Category: Cantabile

We played:

• Gervaise, Dix Bransles de Champaigne
• Holborne:
  • Muy Linda
  • Galliard
• Arcadelt, Il Bianco e dolce Cigno
• Vecchi, Il Bianco e dolce Cigno
• Dowland, All ye whom love or fortune
• Dowland, Me, me and none but me
• Gibbons, The Silver Swan
• Campion, Never weather-beaten Saile
• Cider Round
• Wise, Judith and Holifernes
• Purcell, 5 Reasons
• Purcell, He that drinks is immortal
• Berg, Let us drink and be merry

Schedule

We’ll be continuing our regular dropin meetings on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM at my place.

Next week, September 11, we’ll be doing a special meeting with the complete Dowland Lachrimae. Please bring anyone you think might enjoy doing this. We have lute tablature, if you know a good lutenist or classical guitarist.

Performing

The Boston Wort Processors annual Ciderfest will be on Saturday, October 20, at Carlson Orchards in Harvard, Massachusetts. If people would like to play for it, I don’t think it would be difficult to work up a 45 minute set with some dance music and some drinking songs. I can’t put together a playlist until I know how many people can come, so please let me know before our September 18 meeting if you want to go. I’m not anticipating this disrupting our meeting schedule much — at most we might make the October 16 meeting performers only.

Other events

The first West Gallery Quire workshop of the year will be on Sunday, September 16, from 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM. Please note that this in a one-time only deviation from the usual second Sunday of the month meeting. If you’ve given people flyers or sent them email with the September 9 date, please tell them about the change.

The first Boston Recorder Society meeting of the year will be on Sunday, September 23 from 7-9:30 PM. This meeting is free, and you will have a chance to check out a couple of the groups. (If you don’t play recorder, you might still want to check out the Joyful Noise group for all singers and instrumentalists.)

We played:

• Gervaise, XIV Bransles de Champagne
• Holborne, Hermosa
• Johnson, Full Fathom Five
• Pilkington, Rest, sweet Nymphs
• Wilbye, Draw on sweet night
• Gabrielli, Canzon á six
• Wise, Judith and Holifernes
• Purcell, ‘ Tis Women

Schedule

We will be meeting at the usual time (7:45 PM) and place (directions) on Tuesdays for the forseeable future.

We noticed that this year we will be meeting on September 11. We ran through the Dowland Lachrimae Pavans this summer a couple at a time, so we’ve decided that this is a good excuse to play them all at once.

People who play a chordal instrument (lute, keyboard, harp, guitar), and who aren’t always sure they would be useful, should be assured that there will be something for them to do that day.

We played:

• Gervaise, X Bransles de Champagne
• Wilbye, Draw on sweet night
• Cavendish, Come, gentle swains
• Isum, Celia learning upon the spinet
• Purcell, He that drinks is immortal

Schedule

We’ll be having our regular dropin meetings on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM at my place for the forseeable future.

We played:

• Gervaise, Dix Bransles de Champaigne
• Dowland group:
  • Time stands still
  • It was a time when Silly Bees could
    speak
  • His golden Locks
  • Lachrimae Gementes
  • Lachrimae Tristes
  • Lachrimae Coactae
• Rounds:
  • Cider Round
  • Let us drink and be merry

Schedule

We’ll be having our regular drop-in meetings on Tuesdays at
7:45 PM at my
place, for the forseeable future.

Other events

The Boston
Recorder Society is having a summer meeting tonight,
Wednesday, August 25 at 25 Colgate Road, Roslindale, starting at 7:30. Tom Zajac
will be coaching.

The Wakefield Summer Band, with me on horn, will be playing a
concert at the bandstand on the South side of Lake Quannapowitt on
Friday at 7 PM.

