Did you know you could play with another group of intrepid recorderistas over the summer?  Ellen Mendoza, PRS member and organizer of the Portland Recorder Orchestra would love to hear from you!  The group mainly plays outdoors at the super fun Sunday afternoon Portland Parkway events.  It is not for the faint of heart however; the weather is unpredictable, there are only occasional rehearsals, and you read through LOTS of music.   But what fun can be had!  Please contact Ellen Mendoza for rehearsal information:   ellenmendoza_lido@yahoo.com 

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In continuing efforts to promote recorder playing as an accessible and fun instrument, the American Recorder Society recently sponsored our Music Director, Vicki Boeckman, to design a series of YouTube type videos for beginning recorder players.  What has come of this project is truly unique; an introduction to playing the instrument that is neither over-simplified or insipid.  So creative, in fact are these videos, that even intermediate and advanced players might pick up a tip or two!  Please go and watch, then forward the link onto any potential recorder players you might know!

by Ellen Mendoza

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!

Don't miss this! 

Early Music Concert by Aage Nielsen, douçaine, and Sean Rogers, organ.  7:30 pm, Tuesday, June 14th, 2011 at Bethany Presbyterian Church in Portland.   

College of Idaho faculty members Sean Rogers and Aage Nielsen are on tour performing a program of medieval and Renaissance music, favorite hymns, and a little Gershwin, with the versatile duo combination of organ and douçaine.  (What is a douçaine, you ask?  A rare early tenor oboe that has been recently discovered.  There are currently fewer than forty replicas, and Aage is one of the few players and scholars of the instrument.)

Professor Nielsen also served as director and founder of Les Bois Recorder Society, the regional chapter of the American Recorder Society, and was the only musician in Idaho to receive a 2007 Performing Arts Fellowship from the Idaho Commission on the Arts. This summer, Mr. Nielsen leaves Idaho to begin formation in the Benedictine monastic vocation at Mount Angel Abbey in St. Benedict, Oregon, where he will continue his work on the douçaine and early music, among other activities.  We hope to see him at the Portland Recorder Society session next year too!

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