The next playing session will be Friday, Sept. 18th, 2009 at 7:30pm.
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Be ready to play at 7:30pm in the Community Room of the Kennedy School, 5736 NE 33rd Ave., Portland, OR. Bring music stands and stand lights if you have them. For more information, go to our website.
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All our professional coaches are available for private lessons and ensemble coaching.
Please contact them directly for scheduling at the links below.
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Vicki Boeckman
Eileen Hadidian
Phil Neuman
Gayle Neuman
Kim Pineda
Bryce Peltier
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Hello Recorder Enthusiasts!
Welcome to the Portland Recorder Society's third season!
I hope you will be able to join us for all the third Friday playing sessions at the Kennedy School this year. So much great music is out there waiting for a recorder orchestra to play it! In addition, there are plans for special guest conductors, the Columbia Gorge Early Music Retreat, and once in a lifetime masterclasses. Don't forget, we exist because there is so much enthusiasm for early music and recorders in Portland. Please support our unique community non-profit organization by renewing your membership, or by becoming a member for the first time. If you are new to the group, feel free to show up and check us out...your first time is free. Details about membership are contained in the newsletter below.
What a marvelous musical summer it has been! Kudos go out to Ellen Mendoza for organizing a recorder ensemble to play at the hugely successful Portland Parkways events. And many thanks, yet again, to Chuck and Lee Norris for hosting the annual Holborne Marathon and Chicken Festival at their home last month. It is always a good time and we definitely noticed that we sounded even better this year (and stumbled less over those complex renaissance rhythms)!!!
I'd like to briefly introduce the people that have been working behind the scenes to keep PRS viable. We will need to approve this slate of officers at the first playing session, Sept. 18th.
Zoe Tokar, chair
Jeanne Lynch, vice-chair and CGEMR administrator
Robin Teitzel, keeper of the coin
Susan Campbell, scribe
Bee Neufeld, Sharon Cheney, members at large
As always, please let us know if you have skills you'd like to volunteer...and be sure to sign up for one turn at bringing refreshments to the playing session!
Hope to see you on Friday!
Zoe
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September 18th - Vicki Boeckman (Seattle, WA) conducts
October 16th - Eileen Hadidian (Albany, CA) conducts
November 20th - Vicki Boeckman conducts
December 18th - Peter Seibert (Seattle, WA) conducts
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From our Music Director...
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Greetings
everyone and welcome to our third season! I am so excited to be sharing another
musical season with you, and pleased to invite four guest conductors this
season; Eileen Hadidian, Seattle's own Peter Seibert, Glen Shannon, and Bryce Peltier - who
will all bring their individual styles and talents to the playing sessions.
For our opening rehearsal we will start with a
cheerful double choir piece by Orlando Lassus, Olà! O che bon eccho! Otherwise known as the Echo Song. Then we will move on to a stunning 7 part work in 3
sections (that I promised in April, but didn't get to), also by Lassus, Lagrimae di San Pietro. Lassus' output was so grand and diverse that
it is hard to know where to begin to describe it. He wrote 530 motets, 175 Italian madrigals,
150 French chansons, and 90 German lieder. Lagrimae di San Pietro (Tears of St. Peter) was his
final work and often considered one of his best. It is a gorgeous set of
twenty-one religious madrigals, dedicated to the Pope Clement VIII, and published
posthumously in 1595.
Then, to put a smile on all of your faces, we will
play some choice movements from Telemann's delightful Wassermusik, originally
scored for strings, tastefully transcribed for SATB recorders by Angelo
Malcontenti.
All sizes of recorders from Soprano down to Contra
will be needed, and all buzzies, viols and other stringed instruments
are welcome.
We are excited to welcome
returning board member Sharon Cheney, and extend a warm welcome to our newest
Board Member, Bee Neufeld! The success of any organization is the result of work
done by a team of dedicated board members and volunteers. Our board members are
doing a splendid job, but we need more volunteers
to ensure that the PRS can continue to thrive and prosper. Volunteers come in
many shapes and sizes and duties are varied. Please help the board by sharing a
few tasks with them. We need volunteers
to help set up and put away chairs at every meeting, clean the room, and bring snacks for the end of the meetings.
Don't forget to mark
your calendars for the 2nd annual
Columbia Gorge Early Music Retreat April 2 - 5, 2010!
See you soon,
Vicki
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Recorder Music Concert Not To Miss!
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Wood'N'Flutes
Music
from Old and New Worlds
Can one hear
the echoing hooves of Esbern Snare's horse as it galloped across the Danish
countryside 700 years ago? Does a piece written in the 21st century
have the power to distract
evil thoughts from a modern audience? Is the recorder truly one of the sweetest
sounding instruments, as Johann Mattheson professed in the 1700s?
