News of the week of March 8, 2016

[Raffael Cupid]

Meeting report

We played:

Schedule

Remember, you should let me know by Monday night if you plan to
come on Tuesday.

This is for two reasons:

  • If nobody says they’re coming, I will cancel the
    meeting.
  • On Tuesday morning, I will transcribe a piece suitable for
    the people who’ve said they’re coming. So if you didn’t tell
    me, you might have to play a part in the wrong range, or double
    with someone when you’d rather play one-on-a-part.

But now that we’re all over the flu, and maybe not traveling so
much, we expect to meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm at 233 Broadway,
Cambridge.

Other playing events

The Boston
Recorder Society is having a Spring workshop
for recorders, strings and loud winds on Saturday,
April 2. Coaches will include Joan Kimball and Bob Wiemken of
Piffaro and Daphna Mor.

Other performances by members

David is also singing with the Cambridge Chamber Singers, who
will be featured on the WGBH program “Sing that Thing”, which will
be broadcast on:

  • Friday April 15 8:30 PM Channel 2
  • Saturday April 16 4 PM Channel 2
  • Saturday April 16 11:30 PM Channel 44
  • Sunday April 17 4 PM Channel 2

Website changes

If you click on the links to the pieces we played, you will
notice a difference. This is because you get to be the first
people to test out the newly redesigned Serpent
Publications website.

The reason for the redesign is that the old WordPress site was
hacked in the summer of 2014, and I’ve never managed to get it
working right since. I’m hoping this version is less vulnerable,
both to the hackers and to the customer “support” which is
designed to move me to a more expensive hosting plan.

The site is still incomplete, but if there’s a feature of the
old site that you really miss, let me know and I’ll make that a priority.

We are meeting on Tuesday

[waits]

I really don’t want to have to do this every week. But we’ve
missed several meetings in a row, so people might have gotten used
to not having the Cantabile Band on Tuesday.

So this week it looks like we will have a critical mass, and
will be meeting on Tuesday, at the usual time (7:45pm) and place
(233 Broadway, Cambridge).

If you haven’t already told me you’re coming, do let me know by
Monday night, so that I can transcribe a new piece with the right
number of parts.

News of the week of February 16, 2016

Meeting report

We played:

Schedule

We continue to meet on Tuesdays at 7:45pm at 233 Broadway
Cambridge. This is assuming that enough people have told me by
Monday night that they would like to come.

There will not be a meeting on March 1.

So what was the turnout?

[voter]

I’ve been listening to lots of coverage of the New Hampshire
primary results, and nobody has mentioned the turnout. If Trump
and Sanders won by getting people to the polls who would normally
have stayed home, it means a lot more for the rest of the country
than if they won in a small, unrepresentative state by convincing
the normal voters to vote for them.

News of the week of February 2, 2016

[cricket]

Meeting report

We played:

Schedule

We continue to meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm at 233 Broadway,
Cambridge.

There will be no meeting on March 1.

We don’t really have critical mass for a dropin group any more,
so please let me know if you’re planning to come on Tuesday by
Monday night.

A good dog that didn’t make the exhibition

[ice skating]

I was at the Boston Museum of Fine
Arts exhibition
about Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer. I
wasn’t really using my Prado
algorithm for seeing too much art, where I look carefully only
at the pictures with dogs in them. But I couldn’t help noticing
the dogs. There weren’t many in the formal portraits, but the
family pictures and landscapes mostly did have dogs.

There was an album
of watercolors, which was of course open only to whatever page
the curator had picked, but it had a sign that you could see more
on the website. So when I looked, my favorite dog was the one above.