Category: Cantabile

We played:

* ??May hymn??
* Byrd:
** ??The Greedy Hawk??
** ??The Eagle’s Force??
* Cavendish ??Come gentle swains??
* Farmer, ??Fair Phyllis??
* Ravenscroft (lyrics, Laura and Sunny) ??Humans are so slow??
* Campian, ??Never weather-beaten Saile??

h3. Schedule

Regular meetings are on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM at “my place”:http://www.laymusic.org/directions.html

We’ll be having a party on June 2, starting at 5 PM, also at my place. It’s potluck, so let me know whether you’re coming, and what you’re planning to bring.

We will not meet on Tuesday, June 12, during the “Boston Early Music Festival”:http://www.bemf.org.

If we want, we can go to the “Wort Processor’s”:http://www.wort.org summer picnic on June 30 in “Freetown”:http://www.wort.org/Directions/sterner.shtml and sing and play some easy music we know well.

h3. Other events

On Sunday, May 20, I’ll be playing at John Tyson’s student recital. It will be from 10 AM until 3 PM or so at Karen Kruskal’s house, 22 Kenwood St. Brookline. The schedule is flexible; it’s likely I’ll be in the afternoon, but if I know you’re coming, I can arrange to play when you’re there. It’s probably worth going to only if you like listening to *lots* of amateur (and not so amateur) recorder playing. I’ll be playing some Chédeville duets with John.

“Convivium Musicum”:http://www.convivium.org/, with Anne Kazlauskas, will be repeating the concert they did last weekend on Saturday and Sunday.

Lots of people we know will be doing things at BEMF:

* “Renaissonics”:http://www.renaissonics.com will be doing a workshop (10-1) and concert (2 PM) on Tuesday, June 12, in Williams Hall at the “New England Conservatory of Music”:http://www.newenglandconservatory.edu/.
* On Thursday, June 14, at 10 AM, Judith Conrad will be playing the music of Cabanilles in the “Paulist Center”:http://www.paulist.org/boston/ Library.
* On Friday, June 15, at 3:45 PM (*not* 3 PM as the “BEMF fringe concert listing”:http://www.bemf.org/pages/06fest/fringe.htm has it), Judith Conrad will play 16th- & 17th-century Gregorian chant-based keyboard music with a labyrinth to walk; music by Cabezon, Lassus & Titelouze in the Paulist Center Auditorium.

We played:

* Anonymous, ??Duo 113??
* Susato, ??Rondes??
* Byrd, ??The Greedy Hawk??
* Cavendish, ??Come, gentle swains??
* Josquin, ??La plus des plus??
* Ravenscroft, lyrics by Laura and Sunny, ??Dog walking round??
* Anonymous, ??Sumer is icumen in??

h3. Schedule

We are resuming our regular dropin meetings on Tuesdays from 7:45 to 10 PM.

We will be having a party on June 2, starting at about 5 PM. If the weather is good, we’ll gather in the back yard and grill things, then move up to my apartment and play and sing for a while; otherwise it will be like the Christmas party, where we eat and drink indoors and then play and sing for a while. Come and tell everybody you know to bring everybody they know. The food and drink are pot luck.

We will probably not meet on Tuesday, June 12, since most people will be doing “Boston Early Music Festival”:http://www.bemf.org stuff.

On Saturday, June 30, the “Boston Wort Processors”:http://www.wort.org are having their summer picnic in Freetown, Massachusetts. This year they will be roasting a whole pig. If a few of us come, we can sing some drinking songs and maybe play a few things we know well.

The Project Bread Walk for Hunger is this Sunday, May 6. This means two things:

* The Cantabile Renaissance band will be playing at a beautiful site on the banks of the Charles River, at the Cambridge-Watertown line on Greenough Boulevard. If you’re out and about (or if you’re one of the walkers), stop by and listen. We’ll be there from 10 AM to 3 PM, with the following schedule:
** 10-11: solos and duets.
** 11-12: Quilisma Consort
** 12-1: Cantabile Renaissance Band
** 1-2: Quilisma Consort
** 2-3: Cantabile Renaissance Band
* The dropin meetings resume on Tuesday May 8. If you weren’t able to perform with us, please start coming now that we’re back to being a dropin group. I have actually been typesetting a fair amount of new stuff, with no chance to play it while we were working on the program for the Walk. So over the next few weeks we’ll be playing things like ??The Greedy Hawk?? by William Byrd and ??Come, Gentle Swains?? by Michael Cavendish.

