Message from our Music Director   

Greetings, fair Portlandia recorderists!

photo by Bill Stickney

I am looking forward to another invigorating session with you all and hope that this new year of 2012 is off to a good start for everyone. 

One of the fun things about leading these sessions is having the time to browse through music and choosing works to share with you. Every time I search the on- line sites I am astounded at the sheer volume of free downloadable pdf files and the wealth of music that is out there. It is truly incredible.

For this session I have chosen festive music by Sweelinck and Telemann and..a little New Year's surprise!

We'll be celebrating the 450th anniversary of the birth of Dutch organist, Jan Pieterzoon Sweelinck,  prolonging the holidays ever so slightly with his well loved and often sung motet Hodie Christus Natus Est. This joyous 5 part work poses nice challenges changing between the triple and duple meter several times throughout the piece. 

Then we will segueway into Telemann's festive Tafelmusik, music intended to be played as entertainment while others dined. (We will refrain from eating while playing the recorder, however!) There are seven delightful movements, all with witty character descriptions that are sure to please.

Then, in keeping with one of the oldest traditions in Austria - the New Year's concert with the  Vienna Philharmonic - we will end with a wonderful arrangement of Strauss the elder's Radetzky March!

Recorder sizes from Soprano to Great bass will be needed, and all sizes of viols or other stringed instruments are most welcome.  For any of you who would like parts ahead of time, I am happy to send you pdf files. Please email me directly (vickiboeckman@comcast.net) and tell me know what part you want to play.

            Farallon Recorder Quartet presents

"Der Morgenstern"
Music from German-speaking Lands

 

Farallon Recorder Quartet (Annette Bauer, Letitia Berlin, Frances Blaker, and Louise Carslake) is a California-based early music ensemble which brings the music of the Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, and Modern Eras to today's audiences with professional polish, verve, and precision. They employ a fascinating range of recorder sizes and period styles, ranging from six inches to six feet tall. Farallon's most recent CD recording, From Albion's Shores, has been described by Early Music America as "the sound one would get if one could turn honey into wood or stand underneath a caramel fountain." Farallon plays on a matched set of Renaissance recorders made by Adriana Breukink, Medieval recorders made by Bob Marvin, and Baroque recorders made by various builders.

Web Link of the Month (send YOUR suggestions to newsletter@portlandrecordersociety.org) 

Thank you for a GREAT response!  We are filled to the brim!  The waiting list is now OPEN! 

www.portlandrecordersociety.org  

A friendly group!

04/28/2012 -04/30/2012
9:00 am - 5:15 pm on Sat & Sun, 9am-3pm on Mon
Tuition: $250
Total Cost: $250
Minimum Age Level:15
Skill Level: Intermediate through advanced recorder skills.

Registration Opens January 17, 2012

Register online at www.sitkacenter.org

Come work on a wide variety of recorder music from the past and present under the guidance of an internationally renowned faculty. Winds and Waves offers graded technique and repertoire classes, plus general "grand consort" sessions-all in a spruce-hemlock forest perched above the Salmon River estuary. Take a break for three days and open yourself up to inspiration from the setting, the teaching, and the music. The hours of this workshop are Saturday & Sunday 9:00 am to 5:15 pm and Monday 9:00 am to 3:00 pm.

Membership dollars pay our conductors, the Community Room rental fee, and sheet music copying costs.  Please support our efforts to create a fun and educational non-profit organization!

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!

Ancient Greek Music in the Library - Ensemble De Organographia:  Gayle and Philip Neuman will sing and play music from the surviving repertoire of Ancient Greek music from 500 B.C. to 300 A.D. using replicas of period instruments including, lyre, kithara, aulos, syrinx monokalamos, salpinx, tympanon, psithyra, and kroupezon.  Composers will include Euripides, Mesomedes, and Athenaeus.  Saturday January 28, 2012, 5pm.  Location: Hillsboro Library Main, 2850 NE Brockwood Parkway, Hillsboro, OR 97124

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Portland Baroque Orchestra "Flute-Recorder"

Fri Feb 10 & Sat Feb 11 at 7:30pm (First Baptist);

Sun Feb 12 at 3:00pm (Reed College) 

Matthias Maute, guest director
transverse flute & recorder
Janet See, transverse flute

J.S. Bach
Italian Concerto, bwv 971 *
Concerto in D Minor, bwv 1054 *
W.F. Bach
Adagio and Fugue in D Minor
J.J. Quantz
Concerto in G Major for flute
G.Ph. Telemann
Concerto in E minor for recorder and flute

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Farallon Recorder Quartet (Tish Berlin, Frances Blaker, Louise Carslake, Annette Bauer)  February 11th, 2012, 7:30pm.  House concert in NE Portland, RSVP required, more info in article above! 

My Concert Choir at Southridge High School is looking to perform Claude Le Jeune's "Reveci venir du printemps." We want to add soprano and alto recorder and lute to the piece. Another possibility would be to have SAATB recorders play all 5 parts.

Here is a link to a video of the piece:

University of St Thomas Chamber Singers - Revecy venir du Printemps

 

(360) 261-3163.