Category: Cantabile

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA. Let me know if you want to come.

I don’t see any reason not to meet on Tuesday, December 26, unless nobody wants to come. If we’re partied out after Monday, January 1, we might not feel like meeting on Tuesday, January 2. After that, we resume our normal almost every week schedule.

You are still welcome to arrive early to help with running up and down ladders and hanging things and getting things to work. Although I can reach all the boxes, there is still furniture that needs to be elsewhere, some of which I can use help with.

Nobody complained about or suggested alternative dates to a January 1 party, so we will have one.

Here’s an invitation. which you can print out and give to all your friends. Especially give it to anyone you think might be interested in coming on Tuesdays; our brochure is on the back.

The party will start at 4 pm, and go until everyone turns into pumpkins. Which these days is surprisingly early.

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA. Let me know if you want to come.

There is actual progress – I can get to almost all the boxes without assistence, and nearly all the furniture is in the room it goes in, if not the exact spot it’s going to end up in. Many thanks to everyone who helped, especially Anne, Judy, Pace, and Zeke.

You are still welcome to arrive early to help with running up and down ladders and hanging things and getting things to work.

It looks like we will be able to combine the annual holiday party with the housewarming party. I would not have guessed that if I got all my stuff in May I wouldn’t be able to celebrate being moved in until January, but it’s really been one of the hardest things I’ve ever done.

The last few years when there’s been a holiday party, it’s been on January 1. Let me know if you think that needs discussion this year.

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA. Let me know if you want to come.

People are still welcome to arrive early to help with the boxes. The current project is to move enough stuff out of the computer room that we can put the bookcases in place so that the boxes of books can be unpacked. One hope this can be accomplished while still leaving enough room in the small room to move the small futon back there.

Much of the jetsam described in previous emails is still available, although I put the wok in the trash last week.

Ensemble 44 (Including Ishmael, and some other people you may know) will be performing two concerts this season – First Church on December 1st at 8pm, St. Peters in Salem MA on December 16 at 5pm, to be followed by a light supper.

We played:

• Dowland: I saw my ladie weepe; Flow my tears; Sorrow, sorrow stay; Dye not before thy day
• Reconstructions by Sue Matsui: I have loved/This ender day; Wynter; Vide, miser et judica
• Morley: Deep Lamenting; O flye not; Arise get up my dear
• Byrd: Lord, in thy rage rebuke me not

Thanks to Ishmael for taking notes.

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA. Let me know if you want to come.

This Tuesday I’ll be working the election and won’t get home until after 9. So whoever shows up will be running the meeting.

The old receiver, the wok, and the coffee making equipment are still available.

I have now turned up an ice cream making machine. It’s the kind where you need to use ice and salt, or dry ice – there’s no refrigeration.

The paperback novels are mostly going to be donated, so if there’s an author you would like to own more of in dead-tree form, let me know, and I’ll lay them aside for you.

We played:

• CORONATION
• TOULON
• FOLKINGHAM
• Dowland: Now, O now; Burst forth, my tears; All ye whom love or fortune hath betraid; Come away, come sweet love
• Praetorius, Bransles and Passepiedz from Terpsichore
• Sermisy, Je ne mange point de porc
• Arcadelt, Il bianco e dolce Cigno

Thanks to Ishmael for taking notes.

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA. Let me know if you want to come.

We are making progress on the boxes – we’re probably about where I expected to be last May. I can access most of the boxes without help.

I’ve found quite a lot of stuff including the printer and the old desktop computer. It looks like the good stainless flatware has gone forever, but of course it could have ended up under books in a box I haven’t unpacked yet..

The old receiver and the wok are still available, although I expect most people our age have as many of those as they want.

I had acquired a quite good set of coffee making equipment before I decided that even decaf was too strong a drug for me. So if you have any desire for a roaster or a grinder, let me know.

The paperback novels are mostly going to be donated, so if there’s an author you would like to own more of in dead-tree form, let me know, and I’ll lay them aside for you.

We played:

• Nola, Cingari simi
• Holborne: 55. The night watch; 21. Infernum; 17. Paradizo
• East, Hence stars too dim of light
• Gibbons, The silver swan
• Arcadelt, Il bianco e dolce Cigno

Thanks to Ishmael for taking notes.

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA. Let me know if you want to come.

There’s still a room with boxes that should be in other rooms making it impossible to move in the stuff that should be in that room. Anyone who wants to come early and help alleviate that situation is welcome.

