The next playing session will be Friday, February 17th, 2012 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.
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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
Phil Neuman
Gayle Neuman
Kim Pineda
Bryce Peltier
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Please Welcome...Guest Conductor,
Kris Kwapis!
Yes, fanfares are indicated! Kris is a baroque trumpet and cornetto performer and teacher residing in Seattle, but traveling all over the world to perform with early music ensembles and historically informed orchestras. She is on faculty at the Cornish School of the Arts where she leads a community renaissance ensemble of cornetti and sackbuts called the C'nardally Waytes. How cool is that?!
Kris has graciously agreed to lead PRS in an evening called,
"The Vocal Paradigm: The Instrumental Voice"
Exploring the art of mimicking the human voice, our session will delve into the concept of "music as speech", using articulation and phrasing to better express the micro and macro levels of the meaning of the text. Music by Schütz, Giovanni Gabrieli and Weelkes will have us all singing in order to become as familiar as possible with what exactly we are trying to say - so be sure to bring your voices along with your usual instruments! Applying this sense of speech to instrumental music is sometimes more of a challenge which we will explore in "cori spezzati" or separated-choir music by Giovanni Gabrieli. A special treat (for those interested in puzzles, especially) will be the opportunity to solve the mystery of some old English part-books of two delightful songs from pre-1600, and I'm hoping this guest director won't be receiving thy deceitful looks for introducing you to the wild and wonderful world of facsimile reading!
See you there,
Kris
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Kris Kwapis was a founding member and Artistic Director of Spiritus Collective, an ensemble dedicated to performing rarely heard brass music of the 17th century. She was a student of Armando Ghitalla on modern trumpet, with a BM and MM in trumpet performance from the University of Michigan, holds a DMA in historical performance, and lectures on historical brass performance practice with recent appearances at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, University of Wyoming, University of Minnesota-Duluth Madison Early Music Festival, Pacific Lutheran University and Rutgers University.
Kris is a faculty member at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music Early Music Institute (teaching cornetto and baroque trumpet), and teaches at the new early music program led by Stephen Stubbs at Seattle's Cornish School of the Arts.
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| Upcoming Playing Sessions | |
February 17th - Kris Kwapis conducts
March 9th - SECOND FRIDAY - Lauren Jennings conducts
March 16-19th - Columbia Gorge Early Music Retreat
April 20th - Vicki Boeckman conducts
May 18th - Member's Night
July 5-8th - ARS Festival at Reed College
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Web Link of the Month (send YOUR suggestions to newsletter@portlandrecordersociety.org)
| Even if you have visited the ARS site in the past, it is worth another trip! Specifically, check out the ARS Festival site, to be held at Reed College this July! You can get a taste for all the amazing presenters and performers and the tough class decisions you'll have to make!
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Columbia Gorge Early Music Retreat:
Faculty Concert, Sunday, March 18th, 7:30 pm
Wright Hall, Menucha Retreat Center, Corbett, OR
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Come join us at the CGEMR Faculty Concert! Even if you didn't register early enough to attend the workshop, we'd love to see you at this fun evening event. Who knows what this prestigious group of creative musicians will put together! Admission by donation. Please RSVP so we know you're coming! Email to: newsletter@portlandrecordersociety.org.
Hope to see you there!
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| Winds and Waves Recorder Workshop
Spaces still available!
| Winds and Waves Recorder Workshop Details
Held at the Sitka Center, near Lincoln City, OR
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. About the Instructors:
Faculty will include Frances Blaker, Letitia Berlin, Cléa Galhano and Judith Linsenberg, all of whom perform, record, teach, and conduct workshops throughout the United States and abroad. Blaker, who also composes for recorder and other instruments, and Berlin are based in the San Francisco Bay area and form the duo Tibia (www.tibiaduo.com). Galhano, originally from Brazil, lives and teaches in St. Paul, Minnesota. She is on the faculty of Macalester College and other Twin Cities institutions. Linsenberg is Artistic Director of Musica Pacifica (www.linsenberg.com). She is the 2012 Recorder-Artist-in-Residence at the Sitka Center
More info at www.sitkacenter.org
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| We need YOU as a PRS Member!
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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!
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| Bringers of Snacks, Hear Ye, Hear Ye!
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No signers for the February playing session. Wouldn't complain if ya just surprised us!
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| Upcoming Events
| PRS members are welcome to submit recorder/early music related items for this column. Deadline is 7 days prior to the next PRS playing session. Submit events to: newsletter@portlandrecordersociety.org.
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Portland Viol Consort
Saturday March 10, 2012 7:30pm Grace Memorial Episcopal Church
1535 NE 17th Avenue, Portland, OR
Tickets at the door: $20 General Admission, $10 Student/Senior
The Portland Viol Consort - Joanna Blendulf, Max Fuller, Lee Inman and Tim Scott - was formed in 2009 as the only professional consort of viols in the Pacific Northwest. For this performance, "Pictures at an Exhibition", the Consort is pleased to conduct a gallery tour of Elizabethan masterpieces for four-part viola da gamba consort. Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century works by Jenkins, Byrd, Gibbons, Purcell, Coprario, Campion, Dowland, Willbye and poetry of Robert Herrick will be featured. The consort will play Johpiece, "Newark Seidge".
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Look for the Oregon Renaissance Band at these upcoming concerts:
Friday, April 13, 2012, at 7:15pm for Family Fridays at the Community Music Center, 3350 SE Francis in Portland, Oregon.
Sunday, April 29, 2012, at 2:30pm for Camerata Musica at the Salem Public Library, Salem, Oregon.
Friday, May 11, 2012, at 7:30pm at the Walters Cultural Arts Center in Hillsboro, Oregon.
Program: "All creatures now are merry minded." It will consist of songs about animals by Banchieri and Bartlet, Bennet, Praetorius, and others for voices, violin, recorders, sackbutts, krummhorn, harp, spinettino, racketts, tartold, percussion, and some new extreme early instruments including zuffolo and violone.
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| Classified Ads
| PRS members are welcome to submit recorder/early music related items for these ads. Deadline is 7 days prior to the next PRS playing session. Submit to: newsletter@portlandrecordersociety.org
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GIG OPPORTUNITY! 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:
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Our performance dates will be March 2 in the morning at George Fox University, March 21 at Southridge High School, April 4 during the day at Sunset High School and a possible encore performance on May 5 at George Fox University.
Please contact directly for more information:
Robert A. Hawthorne
Director of Choirs
Southridge High School
Robert_Hawthorne@beaverton.k12.or.us
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For Sale: Matched set of 5 Zenon recorders, SSATB - with the sopranino and soprano in Camilla wood, the alto in pear, and the tenor and bass in cherry. The instruments are in perfect condition. I no longer have the boxes, but use a custom padded roll-up bag for all of my instruments. I also have assorted sheet music for solo, duet, trio, as well as 4 and 5 part arrangements. There is also an oak wall mount available. Please contact Perry EauClaire at perryjoni@kalama.com or call:(360) 261-3163. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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