Report on the May 26 meeting

We played:

Sermisy

Amy souffrez (2 voice)

Aupres de vous (2 voice)

Anonymous

Duet 113

Bicinia (ed. Phalese)

Fantasia 25

Fantasia 1

Fantasia 2

Sermisy

Amy souffrez (3 voice, with ornaments from the Attaignant keyboard tablature)

Aupres de vous (3 voice)

Changeons propos

Vignons, vignons

Heurteur

Quand je bois

Purcell

He that drinks is immortal

Down with Bacchus

Schedule

We will not be meeting either next week or the week after, because of the West Gallery Quire rehearsal and the Boston Early Music Festival.

After that, it will be Summer time, and the livin' is easy for lots of us, so we should get lots of people coming and be able to do polychoral Gabrielli and other things with lots of parts.

So here's the schedule:

Tuesday, June 2

No meeting

Tuesday, June 9

No meeting

Tuesday, June 16, and subsequent Tuesdays

Meetings resume at 7:45 PM at my place.

Sunday, June 21

Party at 4 PM at my place.

Party

From time to time, the Cantabile Band has parties, so that we can invite all our friends to have as much fun as we do. The big difference between the parties and the meetings is that we eat and drink before as well as after singing and playing. Also because we have friends we like to sing and play with who have trouble making it on Tuesdays. And in this case, because the Walk for Hunger wasn't really the best environment for some of the music we played there. I was very impressed that we didn't get lost when the helicopter went over, but the audience probably wasn't able to hear how impressive it was. So we might get together and burst into song from that program from time to time.

Since the party will be held shortly after BEMF, I'll be printing the invitation on the back of the flyers, so that people can check us out by coming either to a meeting or to a party.

If you want to print either flyers or invitations, you can download them. The invitation includes the flyer as a second page, so if you don't have a double-sided printer, you may want to print them separately.

Assuming the weather is at all friendly to such things, we'll be doing the eating and drinking in the backyard, and will have the grill going, so you're welcome to bring food contributions that need grilling.

Cantabile at BEMF

At BEMF, I will be attempting to keep the flyer table at the exhibition stocked with our flyers, in the version with the invitation on the back. If you're going to be hanging around the exhibition, it would be good if you could help with that, at least to the extent of letting me know if we seem to have run out.

If you're going to fringe events of interest to the same population we recruit from, it would be good if you could take some flyers, either to leave on a table or to hand to likely suspects.

BEMF events of interest

I have tickets to several of the BEMF concerts: all the 11PM ones, all the recorder ones, and the Renaissance music ones. So that's Tuesday evening, Wednesday through Saturday at 11PM, Friday evening, and Sunday afternoon.

There are fringe events where our friends will be playing or singing:

Monday, June 8

12:30pm Seven Hills Renaissance Wind Ensemble (Elizabeth Hardy, Cathy Stein & Matthew Stein, shawms & dulcians; Rigel Lustwerk, cornetto; Daniel Meyers, sackbut; Daniel Stillman, shawm, dulcian & sackbut). Musicians of the Golden Fleece: Wind Band Music from the Hapsburg Courts of the 16th Century. Program featuring sacred and secular works by Thomas Stolzer and Orlande de Lassus, Kappellmeisters to Louis II of Hungary and Albrecht V of Bavaria. First Church in Boston. $15 donation. 617-388-2363 or 7hillsband@gmail.com.

Tuesday, June 9

12:30pm Harmonious Blacksmith (Ah Young Hong, soprano; Justin Godoy, recorder; William Simms, lute, theorbo, guitar; Nika Zlataric, viola da gamba; Joseph Gascho, harpsichord). Phantasticke Spirites. Inspired by the bawdy and joyous spirit of English songs, Harmonious Blacksmith improvises and ornaments the music of Byrd, Morley, and their contemporaries. Named after Thomas Weelkes’s fourth book of madrigals, this program also draws from the keyboard music in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book. First Church in Boston. $20/$10 st, sr, BEMF, EMA, ARS. 781-507-4160 or info@HarmoniousBlacksmith.com.

4pm Seven Times Salt (Karen Burciaga, violin; Daniel Myers, recorders; Josh Schreiber Shalem, bass viol; Matthew Wright, lute; with guests Tracy Cowart, mezzo-soprano; Michael Barrett, tenor; Kyle Parrish, narrator). A Brave Barrel of Oysters: Music of Samuel Pepys’ London. Sample the delights of Restoration England, as described in Samuel Pepys’ diaries. Music of Lawes, Locke, Matteis, and Pepys himself! Beacon Hill Friends House. $10 suggested donation. 508-878-7028 or Karen@seventimessalt.com.

