1.1 Meeting Report
1.2 Schedule
We will be having dropin meetings as usual on Tuesdays at 7:45pm at my place.
We will be having dropin meetings as usual on Tuesdays at 7:45pm at my place.
This post is so wrongheaded that I initially had no idea how to start, so I thought about it until I did. I'm going to start with the misstatements of fact, and then procede to the wrongheaded opinions.
And now to the matters of opinion:
Short version: it was a great space to sing in, not as large an audience as we'd have liked, but they seemed to enjoy what we did.
There aren't as many photographs as from the previous week, since the photographer was performing, but see the video below, and here are some sound clips:
The short answer is that everybody had a good time. Unfortunately, the camera got packed up before the party got going, so you can't see the audience and performers staying around to continue to enjoy themselves, or the glass harmonica party music provided by our hostess, Vera Meyer.
A longer answer is that the performers agreed that we had done a lot of good things musically, but had missed a few things that we wanted to do. And we agreed that we've gotten really good at recovering from mistakes, and we wished we could get a bit better at not making the mistakes in the first place.
The bottom line is that I was catching myself smiling about it for most of the next two days.
Come on Sunday, March 25, 2012, to the repeat performance at Gallery 263, 263 Pearl St., Cambridge, MA. It might be even better than last Sunday.
We played:
Here's the schedule for the next couple of months:
Remember that you should let me know as soon as possible whether you want to play at the Walk for Hunger. A lot of what we're thinking about playing is five part music, and we shouldn't work on that unless we're going to have at least five performers.
Or more specifically, an announcement of another performance of the same concert. Vera Meyer is graciously allowing us to perform Shakespeare's Neighbors in her living room, at 3pm on Sunday, March 18. It's free and open to the public, and there will be a pot luck supper following the concert. Please come, and bring all your friends.
The Cantabile Renaissance Band will be performing "Shakespeare's neighbors: an evening with Thomas Morley, William Shakespeare, and others" on Sunday, March 25 at 7pm at the 263 Gallery, 263 Pearl St., Cambridge, MA.
This performance will include the complete Morley Canzonets to three voyces, interspersed with readings from Romeo and Juliet, Phillip Sidney, and The Aminta by Tasso.
For more details, see the concert webpage.
There's a flyer you can print and paper your neighborhood with and give to all your friends.
We are trying to set up other performances of this program, which I will announce on this list as we finalize the arrangements. If you have an idea for somewhere West or South of the central metropolitan Boston area where we could do it, let me know.
We played:
We will be meeting as usual on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM at my place with the following exceptions:
Next week, February 21, will probably be our last meeting for a while where we will not be concentrating on the Walk for Hunger program, and where we will have a new piece to sightread. So if you have ideas about what you'd like to do, either for the new piece or for old pieces that aren't suitable for the Walk program, let me know.
We will be performing again this year, as we have every year since 1999, at the Walk for Hunger, in a beautiful spot on the Charles River, at the Cambridge-Watertown line. Unless you're a major rock star, it's probably your only opportunity to perform for tens of thousands of people.
Let me know if you want to play. If you do, let me know what you would like to play.
I'm leaning towards an all-English program, with some Morley, Weelkes, Holborne, Dowland and Byrd. Let me know your likes and dislikes in that range. Also, if that would leave out your favorite upbeat walking music, let me know about that.
We played:
We will be meeting as usual on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM at my place.
Tuesday February 28 will not be a dropin rehearsal, as the Morley group will pre-empt that time.
On March 6, I will be working at the polls for the presidential primary, so someone will have to open up if we want to meet that night.
We have again been invited to play at the Walk for Hunger, in our usual time and place. This year it's on May 6, and we'll probably be playing informally starting at 10 am and doing our usual two sets at noon and 2 pm.
If you'd like to play, please let me know as soon as possible. In addition to being available on May 6, you should also plan to come for both of the Tuesdays immediately before that (April 24 and May 1), and as many other Tuesdays in March and April as you need to learn the music.
I would like to have a playlist by the beginning of March, but I can't do that until I have the list of performers, so please let me know as soon as you can.
Also let me know if there are pieces you'd particularly like to play, or pieces that would cause you to not want to play if they appeared on the playlist. We would like to have a mix of the complicated polyphony we spend most of our time on and simpler polyphony that comes across better in the noisy outdoor setting. We need to spend at least half the time on instruments, since it's quite strenuous singing in that setting.
We played:
We will be meeting as usual on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM at my place.
Tuesday February 28 will not be a dropin rehearsal, as the Morley group will pre-empt that time. If there's interest, we could have a dropin meeting on Thursday, March 1 instead.