We played:

* Ravenscroft ??O my fearful dreams??
* Morley, ??Good morrow, fair ladies of the May??
* Susato group:
** ??Entre du fol??
** ??Danse du Roy??
** ??Bergerette??
** ??Bergerette: Sans roch??
** ??La Morisque??
** ??La Battaille??
** ??Passe et medio??
* Dowland, ??O mighty God??, all three parts, that is, including ??When David’s life by Saul was often sought?? and ??When the poor cripple by the pool did lie??
* Purcell, ??He that would an alehouse keep??

h3. Schedule

The rehearsals for the next two months are restricted to people who will be performing with us. So I’ll probably be sending these detailed reports to that list rather than the wider list. If you want to see what we’re working on in general, I’ll be keeping the “spring performance page”:http://laymusic.org/wordpress/?page_id=318 up to date.

h3. Performing

In theory the deadline for signing up to perform was yesterday, but I’m letting a couple of people dither a little longer, so there’s still time if you want to join us, but act soon. The rules are:

* If you want to play on March 24, you must come to the rehearsal on March 20, and to at least one and preferably both of the rehearsals on March 6 and March 13. Recorder players are especially welcome at this performance.
* If you want to play on May 6, you must come to most of the rehearsals between now and then, except that if you aren’t also playing on March 24 you shouldn’t come on March 20. We can discuss the meaning of the word “most”, but anyone with an absolute commitment to being somewhere else more than half the time certainly shouldn’t sign up. Probably both the April 17 and the April 24 rehearsals will be compulsory.
* To be a performer, you have to be willing to treat this as a serious performing group, not as a dropin group. This means treating rehearsal time as a scarce resource by arriving on time, saving most conversation for the beer-drinking part of the evening, bringing the instruments you intend to perform with, having your music in order, etc.

We played:
* Marcello, ??Sonata III??
* Mozart ??Andante??, Arranged David Goldstein
* Dowland, ??M. Thomas Collier his Galiard??
* Gabrielli:
** Canzon á 5
** Canzon septimi toni á 8
* Wilbye:
** Weep, weep mine eyes
** Draw on sweet night
* Rounds:
** Cakes and Ale
** He that drinks is immortal
** Let us drink and be merry

h3. Schedule

I gave a detailed schedule “a couple of weeks ago”:http://laymusic.org/wordpress/?p=314, so I won’t repeat it here, except to remind people that you need to let me know by next week whether you’re planning on performing with us this Spring. So far, we have me, Paul, Bonnie, and Ishmael, all for both gigs. I think a couple of other people have told me things informally, but if you’re not on this list, please let me know officially. I especially need to know about March 24.

I have heard from the Walk for Hunger people, and it looks like we will have the usual time and place again this year.

We played:

* Lassus Duet
* Dowland Group:
** My thoughts are winged with hopes
** If my complaints
** Can she excuse my wrongs
** Sir John Souch
** The Earl of Essex Galliard
** Captain Digory Piper’s Pavanne
** Susanna Galliard (attributed)
** M. Bucton’s galliard
** All ye whom love or fortune hath betraid
** Sleep wayward thoughts
* Rounds:
** Slaves are they that heap up mountains
** Cakes and Ale

h3. Schedule

I gave a detailed schedule “last week”:http://laymusic.org/wordpress/?p=314, so I won’t repeat it here, except to remind people that you need to let me know by next week whether you’re planning on performing with us this Spring. At the moment, nobody has officially signed up, so I’m working hard on my van Eyck solo recorder music.

h3. Party pictures

Here are some pictures from the “Christmas Party”:http://serpent.laymusic.org/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=Christmas-at-Lauras%2C-2006

