News of the week of August 9, 2016

Meeting report

[flowers and leaves]

We played:

Schedule

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45pm at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, as
long as enough people have told me by Monday night that they want
to come.

This coming Tuesday, August 16, a large fraction of the
regulars have told me that they are not coming, so if you want
there to be a meeting, you are definitely going to have to let me
know.

The following Tuesday, August 23, I will not be in town, so if
you want to meet, you’ll have to do the organizing yourself.

But as far as I know, the Tuesday after that, August 30, is
back to normal.

News of the week of August 2, 2016

Meeting report

[musicians]

We played:

Schedule

We continue to meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway,
Cambridge, as long as enough people have told me by Monday night
that they want to come.

Other playing opportunity

The West
Gallery Quire is having a special workshop led by Francis Roads on
Thursday, August 4, at 7:30 pm at the Newton Highlands Congregational
Church.

The Nature of the Feast — Louise Penny — Minotaur Books

20 Recipes from the World of Three Pines

Source: The Nature of the Feast — Louise Penny — Minotaur Books

Those of us who like the Inspector Gamache novels of Louise Penny enjoy the descriptions of food and meals as much or more than the grisly murders. Here’s a free download of recipes for some of the food.

Debate Video – Mike Connolly for State Representative

[Toomey and Connollly]

State Representative Debate Video, Posted by Chris Addis on July 28, 2016. Here’s the video of last week’s debate between the Democratic candidates for State Representative in the 26th Middlesex District, challenger Mike Connolly and incumbent Tim Toomey.

Of course if you live in this district (East Cambridge and East Somerville), you should  watch, but you might be interested in the clash between the old-style constituent services polititian and the new-style progressive policy wonk.  (I’m supporting the policy wonk.)

Source: Debate Video – Mike Connolly for State Representative

So far, so good

Betweeen how busy you are when you aren’t exhausted, and how
bad the network connection is, I probably won’t be posting very
much this week, but I did want to assure people that things are
going well at the Amherst
Early Music Festival.

I have mixed feelings about being “upgraded” to the
air-conditioned dorm — I’d really rather have my fan and an open
window than the noise of the air-conditioner, but the elevator and
the handicapped accessibility are good.

The double serpent case is as wonderful as I hoped it would
be. The new dorm is enough farther away from the center of things
that I’m using the wheels even though it isn’t really that
heavy.

I seem to have landed serpent-friendly coaches this year, so my
cornetto lip was used, but not overused, yesterday.

The cornetto class is particularly good — there are five of us
and yesterday’s lesson on breathing was immediately useful in my
later classes.

One of the cornetto players, whom I met in 2010, has since taken
up serpent, and so the Collegium has a serpent section!!!