Wednesday, June 10

3:30pm Judith Conrad, clavichord. The Labyrinthine Keyboard Music of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562–1621). Sweelinck’s Fantasias are among the monuments of early Baroque music. They require a different sort of listening from the classical forms of music, in much the way that the walk of a cathedral labyrinth is so different from a standard religious service. Performing on a triple-fretted clavichord by Andreas Hermert of Berlin, 2003. The Paulist Center Library. $20 donation to benefit the Iraq Family Relief Fund. 508-674-6128 or judithconrad@mindspring.com

Thursday, June 11

9am Viola da Gamba Society of America. The Gamba Gamut. A series of five mini-programs, spanning the repertoire of the viola da gamba, performed by emerging and established artists of the VdGSA. 9am: Empire Viols present The State of Gambo, a program of accompanied duo viols, with music by Young, Jenkins, Hume, and Simpson; 9:45am: Brady Lanier, viola da gamba & Molly Hammond, harpsichord, present a program of Marais and Forqueray; 10:15am: Brandeis University Viol Collegium, directed by Sarah Mead, presents a program of works drawn from manuscripts from the Gorham Collection at Brandeis (includes Lasso, Willaert, Vecchi, and others); 11am: Brook Green presents a program of solo music for treble viol, including works by Bassano and Hume; 11:30am: Long and Away presents Ye Sacred Muses, a program of English consort songs and dances. Cathedral Church of St. Paul. FREE, donations welcome. 239-994-3924 or scf@cwru.edu.

12:30pm Boston Recorder Quartet (Roxane Layton, Judith Linsenberg, Roy Sansom & Tom Zajac, recorders). Recorder Music from Seven Centuries. Works for recorder quartet by Byrd, Bach, Rore, Merula, Sansom, Shannon, and Anon. Emmanuel Church. $15 donation/ $10 donation for st, sr, BEMF, EMA. 617-489-3906 or dellalsansom@earthlink.net.

2pm Saltarello (Sarah Cantor, recorders; Angus Lansing, viola da gamba; Andrus Madsen, harpsichord). Handel’s Italian Passion and English Charm. Handel’s solo sonatas, most of them written during the first two decades of the 18th century, exhibit him at his best. At once tuneful and inventive, fiery and tender, Handel was so fond of these pieces that returned to them again and again, borrowing bits and pieces for use in other works. Come hear what made these sonatas so irresistible! The College Club of Boston. $15/$10 st, sr, BEMF, EMA, ARS. 617-669-4292 or sarah@cantornote.com.

Friday, June 12

3:30pm Judith Conrad, clavichord. Tangled Mysteries: Clavichord Music of Renaissance Poland. Music from 16th-century tablature books from Lublin, Warsaw, and Gdansk, performed on early clavichords, after original instruments from Silesia (ca. 1470 & ca. 1600). The Paulist Center Library. $20 donation to benefit the Iraq Family Relief Fund. 508-674-6128 or judithconrad@mindspring.com.

Saturday, June 13

10:30am WIP Series (Works in Progress). Mini-recitals by fabulous folk: featuring Judith Conrad, Sylvia Berry, Gail Olszewski, Larry Wallach, and Mariken Palmboom. Harpsichord Clearing House, Radisson Hotel Dartmouth Room, 6th floor. $5 or FREE with BEMF Pass.

12:30pm Convivium Musicum, directed by Michael Barrett. Going for Baroque. The Electors of Saxony made the court at Dresden a haven for Protestant composers including Hassler, Praetorius, and Schütz, shapers of the emerging Baroque idiom. This concert will feature sacred works for voices by these German masters. Church of St. John the Evangelist. $10/$5 st, sr, BEMF, EMA. 609-457-8573 or info@convivium.org.

If I've missed anything, you can leave a comment here, or email me and I'll add you.

Other events

If you're interested in the West Gallery Quire, come to either the June 3 concert or the June 7 meeting.

The concert has the merit of having been rehearsed, and being a selection of a lot of the better music. It will be at 8 PM on June 3, at the Brighton-Allston Congregational Church, at 404 Washington St. in Brighton.

The meeting has the advantage that you too can play or sing. It's probably the best opportunity for several hundred or even thousand miles for singing with a serpent.

Related posts:

1. Report on the May 22 meeting
2. Report on the May 15 meeting
3. Report on the May 29 meeting