We played:
* Marcello ??Sonata III??
* Charlton group:
** ??Mon coeur se recommande a vous??
** ??British Grenadiers??
* Gervais ??14 Bransles??
* ??To Drive the Cold Winter Away??
* ??Pasttime with Good Company??
* Dowland Group:
** ??Mistress Nichols Almand??
** ??M Bucton his Galiard??
** ??M george Whitehead his Almand??
* Gabrielli, ??Canzon septimi toni a 8??
* Wilbye, ??Weep, O mine eyes??
* ??I sat next to the Duchess at tea??

h3. Schedule

Here’s the schedule for the Spring. Note that if you’re hesitating about committing to performing until you know what repertoire we’re doing, I can’t decide on the repertoire until I know who’s playing. Specifically, I’d like to do a lot of 5-part Dowland using the big recorders for the Recorder Society, but I can’t do that unless we get at least 4 and preferably 5 recorder players.

* February 13, 20, and 27: regular dropin rehearsals.
* February 27: I need to know whether you’re playing the Play the Recorder day, and whether you’re considering playing the Walk for Hunger.
* March 6 and 13: rehearsal for those playing either gig.
* March 20: rehearsal compulsory for and limited to those playing the Play the recorder day gig on March 24.
* March 20: I need a commitment for who’s playing the Walk for Hunger.
* Saturday, March 24, Play the Recorder Day performance at the Allston Public Library.
* March 27, all rehearsals in April: limited to those playing the Walk for Hunger.
* Sunday, May 6, Walk for Hunger
* May 8: dropin rehearsals resume.

Please sign up for either gig only if you think you will be able to make most of the March and April rehearsals, and to treat the group like a serious performing group and not like a dropin group.

We played:
* Marcello, ??Sonata III??
* Rameau, ??Avec du vin endormons nous??
* Dowland group:
** ??M. Giles Hobies Galliard??
** ??M. Nicholas Gryffiths his Galliard??
* Swans:
** Vecchi, ??Il Bianco e Dolce Cigno??
** Gibbons, ??The Silver Swan??
** Arcadelt, ??Il Bianco e Dolce Cigno??
* Rounds:
** ??Slaves are they that heap up Mountains??
** ??Sumer (winter) is icumen in??

Schedule

We will be having our regular drop-in meetings on Tuesdays at 7:45 at my place through the month of February. For March and April, we will probably be restricting attendance to people who want to perform with us at either the Play the Recorder Day event or the Walk for Hunger.

Note that this means that you need to decide by the end of February whether you’re performing or not. Remember that when we turn into a performing group, we stop being a drop in group. This means that we treat rehearsal time as a precious resource, and in consideration for both the audience and the other group members we arrive on time, have our own copies of the music which we keep in good order, and segregate the social and the musical parts of the evening more rigorously.

We played:

* Durante, ??Danza, danza fanciulla gentile??
* Marcello, ??Sonata III??
* Telemann, ??Sonata in C major??
* Mundey, ??My prime of youth??
* Vecchi, ??Il Bianco e dolce Cigno??
* ??He that will an alehouse keep??

Schedule

We will be having our regular drop-in meetings on Tuesdays at 7:45 at my place through the month of February. For March and April, we will probably be restricting attendance to people who want to perform with us at either the Play the Recorder Day event or the Walk for Hunger.

We played:

* Campian ??When Laura smiles??
* Mozart ??Andante?? arranged by David Goldstein
* ??Ami souffrez que je vous aime??, Composer unknown, mid-sixteenth century
* Rameau, ??Avec du vin endormons nous??
* Swan group:
** Gibbons, ??The Silver Swan??
** Arcadelt, ??Il Bianco e dolce Cigno??
** Vecchi, ??Il Bianco e dolce Cigno??
* Stafford, ??Slaves are they that heap up Mountains??

h3. Schedule

We will be having our regular drop-in meetings on Tuesdays at 7:45 at my place through the month of February. For March and April, we will probably be restricting attendance to people who want to perform with us at either the Play the Recorder Day event or the Walk for Hunger.