Find out the
answers to these questions and many others when the Danish based ensemble,
Wood'N'Flutes, comes to Portland for one at performance only at St Michael's
Lutheran Church, Sunday, October 11, 2009 at 3:00 pm. 6700 NE 29th
Ave, Portland OR, 97211
Seattle based
recorderist Vicki Boeckman is joined by Danish colleagues, Gertie Johnsson and
Pia Brinch Jensen to once again bring their unique program to American
audiences. Wood'N'Flutes has delighted audiences since 1999 with their
virtuosic and highly engaging performances. This is their fourth tour to the US
and will bring them to Seattle, Tacoma, Lacey, Portland, Richland and Las
Cruces New Mexico. With an eclectic mix of styles that include medieval
melodies, baroque sonatas, and tone paintings from the 20th and 21st
centuries, they lead their audiences on a journey through an enchanted garden
of aural and visual delights. Wood'N'Flutes will delight you with their own
arrangements of medieval melodies found on runestones in Denmark, and with some
beautiful madrigals by Mogens Pedersøn. Composers on both sides of the Atlantic
have been inspired to write for them, and these works will be highlighted in their
2009 program which will shed light on music from the old and new worlds. Also included on the program will be some of
their signature pieces and works by old friends from the Baroque. Wood'N'Flutes
will entertain you with fascinating music spanning over 900 years. Don't miss
this exciting opportunity!
Where:
St. Michael's Lutheran Church. 6700 NE 29th Ave.
When:
Sunday, October 11, 3:00 pm
General
Admission $25
Students and
Seniors $15 (or pay as able)
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Portland Sunday Parkways
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by Ellen Mendoza
We, recorder players, have a tendency to hide in the ancient shadows of
the halls of serious music, showing up for concerts of Renaissance or
Baroque music with other aficiondos, gathering in backyards with high
fences and tooting in public primarily for the ancient rituals of
Christmas and matrimony. But why not show the rest of the world our
stuff, especially for the smiling crowds cruising the streets cleared
of cars for the summer series of Sunday Parkways? So we did. Under
the grandiose name of the Portland Recorder Orchestra, a dozen or
fifteen or so hearty souls gathered to play at each event in June,
July, and August. For the first two dates we were included in the
musical line-up featured onstage, at the parks along the route. By the
time of the August date, the music offerings had grown so numerous we
had to find our own venue, which we did on the steps of Sunnyside
school. Being right next to the excited bicycling crowd was even
better than the stage. For all three performances we played the same
book of pieces, which were easy enough to keep together, even when
strange things were happening around us. Next year there is talk of
five Parkway dates, and I'm hoping we'll be even bigger and better.
Come pipes and tabors and crumhorns, and sporaninos, let us rejoice for
summer weather!
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We Need Your Membership!
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Portland Recorder Society membership includes:
~monthly playing sessions (Sept-May) coached by professionals
~Discount to Columbia Gorge Early
Music Retreat
~Monthly e-mail newsletters
~Networking opportunities with
like-minded musicians
Yearly dues are $40, additional donations welcomed and are tax deductible. We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization!
Click HERE for a link to our membership registration form.
If you are not a member, drop-in fees are $10 per playing session; your very first visit is free to try us out!
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Upcoming events
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PRS members are welcome to submit recorder/early music related items for this section. Deadline is 7 days prior to the next PRS playing session. Submit to pdxrecorders@comcast.net
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Ensemble De Organographia
"La Cantatrice": Music of the Early 17th
Century from Italy and England. Music by members of the famous musical
Caccini family - Guilio, Settimia, and Francesca, who was called "La
Cantatrice"; also Girolamo Frescobaldi, John Dowland, Thomas Campion, and
others. Gayle and Philip Neuman, and Hideki Yamaya, Wednesday, September
16th, 2009 at 12:30pm in the recital hall at the Mago Hunt Center at University
of Portland, 5000 N. Willamette Blvd. in Portland. Music for voice, lute,
archlute, bandora, cittern, violin, recorder and curtal. Admission is
free.
La Stella Baroque Ensemble:
Wednesday, September 23rd at NOON: Free brown bag lunch concert at The
Old Church (11th and Clay) in downtown Portland. Mary Rowell, violin,
Zoe Tokar, recorders, Max Fuller, viol/cello, Hideki Yamaya,
theorbo/lute.
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Classified Ads
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PRS members are welcome to submit recorder/early music related items for these ads. Deadline is 7 days prior to the next PRS playing session. Submit to pdxrecorders@comcast.net
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For Sale: Von Huene alto recorder (modern pitch). Handmade of rosewood w/ ivory mounts by
Friedrich von Huene. Low serial number 692. Has a very beautiful
sound with lots of volume. Good response and intonation. Has had a
recent re-voicing. A nice modern pitch wood instrument by a good
maker, $1000.
Also for sale: Moeck boxwood alto recorder. Older instrument with ivory mounts and
bushing. Still has good sound and intonation but this horn needs to be
played and needs a good home. Comes with a Jean Cavallaro soft case.
It gave me a bunch of good years of practice and performance but still
has plenty left for the next person. $300. Contact Bryce Peltier about both these instruments at phone # 410-491-8828.
For sale: Kung Great Bass in C, bent neck with adjustable end
pin, comes with stand; for sale $2500. Selling due to health reason....go to http://www.bill-lazar.com/ for more
info on the instrument.
Please contact Corinne Newbegin at
coconew@aol.com or telephone 541.557.1754.
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