Héloïse Degrugillier is offering a Renaissance Ensemble for low
intermediate recorder
players this summer.
It will meet four times in Winchester July 28, August 4, 11, and 18 from 10:30
to 1pm.
For more information please email Heloise: hdegrugillier@yahoo.com or call 781
507-4891

Justin Godoy is offering a class on improvising over ground basses for upper
intermediate to advanced players. We will meet four times in Winchester July
28, August 4, 11, and 18 from 1:30 to 3pm.
For more information please email Justin: justigodoy@yahoo.com or call 781
507-4890

We played:

• D’Estrees, Pavane Lesquercade
• Pavana Desperada
• da Nola Chi chi li chi
• Ich kumm aus fremden Landen her
• Encina Triste España
• Obrecht Tsat een meskin
• Isaac Helogierons nous
• Ponce Allegria, allegria
• Crecquillon Plaisir n’ay plus
• Purcell A
  rebus upon Mr. Anthony Hall,
• La Marseillaise

Schedule

We’ll be meeting on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM at my place for the forseeable future.

We played:

• Morley, Sweet nymph, come to thy lover
• Susato group:
  • Den hoboecken dans
  • De Post
  • Danse de Hercules oft maticine
  • De Matrigale
  • Allemaingne I-VIII
• Cavendish, Come, Gentle Swains
• Dowland group:
  • Lachrimae
    Antiquae
  • Lachrimae
    Antiquae Novae
  • Lachrimae
    Gementes
• Rounds:
  • Purcell, Well Rung Tom
  • To Portsmouth
  • Purcell, Five Reasons

Schedule

We’ll be meeting on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM at my place. for the forseeable future.

We played:

• Susato group:
  • Rondes
  • Saltarelle
  • Les quatre Branles
  • Fagot
• Sermisy, Je ne mange point de porc
• En m’esbatant/Gracieuse plaisant mousniére/Gente fleur de noblesse
• Dowland group:
  • 
    Flow not so fast yee fountaines,
  • 
    What if I never speede,
  • 
    Love stood amazed
• Purcell, Sir Walter, enjoying his damsel one night
• Cider Round
• Purcell, I gave her cakes and I gave her ale
• Three wise men of Boston

Schedule

The party on July 6 will start at about 6. We’ll eat for a
while, start playing by 8 and eat some more after we stop playing
at 10. It’s pot luck, so let me know if you’re coming and what
you’re bringing.

I don’t know of any reason we won’t be having regular meetings
every Tuesday at 7:45 at the usual
place.

Other events

The Wakefield Summer Band (with me on horn) will be playing its
first concert on Friday, July 13, at 7 PM at the Bandstand on the
south shore of Lake Quanapowitt.

I managed to smoke out someone else who wanted a party, so there will be one on July 6. We’ll have dinner about 6 and plan to start playing by 8. People who want only dinner and not playing, or only playing and not dinner are welcome. The “usual place”:http://www.laymusic.org/directions.html. Potluck, so let me know if you’re coming and what you’re bringing.

We played:

• Gervaise, Dix Bransles Gai
• En m’esbatant/Gracieuse plaisant mousniére/Gente fleur de noblesse
• Sermisy group:
  • Je ne mange point de porc
  • Vive la serpe
  • Changeons propos
  • Vignons, vignons
  • Quand je bois du vin claret
• Purcell, Sir Walter, enjoying
• Cider round

Schedule

We’ll continue to meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM at my place.

There’s a possibility that Ishmael will be able to come to the picnic on Saturday, June 30, in which case he, Bonnie, and Laura will sing some of the three-part drinking songs. Otherwise, Bonnie and Laura will just jam with whoever else comes.

I’ve heard no enthusiasm for another party in the next couple of weeks, so we’ll think about scheduling one in August.

Other events

The Boston Recorder Society will have a summer meeting tonight, June 27
at 7:30 at 25 Colgate Road in Roslindale. Steve Lundahl will be coaching. The summer meetings are free and open to singers and other instruments as well as to recorder players.

We played:

• Chi chi li chi
• Juan del Encina, Triste España
• Ich kumm aus fremden Landen her
• Cavendish, Come, gentle swains
• Wilbye:
  • Weep, o mine eyes
  • Draw on sweet night
• Purcell Sir Walter enjoying
• Ravenscroft, He that will an alehouse keep

Schedule

We’ll be meeting on Tuesdays at 7:45 at my place for the forseeable future.

There may be another party on one of the first two weekends in July; if you have a preference as to date and time, let me know.

It’s still an option for a few people to play something at the Boston Wort Processors June picnic on June 30, but we’d have to decide by Tuesday and run some stuff at the meeting.