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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...		4/12/2024
-5/3/2024		4:00pm to 5:00pm

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
-5/7/2024		3:45pm to 4:45pm

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
-4/29/2024		9:00am to 5:00pmTish Berlin


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...		4/27/20242:00pm to 3:30pmMike Richart

UBC early music scholar Alex Fisher will focus this workshop on a famed composer whose 500th anniversary is rapidly approaching, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c. 1525-1594). Vocal music like Palestrina’s beautiful Masses and motets were “fair game” for instrumentalists in the sixteenth century and their texts also help us to understand principles of phrasing and articulation. Time permitting, we may also explore music of Palestrina’s Roman contemporaries, such as Tomás Luis de Victoria (c. 1548-1611) or Giovanni Animuccia (d. 1571).
more info...		5/5/20242:00pm to 4:00pmKeren Ferguson

"A Night at the Improv!" - Getting Started With Playing Music Away From the Page

Not all music is written down, in fact, a large part of all music-making is music that is composed on the spot, or improvised. If you are curious about the vast universe of improvisation but are not really sure where or how to start, this workshop is for you. We will explore step by step how to get started with playing music away from the page, and what kinds of musical framework we might reference while doing so. This workshop will introduce simple models for melodic and harmonic improvisations, using both soprano and alto recorders.
 
more info...		5/5/20247:00pm to 8:30pmMike Richart

Webinar Season Pass
with Anne Timberlake
 
Get auto-magic, hassle-free registration for all six of my Wednesday Webinars in 2023-24 by purchasing a season pass. You’ll only have to register once, and you’ll save money off the single ticket price.
 
Past Topics:
8/30/23: Where Do I Breathe?!?!
10/4/23: Vibrant Vibrato
11/15/23: Mysterious Musicality
12/13/23 Recorder Messiah!
1/17/24: Alternative Fingerings
3/6/24: Hemiolas…and Why You Care!

Upcoming:
5/8/24: Intro to Memorization
Are you interested in trying to play from memory? In this one-hour, live Zoom webinar, we’ll talk about the essentials of memorization and how you can begin to practice this unique skill.
 
To purchase, visit my website and complete the purchase process. If you have questions or you prefer to pay offline, please contact me at anne@annetimberlake.com
 
more info...		5/8/2024VariesAnne Timberlake

Friday May 10 at 7:30 PM at the New Ark United Church of Christ, 
300 East Main Street, Newark, Delaware. 
  
The leader will be Joan Kimball. 
  
Her program will be: 
Between an early 16th century hymn by the obscure composer Correira (who has only 2 surviving works that we know of) and two hymns from the 17th century, including one by King Joao VI, there will be two works by the prolific Gaspar Fernandes who began his musical life in Portugal before sailing to the New World, a lovely song about the Virgin mother, and a lively canzona by an anonymous 17th century composer. 
  
The music to be played will be: 
MUSIC FROM PORTUGAL
Elegit eum Dominus (SAATB), Crux fideles (SATB), Panis angelicus (ATTB), Senhora del mundo (SSS/TTT), Sobre vuestro canto llano (SSATB), Hostias et preces (SSAT), Canzona à 5 (SSATB) 
  
This music is available for printing before the meeting to those who plan to attend AND request it.
REMINDER:
For non-members, the cost will be $15 per meeting. 
Exact change appreciated!

Chapter Leaders: 
Roger Matsumoto, President, 302-731-1430, palladium4@comcast.net
Nancy Frederick, Secretary, 302-656-6075 
Brian Drumbore, Treasurer, 302-453-7377
more info...		5/10/20247:30pm to 9:00pm

Mid-Peninsula Recorder Orchestra
An affiliate of the San Francisco Early Music Society

