Portland Recorder Society September Newsletter

Vol.4 No. 1

September, 2010

The next playing session will be Friday, September 17th, 2010 at 7:30pm.

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.

Vicki Boeckman

Eileen Hadidian

Phil Neuman

Gayle Neuman

Kim Pineda

Bryce Peltier

Greetings recorder friends,

Welcome back to another fun season of Portland Recorder Society playing sessions! I hope to see many familiar faces on September 17th, as well as some new folks who might decide to join our merry band. Remember that anyone is welcome, and your first session is free to try us out! We'll continue to try to "buddy-up" strong players with less experienced ones, so let us know if you need some support. Conductors usually start the evening with easy warm up music, and then progress to more difficult pieces as the evening goes on. It's easy to get swept up in the recorder orchestra sound - you may be surprised at what you can do!

    Grand plans are underway for our new website! However, we ask for your patience while we get it up and running. There is quite a bit to learn and we want it to be as beautiful as the last one! We'll be sure to send out a special Grand Opening announcement when it's completed! If questions arise from out-of-date information on the old website, don't hesitate to contact us at: pdxrecorders@comcast.net.

   Below is a tidbit to whet your appetite from Peter Seibert, conductor of our September session. I hope those of you who missed last December can make it on Friday, because Peter is a recorder orchestra conductor/composer extraordinaire!! Definitely one of the most esteemed musicians in the recorder-playing community. Don't miss it!

Hope to see you all soon!

Zoe
PRS chair

Upcoming Playing Sessions

September 17th - Peter Seibert, Seattle, WA conducts
October 15th - Vicki Boeckman, Seattle, WA conducts
November 19th - Bryce Peltier, Astoria, OR conducts
December 17th - Vicki Boeckman conducts

Notes from our Guest Conductor

PETER SEIBERT, Music Director of the Seattle Recorder Society since 1970.

Founding director Port Townsend Early Music Workshop. Active composer/arranger, including works for recorders and viols. Past activities include workshops in Canada, United Kingdom, and U.S. since 1968; Associate in Recorder, U. of Washington School of Music; American Recorder Society board; Early Music Guild past president.

Hello Portland!

The music I've planned for the September PRS meeting will range from easy to challenging and from the familiar to the mysterious. We'll start with two chorales of J.S.Bach, which are marvelous music but quite easy. Those will be followed by one of Bach's chorale preludes (originally for organ). We'll then move to music from Renaissance England with anthems of Tallis and Gibbons before attacking the major work for the evening, the overture to Henry Purcell's Ode for St. Cecelia's Day (1692), which I've transcribed and arranged for recorder (and viol) orchestra. Although all of the preceding music can be played on SATB, the Purcell requires everything from sopranino on down - plus optional drums to play the timpani part in order to create the grand sound of the mature baroque period. In addition to all of this, I'm bringing a mystery piece (!) that we shall play - and also a setting of a melody that we all know too well in case we have a little time at the end.

I'm really looking forward to being with you again.
Peter Seibert

	Your Membership Fee is Due!
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 (it's ok if it says 2009-2010), or get a fresh one at the next playing session. Please make checks out to "Portland Recorder Society". You may mail your check and form if you choose to our treasurer, Robin Teitzel 9385 NW Murlea Lane, Portland, OR 97229. If you are not a member, drop-in fees are $10 per playing session; your very first visit is free to try us out!

The Early Music Guild of Oregon presents

The 2010 Early Music Guild of Oregon Workshop

Early Celtic Music

For intermediate and advanced players of recorder, strings, and early winds

Faculty: Gayle Neuman & Philip Neuman

The workshop's focus will be on the early music of Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and Brittany. Dances, motets, psalms, songs, and instrumental forms by Bevin, Johnson, Wilson, Peebles, Sterling, and O'Carolan will be featured, as well as pieces by those who published Celtic music including Playford, Riley, Tregian, and others. We'll also play some non-Celtic music and several modern pieces for variety.

