Requirements:
- Soprano or tenor recorder
- Sweet Pipes vol. 1 (soprano/blue cover) - we will use the ensemble section in the back. Additional class materials will be provided by the instructor. Consider buying from our business partners Von Huene Workshop or Honeysuckle Music.
- Basic sight reading skills
- Being comfortable working with the lower octave including F#/Bb, and the higher octave until at least the high E
Tuesday, March 18th, 12-12:45 ET (11AM CT, 10AM MT, 9AM PT)
Tuesday, March 24th, 12-12:45 ET (11AM CT, 10AM MT, 9AM PT)
Tuesday, April 1st, 12-12:45 ET (11AM CT, 10AM MT, 9AM PT)
Tuesday, April 8th, 12-12:45 ET (11AM CT, 10AM MT, 9AM PT)
Start each session with a short warm up to work on tone, fingers, and tongue, then work on Renaissance duos from Eric Haas’ Duos for Basses, Volume I, and solos from Baroque repertoire. For bass recorder players who read bass clef fluently, and can play a two-octave chromatic scale from the low F. Pitch: a=440.
$100 for all four classes. Classes will be recorded and available to stream for one month. To learn how to register, please write to Tish at tishberlin@sbcglobal.net. Duos for Basses can be ordered from the Von Huene Early Music Shop here: https://www.vonhuene.com/p-5579-duets-for-basses-volume-1-music-of-the-renaissance.aspx. Baroque solo repertoire will be provided as PDFs.
In this 4-session class you’ll practice technique exercises for 30 minutes with me, then spend 20 minutes on a Renaissance duo and 20 minutes on a Handel sonata, focusing on effective practice methods for both pieces. For intermediate and up players of alto and tenor recorders. Pitch: a=440. Students are welcome to request that we work on repertoire they are practicing.
$100 for all four classes. Classes will be recorded and available to stream for one month. To learn how to register, please write to Tish at tishberlin@sbcglobal.net
Dates:
Wednesday, March 5 at noon ET (11AM CT, 10AM MT, 9AM PT)
Saturday, March 8 at noon ET (11AM CT, 10AM MT, 9AM PT)
Wednesday, March 12 at noon ET (11AM CT, 10AM MT, 9AM PT)
Saturday, March 15 at noon ET (11AM CT, 10AM MT, 9AM PT)
This course will use the following method book which provides fingerings, exercises, and musical selections from the Renaissance and Baroque to complement each unit:
The Sweet Pipes Recorder Book: A method for adults and older beginners by Gerald Burakoff and William E. Hettrick. Alto, Book One. SP2318 (RED cover).
Sweet Pipes Recorder Book (alto) can be purchased from one of our partners at these links:
Sweet Pipes at Von Huene or Sweet Pipes at Honeysuckle Music
Do you need to purchase an instrument? You cannot go wrong with a good plastic recorder—it can actually sound better than a poor wooden one! Aulos makes a very good plastic alto. Consider purchasing an Aulos “Haka” model A709B from one of our business partners:
Honeysuckle Music, St. Paul, MN: (651) 644-8545 www.honeysucklemusic.com/
Von Huene Workshop, Boston, MA: (617) 277-8690 www.vonhuene.com/
Lazar's Early Music, Carson City, NV: (866) 511-2981 www.lazarsearlymusic.com/
Recorderforge.com, Happy Valley, OR: (503) 210-1643 www.recorderforge.com/
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.
Start each session with a short warm up to work on tone, fingers, and tongue, then work on Renaissance duos from Eric Haas’ Duos for Basses, Volume I, and solos from Baroque repertoire. For bass recorder players who read bass clef fluently, and can play a two-octave chromatic scale from the low F. Pitch: a=440.
$100 for all four classes. Classes will be recorded and available to stream for one month. To learn how to register, please write to Tish at tishberlin@sbcglobal.net. Duos for Basses can be ordered from the Von Huene Early Music Shop here: https://www.vonhuene.com/p-5579-duets-for-basses-volume-1-music-of-the-renaissance.aspx. Baroque solo repertoire will be provided as PDFs.
