5/12/2024 - 12/29/2024
EVERY Sunday the British Columbia Recorder Society posts a recorder Performance of the Week! We scour the internet for THE best recorder performances so you don't have to! Here you will find the latest Performance of the Week AND an easy way to subscribe to our Youtube channel. Subscribe and the Performance of the Week will arrive in your email box each Sunday.Let Andrea MacDonald of the BCRS curate the best online recorder performances for you to enjoy.
In addition, do you want even MORE internet recorder info? The BCRS YouTube channel is designed to help you find the information and inspiration you need to take your playing to the next level or just to enjoy some wonderful performances. Here you will find our YouTube index to get you started.
9/28/2024 - 11/23/2024
This class is perfect for intermediate recorder players who're ready to improve their skills (fingers, breath, tongue, rhythm, ensemble, etc.). Come and enjoy 8 weekly classes (90 minutes each) that are fun and that help you grow as a musician. Not sure which playing level you are? Contact Inga at funck.inga@gmail.com
9/29/2024 - 11/24/2024
If you consider yourself an advanced player, then this class is perfect for you! Come and enjoy 8 weekly classes (via Zoom and in-preson in Los Angeles). With challenging pieces, you'll grow your technique, musicianship and expand the knowledge of the recorder repertoire. FREE access to Recorder Central, a resource platform with a rich body of repertoire specifically arranged for recorder, as well as a place to ask questions, to connect with other players, promote your own recorder playing events, and performance opportunities. Not sure which playing level you are? Contact Inga at funck.inga@gmail.com10/5/2024 - 11/30/2024
Transform your musical abilities with this engaging eight-week online course designed to enhance your play-by-ear skills. Whether you read music or not, mastering this skill allows you to connect more deeply with your music, freeing you from the page and empowering you to improvise, ornament, and recover if you get lost. In this course, you’ll learn to discern note relationships, recognize patterns, and understand cadences, all while building skills in improvisation and phrasing. Starting with simple children’s songs and advancing to pieces by Bach and Mozart, you’ll train your ear to "hear" the music in your head, making you a more versatile and intuitive recorder player. Join me to discover the freedom of playing by ear!
For a full course description and to register, click here.
12/3/2024 - 12/12/2024
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.
Von Huene Workshop (The Early Music Shop of New England): (617) 277-8690
Honeysuckle Music: (651) 644-8545
Lazar’s Early Music: (770) 366-8596
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 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:
Tuesday, December 3rd, 6:15pm ET (5:15pm CT, 4:15pm MT, 3:15pm PT)
Thursday, December 5th, 6:15pm ET (5:15pm CT, 4:15pm MT, 3:15pm PT)
Tuesday, December 10th, 6:15pm ET (5:15pm CT, 4:15pm MT, 3:15pm PT)
Thursday, December 12th, 6:15pm ET (5:15pm CT, 4:15pm MT, 3:15pm PT)
12/5/2024
BCRS is pleased to invite you to our fifth annual Festivus for the Rest of Us celebration! Started during the pandemic, our Festivus celebration, led by Colin and Andrea MacDonald, has become enormously popular and is now a BCRS tradition.All are welcome to take part in this free, fun, and silly evening of games and music. For details on how to take part, read the tongue-in-cheek directions here. We look forward to seeing you!
All playing levels are welcome and this meeting is FREE for everyone. You must register for this event. Invite your friends!
12/7/2024
“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
12/8/2024
The ARS Chapter Rep Round Table is a forum in which chapter representatives can meet with their peers from around the country and discuss chapter challenges and best practices.12/14/2024
NAVRS music director Annette Bauer directs the last playing meeting of the year 2024 on Saturday December 14th at 2pm Eastern with a theme of “Winter Solstice and the Return of The Light”. Many different traditions in the Northern Hemisphere celebrate the light in the midst of the long and dark winter nights. Annette will lead you through a selection of music that is inspired by this theme - from an arrangement of Bartok’s "Winter Solstice" to different Renaissance pieces describing the three wise men following the bright star, to music related to the festival of lights, or Santa Lucia, as well as some seasonal favorites to round out the year!12/22/2024
How to Ornament in 90 Minutes—van Eyck and Telemann Show us How! Well, embellishing music is actually more of a long-term project for some of us—indeed, it can be a daunting task! Thankfully, there are wonderful publications out there to help us grasp the vast possibilities. Also thankfully, some composers themselves demonstrated literally how to do it. Some in treatises with how-to musical examples, charts, and tables, and some in their own compositions, note by note, showing us the way. Jacob van Eyck (c.1590-1657) and Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) are such composers. Examining and playing their embellishments can be an enjoyable and helpful part of the learning process. In this workshop we will look at some of van Eyck’s tunes and Telemann’s adagios and begin to explore their ‘ornamental’ language. Even in their different time periods, musical forms and styles, we find similarities, patterns, a vocabulary that over time we can emulate and eventually make our own!