Category: Cantabile

We played:

• Lassus, Bicinia
• Willaert Re
• Anonymous, The Dark is my delight
• Weelkes, Death hath deprived me of my dearest friend
• Josquin, Deploration on the death of
  Ockheghem
• Smith, Slaves are they that heap up mountains

Schedule

We will be having our usual dropin meetings on Tuesdays at
7:45 PM at my
place for the next 3 weeks.

On September 16, there’s a state primary election, and I’ll be
serving as Warden in Ward 10, Precinct 3. So we won’t have a
meeting unless someone else wants to organize.

It’s likely that the Bonnie Rogers Memorial Party will be on
Saturday, September 27, so the September 23 meeting may be limited to the
people who want to play at that event. If you’re one of those
people, let me know soon, and start coming regularly, because some
of the stuff she wanted us to play at her memorial party is pretty
hard.

Remember that we’re going to be working on a concert for March
1. I’m thinking fairly hard about what to put on the program, so
if you want to play with us, you should let me know soon.

Other events

On September 21, Fall River’s Arts around the Block
festival will be happening between Noon and 4 PM. The
“Classical” venue will be the Church of the Holy Spirit at 160
Rock St. I’ll be playing the Bigaglia Sonata in A minor, and some van Eyck. There
will be lots of other good stuff, including Judith Conrad
playing William Byrd on Virginal and Mendelssohn on Piano.

We played:

• Bigaglia, Sonata in A minor
• Boismortier, Cello duet
• Métoyen, Serpent duets
• Weelkes group
• Ravenscroft, Let us drink and be merry

Schedule

We will be having our usual dropin meetings on Tuesdays at
7:45 PM at my
place for the next 4 weeks.

On September 16, there’s a state primary election, and I’ll be
serving as Warden in Ward 10, Precinct 3. So we won’t have a
meeting unless someone else wants to organize.

It’s likely that the Bonnie Rogers Memorial Party will be on
Saturday, September 27, so the September 23 meeting may be limited to the
people who want to play at that event.

Remember that we’re going to be working on a concert for March
1. I’m thinking fairly hard about what to put on the program, so
if you want to play with us, you should let me know soon.

Other events

I haven’t been pushing the Wakefield Summer Band concerts
(with Laura Conrad on tuba), but
they’re starting to get fairly good, as people get used to
playing together and the people who haven’t touched their
instruments since last summer (or even longer than that) get
their chops in shape. Last year, the fourth concert consisted
almost entirely of the things that had sounded good on the first
three concerts, so it was by far the best. The third concert
will be Friday, August 15 at 7:00 PM at the Bandstand on the
south shore of Lake Quannapowitt. The fourth concert will be
Friday, August 31, at 6:30 PM at the bandstand. We rehearse
(and would play the concert if it were pouring rain) in the
First Congregational Church next to the bandstand, so if you
need directions, go to their website.

We played:

• Dowland group
• Mundey, My Time of Youth
• Cavendish, Come, gentle Swains
• Ravenscroft, To Portsmouth
• Eccles, Confusion to the pow’r of Cupid
• Berg, Let us drink and be merry

Schedule

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

Concert

We have a concert gig. Based on a few people signing up, I
have us scheduled to play on Sunday, March 1 at 3 PM at the
Loring-Greenough House in Jamaica Plain.

It’s a good space for our kind of music, but not a good concert
space for a concert with a cast of thousands. So if you’d like to
play the concert, talk to me about it. You will need to commit to
coming regularly and on time to all Tuesday rehearsals in February, and
probably the last half of January. There may be extra rehearsals
or tryout performances scheduled. I have four people signed up
(me, Anne, Stuart and Ishmael), so I don’t think it makes sense to
have more than two or at most three other people. Preference will
be given to:

• People who sing in a bass or soprano range.
• People who play an instrument in the same range they sing
  in.
• People who play regularly with us (or at least intend to
  start coming regularly now, rather than waiting until the
  required rehearsals) and know our core repertoire.

We played:

• Goldstein, Trios for basses
• Bevan, Cuckoo as I me walked
• Ruffo, Capricci in Musica a tre voci
• Heurteur, Regretz, soucy et peine

Schedule

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

Other events

The SOHIP concert series this week has the 7 Hills Renaissance Wind Ensemble
(including sometime Cantabilists Frank Jones and Rigel Lustwerk)
playing music from the Golden Age of Spain. They’ll be
repeating the concert on Sunday in Nahant.