On Saturday, May 11, 2024, the Mid-Peninsula Recorder Orchestra will present a concert at the Veterans Memorial Senior Center, 1455 Madison Avenue at St. Francis St., in Redwood City at 2:00 P.M. The program will feature an early 17th-century suite by Johann Hermann Schein, an early 15th-century Italian song by Guillaume Dufay, a motet by Mozart written shortly before the composer’s death, a hymn by the 2nd-century Roman composer, Mesomedes, two settings of a popular 16th-century chanson by Josquin de Près and Tielman Susato and a Sonata by Arcangelo Corelli. Admission is free and the location of this concert is wheelchair accessible. The Mid-Peninsula Recorder Orchestra is an affiliate of the San Francisco Early Music Society. For further information please see the orchestra’s web page at http://mpro-online.org/ or call Frederic Palmer at 650-591-3648.
more info...		5/11/20242:00pm to 4:00pm

Capitol Early Music presents:

The virtuosi of Camerata Transcontinental gather from across our continent to play a concert drawn from the 16th century musicians of England and the European Continent. Enjoy the journey through the sumptuous repertoire of the 16th century, exploring the iconic genres and masterpieces of its most influential composers: Josquin, Lassus, de Monte, Dowland, Marenzio, Gabrieli, Byrd, and others.  
 
Letitia Berlin, recorders
Frances Blaker, recorders
Lawrence Lipnik, recorders and viola da gamba
Amy Domingues, viola da gamba
Jessica Powell Eig, viola da gamba
Ronn McFarlane, lute
 
more info...		5/12/20243:00pm to 5:00pmEllen Farrell

The Old Avoca Schoolhouse in Avoca, Nebraska will be streaming three on line Klezmer Fiddle Tunes Workshops for violins, violas, cellos, basses, mandolins, soprano recorder, and alto recorder.

The Workshops will be on Tuesday, May 14, 7 PM, Central Time, Wednesday, May 15, 10 AM, Central Time, and Friday, May 17, 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_klezmer.shtml

 
more info...		5/14/2024
-5/17/2024		7:00pm to 8:00pmDeborah Greenblatt

United States Premier of the Sub-Sub Great Bass –

The Pensacola Early Music Consort Invites you to perform with us and guest artist:

Dr. Valerie Austin

Please join us for this unique opportunity to premier our long- awaited Paetzold Sub-sub Great Bass, the first in the United States – the lowest pitched recorder at a
low C 32 hertz

COST: $60 to cover the costs of music and food. Music will be sent out in advance via email.

Dates:

Friday, May 17th Gather at 5:30 p.m. for cheese and wine; 6:00 p.m. for Dinner; Rehearsal 7:00- 9:00 P.M.

Saturday, May 18th Rehearsal 9:00 a.m.- noon; lunch, then rehearsal until 2:00 p.m.

Sunday, May 19th Lunch at church, set up for concert and then dress rehearsal.
Concert – 3:00 p.m.

The Event

The 14-member Pensacola Early Music Consort will form the core of this celebration. Please add your talents in the goal to give Pensacola and the surrounding area a taste of a large Renaissance Orchestra including recorders, krummhorns, strings, sackbuts and percussion (and others).The repertoire will include Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque and modern compositions for early instruments. The event will be held at St. Paul Lutheran Church (ELCA), 4600 N. 9th Avenue in Pensacola, Florida.

Come be part of the celebration.


more info...		5/17/2024
-5/19/2024		5:30pm to 9:00pmCharles Tucker

A full day of music (intermediate to advanced levels) for recorders and other instruments. Held at St. Mary Magdalen, lower floor, at 2005 Berryman St in North Berkeley.

Featured teachers include Tish Berlin, Frances Baker, Andy Canepa, and Greta Haug-Hryciw. Classes include topics such as "Baroque Consort Sampler," "Dance Music from the Renaissance," and "Contemporary Songs You May Know," along with many more.

Enrollment is limited, so be sure to reserve your spot early!

