Program for the December 17 concert

We're starting to get settled on the program for the concert we're playing at the Boston Public Library at 2 PM on December 17, in the Rabb Lecture Hall. There's not a lot of time for rehearsing, so we're having to limit the amount of new stuff we play, but these are mostly people who haven't heard us before, so it won't matter to them.

There will be three sections, with me playing Diego Ortiz Ricercada's in between sections.

First there will be songs about drinking, dancing, and smoking. Most of these we've performed many times before, and the one that we haven't is mostly a vocal solo by a very experienced performer.

Then there will be a group of "religious" music. When you first start playing Renaissance music, you tend to think that everything religious was church music and everything secular was performed in the home, but in fact there were wide swaths of Europe where the established church discouraged polyphony in the church, and people liked it, so they played it in the home. There are a couple of carols that everybody knows, and a Byrd about Susanna, and a round about Judith and Holofernes.

The last section will be all Thomas Morley. We're mixing the Fantasias from the Two-voyce canzonets with the vocals from both the two and three voice canzonets.

There's a flyer, which includes the program which you should give to all your friends. If you're someone who could possibly go to a 2 PM concert in Boston's Back Bay, you should come.

Related posts:

1. Final Program for Thursday Concert
2. Concert Program Construction
3. Cutting a program