearsals in time to be set up and ready to play at the scheduled
start of
rehearsal. You have to bring the actual instruments you intend
to perform on. You have to keep your own copies of the music,
in an order that allows you to find a particular piece in a
reasonable amount of time.

In return for all that work, you get to play for literally 10’s
of thousands of people, at a beautiful spot on the banks of the
Charles River.

So let me know by the March 2 meeting if you think you’ll want to do that.

Report on the January 19, 2010, meeting

We played:

Schedule

The good news is that we’ll be repeating the program we played
last month at the Boston Public Library on Saturday, January 30,
at 1:30 PM
at the ALL
Gallery, 246 Market St., Lowell.

You should come if you missed it in December, and help us
publicise it by printing out flyers,
and letting people know. You can link to the concert
announcement, or to the program
from December, or to a recorder
playing clip or a vocal
clip, or another
vocal clip.

The bad news is that those of us who are performing need the
rehearsal time on Tuesday, since it’s hard to all get together any
other time, so there will not be a dropin meeting on Tuesday,
January 26. Regular dropin meetings will resume on February 2, at
8:45 PM at my place.

Concert Announcement

It looks like we are going to be able to repeat the concert we worked up for December 17 at the Boston Public Library for the ALL Gallery in Lowell. I’ll have more details later, but it will be early afternoon on Saturday, January 30. The Gallery is at 246 Market St.

The length of the concert is not as constrained as it is for a middle of the day concert, so we’ll probably put back some of the stuff we dropped for length reasons. We may drop some of the carols set, although that wasn’t really very Christmassy (more “Life of Jesus” than “Birth of Jesus”), and was among the audience favorites in December.

Addition: the Concert will be at 1:30 PM. Here’s a flyer.

Report on the January 12, 2010, meeting

We played:

Schedule

Enough people said they’d like to meet next week that there will be a meeting at the usual time (7:45 PM) and place, although I won’t be able to join you much before beer time.

Most of what I do, there are other people in the group that can do at least as well as I can, but I am better than anyone else at finding the music in my house. So if there’s something special you want to do, either print it yourself off the Serpent Publications site, or let me know and I’ll make sure to leave it where someone can find it.

After that, I don’t know of any reason to modify our usual schedule of dropin meetings until we start working on the Walk for Hunger program, probably in April or late March.

But of course, who knows how many more special elections there will be.

Report on the January 5, 2009, meeting

We played:

Schedule

We will meet as usual next week, January 12, at 7:45 PM at my place.

On Tuesday, January 19, I will be officiating at the election,
so we either won’t meet, or we’ll have to make some different arrangement.

Report on the December 29, 2009 meeting

We played:

Schedule

We will meet as usual on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM at my place.
January 19 is an election day, so we may meet elsewhere or not
meet that day.

Other events

The Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in Kingston, RI is hosting a
Sing-it-yourself Messiah on January 3rd, 2010 at 3:00pm (with a simple
supper following the event.) Whether you’re an accomplished singer or just
enjoy listening to great music, we invite you to join us for music
and fellowship. The concert will be led from the piano by Judy Conrad, an
Early Music specialist who is Good Shepherd’s organist-pianist. Proceeds to
benefit local families in need.