Category: Cantabile

If you’re free on Sunday, May 4 (or if you’re walking the Walk for
Hunger), you might want to stop by and listen to us play. We’ll
be on Greenough Boulevard at the Cambridge-Watertown line. It’s
on the banks of the Charles River, and across from the Cambridge
Cemetary.

Dropin meetings resume on Tuesday, May 6, at 7:45 PM at my place.

Other events

Sunday, May 4, at 3 PM, Judith Conrad, fortepiano, and Mike
Shand, baroque flute, will be playing a concert at the
Loring-Greenough House. Tea will be served following the
concert.

The last meeting of the year for the Boston Recorder Society
will be on Sunday, May 18 at 7 PM at Painters’ Hall, 20 Colgate
Rd., Roslindale. If you’ve thought about joining the BRS, this
would be a good meeting to go to, as all the classes play for each
other, and you get a chance to see what people actually do at the
meetings that break up into small groups.

We played:

• Delavigne, from suite Les Fleurs
• Morley:
  • Good morrow, fair ladies of the May
  • Whither away so fast
• Billings, An Anthem for Easter
• Josquin, Adieu mes amours
• Mouton, Adieu mes amours
• Ravenscroft, The Nightingale
• Ravenscroft, To Portsmouth

Schedule

Tuesdays in April are rehearsals for the Walk for Hunger. If you’re not performing with us, please come to the next dropin meetings in May. Also consider coming by the Walk for Hunger performance any time between 10:AM and 3 PM on Sunday, May 4, on the Cambridge side of the Charles River at the Cambridge/Watertown line.

We played:

• Gervaise, XII Bransles de Champaigne
• Henry VIII (attr) Pasttime with good company
• Senfl, Wohl kumbt der Mai
• Campian, Never weather-beaten Saile
• Josquin, Adieu mes amours
• Isaac, Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen (2 settings)
• Mundey, My prime of youth
• Ravenscroft, O my fearful dreams

Schedule

Remember that next week, March 25, is the last dropin meeting before we switch to having rehearsals for the Walk for Hunger program which are limited to the performers. The meeting will start at 7:45 and be at my place.

We played:

• Delavigne, movements from Suite: Les Fleurs
• Henry VIII (attributed), Pasttime with good company
• Morley, Good morrow, fair ladies of the May
• Billings, An Anthem for Easter
• Senfl, Wohl kumbt der Mai
• Ravenscroft, To Portsmouth

Schedule

We’ll be having regular dropin meetings for the rest of March, that is, March 18 and 25. These will be at my place and start at 7:45 PM.

For the month of April, meetings will be restricted to people performing at the Walk for Hunger.

We played:

• David Goldstein, Trios for Basses group
• Susato Danserie group
• Willaert, Ricercar X
• Cavendish, Come, gentle Swains

Schedule

We will be continuing our regular dropin meetings on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM at my place through the month of March. In April, all meetings will be restricted to the people who are playing the Walk for Hunger on May 4.

Note that because Easter is early this year, it will happen before we get really started on the Walk for Hunger music. So if there’s Easter music people really love and would like to do with this group, bring it, or let me know and I can try to dig it out of somewhere. I’ll be getting out the Billings Easter Anthem.

We played:

• Johnson, Full Fathom Five
• Weelkes, Pipe it up Tabor
• Weelkes, Come, come let’s begin
• Willaert, Ricercar X
• Anonymous, Fortuna Desperata
• Ferrabosco, Da Pacem
• Ravenscroft, My dame has in her hutch at home, a little dog

Schedule

Remember that I’d like a list of people who want to play the Walk for Hunger by next week’s meeting (March 4).

We will continue to have dropin meetings at my place on Tuesdays starting at 7:45 PM for the next few weeks. Depending on what we end up doing for the Walk for Hunger, we will switch over to real rehearsals sometime towards the end of March or the beginning of April.

