Category: Cantabile

The Cantabile Renaissance Band

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.

Final Program for Thursday Concert

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.

Party Invitations are up


Wycinanki of tree with roosters

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.

Report on the November 24, 2009, meeting

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.

We played:

Schedule

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.

Report on the November 17, 2009, meeting

We played:

Schedule

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.

Other events

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.