The next playing session will be Friday, March 9th, 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.
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Phil Neuman
Gayle Neuman
Kim Pineda
Bryce Peltier
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Special March Session! THIS Friday!
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Claudio Monteverdi
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Please Welcome...Guest Conductor, Lauren Jennings!
Madrigals and Masses in Monteverdi's Venice
For this month's session, we will explore the diverse musical language of Italy's most influential composer of all times-Claudio Monteverdi. We'll start with Monteverdi's joyous setting of a famous sonnet by Petrarch, Zefiro torno el' bel tempo rimena. Published in the sixth book of madrigals in 1614, shortly after the composer assumed his post as chapel master at San Marco in Venice, this work is a prime example of Monteverdi's pre-stile concertato madrigal style. As we play, we'll pay special attention to the relationship between the musical setting and Petrarch's text, focusing on how the delightful madrigalisms and artful expression of poetic rhythm can inform our instrumental interpretation of this vocal work.
Monteverdi may be known best for his secular music, from his nine books of madrigals to his ground-breaking operas. But as chapel master at San Marco, he also composed a vast collection of sacred and liturgical music to be performed in masses and during special events at the cathedral. This body of work displays the impressive degree to which Monteverdi was fluent in a wide variety of musical styles. While many of his psalm settings, call for both instrumental and vocal forces, the mass for four voices we will play is a masterful example of stile antico polyphony alla Palestrina.
Recorder sizes from soprano to bass will needed, and viols are more than welcome as well!
See you there!
Lauren
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Lauren Jennings is in the final stages of completing her PhD in Music History at the University of Pennsylvania. Her dissertation, titled "Tracing Voices: Song and Literature in Late Medieval Italy," explores intersections between the manuscript transmission of secular music and poetry in late medieval Italy. She has presented papers at conferences in the United States and in Europe, including the annual conferences of the American Musicological Society and the Haydn Society of North America and the annual Medieval and Renaissance Music conference. Her research on manuscripts of 14th century Italian song and poetry has been supported by grants from the US-Italy Fulbright Commission and the Medieval Society of America.
Lauren is also a choral conductor, singer, and recorder player. She received her BA from Smith College and her MM in Choral Conducting from the University of Oregon, where she also studied historical performance practice. Lauren has been assistant conductor for numerous choirs and currently directs her own chamber ensemble, which specializes in the performance of both early and contemporary a cappella choral music.
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| Upcoming Playing Sessions | |
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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Come Hear the Portland Viol Consort!
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Saturday March 10
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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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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| 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 March 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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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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| 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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