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3/19/2024 -3/30/2024 | "Lost... and Found": Finding Your Way Back in the Music In this series we will practice ways for you to find your way back if you lose your place while playing with others. We’ll listen carefully to the music and learn to understand what is heard – in your own part as well as in the others. Even if you’re playing from a single part rather than a score, you can learn how to sync up with the rest of the ensemble, whether online or in person. Bring your pencil (or stylus) and be ready to mark up a copy of the music that you can refer to later for future repertoire, whether playing online or in person. You will have several opportunities to try these skills on each of the selections that will be presented. You'll also have the opportunity to ask questions as we go through the materials. For both C and F recorder fingerings. This class is available at no charge to ARS members, only. When registering, use the email address associated with your ARS membership. If you are not an ARS member, you may click HERE to join. These classes are limited in size to allow for more interaction between the teacher and students. If you have already taken two or more of our Second Level classes, please wait until one week prior to the start of class to sign up, in order to allow a larger number of people to take advantage of these opportunities. Dates: Tuesday March 19 at 7PM ET Saturday March 23rd at 2PM ET Tuesday March 26th at 7PM ET Saturday March 30 at 2PM ET more info... |
3/25/2024 -3/30/2024 | A retreat for intermediate to advanced recorder players Interested in working intensively on technique and musical skills. Classes include articulation, finger facility, and tone; special topics including Impossible Rhythms, Contemporary Repertoire, Pulse & Rhythm, Ensemble Leading, and Sightreading Skills; and consort sessions. Evening activities include ad hoc playing sessions, faculty concert, coached large-group sessions, and open mic. more info... |
4/2/2024 -4/11/2024 | ARS is offering Free Online 4-part Beginners’ Course for alto recorder! If you have never played recorder before, or if it has been eons ago since you have played, this is the course for you! Build a solid foundation for learning alto recorder through this 4-part beginners’ course. Recorder player/teacher Susan Richter will cover basics such as hand and finger position, tonguing, and tone, and instill good habits for continuing to learn on your own or with a teacher. All ages are welcome, but children should be joined by an adult during the classes. Tuesday April 2 at 5 PM ET Thursday April 4 at 5 PM ET Tuesday April 9 at 5 PM ET Thursday April 11 at 5 PM ET About Susan Richter: Susan Richter earned a degree in music education (clarinet concentration) from the University of North Texas, but soon discovered that the field of computer technology was a much more reliable way to earn money than teaching music. In the early music world, her primary instruments are recorders and Renaissance double reeds: shawms and dulcians. Susan also enjoys singing in various church and early music groups. She has been a performing member of Texas Early Music Project (TEMP), St. David’s (Episcopal Church, Austin) Compline Choir, and the Austin Baroque Orchestra, and teaches adult beginning recorder at Austin’s Lifetime Learning Institute. Susan is on the board of TEMP, was a Board member of the ARS 2008-2012, is a music leader at Central Presbyterian Church in Austin, and is Administrator of the Texas Toot early music workshops. She enjoys travel, tending her wild Hill Country yard, feeding and watching birds, and occasionally playing penny whistle duets with her husband, Win Bent. Susan is now happily retired from gainful IT employment. Do you need to purchase an alto recorder? You cannot go wrong with the best plastic recorders on the market. Yamaha, Aulos, and Zen-On all make fine sounding and in-tune plastic recorders. Consider purchasing an instrument from one of our business partners (the names in quotes below cite the original 18th c. recorder makers from which the plastic models are modeled): Von Huene Workshop (The Early Music Shop of New England) Yamaha "Rottenburgh" alto recorder https://www.vonhuene.com/p-115-yamaha-rottenburgh-plastic-alto.aspx Aulos "Haka" alto recorder https://www.vonhuene.com/p-126-aulos-plastic-haka-alto.aspx Zen-on "Bressan" alto recorder https://www.vonhuene.com/p-6331-zen-on-g1-a-440-bressan-alto-recorder.aspx Sweet Pipes Recorder Book https://www.vonhuene.com/p-3689-burakoff-gerald-hettrick-sweet-pipes-recorder-book-book-1-adults-and-older-beginners.aspx Honeysuckle Music Alto recorders https://honeysucklemusic.com/show3.php?cat=Alto Sweet Pipes Recorder Book https://honeysucklemusic.com/showf.php?item=5289 Lazar's Early Music Yamaha "Rottenburgh" alto recorder https://lazarsearlymusic.com/collections/recorders/products/yamaha-abs-resin-recorder-alto?variant=29092748591186 Recorderforge.com Alto recorders https://recorderforge.com/Shop-by-size/F-Alto/?order=name-asc&p=1&properties=151fe63ecadb49aebf3ed9923ead2718 more info... |
4/6/2024 | Professional musician Gilbert Ritchie (Greenville, SC) will present his program, O Primavera - Music to Celebrate Spring. Mr. Ritchie has been involved with early music since his college years. He is a founding board member of SC Bach, a non-profit committed to producing performances of the music of JS Bach and his contemporaries. more info... |
