Category: Cantabile

We played:

* Marcello, Sonata III
* Morley:
** Good Morrow, Fair Ladies of the May
** Deep Lamenting
* Dowland:
** Flow my tears
** Lachrimae Antiquae
** Lachrimae Coactae
** O sweet Wood
** Fine Knacks for Ladies
* Rounds:
** Slaves are they that heap up Mountains
** He that drinks is immortal

h3. Schedule

We will be having our regular drop-in meetings on Tuesdays at 7:45 at “my place”:http://www.laymusic.org/directions.html 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”:http://www.bostonrecordersociety.org/calendar/cal_popup.php?op=view&id=451 or the “Walk for Hunger”:http://www.projectbread.org/site/PageServer?pagename=walk_main.

By the end of February, we should have a reasonably good idea what the programs for those events will be, so let me know if there’s something you especially want to play. Also, you will need to decide by then whether you’re playing either or both events, so that we can decide on a program.

Happy New Year.

We played:

• Marcello, Sonata III
• Duet Hope brought
• Pyggot, Quid Petis, O Fili
• Holborne group:
  • Galliard: As it fell on a holie Eve
  • Galliard: Hermoza
  • Muy linda
  • [Pavan:] Last will and testament
• Dowland group:
  • Lachrimae Antiquae
  • Lachrimae Antiquae Novae
  • Lachrimae Gementes
  • Lachrimae Tristes
• Rounds:
  • Cider Round
  • Let us drink and be Merry

Schedule

I don’t know of any reason to change our regular schedule of
dropin meetings every Tuesday starting at 7:45 PM at my place. At the
end of February or the beginning of March, we will stop being a
dropin group and instead welcome only people who are playing the Play
the Recorder Month event or the Walk
for Hunger.

Other Events

The next Boston
Recorder Society Concert Series event is this Sunday. Steve
Tapper will play his own arrangements, assisted by John Tyson and
Shelley Otis. I have an extra ticket, if anyone’s interested.

The Viola da Gamba Society of New England January 20 workshop details are here.

We played:
* Marcello, ??Sonata III??
* Durante, ??Danza, danza fanciulla gentile??
* ??Two European Carols?? arranged by David W. Music
* Praetorius, 5 Christmas trios
* Certon, ??J’ai le rebours??
* Dowland group:
** ??Lachrimae Amantis??
** ??The King of Denmark’s Galliard??
** ??M. Henry Noel his Galiard??
** ??Sir Henry Umpton’s Funerall??
* Byrd, ??Lullaby my sweet little baby??
* ??Tea with the Duchess??

h3. Schedule

The “party”:http://www.laymusic.org/party.html is on Sunday starting at 4. Please feel free to drop in before or after anything else you have scheduled. If you’re wondering what to bring, just about anything in the finger food, salad, vegetable or dessert line will probably be appreciated.

We will be having our regular dropin meetings on Tuesdays at 8:45 PM at “my place”:http://www.laymusic.org/directions.html for the next couple of months.

In March or possibly late February, we will switch to being a performing group, to prepare for the “BRS Play the Recorder Month”:http://www.bostonrecordersociety.org/calendar/cal_popup.php?op=view&id=451 event, and the Walk for Hunger on the first Sunday of May.

People are starting to ask me about what we’re playing for these events. I have some ideas, but I’d be happy to hear yours, as well.

h3. Other events

In January, several of our friends will be playing a “concert”:http://www.bostonrecordersociety.org/calendar/cal_popup.php?op=view&id=494 of 17th century English Consort music.

The “Viola da Gamba Society of New England”:http://www.vdgsne.org/ is having a workshop on January 20 at Brandeis that will welcome brass, reed and string instruments, and also recorders that play at 8-foot pitch (tenor or larger). Bonnie has the details.

