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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.

We played:

• Dowland: arrangement of OLD HUNDREDTH
• Holborne: 25. Patiencia., 8. The Marie-Golde, 21. Infernum
• Striggio, Nasce la pena mia
• Ravenscroft, Sing with thy heart

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

We played:

• Morley: Cruel you pull away too soon; Whither away so fast
• Willaert: J’ayme bien mon amy (I), J’ayme bien mon amy (II)
• Entre vous qui aymés
• Dowland: All ye whom love or fortune hath betraid
• Bransle X from “12 Bransles de Champagne” by Gervaise
• Ravenscroft, Now God be with old Simeon

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

Several people said they would like to go on Sunday, August 6 at 8 pm. So we will meet on the Boston Common at 7 or thereabouts. If you tell me you want to go, I will send you the phone numbers of the other people who want to go, so we can end up in the same vicinity.

We played:

• Hymns
• Holborne: 20. Galliard; 55. The night watch
• Dowland: All ye whom love or fortune hath betraid
• Willaert, Faulte d’argent
• Wilbye, Draw on sweet night
• Ravenscroft, To Portsmouth

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm. Unless otherwise decided, we will be meeting at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA. Let me know if you want to come.

I’m back. The actual occupancy permit is just paperwork away, and I moved back to sleeping in Cambridge on Friday.

I’m still needing a lot of help moving things – Anne and I spent a lot of Friday evening moving boxes in my bedroom so I could go to bed. The TV set died after one day of showing the news, so I have ordered a new one, for which I will need help moving the living room around.

So it will be a while before the housewarming party, but at least it’s possible to make progress.

In general, I try to keep these emails to one a week, and mostly about what the group is doing. But it is a vibrant social institution, and people do want to use it for other things. So here are some of the recent attempted posts about such things.

We played:

• Hymns
• Dowland: Sleep, wayward thoughts, All ye whom love or fortune hath betraid
• Holborne: The Cradle; Heigh Ho, Holiday
• Crequillon, Alix avoit au dens la malerage
• Berg, Let us drink and be merry

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm. Unless otherwise decided, we will be meeting at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA. Let me know if you want to come.

We played:

• Purcell, Cakes and Ale
• New Providence
• Dowland: A shepherd in a shade, Come, yee heavy states of night
• Arcadelt, Margot labourez les vignes
• Lassus, Margot labourez les vignes
• Entre vous qui aymés
• Smith, Slaves are they that heap up mountains

We will not be meeting this coming week. You can’t get to my part of Cambridge from anywhere else on the 4th of July, and if you do get there, you can’t get away until after midnight. You can read in the next day’s paper how many tens or hundreds of thousands of people tried to drive by my house to get to and from the concert/fireworks.

In general, we meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm. Unless otherwise decided, we will be meeting at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA. Let me know if you want to come.

The picture above demonstrates that I now have a bannister up to the second (European first) floor. This was supposed to be the final item before applying for the occupancy permit, although there seems to be another inspection (of the building permit work) before we can apply for the occupancy permit. But the TODO list I set up for my contractor is getting pretty small. The major item is the air conditioner – the HVAC guy seems to have disappeared.

We played:

• Hymns from “The Pilgrim Hymnal”
• Josquin, Mille regrets
• Dowland: Flow my tears, Lachrimae Antiquae, All ye whom love or fortune hath betraid, Now, O now, I needs must part
• Entre vous qui aymés
• Arcadelt, Margot labourez les vignes
• Purcell, Five reasons
• Ravenscroft, To Portsmouth

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm. Unless otherwise decided, we will be meeting at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA. Let me know if you want to come.

• Henry VIII, Pasttime with good company
• Quant je boy du vin claret tout tourne
• Sermisy, Vive la serpe
• Dowland, All ye whom love or fortune hath betraid, Can she excuse my wrongs
• Smith, Slaves are they that heap up mountains
• Ravenscroft, To Portsmouth

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm.

The Tuesday, June 6 meeting is cancelled. People are urged to take advantage of all the Boston Early Music Festival events instead.

After that, stay tuned for location. We met at my place in Cambridge on May 30, and it worked pretty well. So we may have one more meeting in Arlington to celebrate our hosts’ hospitality and get me some help removing all the stuff we’ve been cluttering up their place with. But in general, the meetings will now be at 233 Broadway in Cambridge.

• Josquin, Mille regrets
• Senfl, Es wollt ein Fraw zum Weine gahn
• Sermisy, Vive la serpe
• Dowland,  All ye whom love or fortune hath betraid
• Purcell, Five reasons

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm at the home of Wendy Goble and Richard Schmeidler in Arlington Center. Please let me know if you want to come.

The Tuesday, June 6 meeting is cancelled. People are urged to take advantage of all the Boston Early Music Festival events instead.

There is a bathroom. I have cleared enough boxes from the dining room that we could actually meet there, but the boxes that are currently where the refrigerator is going to go will probably move into the middle of the dining room. (They also have to be unpacked into cabinets they are currently blocking access to.)

Eversource is saying “We cannot come this week, but we will surely come on Tuesday.” When they come, there will be a bathroom with hot and cold running water.

The occupancy permit is apparently quite close. My contractor is still vague on what he’s claiming when he applies for an occupancy permit, but he thinks it needs the gas hookup, the bannister for the stairs up to the second floor, and the appliance (or at least the stove) delivery. If the gas company really comes on Tuesday, this could in theory all happen before our next meeting on June 13. Stay tuned. In any case, we can have meetings there even without the occupancy permit, if we get enough boxes out of the way.

I’m getting a puppy. He’s currently scheduled to leave Arkansas on June 6, and get here 4-6 days later. They’re calling him Fred at the moment; we’ll see when he gets here what he wants to be called.

Some people say that his current striking blue eyes are likely to turn some other color, but other people say that if he still has blue eyes after more than two months, they’re likely to stay blue. Possibly a darker blue.