4/7/2024 | In this workshop we will use the playful mindfulness practices of Deep Listening as developed by composer/performer/teacher Pauline Oliveros as well as new developments in audio on the Zoom platform. Using the new Live Performance Audio option (use the most recent Zoom desktop app, then go to Audio Settings and click on Live Performance Audio), we’ll open our ears and our practice of hearing to enjoy each other’s sounds. We’ll explore tuning, play around with the inherent latency/time lag, and draw on plainchant and new compositions to sound and listen together. more info... |
4/12/2024 -5/3/2024 | Starting in April, Seattle Recorder Society will sponsor a four-session beginning recorder program for 9-13 year-olds, called the Junior Recorder Ensemble of Puget Sound (JREPS). The class will be taught by SRS member Nancy Gorbman, who led a similar group last summer on Vancouver Island. The program will run on four consecutive Friday evenings from 4 – 5 pm, April 12, 19, 26 and May 3. . Each participant will be provided with an “Ecodear” soprano recorder, a music folder with sheet music and handouts. Music stands will be provided at the sessions. The cost of the program is $47.50 and includes the recorder. Financial aid is available if needed. more info... |
4/13/2024 | Join the St. Louis Recorder Society for a full-day workshop on Saturday, April 13, 2024 Here it comes- the moment you don’t play. Is resting a mental break? A counting hazard? Or an electric silence? Come find out as we play (and rest) our way through a diverse selection of pieces featuring music’s quietest challenge, the rest. We'll examine the different ways rests can function in music, practice playing them with zest and panache, and explore music by Tallis, Josquin, Tye, Bruckner, and many more.
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4/13/2024 | Music from Germanic Lands and England, a recorder workshop in Santa Barbara. Move from warm-ups and technique into playing rich and beautiful works of the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Private lessons also available on Friday afternoon, April 12. more info... |
4/16/2024 -5/7/2024 | Tuesdays: April 16, 23, 30 and May 7, 3:45-4:45, CT It’s easy to want to increase your finger speed, but difficult to know how to actually achieve it. In this live, four-week, small-group Zoom short course we’ll lay the foundations you need to build faster fingers over time. What does faster playing require of you and how can you work toward it? We’ll answer these questions and more. We’ll also complete weekly homework assignments, helping you develop habits of effective practice. Cost: $99 Register here! more info... |
4/16/2024 | The Old Avoca Schoolhouse in Avoca, Nebraska will be streaming three on line Baroque Fiddle Tunes Workshops for violins, violas, cellos, basses, mandolins, soprano recorder, and alto recorder. The Workshops will be on Tuesday, April 16, 7 PM, Central Time, Wednesday, April 17, 10 AM, Central Time, and Friday, April 19, 7 PM, Central Time. Different tunes will be played at each session. We will read, play, and discuss various survival skills for these charming pieces. A treble clef version of the sheet music for the tunes being played will be displayed on the screen during the workshop. There is limited enrollment, and pre-registration is required. The cost for each workshop is $10.00. The cost of each optional book is $15.00 (includes shipping if ordered with workshop registration). For more information, and to register: https://greenblattandseay.com/workshops_baroque.shtml more info... |
4/16/2024 | Cathedral Village, Cathedral Hall, Philadelphia, PA 7:30-9:30 PM (in person and online) Copies of the workshop music will be made available to participants in early April. $15 in-person/ $12 online Info and to register: Philadelphia Recorder Society, https://philadelphiarecordersociety.org, Music-Director@PhiladelphiaRecorderSociety.org more info... |
4/20/2024 | Strictly Recorder (for intermediate to advanced recorder players) Saturday, April 20, 2024 9:30am - 4:30pm Eastern 1702 Vista Street, Durham NC The Triangle Recorder Society is an ARS chapter active in the Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill "Triangle" area of North Carolina. Join us on Saturday, April 20, for a convivial day of recorder playing in Durham, NC! Technique, consort skills, repertoire, and recorder orchestra, for intermediate to advanced players, led by Jennifer Streeter and Patricia Petersen. Some music will be available ahead of time. Elevate your skill level and enjoy the thrill of playing with others! Class descriptions & registration information: http://www.trianglerecorder.org/spring-workshop.html Info: 919-802-5586 or jasharpsichord@yahoo.com more info... |
4/20/2024 | San Antonio Recorder Society Shakespeare Day Concert - April 20, 2024 - 1 pm more info... |
4/27/2024 -4/29/2024 | Come make music with old friends and new on the Oregon Coast! Four class periods a day, featuring a range of topics from Medieval to Contemporary music for recorders. Open mic on Saturday! Intermediate to advanced players are welcome. Faculty: Tish Berlin, Frances Blaker, Cléa Galhano. more info... |
4/27/2024 | French Music II - Ooh La La! Our menu for the day will be a Feast of French music! French music, second installment, because once is never enough, no? Don’t you want to know about French inégal? And about the fight for Calais between the French and the English? Surely you do! more info... |