On June 24, we played:

• Walter, Canons in the Church Modes
• Ruffo, Capricci in Musica a tre voci
• Morley, Canzonets for three voices
• Wilbye, Happy, Oh Happy He
• Dowland, Me, me and none but me

I’ve been really overwhelmed by the Bonnie house coping, so I
didn’t get this out last week. For the record, on June 10 we
played at least:

• Bigaglia, Sonata in A minor
• Playford tunes
• Ravenscroft, We be three poor Mariners
• Wilbye, I love alas yet am not loved
• Wilbye, As Matchlesse Beauty
• White sand and grey sand

People who can remember other things we played are welcome to
contribute. I’m pretty sure there was something instrumental
after the Playford and before the Ravenscroft.

Schedule

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

At some point we will be scheduling a cookout on a weekend day,
where we can eat and drink first and play later.

We played:

• Morley, Canzonets for two voices
• Drinking songs:
  • Quant je boy du vin claret tout tourne
  • Vignon, vignon, vignon, vignette
  • Changeons propos, c’est trop chanté d’amour
• Morley, Canzonets for three voices
• Purcell, Cakes and Ale

Schedule

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

At some point we will be scheduling a cookout on a weekend day,
where we can eat and drink first and play later.

We played:

• The bonnie, bonnie broom
• Baldwin, Cuckow as I me walked
• Wilbye, When Chloris heard of her Amintas
• Weelkes, Some men desire spouses
• Wilbye, I love alas yet am not loved
• Ravenscroft, As I me walked
• Benji met the bear
• Three wise men of Boston

Schedule

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

At some point we will be scheduling a cookout on a weekend day,
where we can eat and drink first and play later, and some of the people
who like playing with us but have problems with Tuesday can come.

We played:

• Morley, Canzonets for two voices
• Bevan, Browning
• Clemens non papa, Ich stund an einem Morgen
• Weelkes, Strike it up, tabor
• Weelkes, Some men desire spouses
• Smith, Slaves are they that heap up
  mountains
• Wise, Judith and Holofernes
• Ravenscroft, As I me walked in a May morning

Schedule

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

At some point we will be scheduling a cookout on a weekend day,
where we can eat and drink first and play later.

Other events

Recital

The John Tyson student recital will take place on Saturday,
June 7, from 10 AM until whenever we’re through. I’ll be playing
selections from an
18th century French suite by Delavigne.

It’s a lot of amateur recorder playing to listen to. I
may know more about when I’m playing by the middle of next week.
If you want to see only part of it, but want that part to
include me, let me know you want to come.

House cleanout

We’re attempting to clean the important things out of Bonnie’s
house before we sell it or get in someone with a dumpster and a
shovel to do it for us. If you want to help, the estate buys you
lunch and you get snarfing rights for anything of modest value
that you want. There are stacks and stacks of music, some
intriguingly modified instruments, a garden with good plants and
gardening equipment, the
usual amount of kitchen stuff…

If you come either here or there, bring any empty boxes you
have lying around. If you want to go help there, I go up a couple
of times a week, so let me know and we can arrange a mutually
convenient time.

We played:

• Lassus, Sicut Rosa
• Campian, Never weather-beaten Saile
• Dowland Lachrimae Pavannes
• Josquin, Lamentation on the death of
  Ockegham
• Weelkes, Death hath deprived me of my dearest
  friend
• Ravenscroft, My dame hath in her hutch at home
  
• Berg, Let us drink and be merry

Schedule

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

At some point we will be scheduling a cookout on a weekend day,
where we can eat and drink first and play later.

We played:

• Morley, Canzonets for two voices
• Tasso, Fantasia: Sopra la Bataglia
• Weelkes, Jockey, thine horn pipes dull
• Billings, Africa
• Campian, Never weather-beaten Saile
• Isaac, Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen (two
  settings)
• Mundey, My prime of youth
• Wise, Judith and Holofernes
• Ravenscroft, To Portsmouth

Schedule

Regular drop-in meetings will continue for the forseeable
future, on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM at my place.

It’s been suggested we have a cookout some weekend, with eating
and drinking first, and then playing. Because of the situation
with Bonnie, I haven’t been feeling much like scheduling things,
but if there’s enthusiasm, we could do it either in an impromptu
manner, or with the understanding that it will get cancelled if it
conflicts with a Bonnie event.

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