Bringing Live Music back into the Living Room

Meeting report, May 14

We played:

• Morley, Fantasie: Il Grillo? , Flora wilt thou torment mee , Fantasie: Il Lamento? , Love learns by laughing , Arise, get up my dear (transposed) , What ayles my darling?
• Encina, Triste España
• Entre Mayo
• Encina, Yo m'estava
• Ich kumm aus fremden Landen her
• Ravenscroft, Psalme 23 , Psalme 147
• Janequin, Martin menait son pourceau
• Sermisy , Tant que vivrai
• Purcell, Five Reasons

Schedule

We will be meeting regularly on Tuesday nights at 7:45 PM at my place .

An exception will be Tuesday, June 11, when BEMF will be happening. I'm going to go see Emma Kirkby and Paul Odette.

Other events

Convivium Musicum will play a program titled "Music of the Spheres: Music and Mathematics in the Renaissance" on Saturday, May 18 at 8pm at Harvard-Epworth Church in Cambridge, and on Sunday, May 19 at 7pm at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Brookline. Ockeghem will be the featured composer.

Meeting report, April 30

This report was contributed by Ishmael Stefanov. It was emailed, but didn't have the links, and didn't get posted on the blog.

We played:

• WINCHESTER OLD (ca. 1562)
• HEINLEIN (ca. 1676)
• ST. FLAVIAN (ca. 1562)
• VICTORY adapted from Palestrina
• HILARITER (ca. 1678)
• Holborne, 1. Bona Speranza, 2. The teares of the Muses. 3. Pavan. , 4. Lullabie , 5. The Cradle. and 6. The New-yeeres gift.
• Josquin , La Deploration de la morte de Johannes Ockeghem
• Wilbye, Draw on sweet Night

Meeting report, May 7

We played:

• Lots of Morley Canzonets to two voyces
• Morley, It was a lover and his lass, and Springtime mantleth every bough
• Weelkes, As deadly serpents lurking , Come come lets begin , Come, Sirrah Jack, ho! and four arms, two lips, one wreathing
• Knapp, Great monarch of the world
• Mundy, My prime of youth
• Round that David brought

Schedule

We will be meeting regularly on Tuesday nights at 7:45 PM at my place .

An exception will be Tuesday, June 11, when BEMF will be happening. I'm going to go see Emma Kirkby and Paul Odette.

Meeting report, April 16

We played:

• Ravenscroft, Psalme 91, Psalme 23.
• Le Jeune, Revoici venir du printemps
• Rore , Hor che'l ciel'e la terra
• Wilbye, Flora gave me fairest flowers and Weep, weep mine eyes

Meeting report, April 23

We played:

• Morley, Sweet nymph and La Girandola
• Ruffo, La Piva
• Lots of Holborne
• Palestrina , Vestiva i colli
• Byrd, This sweet and merry month of May,

Schedule

We will be meeting regularly on Tuesday nights at 7:45 PM at my place .

Next Tuesday, April 30, Anne has agreed to be there on time to open the door for people, so we will meet as usual, although I won't get there until some time after 9 because of the election.

Walk for Hunger

People who are playing the Walk for Hunger are reminded that it is on Sunday May 5, and we're responsible for covering 10am until 3pm. I will be there for the whole time; it would be good if someone else would commit to being there by at least 10:30.

If you're not playing, it's a beautiful spot on the banks of the Charles River (Greenough Boulevard, across from the Cambridge Cemetery), and you're welcome to drop by. It's pretty informal this year, so if you drop by, you'll be able to sit in if you want to.

Meeting report, April 9

We played:

• Guami, Ricercari
• Bicinia: Beatus vir , Beatus homo , O Maria mater pia, Per illud ave prolatum,
• Dowland, I saw my Lady weepe,
• Byrd, The Nightingale
• Dowland, From silent night
• Purcell, I gave her cakes and I gave her ale

Schedule

We will be meeting regularly on Tuesday nights at 7:45 PM at my place .

Other events

Tonight (April 10) and also on Sunday , John Tyson, recorder, joins El Dorado Ensemble (Carol Lewis, Janet Haas, Paul Johnson, Mai-Lan Broekman and Alice Mroszczyk, viols; Olav Chris Henriksen, lute and theorbo) to perform Italian diminutions, fantasias and dance music of the renaissance by Bassano, Dalla Casa, Rognoni, Terzi, Kapsberger and others.

Also tonight, Ishmael will be playing with Seven Times Salt at the Harvard Square English Country Dance.

Next weekend is NEFFA , a wonderful place to see and participate in singing, dancing and other folk arts. The West Gallery Quire will be having their workshop on Sunday at 11 am. This is one of the better places to sing with a serpent, if you haven't had the chance to do that yet.

Judith Conrad, forte piano, and the Delight Consort will play on April 21, 2013 at 3:00 p.m., at the historic Loring-Greenough House , 12 South Street, Jamaica Plain MA. The program will welcome back the reconditioned box forte piano, and will feature the late 18th century genre of music for piano with instrumental accompaniment, including works of C.F. Fischer, W. Williams, W.A. Mozart and J.C. Bach.

Meeting Report, March 27

We played:

• Ravenscroft, Psalme 91.
• Mauduit, Voici le vert et beau Mai
• Lots of Holborne
• Ravenscroft, Jolly Shepheard

Meeting report, April 2

We played:

• Vulpius, Gelobt sei Gott
• Ave virgo virginum from Leisentrit's Gesangbuch, 1584
• Hilariter
• Lassus, Bonjour, mon coeur
• Byrd, Whyle that the Sunne
• Billings, Easter Anthem
• Dowland, A shepheard in a shade and Come yee heavy states of night,
• Purcell, Down with Bacchus

Schedule

We will be meeting regularly on Tuesday nights at 7:45 PM at my place .

