Portland Recorder Society February Newsletter

Vol.4 No. 6

February, 2011

The next playing session will be Friday, February 18th, 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

American Recorder Society

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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

From our Music Director...

Greetings Portland!

I had the extreme pleasure of attending the Portland Viol Consort when they performed in Seattle last week and as a result am freshly and completely smitten with Dowland's Lachrimaes, Pavans, Allemandes and Galliardes! I would put them in the category of pieces to take on the proverbial deserted island. I have chosen one of each and cannot wait to hear how they will sound with PRS recorders and viols...and perhaps a double bass or two...

Then I thought it would be nice to pair an olde Pavan with a 19^th century romantic one, so I've chosen a 6 part arrangement of Gabriel Fauré's beautiful Pavane, Op. 50, written in 1887. Faure's Pavane was immediately popular and from its outset included in the standard repertoire of the Ballets Russes.

One of Faure's many duties in mid to late life was teaching composition at the Paris Conservatoire. Some of his talented young students at the time were Ravel, Enescu, Casella and Nadia Boulanger. The qualities that Fauré imparted were taste, harmonic sensibility, the love of pure lines. I hope you will enjoy playing this arrangement.

Then we will round off the evening by tappin' our toes to a Stan Davis arrangement of Milton Ager's "Ain't she Sweet!" Guaranteed to leave you smilin'.

We will need SATB and Great Bass recorders, any size of viols you want to play, and double bass!

Looking forward to seeing you all again soon!

Vicki

Upcoming Playing Sessions

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.

A Special Performance for PRS on Friday!

David Lawrence, David Solet and Bill Stickney, three-quarters of the old King Kung Quartet, are excited to return to PRS to perform a delightful short piece by Glenn Shannon (b. 1966). They will play The Canterbury Trio-three movements by turns amusing and moving.

Composer Glen Shannon at CGEMR in 2009

In 1997, Glenn's Prelude & Fugue in D Minor for SSATB recorders was chosen best composition by the Chicago Recorder Society. This March, the American Recorder Society urges all members and chapters around the world to download and play his "The Harmonius Blockflute", during "Play the Recorder Month". The composition appears in the January 2011 issue of American Recorder magazine, or online at americanrecorder.org. Those of you who attended the Columbia Gorge Early Music Retreat two years ago may remember Glenn as an upbeat faculty member and skilled baton twirler.

2011 Columbia Gorge Early Music Retreat

March 25-28, 2011 at the Menucha Retreat Center, Corbett, Oregon.

recorder class

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

http://www.loc.gov/performingarts/pae-home.html

This is a huge site called the Performing Arts Encyclopedia from the Library of Congress! Try the "Musical Treasures Consortium" to see original manuscripts of early music.

From the site:
"The Performing Arts Encyclopedia (PAE) is a guide to performing arts resources at the Library of Congress. The PAE provides information about the Library's unsurpassed collections of scores, sheet music, audio recordings, films, photographs, and other materials. Users can find digitized items from the collections; special Web presentations on topics and collections; articles and biographical essays; finding aids to collections; databases for performing arts resources; information on concerts at the Library; and a special Performing Arts Resource Guide which contains entries for hundreds of Library collections, Web sites, databases and exhibits."

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

	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 Carol Dumond and Zoe Tokar who signed up to bring snacks for the February session. And a huge thank you to George Gearn and Sharon Cheney for the yummies last month!

New CD by Vicki Boeckman and Friends! House Concert 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)

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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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 is OPEN!

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