We played:

• Gervaise, XII Bransles de Champaigne
• Gabrielli, Canzon II a 6
• Campian, Never weather-beaten Saile
• Cavendish, Come, gentle swains
• Isaac, Innsbruck, Ich muss dich lassen

Schedule

Remember that I’d like a list of people who want to play the Walk for Hunger by next week’s meeting (March 4). So far, I have one “yes”, one “probably”, and one “maybe the first set”. I’m fine with a trio, but a duo would be pretty hard work, so I’d want to start twisting ringers’ arms.

We will continue to have dropin meetings at my place on Tuesdays starting at 7:45 PM for the next few weeks. Depending on what we end up doing for the Walk for Hunger, we will switch over to real rehearsals sometime towards the end of March or the beginning of April.

The Walk for Hunger is always the first Sunday in May, this year May 4. We are usually scheduled for the slot from 10 AM to 3 PM. We work up a one hour set, and find another group with a one hour set, and we alternate with them. For the first hour, people who want to play solos and duets are welcome to play informally.

We played:

• Gervaise XII Bransles de Champagne
• Weelkes:
  • As Deadly serpents lurking
  • Strike it up tabor
  • Four arms, two necks, one wreathing
  • O now weep now sing
  • Come, Sirrah Jack, ho
  • The Nightingale, the organ of delight
• Senfl, Wohl kumbt der Mai
• Mouton, Qui ne regrettoit le gentil Févin
• Ravenscroft, To Portsmouth
• Purcell, Cakes and Ale
• Heurteur, Quand je bois de vin claret

Schedule

Regular dropin rehearsals on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM at my place until some time in March. At that point we will switch to real rehearsals for the Walk for Hunger, and any other spring events we can find to play at.

Please remember that I need to know by the beginning of March who will be performing at the Walk for Hunger. So far, I haven’t heard anyone commit themselves. It’s kind of a long time to play solo recorder music, so I hope I get some company.

We played:

• D’Estrees, Pavane Lesquercade
• Anonymous, Fortuna Desperada
• Clemens non Papa, Ich stuend an einem Morgen
• Senfl, Fortuna — Ich stuend an einem Morgen
• Anonymous, [Pavana] Desperada
• Anonymous, Seconda Desperada
• Anonymous, Pavana Marquese
• Smith, Slaves are they that heap up mountains
• Purcell, Down with Bacchus

Schedule

Our regular dropin rehearsals will continue on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM at my place. At some point in March, these will become non-dropin rehearsals for the Walk for Hunger program. Please remember that I need to know by early March who will be performing at the Walk for Hunger.

We played:

• Campian, Though your strangeness frets my heart
• Charlton, Suite on French Folk Tunes
• Morley, Farewell, Disdainful
• Gizeghem, De tous biens plaine
• Cavendish, Come, gentle swains
• Weelkes, Hark, all ye lovely saints above
• What a queer bird the frog are
• Purcell, Cakes and Ale

Schedule

We have been invited to play again for the Walk for hunger. I’ve been informally assured that we’ll have our usual place and time. The Walk is on Sunday, May 4, and we usually fill the time (alternating with another group) between 10 AM and 3 PM.

For those of you who haven’t done this before, this means that sometime in March we will stop having dropin meetings and start having regular rehearsals. For a dropin meeting, you expect the leader to provide the music, and you don’t worry if you end up coming late, or needing to borrow instruments, or even end up not showing up at all. For a real rehearsal, you show up on time (or rather, early enough to do setup and tuning before the official start time), with your music in an order where you can find things easily, and with the instruments you expect to play in performance. If you turn out not to be able to come, you let the director know as much in advance as possible.

I’d like to know who wants to play by early March. There are 5 Tuesdays in April, so we may not need more than one or two March Tuesdays to be real rehearsals. But please don’t sign up to play if you aren’t going to be able to make most of the rehearsals in late March and April.

I will attempt to have a fairly firm playlist by early March. Of course, it’s hard to make a real playlist until I know who’s playing, but I understand that the playlist may influence how much you want to play. So discuss probabilities with me if you have issues.

Until the end of March, I expect that we will have our regularly scheduled dropin meetings every Tuesday at 7:45 PM at my place.