News of the week of December 1, 2015


[Henry VIII]

Meeting report

We played:

Schedule

We will be meeting as usual on Tuesdays at 7:45pm at 233
Broadway, Cambridge.

Party planning

The January 1 date for our annual party has been working out
well. But this year, January 1 is a Friday, and I don’t see that
the Saturday or Sunday would be any worse than the Friday. So let
me know by Friday if you’d prefer to come on one of those dates instead of
January 1. I want to start getting invitations out.

Other event

The annual Pub Carol Sing, sponsored by the Folksong Society of Greater Boston and
the West
Gallery Quire will be this Sunday, December 6 at 2 pm at
Doyles Cafe in Jamaica Plain.

News of the week of November 24, 2015

[river valley]

(non)Meeting report

With people out of town and rehearsing for other groups and
having just returned from being out of town, we didn’t have a
quorum for a regular meeting.

However, there was a 5-part piece we’d been wanting to
proofread for a while, so two of us joined 3 players at John
Tyson’s place and proofread Valle che de’ lamenti miei
se’ piena by Giaches de Wert

Schedule

We will be meeting as usual on Tuesdays at 7:45pm at 233
Broadway, Cambridge.

Party planning

The January 1 date for our annual party has been working out
well. But this year, January 1 is a Friday, and I don’t see that
the Saturday or Sunday would be any worse than the Friday. So let
me know if you’d prefer to come on one of those dates instead of
January 1.

News of the week of November 10, 2015

[bee]

Meeting report: November 3, 2015

We played:

Meeting report: November 10, 2015

We played:

Schedule

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

News of the week of October 27, 2015

A Banquet of Love — Frans Floris
[banquet]

Meeting report

We played:

Schedule

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

This will be true next week, November 3, because David will be
there on time to open the door.

News of the week of October 20, 2015

[new piece for the week]

Meeting report:

We played:

Schedule

We are meeting regularly on Tuesdays
at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway.

As usual, on November 3, Election Day, I won’t be there for
most of the meeting, so either someone else will have to to be there to
open the door and find the music, or the meeting will have to be
somewhere else.

Performance opportunity

Last chance to sign up for the Wort Processor’s cider picnic on
Sunday, October 25 from noon to 3pm at Cider Hill in Amesbury.

It’s free and if some people wanted to come play after we eat
and drink enough, it would be fun. It’s a nice orchard with a
good store for buying apples and such. (The cider donuts have
been highly praised.)

Dogs have food prejudices

[Mongolian dogs]

T
his article about where dogs originated contains this quote
about research methodology:

Dr. Boyko traveled to a number of the locations where blood was drawn from village dogs. He said: “The great thing about working with dogs is that if you show up with food you don’t usually have trouble recruiting subjects. Usually.”

He added: “We showed up in Puerto Rico at a fishing village and the dogs turned up their noses at roast beef sandwiches. They were used to eating fish entrails.”

News of the week of October 13, 2015

Meeting report

We played:

Schedule

We are meeting regularly on Tuesdays
at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway.

As usual, on November 3, Election Day, I won’t be there for
most of the meeting, so either someone else will have to to be there to
open the door and find the music, or the meeting will have to be
somewhere else.