The Cantabile Renaissance Band
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We will be meeting as usual on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM at my place.
There may be an exception on January 19, which is an election
day.
Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and joy in whatever you celebrate.
It’s one of those jobs that expands to fill the time allotted
to it. But I just emailed the program to the director of the
series, who will print it, so it’s now cast in wax, if not
concrete.
We needed another round of cuts, which took some negotiating,
since all three of us had our agendas for this program, which
were close enough that we work together pretty well, but
different enough that deciding what to cut took some
discussion. One person objected to cutting any country dances,
but had no trouble cutting Christmas carols. Another person
thought cutting verses on Christmas carols would make the
program more esoteric for the audience. I thought there was too
much serpent playing, but would rather have cut the country dance
playing than the one Morley Fantasia which I’d worked hard on.
But I think everybody’s reasonably happy.
I think it’s going to be a good program. We’re calling it “I
will laugh without that care: Music of Celebration and
Fellowship from Renaissance England.” The Cantabile Band will
play and sing madrigals, country dances and fantasias by Morley,
Weelkes, Ravenscroft, Ortiz and others on serpent, five-stringed fiddle,and recorders.
If you can come, it’s
at 2 PM on Thursday, December 17, at the Boston Public Library,
700 Boylston St., Boston, MA, USA. The library is at Dartmouth Street T stop
on the Green Line. The concert will be in the Rabb Lecture
Hall.
Here’s the program,
and these are the lyrics
to all the vocal numbers. Most of the music is at SerpentPublications.org,
if you want to play it.
It’s only one party, but I put the invitation into two
different forms.
This
one is my regular version that can be folded into 4 and put
in your pocket. I usually use it as my Christmas card.
This
one is a one-page flyer, with the December
17 concert flyer on the back.
Please come if you’re someone who’d enjoy a party with good food, drink, conversation, and music.
Please remember that the next 3 Tuesdays do not have
dropin meetings. I hope to see you at the December 17 concert
or the December 20 party.
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The meetings between now and the
December 17 concert are restricted to performers in that
concert. Please come to the concert, at 2 PM at the Boston Public
Library in the Rabb Lecture Hall.
The Christmas Party will be at my place on
Sunday, December 20, starting at about 4 PM. I will have
invitations shortly.
Dropin meetings will resume on either Tuesday, December 22 or
Tuesday, December 29. Let me know if you’d especially like to
come on December 22. I’ll schedule it only if I hear from people
who’d like to come.
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We will have our regular dropin meeting on November
24, at 7:45 at my place.
For the first three weeks in December, the meetings will be
restricted to the performers in the December 17 concert.
On December 17, three of us (me Ishmael and Anne) will be
playing a concert at the Boston Public Library at 2 PM in the Rabb
Lecture Hall. (More
information about the program.) If you’re goin anywhere where
people would want to know about this, please take them a flyer.
The party will be on December
20. I’ll have invitations shortly.
We usually start around 4 in the afternoon.
John Tyson and Aldo Abreu are having a series of recorder
masterclasses at the New England Conservatory. The next one is
tomorrow, November 19 at 7:30 pm at
the New England Conservatory, Jordan Hall entrance. The class will
be in the Carr Organ Room on the 3rd floor and is free admission and
open to all.
We played:
We will continue our regular dropin meetings on November 17 and
24. These will take place at 7:45 at my place.
For the first three weeks in December, the meetings will be
restricted to the performers in the December 17 concert.
On December 17, three of us (me Ishmael and Anne) will be
playing a concert at the Boston Public Library at 2 PM in the Rabb
Lecture Hall. (More
information about the program.) If you’re going anywhere where
people would want to know about this, please take them a flyer.
I haven’t heard any objections to the party being on December
20, so that’s when we’ll have it. I’ll have invitations shortly.
We usually start around 4 in the afternoon.
If you like our music plus food and drink format, you might
also enjoy the Pub Carol Sing Sunday, December
6.
The people who met at Stuart’s while I was running
an election played:
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It looks like there will be a meeting next week at Stuart’s.
Le me or Stuart know if you want to come and need directions.
Aram took some likely looking music last night, which he will bring there,
but if there’s something particular you want to play, you should
print it from the
Serpent Publications Site, or ask Stuart to do it if you
aren’t set up to print easily.
After that, we resume our regularly scheduled dropin meetings
(7:45 PM on Tuesdays at my
place)
through November.
In December, there will be a concert by three of us on December
17 at the Boston Public Library Rabb Lecture hall at 2 PM on
December 17. The Tuesday night rehearsals will be restricted to
those performers.
It’s likely the annual party will be on Sunday December 20.
There’s still time to complain if that date isn’t good for
you.
After that (maybe not December 22, but we’ll see), we resume
our regular dropin meetings, except that January 19th will be an
election, so we may have to do something different for that.
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We will be having our usual dropin meeting next Tuesday at
7:45 PM at my
place.
There is some interest in having a meeting on Tuesday, November
3, at Stuart’s place in Somerville. Let me or Stuart know if you
want to do that, since we’ll have to move some music to his place,
and we’ll move a better selection if we know who’s coming.
December 8 and January 19 also have elections, so we will
either not meet or meet elsewhere those dates.
We may also miss one or two more meetings in December. We’ll
make up for it by having a party. It looks like the best day for
that is Sunday, December 20, but if this is a terrible day for too
many people we’ll look at other days. So let me know if you want
to come to the party and that’s a bad day.
The group (me, Anne and Ishmael) that performed last Spring at
the Walk
for Hunger will be playing a short concert on Thursday,
December 17 at 2 PM in the Rabb Lecture Hall at the Boston Public
Library.
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We will be having our usual dropin meetings on Tuesdays at
7:45 PM at my
place.
We will not be meeting on election day, November 3.
We will probably miss the othermeetings where there are elections,
i.e., December 8, and January 19.
We may also miss one or two more meetings in December. We’ll
make up for it by having a party.
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