News of the Week of April 30, 2024

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Schedule

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA. Let me know if you want to come.

News of the Week of April 23, 2024

Innsbruck 1993 Maria-Theresien-Straße -S Anne Column

Schedule

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA. Let me know if you want to come.

Meeting format

We are trying out a slightly modified meeting format. We have found for some time that starting a meeting with everyone sightreading an aggressively polyphonic piece did not lead to good work on tuning and ensemble. So what we’ve been doing is starting with everyone sightreading from the hymnal, which does lead to good work on the tuning, but doesn’t directly address the problem of good ensemble playing from unbarred parts.

So what we’re going to try for a while is playing the same piece at the beginning of the rehearsal every week for a month or so. This will allow:

  • People who aren’t comfortable sight reading in the ensemble to work on one or more parts on their own, or with a teacher if they’re taking lessons.
  • People who want to learn a new instrument or a new clef or fingering to work on it on their own and not have to sight read cold.
  • Everyone to have a chance to play or sing all the parts they want to.

For our first piece to tackle this way, I picked Innsbruck. If you weren’t here last week and are coming this week, you should either print it out or ask me to do it for you.

If you have suggestions for a suitable piece for next month’s non-sightreading segment, let me know.

News of the Week of April 9, 2024

Hanging scroll, painting (BM 1913,0501,0.384 4)

Schedule

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA. Let me know if you want to come.

News of the Week of April 2, 2024

Jacopo Tintoretto - The Muses, 1578

Meeting Reports

April 2

We played:

Thanks to Ishmael for taking notes.

Schedule

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA. Let me know if you want to come.

News of the Week of March 12, 2024

The White Lion, Pub Sign, Selling - geograph.org.uk - 2105978

Meeting Report

We played:

Thanks to Ishmael for taking notes.

Schedule

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA. Let me know if you want to come.

News of the Week of February 27, 2024

Antonio Zucchi - Anacreon Sacrificing to the Three Graces, 1770

Meeting Report

February 27, 2024

Schedule

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA. Let me know if you want to come.

Tuesday, March 5, is the Presidential Primary in Massachusetts, so I am unlikely to make much if any of the meeting. Nevertheless, it sounded like there would be a quorum, so let me know if you want to come.

News of the Week of February 20, 2024

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Meeting Report

February 13, 2024

We played:

Thanks to Ishmael for taking notes.

Schedule

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA. Let me know if you want to come.

Tuesday, March 5, is the Presidential Primary in Massachusetts, so I am unlikely to make much if any of the meeting. People are still welcome to come meet here if they want to.

Unpacking progress

Hardly any, but I’m attaching a picture of the current state of the computer room. Faramir refused to pose, although he does spend a fair amount of time in the dog bed. The smaller futon could be unfolded into a guest bed. There would need to be more unpacking or at least serious moving before I could unfold the larger one.

News of the Week of February 13, 2024

Pauwels Franck - The Fruits of Love

Meeting Report

February 13, 2024

We played:

Thanks to Ishmael for taking notes.

Schedule

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA. Let me know if you want to come.

Tuesday, March 5, is the Presidential Primary in Massachusetts, so I am unlikely to make much if any of the meeting. People are still welcome to come meet here if they want to.

Unpacking progress

The boxes of books went away, so I managed to salvage a little more of the computer room. It’s still not as easy to unpack boxes as I would have expected it to be – the boxes are mostly accessible, but the places I would want to put their contents are still clogged with boxes.

There is a box of jetsom which you’re welcome to look at. Mostly obsolete but possibly still useful technology. Notable item is my mother’s film camera, which was here because she wanted me to take it to a camera store and get it fixed, which I never did.