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
ARS offers our next Free Online Beginners' Course! Learn to play the alto recorder in this 4-part introductory course starting on March 5th, 2025. Professional recorder player and teacher Lisette Kielson will guide you in playing with beautiful tone, expressive articulation, and various rhythms. If you have never played recorder before, or if it has been years since you last played, this is the course for you! Build a solid foundation now and enjoy playing the recorder into the future!
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/
In a program entitled "O Lux -- Light on English Polyphony", Pat will conduct us through inspiring works by luminaries such as Byrd, Purcell, and Ferrabosco.
Our monthly meetings are hybrid unless otherwise stated; you choose whether you wish to attend in person or over Zoom. Each session starts with easier scores and moves gradually to more challenging materials - we no longer have Prelude and Concerto groups.
ALKEMIE and its sister ensemble FREELANCE NUN collaborated to create A FINE COMPANION, a program of newly-composed settings of troubadour songs and texts, written in a dream-pop / shoegaze / psychedelic rock style for an amplified combination of medieval and new instruments. The texts of this project were chosen by Charles Mueller (composer) and the ensemble, with a focus on troubadour lyrics that expand or refute the standard tropes of chivalrous love by choosing poems from a feminine perspective, and by delving into the metaphysical and spiritual subsets of the genre. The unbridled sensuality of the arrangements creates space for a raw experience that inspires a visceral reaction in the listener. Mueller has used pre-existing troubadour music as a melodic and modal prompt on a number of pieces, with direct quotations organically morphing as if in an inspired game of telephone. With Tracy Cowart (voice, electric harps, percussion), Jim Hopkins (keyboards), Cameron LeCrone (percussion), Ben Matus (voice, medieval bagpipes, recorders), Charles Mueller (composer & technical director; electric guitar, electric bass) Niccolo Seligmann (vielles, scheitholt, gittern, psaltery), Elisa Sutherland (voice), Sian Ricketts (voice, recorders, douçaines), and Spiff Wiegand (percussion, guitar).
SIBYL is a folk duo from New York City formed by Chloe and Lily Holgate, two sisters who draw inspiration from the ancient tradition of the Sibyls—prophetic women of the ancient world who foretold the future through poetry and song. Blending their love for storytelling with their classical foundations, they refract traditional folk music through a contemporary, emotive light. Sibyl has performed on chamber music series around the northeast, at rock music venues around the city and many house concerts for small audiences—their favorite venues! Sibyl has been a resident artist at Avaloch Music Institute and in 2022 they were winners of WNYC's Public Song Project.
SMOKE RING is a mixed voice barbershop and contemporary a cappella quartet based in New York, NY pushing the limits of what’s possible in barbershop with a lot of sass and sparkle. Made up of Rebecca Eckes (tenor), Stephanie “Tags” Taglianetti (lead), Gabriel Spector (bass), and Alexander Ronneberg (baritone), their humble beginnings began behind a curtain in Charlotte, NC, where they tucked away for some privacy to ring chords in a crowded room. They made things official in 2023, the same year they took first in Voices of Gotham’s Tin Pan Alley novice quartet contest. Their rapid ascent continued in 2024, when they became the first-ever mixed voice quartet to win the Mid-Atlantic District quartet competition and placed 9th at their debut at the Barbershop Harmony Society’s 2024 International quartet contest—making them the highest-ranked mixed voice quartet in the world.
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 Sacred and Profane
AEM's Springbreak Workshop! Join us for an exciting weekend of classes for recorders, viols, lutes, and singers. For 2025, we are happy to return to St. George's Episcopal Church, in Arlington, VA. The All-Workshop sessions will focus on works by Guerrero and Monteverdi. Class choices, and music for Choral Program will be available in February. Register now!
Recorder Classes with faculty Rainer Beckmann, Letitia Berlin, and Wendy Powers
Classes for Viol with Lawrence Lipnik and Amy Domingues
Choral Workshop with Vera Kochanowsky, accompanist Steven Alan Honley. Repertoire will include works by Guerrero and Monteverdi.