In this 4-session class you’ll practice technique exercises for 30 minutes with me, then spend 20 minutes on a Renaissance duo and 20 minutes on a Handel sonata, focusing on effective practice methods for both pieces. For intermediate and up players of alto and tenor recorders. Pitch: a=440. Students are welcome to request that we work on repertoire they are practicing.
$100 for all four classes. Classes will be recorded and available to stream for one month. To learn how to register, please write to Tish at tishberlin@sbcglobal.net
The workshop will explore tunes from our Book of Rounds collection. It has 40 tunes in 13 keys from 12 countries. The lyrics for 27 tunes are included, with handy indexes to organize it all.
The Highland Park Recorder Society is offering a Consort Studio in central New Jersey, monthly sessions in ensemble playing for intermediate and above recorder players to play with one another and other instruments under a skilled conductor, with professional accompaniment.
Music Director Steven Russell will lead a “Consort Studio” ensemble of recorder players in an exploration of Baroque Trio Sonatas through rehearsal, instruction and demonstration and end with the players opportunity to play solo alto with a professional ensemble of harpsichord and violin, flute, or oboe depending on the music. Focusing on ensemble skills, this will take place in a welcoming, intimate environment that encourages people to feel comfortable to get up and play. We will have opportunities to warm up on Renaissance music with SATB recorders, so bring all sizes.
January 11, 2025
Giuseppe Sammartini Sonata II in F for 2 Alto Recorders and Continuo
Meredyth Coleman, oboe
Ruth Ochs, cello
Second part played by oboe
February 22, 2025
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Trio in F Major for Bass Recorder, Viola, and Continuo
Tina Wagner, viola
Ruth Ochs, cello
We will play the recorder part on alto first, then anyone who wants can play on bass
Both treble clef and bass clef parts are available
March 22, 2025
Georg Friedrich Handel Sonata II in F for Alto Recorder and Violin (Op. 2 No. 4)
Alexei Yavtuhovich, Violin
Ruth Ochs, cello
April 26, 2025
Georg Philipp Telemann Trio Sonata in A Minor (42:a6) for alto recorder and oboe.
Nick Gatto, oboe
Ruth Ochs, cello
May 24, 2025
Georg Philipp Telemann Trio Sonata in F (42:F6) for alto recorder and violin.
Alexei Yavtuhovich, Violin
Ruth Ochs, cello
June 28, 2025
Georg Philipp Telemann Trio 8 in B Flat Major for alto recorder and solo harpsichord.
Steven Russell, harpsichord
TBA, cello
Register at the Old Town School of Folk Music web page:
https://www.oldtownschool.org/classes/detail/?courseid=7740
We are welcoming Liza Malamut as the workshop director for the first time. Liza is the artistic director of the celebrated Newberry Consort in Chicago, and she plays sackbut, teaching the instrument at Indiana University. In June of 2024 she joined the faculty at the Early Music Festival at the University of Wisconsin Whitewater, offering a class in Renaissance loud band.
As Liza is a specialist in Renaissance brass and wind music, we will host a broader recorder workshop than have in past years. In addition to recorder players will also welcome for music making for people playing sackbut, crumhorn, shawm, dulcian, and other Renaissance instruments. We figure that the same sort of folk who enjoy Tom Paxton and Pete Seeger would also brake for John Dowland and Orlando de Lassus. We should have a natural draw from people who hang out at the Old Town School, and the Newberry Consort audience would appreciate our music as well.
The School of Music, Theatre, and Dance at Kansas State University is excited to relaunch the K-State Recorder Workshop for student and professional music educators, recorder players and enthusiasts, early-music fans, and more. Our guest clinician once again is Anne Timberlake.
The Workshop is open to anyone 13 years or older. Previous recorder experience is beneficial, but not required. Participants must provide their own instrument. Questions about workshop registration or playing/learning recorder in Manhattan, KS may be emailed to davidwood@ksu.edu