Walk for Hunger

I'm assuming that I know about everybody who wants to play at the Walk for Hunger. If this isn't true, let me know soon.

Meeting Report

We played:

• Ruffo, La Sol Fa Re Mi , O Felici Occhi Mei , and Trinitas in Unitate
• Josquin , En l'ombre d'un buissonet
• Lassus, Bonjour, mon coeur
• Arcadelt, O Felici Occhi Mei and Il bianco e dolce cigno
• Ravenscroft, As I me walked in a May morning

Schedule

We will be meeting regularly on Tuesday nights at 7:45 PM at my place .

Walk for Hunger

I have accepted our invitation to play the Walk for Hunger at the same time and place as the last several years. (May 5, 10am to 3 pm, on Greenough Boulevard across from the Cambridge Cemetery.)

If you would like to play with us, let me know by April 5. You should bring your copy of Barnes English Country Dances, if you have it (I recommend acquiring it if you don't), and we may have group playing of some Renaissance dance music and singing of rounds.

In the past, we've discouraged people from signing up if they only play an instrument that doesn't work in bad weather. Due to the informal nature of this performance, this year we welcome our fair-weather string-playing friends. Of course, if you also play recorder, you can also come play a plastic recorder in the downpour, blizzard, or hail, just like the rest of us.

If you're working up a solo or duet that isn't suitable for everyone to join in on, let me know what it is and how long it will take so that I can schedule things.

Meeting Report

We played:

• Gibbons, SONG 67
• Damon, SOUTHWELL
• Handel, CHRISTMAS
• Gibbons, Fantasie V
• Arcadelt, Da bei rami , Quand'io penso al martire , and O Felici Occhi Mei
• Janequin, Martin menait son pourceau
• Wilbye, Lady, when I behold,
• Weelkes, Hark, all ye lovely Saints above
• Ravenscroft, Now God be with old Simeon

Schedule

We will be meeting regularly on Tuesday nights at 7:45 PM at my place .

Walk for Hunger

I have accepted our invitation to play the Walk for Hunger at the same time and place as the last several years. (May 5, 10am to 3 pm, on Greenough Boulevard across from the Cambridge Cemetery.)

If you would like to play with us, let me know by April 5. You should bring your copy of Barnes English Country Dances, if you have it (I recommend acquiring it if you don't), and we may have group playing of some Renaissance dance music and singing of rounds.

In the past, we've discouraged people from signing up if they only play an instrument that doesn't work in bad weather. Due to the informal nature of this performance, this year we welcome our fair-weather string-playing friends. Of course, if you also play recorder, you can also come play a plastic recorder in the downpour, blizzard, or hail, just like the rest of us.

If you're working up a solo or duet that isn't suitable for everyone to join in on, let me know what it is and how long it will take so that I can schedule things.

Meeting Report

We played:

• Vulpius, Gelobt sei Gott
• Genevan Psalter, Toulon
• Ravenscroft , Psalme 91
• Farrant, Lord, for thy tender mercy's sake
• Morley , April is in my Mistress's face
• Pilkington, Rest, sweet Nymphs
• Mundy, My prime of youth and In deep distress
• Wilbye, Adieu, sweet Amaryllis and Lady, when I behold

Schedule

We will be meeting regularly on Tuesday nights at 7:45 PM at my place .

Walk for Hunger

I have accepted our invitation to play the Walk for Hunger at the same time and place as the last several years. (May 5, 10am to 3 pm, on Greenough Boulevard across from the Cambridge Cemetery.)

People who want to play should let me know when they plan to get there. I will need to know who is coming, their t-shirt sizes, and who will need a vehicle permit, by April 5.

If you're working up a solo or duet that isn't suitable for everyone to join in on, let me know what it is and how long it will take so that I can schedule things.

Meeting Report

We played:

• Guarini, Ricercari
• Music from the Classical Period, Arranged by Rosenberg
• De la Vigne, La Rose
• Morley, Springtime mantleth every bough
• Weelkes, The Nightingale, the organ of delight and Upon a hill

Schedule

We will be meeting regularly on Tuesday nights at 7:45 PM at my place .

Walk for Hunger

I have accepted our invitation to play the Walk for Hunger at the same time and place as the last several years.

There seems to be no enthusiasm for working up a program for this, as we have done for the last several years, so we won't do that. The March and April rehearsals will continue as usual to be dropin rehearsals with a mix of sightreading new pieces and learning the polyphonic music of the Renaissance.

If I hear from people with enthusiasm for working up a program before tomorrow's rehearsal, we can change this, but I really have canvassed all the usual suspects, and they sound like they'd just as soon not commit to major rehearsal time for the next two months. And I would prefer not to commit to rehearse a large program with a group of people who don't want to commit to rehearsing.

So this year, the the afternoon of the Walk for Hunger will be similar to what the morning has been for the last several years. People who want to play solos or duets should let me know when they plan to get there, and I'll set up a schedule. I'm hoping that there will be enough good dance musicians that in between the solos and duets we'll have a band that can play Playford and maybe Susato and Gervaise. It isn't necessary to make a commitment to doing that at this point, but I'll want people to say whether they're coming by some time in April, so that I can get you t-shirts and parking permits.