Your Recorder Community

3/8/2025
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM Eastern

Chapter Meeting

WHERE: Church of Saint Mary the Virgin, 145 West 46th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues in Manhattan. We meet in Saint Joseph’s Hall, a side chapel of Saint Mary’s. Located in a brick building to the left – or west – of the main church, the entranceway is distinguished by the street number 145 prominently displayed on the door. A colorful sign will also identify the spot. Accessible via the 1/2/3/B/D/F/Q/R/N trains.

DAY & TIME: Saturday, March 8, 1:30-3:30 p.m. Doors open at 1:00 p.m.

MUSIC: The PDFs of the music will be sent out to NYRG members about ten days prior to each meeting. If you are not a NYRG member for this 2024-25 season but plan to attend this meeting and would like the music beforehand, please contact newyorkrecorders@gmail.com.

As always, if you have any questions about the music or any other musical issue, you may contact NYRG Music Director Deborah Booth at 212-864-6490 or boothflutes@gmail.com.

New York Recorder Guild welcomes back Dr. David Hurd, Organist and Music Director at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, to lead our March session. David Hurd is known principally as an organist, composer, and choral conductor. He is Professor Emeritus of Church Music of The General Theological Seminary where he taught from 1976 to 2015. As an organ recitalist, he has performed widely in North America and abroad and has won international prizes in repertoire performance and improvisation. In 2010, he received the Distinguished Composer Award of the American Guild of Organists. Organ and choral music figure prominently among his compositions, and a CD recording of fourteen of his choral works entitled O the Depth of Love Divine was released in 2018. He has taught at Duke University, Yale University, and Westminster Choir College. His encouragement of informal gatherings of recorder players at General Seminary evolved into the formation of Chelsea Winds, a quintet which presented concerts in the Seminary Chapel and elsewhere for several years. He has transcribed and arranged extensively for recorder consort. His original compositions for recorders include Three Plainsong Fantasias for alto and tenor, and Suite in Three Movements for fourteen recorders, commissioned for and premiered by the Recorder Orchestra of New York.

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