There are still two large pots and a wok. The receiver in my home media center seems to have stopped working, so I have ordered a replacement. If anyone wants to try rehabilitating the one that’s been through the fire, they’re welcome to it. It was up-to-date when I bought it in 2007. The replacement includes a pre-amp, so if the old pre-amp ever re-surfaces, that will be available, too.

Based on the fiddling with the new receiver, it’s likely there was nothing wrong with the old one. The dog had chewed the cable on the headphones I was testing with, and the speaker/wire combination I was using for the center speaker doesn’t work with the new one either. This means I’ll need help moving the TV again.

We played:

• Vaughn Williams, KINGS WESTON
• Gibbons, SONG 5
• Holborne: 49. Ploravit; 36. My selfe; 31. The funerals; 55. The night watch
• Rore, Altiero sasso
• Cavendish: Come gentle swains
• Ravenscroft: Now God be with old Simeon

Thanks to Ishmael for taking notes.

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA. Let me know if you want to come.

As has been the case since I got back, people who want to come a little early and help juggle boxes will be welcome. Anne and I made progress last week on the small room that needed the 3D tetris skills, and this morning I finally found the box with the printer in it. I have not managed to extricate it from the box and verify that it works, but there is definitely progress happening. The next step is to move enough stuff for other rooms out of the small room that the stuff that will end up in the small room can go there instead of cluttering up the other rooms.

There’s also still a maneuver that needs at least 4 hands to get the media center set up.

A more fun activity I need help with is that there are lots of pictures, decorative ceramics, and wall hangings that need to be hung. One person can do it, but it’s a lot easier and more fun with two.

Now that I have access to the brewing equipment, I find that none of the large pots I acquired for that will work on the new stove. So anyone who finds that they still have things to add to the stew pot when their dutch oven has gotten full, should come take a 30 or 40 quart pot (with spigot). There is also a wok.

Apologies for the sketchiness of the reports. If I don’t write down what we played the next morning, I can’t remember if if we did it out of books instead of individual sheets. And unfortunately, the unpacking to find the necessary items and napping to catch up on sleep from taking the puppy out in the middle of the night both take priority over writing on the blog.

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA. Let me know if you want to come.

As has been the case since I got back, people who want to come a little early and help juggle boxes will be welcome. There’s one room that involves 3-D Tetris skills, and after that I should be able to get access to anything that’s really here by myself. There’s also still a maneuver that needs at least 4 hands to get the media center set up.

A more fun activity I need help with is that there are lots of pictures, decorative ceramics, and wall hangings that need to be hung. One person can do it, but it’s a lot easier and more fun with two.

The above plea for help should not be interpreted as meaning that there is no progress. All four of the large rooms are now usable as intended. The still have boxes, but the amount of necessary objects still in the boxes is diminishing. I found two pencil sharpeners this morning (of course not with any screws for affixing them to anything). The printer and the good stainless flatware are still AWOL, though.

People are complaining about not getting enough pictures of both the new puppy and the new living space, so here’s one stone for both birds:

Now that I have access to the brewing equipment, I find that none of the large pots I acquired for that will work on the new stove. So anyone who finds that they still have things to add to the stew pot when their dutch oven has gotten full, should come take a 30 or 40 quart pot (with spigot).

Dulcian player Ben Hoadley, Recorder player John Tyson, and harpsichord player Miyuki Tsurutani will play a concert at 7PM on Saturday, September 30 at the Museum of Modern Renaissance, 115 College Ave, Somerville, MA. The concert will include Renaissance polyphony, Elizabethan melodies, and early Baroque virtuosity. For more information, see the museum website.

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA. Let me know if you want to come.

As has been the case since I got back, people who want to come a little early and help juggle boxes will be welcome. There’s one room that involves 3-D Tetris skills, and after that I should be able to get access to anything that’s really here by myself. There’s also still a maneuver that needs at least 4 hands to get the media center set up.

We played:

• Morley: When lo by break of morning; See see myne own sweet jewel; Ladie, those eyes; Cruel you pull away too soon
• Rhau: Adieu mes amours; Amour vault trop; Mon petit cueur

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA. Let me know if you want to come.

I’m home.

The boxes I can’t lift are still in front of the boxes with the stuff I really want to unpack. In addition, the boxes with the books I don’t want to shelve are too big to put books in.

So if anyone has lots of book-suitable boxes to give me, or a bit of time to help move boxes, it would be appreciated. You get to play with the world’s cutest puppy, and/or watch the 55″ OLED TV, and/or drink cold beverages, and bask in air conditioning. You notice that we are having an unusually temperate August, thanks to my having acquired air conditioning in July.

In any case, the house-warming party is still weeks away, but probably not months.