Author Archives: Laura Conrad

Report on the July 27, 2010 meeting

By Laura Conrad | Published: July 30, 2010
We played: Spanish group from Crumhorns 3 Holborne: 9. Pavan and 10. Galliard Entre vous qui aymés Cavendish, Come, Gentle Swains Morley, Arise, awake, you silly shepherds sleeping Sermisy, Martin menait son pourceau au marché Crequillon, Plaisir n'ay plus Ravenscroft, To Portsmouth Schedule For the rest of August, we will be having our normal dropin [...]
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Report on the July 20, 2010, meeting

By Laura Conrad | Published: July 22, 2010
We played: English Country Dances from Pipers' Fancy de l'Estocart, Psaume CXXXVII Josquin, Faute d'Argent Arcadelt , Margot labourez les vignes Lassus, Margot labourez les vignes Cave ndish, Come, gentle Swains Ravenscroft, He that will an alehouse keep Schedule For the next few weeks, we will be having dropin meetings as usual on Tuesdays at [...]
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Report on the July 13, 2010 meeting

By Laura Conrad | Published: July 22, 2010
Report written by Aram Hollman We played: Durante, “Danza, danza, fanciulla gentile” Anon., “The Dark is My Delight” Le heurteur, “Quant je boy du vin claret” Gervaise, “Dix Bransle Gays” Susato, #37-41 Purcell, “The glass was just timed"
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Amherst Baroque Soloists

By Laura Conrad | Published: July 16, 2010
I don't want you to think that all we do here at Amherst is take classes in the daytime and complain about them at night. Every night there's some kind of performance, with opportunities for playing or singing or dancing before and after. Yesterday it was a concert by the faculty of the Baroque Academy. [...]
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Too good to be true

By Laura Conrad | Published: July 14, 2010
They reorganized all the loud wind classes on Monday night, and threw me (and a number of other people) out of them. I shouldn't have been surprised -- I know someone who flew from Massachusetts to San Francisco to take a cornetto class and they cancelled it without telling her because not enough people signed [...]
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Classes have met

By Laura Conrad | Published: July 13, 2010
And they all seem to be pretty good. Cornetto technique with Stephen Escher We did a lot of talking and not much playing yesterday, but the talking was to the point. We went around the room and talked about how and why we got into cornetto playing, and each played single notes and talked about [...]
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I have arrived

By Laura Conrad | Published: July 11, 2010
Budget dorm room at Amherst At the Amherst Early Music Festival at Connecticut College in New London, Connecticut. The dorm room is a bit spartan -- no mirror on the wall, no hangars in the closet, no wastebasket. There are two power outlets and an ethernet connection, but the ethernet connection is 10 feet from [...]
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Grape vines in East Cambridge

By Laura Conrad | Published: July 8, 2010
Yard with grape arbor One of my favorite gardens in East Cambridge has a grape arbor over the whole yard. They can have a fairly large party there, and when you walk by in the fall the smell of the grapes is wonderful. Grape leaves with fungus or something This year, although there are a [...]
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Report on the July 6, 2010, meeting

By Laura Conrad | Published: July 7, 2010
We played: Pipers' Fancy English Country Dances Sermisy, Jouissance vous donnerai Willaert, Faute d'Argent Sermisy, Je ne suis pas si sot Wilbye, Sweet honey-sucking bees Schedule The meeting next week, Tuesday, July 13, will take place in air-conditioned comfort at Stuart Soloway's, starting at the usual time: 7:45 PM. He will be sending out directions. [...]
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Fireworks

By Laura Conrad | Published: July 5, 2010
I live in Cambridge, less than a mile from the Charles River. When I first moved here, I figured out that it was fairly easy to walk down to the river on the evening of the Fourth of July and watch the fireworks being set off from a barge near the Esplanade on the other [...]
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