We played:
Until further notice, we’ll be having dropin meetings as usual on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM
at my place.
We played:
We’ll be having dropin meetings as usual on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM
at my place.
We played:
We’ll be having dropin meetings as usual on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM
at my place.
At 7:30 PM on Thursday, July 21, the West Gallery Quire will
be hosting a special workshop, led by Francis Roads. It will be
at the Pleasant
St. Congregational Church, 75 Pleasant St., Arlington, Mass.
More details, and pointers to the music are here.
We’re going to have another workshop with Francis Roads, one of
the leading scholars and performers of West Gallery Music. It
will be on Thursday, July 21 at 7:30 PM at the Pleasant
St. Congregational Church, 75 Pleasant St., Arlington,
Mass.
Francis made a web
page with PDF’s for all the music we’re going to be singing.
If you’d rather download them all at once, you can use my
concatenation. If you want to print the concatenation
double-sided, you also want to print a
few pages single-sided so that there are at most 1 page turn
per piece.
If you can help with publicity, here’s a flyer
you can print out and hand out or post.
We played:
We’ll be having dropin meetings as usual on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM
at my place.
In This
review of Red Priest at Rockport, he compares them unfavorably
to Solamente Naturale.
People (including me) often remark on how much less crowded
BEMF is these days than it used to be. There are several
conventional explanations:
I’m sure all of these explanations are valid, but I ran into
another one last night. A friend came over with his two dogs to
console me for losing Sunny, and I told him I was surprised at not
having seen him at BEMF this year. He turned out to have been
busy. One of his groups is doing a recording, but the good story
is that he’s now playing shawm in a rock band.
It reminded me of Michel
Godard, one of the best serpent players in the world. He
plays lots of kinds of music, from Medieval to jazz and the
digeridoo repertoire. He
attended the Historic Brass Society conference in 1995, and said
that it was the first time he’d been asked to play somewhere because of the
instrument he plays, rather than because people liked his music.
So if there are lots of players of early instruments who aren’t
going to BEMF because they’ve found places to play that aren’t
specifically early music-related, that would be a more cheerful
result than everybody getting old and losing their money.
Sunny’s last morning, a set on Flickr.
Sunny was uncomfortable enough to be saying “do something” yesterday morning, so I made him an appointment at the vet. It turned out that his constipation was caused by a massive tumor in his colon, and we decided to put him down.
These are pictures from after I made the appointment. I don’t have one from his last decision about where to lie down in the examining room at the vets — he was famous for figuring out how to be as in the way as possible, and this talent didn’t desert him at the end. He had a whole room to pick from, including a comfortable blanket in the middle of the room, and he lay down in front of the door to make it hard for the vet to get in and out of the room.
I told him how much everybody was going to miss him, and he ate lots of treats and barked at the vet when she took his paw to put in the solution. And then it was over.
This
article is mostly about the Juliard early music department, but the hook
is the BEMF Young Artists mini-festival.
We played:
We’ll be having dropin meetings as usual on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM
at my place.
LayMusic.org 