Lute Ensemble Program with Mark Rimple and Laudon Schuett
Celebrate Early Music Month with a fun day of workshops, concerts, and a community sing-along/play-along. SCEMS, Jouyssance Early Music Ensemble, and The Foundation for the Neo-Renaissance, and Early music America sponsor this day for all musicians in the early music community and children to come together and play and sing music together, and to expose children (ages 5 and up) to the riches and fun of early music. Professionally-coached workshops for all levels of singers, winds, and strings (all at A440) will sight read music (provided) and prepare for the finale mass performance, coached by Nicole Baker, Jon Lee Keenan, and Andrea Zomorodian, (singers), Inga Funck and Rotem Gilbert (recorders), Andrew Justice (strings), Ashley Salinas and Marylin Winkle (children's recorder and strings)
The final concert, in addition to the tutti massed performance, includes a play-and-tell showcase of local Early Music groups.
Children’s workshops are for playing recorder (soprano recorders provided for free and to take home), Note: March 15 is officially "Play the Recorder" day (https://americanrecorder.org/play_the_recorder_month.php).
There will be an instrument "petting zoo" where children and adults can hear and try playing more exotic historical instruments like bagpipe, hurdy gurdy, crumhorn, harpsichord, rackett, rummel-pot, etc.
An Exhibition of local instrument makers will display and sell instruments. Used instruments will be for sale (silent auction benefitting SCEMS, and normal for-sale instruments).
Free admission, Lunch is provided for free.
You are welcome to register to participate in either the full day or partial day.
Please register no later than March 14 so that we can plan to have enough lunch and score copies. RSVP, registration at:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScDw-2g3-Tvfs8TjY0JxPUnh3jxdZ-w_k2IiAVT7ccE534ySQ/viewform
First Baptist Church of Glendale 209 N Louise St, Glendale, CA 91206
parking in small church lot, and [free] parking in adjacent.
more info: info@jouyssance.org, www.earlymusicLA.org/calendar
We will share a wide selection of music, led by our director Kate Stuart.
https://dakotacountylibrary.libcal.com/event/14169312?hs=a
https://sites.google.com/view/twincitiesrecorderguild/events/play-the-recorder-day-at-wentworth-library
Meeting Date: Saturday March 15, 2025 (3rd Saturday of the month)
Time: 1:30-3:30PM
Place: The Friends Meeting House, 1185 Sunset Dr., across the street from Sunset Elementary School
Dear Recorder Players!Remember March 15th is Play – the - Recorder Month or PtRM of 2025 and we will celebrate that event with a special musical composition at our March meeting.
Here is a quote about the musical piece from the ARS magazine:
"The centerpiece of the month is the commissioned piece for Play-the-Recorder Day 2025 by composer Harvey Stokes. The music is entitled Flight Games. It was composed to represent the activities of small birds as they move about communally in their varied aerial activities. ARS members received the piece with the Winter 2024 edition of the American Recorder Magazine, and they can log in and access the piece, along with other PtRM pieces, in our PtRM Music Library."
If you received the score in your Winter 2024 edition please bring it to the mtg., we also will provide extra copies.
Check this link if you like: Play-the-Recorder Month - American Recorder Society
We are looking forward to seeing you and please join us playing together. Just bring all your instruments you’d like to use and your music stand; we’ll provide the music for everybody.
No sharing of music if possible and the chairs will be spaced out. We are following the COVID 19 safety caution!
If you have any questions, suggestions or need further information please contact us. Check at the bottom of this page for future meeting dates.
Sincerely, MIAMI CHAPTER OF AMERICAN RECORDER SOCIETY BOARD
Celestial Music - An Introduction to the Music of Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179)In this workshop, we will explore the art of performing the monophonic chants of 12th century nun composer, Hildegard of Bingen, on recorders. The session will begin with an overview of the life and work of Hildegard as a theologian/writer and composer and a presentation that covers the unique aspects of her musical style: manuscript sources, notation, text/melody relationship and other unique features of the 72 pieces found in the song cycle, known as the Symphonia (Symphony of the Harmony of Celestial Revelations). The second half of the program will be a guided playing session and further exploration of those aspects of Hildegard’s chants that are relevant to recorder performance. Some examples would be – the interpretation of ornamental neumes, the addition of Bb not signed in the manuscript, the ranges of the songs as they relate to recorder performance, expressivity and some creative ways of playing medieval chant.