Full day price (before May 1st): $80
Half day price (before May 1st): $40
Zoom available for $70/30
more info...		5/18/20249:00am to 4:15pm

Villancicos and polyphonic repertoire from 17th c. Mexico Polyphonic liturgical and para-liturgical music had an extraordinary development in 17th century New Spain, where composers from Spain, Italy and Mexico, found a fertile ground to create. Hundreds of works were composed and imported for ecclesiastical services and festivities, as well as for the theatre and other secular institutions. We will learn about the main musical archives where thousands of works have been kept until today: Mexico City Cathedral, Durango, Oaxaca and Puebla cathedrals among them. We will play polyphonic music examples in 4 to 5 parts, including hymns with texts in original languages like Náhuatl, villancicos and chansonettas by Gaspar Fernández, Fray Jerónimo González, Juan García de Céspedes, Antonio de Salazar and Hernando Franco, that make extensive and fun use of syncopated rhythms and hemiolas.
more info...		5/18/20242:00pm to 3:30pmMike Richart

Memorial Day Weekend Workshop

May 24-27, 2024
Wisdom House, Litchfield, Connecticut
Directed by Valerie Horst
 
more info...		5/24/2024
-5/27/2024		Friday evening; Saturday & Sunday 9:30am through evening; Monday 9:30-12:30Sally Merriman

Chapter representatives are invited to join us as we discuss best practices to help you run your respective chapters. This is an opportunity for you to meet your peers in chapters throughout the ARS. We believe that the people best qualified to help you with your chapter's challenges are your fellow chapter reps.
more info...		6/1/20242:00pm to 3:30pmPhil Hollar

Sponsored by a generous donation from the North American Virtual Recorder Society (NAVRS)

"Lost... and Found": Finding Your Way Back in the Music
In this series we will focus on continuing technique for the alto recorder, following up from our Alto Beginners lesson.

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:
Monday, June 3 at 7:30 PM, ET
Saturday, June 8 at 4 PM, ET
Saturday, June 15 at 4 PM, ET
Saturday, June 22 at 4 PM, ET

About Lewis Baratz:
Lewis R. Baratz is a harpsichordist, recorder player, conductor, and music educator. He has performed with the Academy of Sacred Drama, Bethlehem Baroque, Brandywine Baroque, The Queens Consort, MidAtlantic Opera Company, Voices Chorale, Vox Ama Deus, and with La Fiocco, which he founded in 2009. He served on the boards of Early Music America, the Academy of Sacred Drama, and the Arts and Cultural Council of Bucks County. Lewis was the first person to earn the Ph.D. in musicology with concentration in historical performance practice at Case Western Reserve University and was a Fulbright Scholar and Fellow of the Belgian American Educational Foundation. He has published several critical editions and over 20 articles on a wide range of topics, including 15th-century dance music, 17th-century keyboard music, biographical, archival, and manuscript studies, basso continuo, the choirboys of the Brussels Collegiate Church c. 1550 to 1793, and numerous entries in The New Grove Dictionary of Music. Lewis was music director of the Highland Park Recorder Society from 2020 to 2022 and presented a monthly online seminar series in early music performance for recorder players. He currently teaches harpsichord, recorder, and directs the chamber orchestra at Lafayette College in Easton, PA.
more info...		6/3/2024
-6/22/2024		7:30pm to 8:30pm

Berkeley, CA and nearby Bay Area venues
19 main stage concerts, as well as special events, a three-day exhibition, community workshops, and dozens of Fringe presentations.

Info and ticket information: San Francisco Early Music Society, berkeleyfestival.org
more info...		6/9/2024
-6/16/2024		Varying

The Old Avoca Schoolhouse in Avoca, Nebraska will be streaming three on line Classical Tunes for Two Workshops for violins, violas, cellos, basses, mandolins, soprano recorder, and alto recorder.

The “Classical Tunes for Two, Volume 1” collection features 60 duets by more than 20 composers. You will experience some composers that may be familiar to you (Bach, Haydn, Moxart), and some that may not (Chedeville, Gumelzhaimer, Zipoli).
 The brief biographies in the back of the book will help you get more acquainted with all of these composers.


The Workshops will be on Tuesday, June 18, 7 PM, Central Time, Wednesday, June 19, 10 AM, Central Time, and Friday, June 21, 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_classical.shtml

 
more info...		6/18/2024
-6/21/2024		7:00pm to 8:00pmDeborah Greenblatt

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