5/3/2025
9:00 AM - 2:00 PM Eastern

Workshop

The Ann Arbor Recorder Society is holding an in-person recorder workshop on May 3, 2025 and you're invited to attend!   The theme of this five-hour workshop is When Birds Do Sing, In Springtime, In Springtime:  Music of the English Madrigal School.  We'll be led in four-plus hours of music-making by Ann Arbor's Corinne Schat, a local recorder professional and teacher.  We hope you'll join us.  

Workshop Description:  An intense flowering of the musical madrigal came to fruition during the time of The English Madrigal School from 1588 to 1627.  Our workshop features works by John Farmer, John Wilbye, Orlando Gibbons, John Bennet, William Byrd and Thomas Morley, whose contributions to this musical form are filled with highly expressive depictions of poetic texts employing many examples of vivid word painting.

This music is bursting with joy, humor, and passion!  In order to bring these compositions to life, we will work on both general ensemble skills: how to start, how to end, score analysis, effective rehearsal strategies, and especially on skills that meet the unique challenges of the recorder: articulation, tuning, tone, and playing in sync with each other.  

We will get results that sparkle and make an impact!

Setting: In-Person
Zion Lutheran Church, Ann Arbor, Michigan
1501 West Liberty Rd, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48103
Ann Arbor, Mi 48103-4008

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Judy Smutek
(phone: 7347697083)

Registration and location details follow:
8:30am                  Registration
9am-11:30am         Workshop session
11:30am-12:15pm  Break
12:15pm-2pm         Workshop session
Post workshop lunch at a nearby restaurant TBA, if you're interested.
Snacks and beverages will be provided at registration and the break.

Registration fee is $40 if paid by April 26 and $45 at the door.  If you plan to attend, please send an email message to me indicating which instruments you will bring, and include a phone number in case we need to contact you.  If you would like to reserve a lunch spot with the group, please let us know as well.  
Checks can be mailed to Barbara LaRose, 1720 Mershon Dr. Ann Arbor, MI 48103.  
To pay using Paypal, send the payment to my email address, jsmutek@umich.edu. To pay through Venmo, send the payment to me using the name @Judith-Smutek.  
To pay through Zelle, send the payment to BECKY L GLESNER, glesner@servicelevel.net, or (734)645-3563.

Workshop Location:
Zion Lutheran Church
1501 W Liberty Rd.
Ann Arbor, MI 48103

We'll meet in the Stellhorn Room on the ground level of the church building complex.  When approaching the church, watch for the yellow blinking traffic light near the church driveway.  Plenty of parking is available near the south entrance with additional parking space on the east side of the building.  Enter the rear (south-facing) door of the building, and follow the signs in the mail hallway to Stellhorn, which will be on your right.  

NOTE:  University of Michigan Commencement exercises will be taking place at/near Michigan Stadium on May 3, with the main ceremony scheduled for 10am-noon.  It would be wise to avoid the Stadium area when driving to Zion Lutheran on the west side of town.

Please remember to bring your own music stand!

Visit our website's special events page for further information about the Ann Arbor Recorder Society or the coming workshop.

• http://www.a2recordersociety.org/

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5/3/2025

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