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)
Coached by David Seay, with Debby Greenblatt providing rhythm accompaniment, experienced advice/suggestions, thoughtful/educated answers to questions, and her usual witty charm.
Join us for ARS's next Free Online Beginners' Course! Whether you're new to the recorder or it's been years since you last played, this is the perfect opportunity to dive into the basics of this versatile and expressive instrument. Professional performer and teacher Cornell Kinderknecht will lead you through engaging lessons that will help you develop practical musical skills. The course is open to all ages, though children should be accompanied by an adult during the sessions.
Dates:
Tuesday, March 18th at 8PM ET (7 CT, 6 MT, 5 PT)
Tuesday, March 25th at 8PM ET (7 CT, 6 MT, 5 PT)
Tuesday, April 1st at 8PM ET (7 CT, 6 MT, 5 PT)
Tuesday, April 8th at 8PM ET (7 CT, 6 MT, 5 PT)
We will be using The Sweet Pipes Recorder Book (Soprano, Book One) by Gerald Burokoff & William E. Hettrick SP2313 for this course.
If you need to get the Sweet Pipes Recorder Book or a recorder, consider purchasing these from one of our business partners, and please allow ample time for mail delivery. If you have purchased the Sweet Pipes Recorder book online but are concerned that you may not receive it in time for your first class, we can provide you with a "temporary" copy for download. Instructions will be in your emailed registration confirmation notice.
Sweet Pipes Recorder Book (Soprano, Book One)
https://www.vonhuene.com/p-3684-burakoff-gerald-hettrick-sweet-pipes-recorder-book-book-1-a dults-and-older-beginners.aspx
https://www.honeysucklemusic.com/showf.php?item=5288
Soprano/Tenor Recorder – purchasing text and links
Do you need to purchase an instrument? You cannot go wrong with a good plastic recorder—they can actually sound better than a poor wooden one! Yamaha and Aulos make very good plastic sopranos. For tenors: Yamaha provides an exceptional tone, while Aulos is lighter-weight with a smaller reach. Consider purchasing an instrument from one of our business partners:
Von Huene Workshop (The Early Music Shop of New England), Boston, MA: (617) 277-8690
Honeysuckle Music, St. Paul, MN: (651) 644-8545
Lazar's Early Music, Carson City, NV: (866) 511-2981
Recorderforge.com, Happy Valley, OR: (503) 210-1643
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.
Early Music by Female ComposersDuring our time together, we will meet and explore the madrigals of Maddalena Casulana, the sacred works of Vittoria Aleotti, the songs of Francesca Caccini, the cantatas of Rosa Giacinta Badalla, and the polyphonic magic of Leonora Duarte. And there is so much more to discover! Bring your recorders and join in as we enjoy playing this wonderful repertoire together.
Struggle no more!! Each week BCRS features a recorder soloist on ensemble by posting a live performance video to our YouTube channel. We strive to provide an interesting mix of styles from musicians all over the world. A new performance is uploaded every Sunday. And it's FREE!
Sunday, March 23, 2025 at 3 pm at St. Luke’s Church, 265 W Mill Rd, Long Valley NJ.
For more information, contact Mary Daly at 908-500-2174 or mtrdaly@gmail.com
Medieval Mondays Spring Edition 2025NAVRS is excited to announce the continuation of Medieval Mondays taught by NAVRS music director Annette Bauer - thank you for your continued interest in medieval music!
The Medieval Mondays Spring Edition 2025 runs from February to May in four sessions. Each class will focus on a particular medieval topic, composer, or musical source. A brief overview of the historical context is followed by a selection of music to discover and play together.
Scores will be available for registered participants a week ahead of each class. Play-along files will be created on recorders.
Each zoom meeting will be recorded and will stay available to view on demand until one full month after the final class of the series.
Medieval Mondays will take place on zoom on the following dates, always from 12:30-2:00 pm Eastern:
- Feb 10: Llibre Vermell - a 14th century collection of pilgrim songs from the “red book” of Montserrat
- March 24: Estampie & Istanpitta - discovering a medieval dance form
- Apr 14: In Seculum - early polyphony from the School of Notre Dame, Pais around 1300
- May 5: Cantigas de Santa Maria - music and miracles from the Iberian peninsula, collected by Alfonso X “The Wise” (1221-1284)
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