News of the week of November 18, 2025

2 starlings and a robin on grape arbor. - DPLA - 9cd7742aa67b676375f64c4402dee2c2

Schedule

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

News of the week of November 4, 2025

The Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharis (1818), J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Meeting report

Between there being more ballots per voter, more voters per precinct, and more early voters than ever, I was still feeding ballots into the scanners at the end of the meeting. So I wasn’t there, but Ishmael tells me they played:

Schedule

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

News of the week of October 28, 2025

View from the beach to the Western Scheldt (with s sailboat at sunset), Zoutelande, Zeeland, Netherlands (2022)

Schedule

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

We will be meeting tomorrow, November 4, even though it’s election day and I won’t be there for the beginning.

News of the week of October 14, 2025

Short history of astronomy-Fig 62

Schedule

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

Tuesday, November 4, is election day, when I work at the polls until some time after they close at 8. So I won’t be able to make it for 7:45, although I may get here before 10. So if someone wants to commit to getting here on time and getting things going, we can still meet, but I can’t do that part of leading the group.

News of the week of September 16, 2025

Godfried Schalcken (1643-1706) (after) - Candlelight, Youth Lighting a Pipe - A.1948 - Cannon Hall

Schedule

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

The piece we tried last week for a warmup is a great piece but requires too much counting to work well as a warmup, so this week we’ll try Dormen’un giorno. If you’re coming, let me know if you want me to print it for you.

News of the week of September 2, 2025

Southern water fountain in Zrinjevac, May 2025

Schedule

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

The current warmup piece is Come, sirrah Jack, Ho!, transposed down a fifth.

If you’re coming, also let me know if you need me to print it for you.

Playing and singing opportunities

West Gallery Quire

The first meeting of this year’s West Gallery Quire will be this Sunday, September 14, at 2pm at the Newton Highlands Congregational Church, 54 Lincoln St., Newton, Massachusetts.

This is one of the better places to play with singers, and as far as I know, the only place in this area to sing with a serpent on the bass line. If you haven’t tried it, you should.

Boston Recorder Society

The Boston Recorder Society finally resumes monthly meetings for coached recorder playing on Sunday, October 5 from 1-3:30pm at the Leslie University building at 1815 Massachusetts Avenue in Porter Square.

The Loud Band, which has been meeting regularly for a couple of years now, will continue to be an option.