Portland Recorder Society March Newsletter

Vol.4 No. 7

March, 2011

The next playing session will be Friday, March 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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Become a Member

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

PRS Welcomes Kim Pineda!

Kim Pineda, cat taming musicologist.

Kim will be leading the Portland Recorder Society again this Friday, hailing from the halls of academia at the University of Oregon in Eugene where he is busily working on his musicology doctorate and cooking up delicious meals in his spare time.

Kim has chosen to lead us in some 17th century music by Schmelzer and Charpentier.

Schmelzer was a very influential Austrian violinist, and apparently, also a cornettist (a strange doubling choice if you ask me!). He worked his way up the ranks at the Vienna court, first as violinist, then vice-Kapellmeister, and finally, Kapellmeister once his predecessor died. Unfortunately, that only occurred a few months before Schmelzer himself died of the plague. Ah, such was life. He did have time to have a very nice portrait done of himself however.

The Sonata a 7 Flauti by Schmelzer is a well-known work by recorder faculty at the larger workshops, who rely on it to keep all the instructors busy on their own individual parts (and staying out of trouble). I'm sure we will enjoy the piece too. Here is a YouTube video to whet your whiskers for this piece (and do some cat taming on your own!):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmRvpKoezSM

See you on Friday!
Zoe

Upcoming Playing Sessions

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.
April 15th - Vicki Boeckman, Seattle, WA conducts
May 20th - Member's Night

Come meet and play with ARS board members!

Did you know the 14 members of the American Recorder Society Board are convening in Portland for an April planning meeting? I'm sure they'll be checking out the site of the 2012 ARS Festival (Reed College), and scoping the town for the best eateries. Too bad they have to fit the fun stuff in around all their business agenda!

YOU, yes, YOU, intrepid early music supporter, are invited to one of the fun things they have planned on Friday, April 8th at 6:00pm at the Kennedy School Community Room. Join us for a not-to-be-missed event:

Recorder Orchestra, lead by a few of the American Recorder Society Board members
Town Hall meeting with the ARS Board - your opportunity to give the ARS, the organization that promotes the recorder and its music to our diverse recorder community, your input and to ask your questions!
Festive pot-luck dinner - bring your favorite dish to share with others!
Participate in presenting David Lasocki the ARS Distinguished Achievement Award. Dr. Lasocki, a frequent scholarly contributor to the ARS Magazine is Head of Reference Services, Cook Music Library, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.

Please come and show ARS what a great group of early music supporters Portland has! Questions and RSVP (please) to:

Jeanne Lynch at jeannelynch@gmail.com

	Congratulations to Esther Saulle, CGEMR scholarship winner!
Esther has received a full tuition/room/board scholarship to attend the 2011 Columbia Gorge Early Music Retreat! The award was given based on Esther's community involvement in teaching young recorder students over the past 10 years, and her motivation to further her skills in order to give back to the recorder community. It will be great to have her attend!

	2011 PRS Members Night
May 20th is right around the corner! Do you know who your ensemble members are? We want to hear your musical gift! I think I can safely say almost anything goes...kid's groups, viol consorts, buzzy bands, singing, and of course, recorder solos, duets, trios and larger ensembles! Prepare now, and plan on a fun and low-stress performance opportunity with your friends!

Web Links of the Month

It's time to think about summer week-long music workshop season! Why go to workshops? For me, it is inspiration to practice to get ready to go, and then the enjoyment of intense music making and friendship building once I'm there. It usually fuels me for the entire year! We are so lucky to have some of the finest early music workshops in the country right here on the West Coast! Here are two I can recommend with total enthusiasm. Check it out!

Port Townsend Early Music Workshop, July 10-16, 2011, held in Tacoma, WA and brought to you by the Seattle Recorder Society and our own Vicki Boeckman who is the Artistic Director.

http://www.seattle-recorder.org/SRSworkshop.html

San Francisco Early Music Society (SFEMS = "ssfemmes")

Five weeks of workshops in June and July for every skill level and interest! Amazing international faculty and small class sizes. Well worth the trip!

http://www.sfems.org/workshops11.shtml

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 Robin Teitzel and Morgan Brown who signed up to bring snacks for the March session. And a huge thank you to Zoe Tokar and Carol Dumond for the yummies 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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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