We played:

* Dowland group:
** ??Flow my tears??
** ??Lachrimae Antiquae??
** ??Lachrimae Amantis??
** ??Semper Dowland, semper dolens??
** ??Sir Henry Umptons Funerall??
* Gabrielli, ??Canzon septimi toni a 8??, from ??Sacrae Symphoniae?? (1597)
* Byrd, ??My little sweet darling??
* Purcell ??Cakes and Ale??

h3. Schedule

We’re currently planning to meet as a dropin group on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM at “my place”:http://www.laymusic.org/directions.html for the next couple of months. Specifically, I don’t have any plans to do anything different on either December 19 or December 26.

The “party”:http://www.laymusic.org/party.html is on Sunday, December 17, starting at about 4, also at “my place”:http://www.laymusic.org/directions.html. Please come and invite your friends. For those who haven’t been before, it’s a very nice mix of good food, good drink, and good music.

Some time in late February or early March, we will stop being a dropin group and restrict meetings to people who want to perform with us at either the “BRS Play the Recorder Month event”:http://www.bostonrecordersociety.org/calendar/cal_popup.php?op=view&id=451
or the Walk for Hunger in May.

We played:

* Marcello ??Sonata III??
* Jenkins:
** Pavanne in D major
** Pavanne in E minor
* Mundy, ??My Prime of Youth??
* Dowland:
** Flow my tears
** Lachrimae Antiquae
** Lachrimae Amantis
** Lachrimae Verae
** Semper Dowland, semper dolens
* Gibbons ??The Silver Swan??
* Arcadelt ??Il bianco e dolce Cigno??
* Purcell ??I gave her cakes and I gave her ale??

h3. Schedule

We’ll be having our usual dropin meetings on Tuesdays at 7:45 at “my place”:http://www.laymusic.org/directions.html.

We have the “party”:http://www.laymusic.org/party.html scheduled on Sunday, December 17, starting at 4:00 PM. There’s now a “hardcopy”:http://www.laymusic.org/xmas06.pdf invitation online.

The next performance I know about will be at the “Boston Recorder Society”:http://www.bostonrecordersociety.org “Play the Recorder Month”:http://www.bostonrecordersociety.org/calendar/cal_popup.php?op=view&id=451 event on March 24. Assuming we also play at the Walk for Hunger again, this means that large chunks of March and April will be non-dropin rehearsals for people who want to perform at those events.

h3. Other events

“The Heliotrope Consort”:http://www.bostonrecordersociety.org/calendar/cal_popup.php?op=view&id=314 will be playing this Saturday at 8 PM at the Cambridge Friends Meeting House. I have an extra ticket, if anyone wants to go. The program will be mostly Telemann.

We played:

* Bach ??Fugue in C major??
* Sermisy ??Vive la Serpe??
* Byrd ??In Nomine II??
* Gibbons ??In Nomine??
* Dowland:
** ??Can She excuse my Wrongs??
** ??Earl of Essex Galliard??
** ??My thoughts are Winged with Hopes??
** ??John Souch, His Galliard??
** ??John Langton’s Pavane??
** ??His Golden Locks??
* Rounds:
** ??He that will an alehouse keep??
** ??Cakes and Ale??
** ??He that drinks is Immortal??

h3. Schedule

We will be doing our regularly scheduled dropin meetings on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM at “my place”:http://www.laymusic.org/directions.html.

The Christmas party will be on Sunday, December 17, starting at 4 PM. I will be producing a printed invitation soon. This is a come and tell everyone you know to bring everyone they know party — please invite your friends.

The “Boston Recorder Society”:http://www.bostonrecordersociety.org will be having a Play the Recorder Month event on March 24 at the Allston Public Library. I’ve told the organizer that we’d like to play a set. It will probably be only 10 minutes, and we’ll use recorders more prominently than we normally do, but not exclusively, since I think a lot of the groups will be just recorders.

We played:

* Marcello, ??Sonata III??
* Maier, I and II from ??Atalanta Fugiens??
* Byrd, ??In Nomine II??
* Wilbye:
** ??Draw on sweet Night??
** ??Weep O mine Eyes??
* Rounds:
** ??Cider Round??
** ??I had tea with the Duchess??
** ??O Portsmouth??
** ??Five Reasons??
** ??Let us drink and be merry??

h3. Links

I promised people some links during the beer drinking session.

