Category: Cantabile

The Cantabile Renaissance Band

Report on the November 10 meeting

We played:

Schedule

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.

Other events

If you like our music plus food and drink format, you might
also enjoy the Pub Carol Sing Sunday, December
6.

Report on the October 27, 2009 meeting

We played:

Schedule

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.

Report on the October 20, 2009 meeting

We played:

Schedule

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.

Other events

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.

Report on the October 13, 2009 meeting

We played:

Schedule

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.

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.