Portland Recorder Society January Newsletter

Vol.4 No. 5

January, 2011

The next playing session will be Friday, January 21st, 2011 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.

Links

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Register for Columbia Gorge Early Music Retreat

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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

Hello!

I'm looking forward to leading the reading session on January 21st! We'll be playing some fun English pieces including the lesser known setting of "The Leaves be Green" by William Inglot (reminiscent of the more famous version of the Browning tune by William Byrd), "Playford Suite" which is a lively setting I did of four of John Playford's favorite country dances: "Parson's Farewell", "Cheerily and Merrily", "St. Martins", and "Jack's Maggott". We'll do several pieces that will also work well on crumhorns, sordunes, and racketts, because as you know, no early music event is considered complete without at least one rackett present. Then we'll read Handel's Second Suite from the "Water Music", and then have some fun with Sammy Nestico's "Hay Burner" from the Count Basie library. Hope to see you all there!

Phil Neuman

Upcoming Playing Sessions

January 21st - Phil Neuman, Portland, OR conducts
February 18th - Vicki Boeckman conducts
March 18th - Kim Pineda, Eugene, OR conducts
March 25-28th - Columbia Gorge Early Music Retreat! Faculty: Vicki Boeckman, Phil and Gayle Neuman, Lisette Kielson, Laura Kuhlman.

New CD by Vicki Boeckman and Friends! Party in Portland to Celebrate!

Family, Friends, Students and Colleagues,

Please join us in the celebration of our newly released CD!

Snacks, beverages and Barsanti excerpts will be served

Saturday, February 19, 2011

3:00 - 5:00 pm

The home of Susan Campbell &Dave Brook

1905 NE Clackamas St.

Portland, OR 97232

Please, RSVP to

vickiboeckman@comcast.net
(If you can't attend, contact Vicki for CD sales)

See Events listing below for Seattle concerts featuring music from this new CD!

Early Music News from Eugene, OR

The Oregon Bach Collegium did a workshop last Sunday "The Food of Love: Music and Dance from Shakespeare to Playford" with faculty Shira Kammen, Judy Kennedy, Gayle Neuman, Phil Neuman, and David Rogers leading the various sessions. We realized that all of us were "survivors" of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's company of musicians and dancers from the dim past. 34 players and dancers were in attendance, playing recorders, cornetts, violin, viola, cellos, viols, sackbutt and crumhorns. It's great to have a chance to play the dance music for live dancers to see how tempos and phrasings match the steps and formations. We broke to smaller groups that worked on improvising accompaniments to one-line dances (Shira), dancing (Judy), recorder ensemble (Gayle), cornetts and sackbutts (Phil), and consort songs (David.)

We had a fantastic potluck meal and the evening ended with a performance consisting of things we worked on during the afternoon. Rachel Streeter of the Oregon Bach Collegium did a great job organizing the event.

--Phil Neuman

www.portlandrecordersociety.org

We are so pleased to announce the launch of our new website! Please go check it out and admire all the great photos, read the new information about the Columbia Gorge Retreat, and check on the dates of the upcoming playing sessions at the Kennedy School. Please update your bookmarks as we will be sending the old site into the abyss. Loads of special thanks to my brother, Alex Tokar, for his volunteered time and web design prowess (see his Seattle based company, www.webcollective.coop), and Bill Stickney (http://williamstickney.smugmug.com/) for all his beautiful photos! We hope you like it!

Happy musical web surfing!

Zoe

Oregon Coast Recorder Society Loses One of Its Founders

by Corlu Collier

A staunch recorderist and participant in early music on the coast, Jan Christensen passed away some time between Nov. 13 and Dec. 6 at her home in Siletz, from natural causes. Many will remember her as that marvelous chef for lunches at the OCRS Winds and Waves Recorder Workshop.

Jan had many other interests and activities: she served for many years as a board member of the Midcoast Watersheds Council and the Lincoln County Library District; was an avid Master Gardener; and, with her late husband, at one time owned and operated a fishing vessel out of Newport.

In 1992, she was the first to join the fledgling Oregon Coast Recorder Society and was also a member of its consort Lost in Time. And, yes, she loved to cook. We will miss her greatly.

Winds and Waves 2011 is scheduled for April 30 through May 2, Saturday through Monday, at Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, and the faculty concert will take place Friday evening, April 29, at 8:00 p.m. in Lincoln City. For information, visit the website www.sitkacenter.org. Registration opens Jan 18.

(See Events Listing below for more information too.)

2011 Columbia Gorge Early Music Retreat

March 25-28, 2011 at the Menucha Retreat Center, Corbett, Oregon. View from there:
gorge

Join us for a unique and rewarding musical experience!

For information and registration, go to:
2011 CGEMR Website

Need some inspiration? Come to the retreat and meet two amazing early music specialists from the mid-West, Lisette Kielson and Laura Kulhman, along with Music Director Vicki Boeckman, and local favorites, Gayle and Phil Neuman. You can check out their bios on the retreat website.

And just to spark your interest a little more, here is a partial list of some of the class offerings at the 2011 retreat:

The Art of Bach
Palace Books of Spain
Madrigals from the Court of Christian IV of Denmark
Obsessive Love and Revelry in the English Renaissance
Rhythmically challenging music of Morley,Tye, Baldwine...
A Musical Banquet
At the Sign of the Krumhorn

Go to the 2011 CGEMR Website

Web Link of the Month

Well, not really a web link, but a very active listserve just for recorder players to discuss all sorts of recorder-ish topics.

http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/recorder/

Click on the link above or sign up for delivery through Yahoo Groups, by searching "recorder". Scroll down a bit and you'll see it. I recommend subscribing in daily digest form so all the conversations from one day are collected then sent to you in one email. Lurk about for a bit, then introduce yourself and join the discussions or ask a question!