* The text and graphics and English translations for ??Atalanta Fugiens?? are online at “The Alchemy Website”:http://www.levity.com/alchemy/atl1-5.html. Jack Campin’s ABC transcription of the tunes is “here”:http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/Music/Atalanta.abc.
* The Disney illustrations of ??The Communist Manifesto?? are “here”:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1oGIffyVVk&NR. You might want to check this soon, as it’s the kind of thing YouTube may need to remove pretty fast.
* “WordPress.com”:http://www.wordpress.com is the site I recommended if someone wanted a free place to put up writings, pictures, etc., with a fair amount of flexibility. Your site will be called a blog, but there’s also a capability of writing static pages, so if you don’t want to blog you don’t have to.

h3. Schedule

We will be continuing our weekly dropin meetings for the forseeable future, on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM at “my place”:http://www.laymusic.org/directions.html.

We also need to schedule the Christmas party. Since December 25th is a Monday, I assume many people will leave town on Friday the 22nd, so we’ll plan for the previous weekend. If you have a strong preference for Sunday, December 17, over Saturday, December 16, or vice versa, let me know about it in the next week or so.

We played:

* Charlton, ??The Foggy, Foggy Dew??
* Senfl, ??Two Lieder for five voices or instruments??
** ??Ich soll und muss ein Bulen haben??
** ??Es taget vor dem Walde??
* Something (a canonic song by Willaert?) Bonnie brought and took away again, so she has to report on it.
* Byrd, ??In Crystal Towers??
* Wilbye, ??Draw on, sweet Night??
* Round group:
** ??Cider Round??
** ??What a queer Bird??
** ??The Ghost of John??

Ishmael took a picture at the meeting, which is “in our gallery”:http://serpent.laymusic.org/gallery/albums/cantabile/RenBand20061031_pan30.thumb.jpg

h3. Schedule

We will not be meeting on November 7. Remember to vote.

We will resume our regular drop-in meetings on November 14, at 7:45 PM at “my place”:http://www.laymusic.org/directions.html.

h3. Other events

* “The Flanders Recorder Quartet”:http://www.bostonrecordersociety.org/calendar/cal_popup.php?op=view&id=294 will be playing this Saturday, November 4, at First Church in Cambridge. It’s going to be a program mixing recorders and singing, so it’s relevant to what we do.
* “The Quilisma Consort”:http://www.bostonrecordersociety.org/calendar/cal_popup.php?op=view&id=313
will be playing on Sunday at the Loring Greenough House, in the next event in “The Boston Recorder Society Concert Series”:http://www.bostonrecordersociety.org/concerts.html. I have an extra ticket, if anyone wants to go with me.
* “The West Gallery Quire”:http://www.laymusic.org/wg.html will be having their regular monthly meeting on Sunday, November 12. They will be playing for the church service at Saint Mary’s Church in Newton Lower Falls on November 19, and rehearsing for that performance on Thursday, November 16.
* “The Boston Recorder Society mini-workshop with Will Ayton”:http://www.bostonrecordersociety.org/flyer1106.html will be on Saturday afternoon, November 18.

We played:
* English Duets
* Byrd, ??I have been young??
* ??Mille Regrets?? group:
** Susato
** Josquin
** Susato, ??Reponce: Les miens aussi??
* Rounds:
** ??I had tea with the Duchess??
** ??What a queer bird the frog are??
** ??Ghost of John??
** ??Benji met the bear??
** ??Five Reasons??
** ??Slaves are they??
* Gwhelog Grace

h3. Schedule

We will be meeting as usual (7:45 PM, at “my place”:http://www.laymusic.org/directions.html) on October 31, but not on November 7, election day.

h3. Mailing list alternatives

Several people’s mail has been bouncing. I will look into editing my mail configuration, but in the meantime, these mails are also posted on my “full blog”:http://laymusic.org/wordpress/, or the “Cantabile category”:http://laymusic.org/wordpress/?cat=4.