Category: Cantabile

We played:

• Morley, Arise, get up my deere
• Cavendish, Come, gentle swains,
• Dowland:
  • Unquiet thoughts your civil slaughter
    stint
  • My thoughts are winged with hopes
  • If my complaints
  • Can she excuse my wrongs
  • Now, o now, I needs must part
  • Burst forth my tears
  • Go, crystall teares
  • Thinkst thou then by thy fayning
  • Come away, come sweet love
• Rounds:
  • In praise of white wine
  • To Portsmouth

Schedule

Our regularly scheduled dropin sessions at my place will
happen on Tuesdays starting at 7:45 PM from now until Christmas.
We’ll have to discuss
December 23; I normally leave town then.

At some point after that, meetings will be restricted to the
people performing on the March 1 concert at the Loring-Greenough
House.

Party

If you have opinions on the date the Christmas party should be
held, let me know. For me, Saturday December 13, Saturday
December 20, and Sunday December 21 are all possibilities. If
there aren’t lots of conflicts on December 13, I would think it
might result in a bigger turnout of people who leave town to
celebrate Christmas somewhere else.

We played:

• Métoyen, Serpent duet
• Goldstein (arr.), Chester
• The Dark is my delight
• Farmer:
  • Fair Phyllis I saw sitting all alone
  • A little, pretty, bonnie Lass
  • You’ll never leave still tossing to and fro
• When Daphne from fair PhÅ“bus did fly
• Gibbon, The silver swan
• Vecchi, Il bianco e dolce cigno
• Arcadelt, Il bianco e dolce cigno
• Ravenscroft, Well fare the nightingale
• Ravenscroft, To Portsmouth

Schedule

Next Tuesday, October 21st, the meeting is
restricted to and compulsory for the people who will be performing
on October 26 at the Boston Wort
Processors Ciderfest. At the moment, the performers are me,
Ishmael, Barney, and Sue. If you aren’t on that list and want to perform, let me know immediately.

Tuesday, October 28 will be a regular dropin meeting, except
that I will have to be late, so someone will have to volunteer to
arrive on time and let people in.

Tuesday, November 4, is Election Day, so I
won’t be available for a meeting. So there will be one only if
someone else organizes it.

After that, we will continue our regularly scheduled dropin meetings on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM at my place.

We played:

• Susato group:
  • La Morisque
  • Entre du fol
  • Danse du Roy
• Sermisy, Martin menait son porceau au marché
• Dowland:
  • Burst forth, my tears
  • Come, ye heavy states of night
  • All ye whom love or fortune hath betrayed
• Arcadelt, Il bianco e dolce cigno
• Vecchi, Il bianco e dolce cigno

Schedule

We will continue our regularly scheduled dropin meetings on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM at my place.

The known exception to that is that the October 21st meeting is
restricted to and compulsory for the people who will be performing
on October 26 at the Boston Wort
Processors Ciderfest. At the moment, the performers are me,
Ishmael and Sue. If you aren’t on that list and want to perform, let me know immediately.

Tuesday, November 4, is Election Day, so it’s likely that I
won’t be available for a meeting. So there will be one only if
someone else organizes it.

We played:

• Sermisy, Je ne mange point du porc
• Sermisy, Vignons, Vignons
• Josquin, Deploration on the death of
  Ockheghem
• Dowland, Shepherd in a shade
• Berg, Let us drink and be merry
• Purcell, Sir Walter, enjoying his damsel one night

Schedule

On September 16, there’s a state primary election, and I’ll be
serving as Warden in Ward 10, Precinct 3. There will be a meeting
at Stuart Soloway’s place in Somerville. This meeting will
probably focus on the music for the September 27 performance, but
people who like that music (most of what we did last week) are
welcome to come and help out to substitute for the performer(s)
who are missing.

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

After that, we resume our regularly scheduled dropin meetings
at the usual time (7:45 PM) and place.

Other events

The Boston
Recorder Society will be having its first meeting of the year
on Sunday, September 28.

Look at the blog
from last month for information about the Fall River Arts
around the Block festival.

We played:

• Métoyen, Serpent Duets
• Willaert, Ricercar X
• Anonymous, When Daphne from Fair PhÅ“bus did fly
• Josquin, Deploration on the death of
  Ockheghem
• Ravenscroft, O my fearful Dreams

Schedule

We will be having our usual dropin meetings on Tuesdays at
7:45 PM at my
place for the next 2 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.

The Bonnie Rogers Memorial Party will be on
Saturday, September 27, so the September 23 meeting will 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
we’ll be playing the Josquin, and it’s 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

Look at the blog from two weeks ago
for information about the Wakefield Summer Band final concert
on Friday.

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.