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HOW TO PAY FOR MY “ALL-ZOOM PRACTICE CHALLENGE” CLASS

Payment: $25 per individual class, or $100 for all four. 

Electronic payment is preferred, but if paying by check please make your check out to Letitia Berlin and mail to 806 Washington Ave Albany CA 94706.

 Please make Canadian checks out in US dollars and have a US bank name and address printed on the check. Electronic payment options: Venmo, Zelle, ApplePay, or PayPal. If using PayPal, please add $2.00 to your payment (per class), unless you have a bank account linked to your PayPal account and can use the “sending to a friend” option.

Use this email address for most electronic payments: tishberlin@sbcglobal.net.
 For Venmo use @Letitia-Berlin. Please register by filling out this form and returning it to me by email at

tishberlin@sbcglobal.net.
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If you have just gotten started with the bass recorder and want to move to the next level, this is the course for you! Professional recorder player and teacher Tish Berlin 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. Students will need to purchase the 1986 edition of the Mönkemeyer method for the bass “Das Spiel auf der Bass Blockflöte”.  (This book may be available at Honeysuckle Music, and other sources.) This class is intended for recorder players who have taken an ARS beginning bass class, or for those who have some experience on the bass recorder.
 

Three fabulous concerts in the San Francisco (CA) Bay Area:

Celebrate the holidays with an exuberant evening of Virtuoso Baroque Concertos, presented by Voices of Music. Experience the joyful viola of Telemann's Viola Concerto in G Major, the dazzling violin from Vivaldi's Violin Concerto in D Major (RV211), and a tempestuous recorder in Vivaldi's La Tempesta de Mare, as well as festive dance music by Telemann, Praetorius, and Purcell with percussionist Peter Maund.

Featured soloists:
     Manami Mizumoto, baroque viola
     Isabelle Seula Lee, baroque violin
     William Skeen, baroque cello
     Hanneke van Proosdij, recorder and harpsichord
 

“The breath of winter holds a hushed enchantment, a captivating stillness.” Scenes of winter and holiday revelry captivated many Renaissance poets and composers, including Lassus, Weelkes, Campion, and others. We’ll focus on how we use our breath as both an intimate connection to the instrument and to the character of the poetry expressed through music. Open to: recorder players, intermediate and up, viols also invited! Pitch: A=440Hz