Category: Cantabile

The Cantabile Renaissance Band

Report on the October 7, 2009, meeting

We played:

Schedule

We will be having our usual dropin meetings on Tuesdays at
7:45 PM at my
place.

We will probably miss the meetings where there are elections,
i.e., November 3, December 8, and January 19, if the Cambridge
Election Committee continues to hire me to serve as an official.
I’ve been saying this for a number of weeks now, and still haven’t
gotten any indication that they do want me, so it may not be true. I
would expect to have a card at least for November by now. But I do
enjoy being an election official, so if I get the chance, I’ll take it.

We may also miss one or two more meetings in December. But for
September and October, assume there are regular dropin meetings.

Playing opportunity

The Boston Wort Processors
annual Ciderfest picnic in an apple orchard is on Sunday, October 25
this year. The details are on the
wiki. It’s the same place as it’s been the last couple of
years. We have often had a few people who wanted to go hang out and
eat and drink and play a little bit of music.

Let me know if you’d like to go, and I’ll sign you up.

Report on the September 22, 2009, meeting

We played:

Note that the links for the three voice canzonets are to the
untransposed versions, as the transposed ones aren’t up yet.

Schedule

We will be having our usual dropin meetings on Tuesdays at
7:45 PM at my
place.

We will probably miss the meetings where there are elections,
i.e., November 3, December 8, and January 19, if the Cambridge
Election Committee continues to hire me to serve as an official.

We may also miss one or two more meetings in December. But for
September and October, assume there are regular dropin meetings.

Report on the September 15, 2009 meeting

We played:

Schedule

We will be having our usual dropin meetings on Tuesdays at
7:45 PM at my
place.

We will probably miss the meetings where there are elections,
i.e., November 3, December 8, and January 19, if the Cambridge
Election Committee continues to hire me to serve as an official.

We may also miss one or two more meetings in December. But for
September and October, assume there are regular dropin meetings.

Other events

I have the full program of next
Sunday’s Arts around the Block celebration up. It’s in Fall
River on Sunday, September 20 from 12:30 to 4:00 PM.

The Boston
Recorder Society year starts on Sunday, September 20. I have reservations
about what they’re doing these days, but if what you want is a
professionally coached group that meets once a month, they’re as good
a place to go as any I know about.

If you’re looking for a place to do a lot of singing,
the New England Sacred Harp
Convention is on October 3 and 4 in Byfield, Massachusetts, which
is off Rt. 95, north of Topsfield and South of Rt. 495.

Report on the September 8 meeting

We played:

Schedule

We will be having our usual dropin meetings on Tuesdays at
7:45 PM at my
place.

We will probably miss the meetings where there are elections,
i.e., November 3, December 8, and January 19, if the Cambridge
Election Committee continues to hire me to serve as an official.

We may also miss one or two more meetings in December. But for
September and October, assume there are regular dropin meetings.

Other events

I’ll be playing at Arts
around the Block in Fall River on Sunday, September 20.

John Tyson will be offering a Renaissance Chamber
Music course. He says:

I wanted to let you know that I will be continuing the wonderful course which
we did at the Boston Recorder Society last year. It is a Renaissance Chamber
Music course entirely from the original period notation (as it should be!) and
is open to players of ALL Renaissance instruments as well as singers.
Attached and copied below is information. Please let me know if you have any
questions.

Meetings will be at my home in Cambridge. Schedule is TBA but we hope to
begin by next week and continue through the First Semester.

16th Century Chamber Music of Josquin and the Franco-Flemish masters,

Elizabethan Madrigals, Dance Music, and more,

Directed by

JOHN TYSON :

faculty – New England Conservatory,

director – Renaissonics,

TysonTsurutani@gmail.com

617 661 3353

Report on the September 1 meeting

We played:

Schedule

We will be having our usual dropin meetings on Tuesdays at
7:45 PM at my
place.

Other events

The last Wakefiled Summer Band (Laura Conrad, tuba) of the
summer will be tomorrow, September 4, starting at 6:30 PM. The
concert is in front of the bandstand on the Wakefield Common, on the
south shore of Lake Quannapowitt. There
will be refreshments afterwards in the First Parish Church
Vestry.

This concert will include many of the big hits from previous
concerts, as well as all the music that wasn’t quite ready to play
earlier in the summer.

Report on the August 18, 2009 meeting

We played:

Schedule

We will be having our usual dropin meetings on Tuesdays at
7:45 PM at my
place.

Report on the August 4 meeting

We played:

Schedule

We won’t be meeting next week, August 11, so that people can go to the
special West Gallery
Quire workshop
with Francis Rhodes. Please consider coming; you can look at
the music that
we’ll be doing.

After that, we’ll resume our usual dropin meetings on Tuesdays at
7:45 PM at my
place.

Report on the July 28, 2009 meeting

We played:

Schedule

We will be having our usual dropin meetings on Tuesdays at
7:45 PM at my
place.

We’ll probably skip August 11, so that people can go to the
special West Gallery
Quire workshop
with Francis Rhodes.

Report on the July 21, 2009 meeting

We played:

Schedule

We will be having our usual dropin meetings on Tuesdays at
7:45 PM at my
place.

We’ll probably skip August 11, so that people can go to the
special West Gallery
Quire workshop
with Francis Rhodes.

Other events

There’s another Wakefield Summer Band (Laura Conrad, tuba)
concert Friday, July 24 at 7:00 PM on the Wakefield town green, on the
South shore of Lake Quannapowitt.