Saturday, October 2 and Sunday, October 3, 2010

The cost is $65 ($55 for EMGO members) for both days including 3 meals. Space is limited to 20 participants, so register early!

Please fill out the form below and mail a deposit of $20 by September 18, 2010 to Gayle Neuman, 17850 S. Edgewood St., Oregon City, OR 97045. We will send directions to our house where the workshop will be held. The schedule will be: 10am to 5pm Saturday, 10:30am to 4pm Sunday. Saturday evening will be open to read your favorite pieces - bring plenty of copies, and we'll have music to read also. We will send a more detailed schedule. Please bring a music stand. Homestays may be arranged for out of town participants, and we can provide a list of local hotels. Call Phil or Gayle at 503-631-2973 or e-mail neuman@emgo.org with questions.

Exciting recorder workshop in Portland!

*Recorder Players: Inspiration and Exploration*
with Annette Bauer
annette

Date: November 11th & 12th, 2010
Time: 10 AM to 4 PM each day
Where: World Forestry Center, Portland - David Douglas Room
Cost: $200 tuition + $5 materials fee
Skill Level: Intermediate and Advanced
Maximum participants: 12

This workshop is offered during our Sitka Art Invitational located in Portland. Two-day recorder intensive for intermediate and advanced players. Each day includes a technique class, repertoire session, special topics class (medieval, contemporary, and world music traditions), and a master class for consorts and soloists. Taught by Annette Bauer, professional recorder player and former Sitka artist-in-residence.

About the Instructor

Annette Bauer, a native of Germany, studied medieval and renaissance music at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, Switzerland (2001). She holds an MA in music from UC Santa Cruz (2004), and has been a student at the Ali Akbar College of Music since 1998, where she studies North Indian classical music on sarode, a stringed instrument. As a recorder player, Annette regularly performs with medieval ensemble Cançonièr, Baroque group Les grâces, Farallon recorder ensemble, and has appeared with early music ensembles throughout the US. Annette was an artist-in-residence in 2009 at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology. www.annettebauer.com.

Register online through the Sitka Center: www.sitkacenter.com

	Bringers of Snacks, Please Sign Up!
It is so nice to have something to munch on after our playing session. Cookies, fruit, crackers, cheese are all appreciated, as is any not-so- sweet liquid to drink. We'll send around a sign up sheet for the upcoming season on Friday.

Web Link of the Month

www.pandora.com

Internet radio has come a long way! Pandora is unique in that it creates custom playlists for you based on composers you tell it you like. Or genres, time periods, artists or instruments you like! It has a broad range of classical music, unlike some other internet station compilation sites. There is a station via Pandora called Baroque - Recorders. It shouldn't take you long to find it with their intuitive search engine.

Upcoming Events

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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Upcoming Concert:

Paean - Music of Ancient Greece: Ensemble De Organographia will perform pieces from surviving notated Greek repertoire (c. 500 BC to 300 AD) on voice and period instruments including kithara, lyre, aulos, syrinx monokalamos, trichordon, kroupezon, psithyra, salpinx, tympanon, and others. Musicians are Gayle and Philip Neuman, who recorded the CD "Music of the Ancient Greeks", now in its eigth pressing. The Neumans have performed this repertoire at the Smithsonian, the Getty Center, Cleveland Museum of Art, and at various other venues in the U.S., Germany, Jordan, Israel, Turkey, and Greece. This is part of the fall festival of Classic Greek Theatre of Oregon.

Wednesday, September 15, 2010, 7pm, Eliot Hall Chapel, Reed College, Portland, Oregon.

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Classified Ads

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:

Voice flute, made by Boudreau, A=415. Boxwood instrument for sale $1600. Alto Recorder, A=415 (baroque pitch) made by Von Huene. This is a Denner copy made of boxwood. For sale $1600.

Please contact Corinne Newbegin at coconew@aol.com or phone 541-557-1754.