	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, or pick one up 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!

	Bringers of Snacks, Hear Ye, Hear Ye!
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. A friendly shout-out to George Gearn and Sharon Cheney who signed up to bring snacks for the January session. And a huge thank you to Bee Neufeld for the holiday feast last month!

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 newsletter@portlandrecordersociety.org

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Friday, January 14, 2011; 8:00PM
Musica Maestrale concert
Influenza Italiana: The Influence of the Italian Style in the 17th-Century

Oregon's premiere period chamber ensemble, Musica Maestrale, will perform a program of vocal and instrumental music by Italian and German composers of the 17th-century. Composers represented will include Caccini, Castello, Cazzati, Falconieri, Froberger, Kapsberger, Merula, Rosenmuller, and Peri.
Musica Maestrale are: Joanna Blendulf, treble viol and Baroque 'cello; Julia Brown, harpsichord and organ; Aaron Cain, baritone; Bryce Peltier, recorders and tenor sackbut; and Hideki Yamaya, Baroque guitar and theorbo.

Glenn and Viola Walters Cultural Arts Center
527 E Main St.
Hillsboro, OR 97123
$15 advance; $17 day of show
http://www.ci.hillsboro.or.us/arts/wcac/Events.aspx#
503-615-3485

Sunday, January 16, 2011
4:00PM
Musica Maestrale concert
Influenza Italiana: The Influence of the Italian Style in the 17th-Century

See the listing for Friday, January 14 for more details.

Eugene First United Methodist Church
1376 Olive St.
Eugene, OR 97401
Free admission; suggested donation $10
http://www.eugenefumc.org/concerts.html
541-345-8764

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Oregon Trail Trio: Saturday, January 15, 2011, 2:30pm Music in the Stacks at the Canby Public Library, 292 N. Holly St., Canby Oregon. Music for voices, hammer dulcimer, guitar, violin, viola, banjo, tuba, ocarinas, and serpent from the era of the Oregon Trail up to the early 20th century. Featured will be the "Heppner Flood", "The Bold Hero" (notated in an Oregon Trail diary), "To the Emigration of 1845" (printed in an early Oregon City newspaper), "Hail to the Brightly Dawning Day" (words by Oregon's famous suffragist Abigail Scott Duniway), "Acres of Clams", "The Band Played on" and many others. There also will be readings from Oregon Trail diaries. The Oregon Trail Trio is Mick Doherty, Gayle Neuman and Phil Neuman. See www.ci.canby.or.us/Canbylibrary/documents/Oregon_Trail_Trio.pdf

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Oregon Renaissance Band: "More Extreme Early Music". Friday, February 11, 2011, 7:15pm. The smallest, largest, highest, lowest, and most curious instruments and music to spring from the renaissance mind! Part of the Family Fridays Concert Series at Community Music Center, 3350 SE Francis, Portland.
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Viva Italia! Ensemble Electra:

Vicki Boeckman, recorder, Joanna Blendulf, cello, Jillon Stoppels Dupree, harpsichord.

This concert will celebrate the ensemble's new CD of sparkling recorder sonatas by the Italian eccentric, Francesco Barsanti, as well as the wildly expressive repertoire of his Italian predecessors and comrades-all played so deftly by this virtuosic trio!

Saturday, January 22, 2010 at 8:00 p.m.

Sunday, January 23, 2010 at 3:00 p.m

Queen Anne Christian Church, Seattle, WA

1316 3rd Ave. West, Seattle, WA 98119

For tickets contact 206-726-6088 or brownpapertickets.com.

For more information contact: vickiboeckman@comast.net
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Ancient Greek Music at the Library: 2pm, Saturday April 2, 2011 at the Milwaukie Ledding Library, 10660 SE 21st Avenue, Milwaukie, Oregon 97222, phone: 503 786-7580. Gayle and Philip Neuman sing and play the surviving repertoire from ancient Greece c. 500 BC to 300 AD using period instruments including lyra, kithara, aulos, trichordon, syrinx monokalamos, psithyra, tympanon, and kymbala. Composers include Euripides, Mesomedes, and Athanaeus.

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The Oregon Coast Recorder Society

and

Sitka Center for Art and Ecology

present

Thirteen Years of Music by the Sea

The thirteenth annual Winds and Waves Recorder Workshop

April 30-May 2, 2011, Saturday through Monday.

Faculty concert Friday evening, April 29.

Workshop registration opens Jan. 18 and fills quickly!

The workshop is at beautiful Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, and the concert will be at St. Peter the Fisherman Lutheran Church in Lincoln City.

Tuition is $240 and includes one adult ticket to the faculty concert. General admission tickets to the concert ($15 adult, and $5 student) will also be available through Sitka Center. The Oregon Coast Recorder Society will handle banquet arrangements and will be in touch with registrants later about this.

Registration opens Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011. Go online
at sitkacenter.org, call, fax, or write a letter, but remember-space is limited to 45 participants. Spaces are filled in the order received and registration fills up rapidly.

Faculty this year are Frances Blaker, Letitia Berlin, Cléa Galhano, and Rotem Gilbert.

Sitka Center for Art and Ecology

Post Office Box 65

Otis, Oregon 97368

(541) 994-5485 telephone

(541) 994-8024 fax

info@ sitkacenter.org

www.sitkacenter.org

Oregon Coast Recorder Society

Corlu Collier, Director

PMB 309

2226 N Coast Hwy