The Sacramento Recorder Society

A place for early music of all kinds in Sacramento

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Dear Recorder Society members, Can you believe that we are already closing in on February? Our next meeting will be on February 7th and Judy Linsen-berg will be our conductor. Here’s hoping you all can make it. I hope everyone is doing well. It has been quite the winter so far with all the wind, rain, snow and flooding we have had. It is good to get the rain to help us out of the drought, but we seem to be get-ting more and more. I hope everyone will be safe and warm. I would like to give kudos to every-one who came out for Soupe and Musick Night on January 7th. Not only were we fed well with those wonderful soups and bread, but the music was also pretty amaz-ing. All the performers and the musical variety (early music, jazz, an oldie-but-

A chapter of the American Recorder Society An affiliate of the San Francisco Early Music Society

February 2017 For more information about the Sacramento Recorder Society, visit our blog

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February Meeting

6:45pm Tuesday, February 7, 2017

at the Friends Meeting House 890 57th Street

between J St. and H St.

goodie song from the sixites, the harp duet!) made the evening so special. Thank you to David Dodds, our MC, and to Mark Schiffer for organizing the musical program . And of course to our wonderful Jerry Schwartz, who has led us at the last two meetings and who conducted the recorder orchestra at the Soupe Night. Decorations and dessert were provided by Patty Johnson and her fam-ily. This meeting is one of my favorites, and it is so fun to be a part of it. This was our 8th annual Soupe and Musick Night! I hope everyone who attended feels the same way and will come again next year. The Oscars are coming up, and if you are a fan of movie musicals you should cer-tainly check out the multi-nominated “La La Land." The music, the acting, the scenery, and the costumes are pretty amaz-ing. Turning a Los Angeles traffic into a Broadway musical song and dance extrava-ganza is a great way to start off a movie! Final note: Crystal Olson could not make the soup night due to a hip opera-tion. We have heard from her and she is do-ing much better. We missed you Crys-tal! Sending you love and energy for your healing. Take care, everyone, and music on. Music helps keep us balanced and our minds active. It’s all good. See you on the 7th! Gail Crawford Co-President

Our February ConductorOur February ConductorOur February ConductorOur February Conductor Judy LinsenbergJudy LinsenbergJudy LinsenbergJudy Linsenberg

Called "the Jascha Heifetz of the re-corder," Judith Linsenberg is one of the lead-ing exponents of the recorder in the US, ac-claimed for her "virtuosity," "expressivity," and "fearless playing." She has performed at the Hollywood Bowl and Lincoln Center; and has been featured with the SF Sym-phony, the SF and LA Operas, the LA Cham-ber Orchestra, Philharmonia Baroque, American Bach Soloists, the Portland and Seattle Baroque Orchestras, and others. She is the Director of the Baroque en-semble, Musica Pacifica, whose perform-ances and eight recordings have received in-ternational acclaim and several awards, caus-ing the ensemble to be described by the press as "some of the finest baroque musicians in America" (American Record Guide) and “among the best in the world" (Alte Musik

Aktuell). Her newest CD, with soprano Do-minique Labelle, has just been released on the Parma/Navona label to enthusiastic re-views, including being described as "a beau-tiful issue that is as heartwarming as it is stimulating." (DailyClassicalMusic.com,

Malta). Judy has recorded for Virgin Clas-sics, Dorian, Solimar, harmonia mundi usa, Koch International, Reference Recordings, Musical Heritage Society, Drag City Records (with Joanna Newsom), and Hännsler Clas-sics. She holds a doctorate in early music from Stanford University and has been a vis-iting professor at the Vienna Conservatory and Indiana University’s Early Music

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Institute. She maintains a private teaching studio in Oakland, CA, and has taught at nu-merous workshops across North America. In her spare time, she enjoys reading novels for her 2 book groups, hiking with her wonder-dog, Jake, eating at fine restaurants (particularly when someone else takes her), and working out at the gym (well, not so much, really, but she does it anyway).

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The music for the October meeting will be a "smorgasbord" of music from vari-ous countries and time periods. We'll start with a 4-part piece by Heinrich Isaac, one of the great triumvirate of early 16th-century Netherlandish composers that also included Josquin and Obrecht. The piece is called "A la battaglia," and falls into the genre of pieces in the Renaissance and Baroque that imitated battle cries with triadic motives in distinctive rhythms. This piece saves the bat-tle motifs for the last of the 3 parts, while the rest of the piece is typical Isaac: a mixture of polyphonic and homophonic sections, some big meter changes between sections, and some typical renaissance syncopated rhythms. Next, we'll play a short, lively piece by Anonymous, probably first half of the 16th century, on the bass pattern, La Gamba, which you may be familiar with from works by Ortiz or Ruffo. You'll enjoy the syncopa-tions. Then we jump ahead to the 17th cen-tury in Italy (Venice, 1608) with a 5-part canzona by Frescobaldi. It opens with the typical canzona rhythm of "long, short, short" and continues with a full sound and some nice counterpoint and imitation, where all five parts share equally in the melodic material. Staying in the 17th century, we'll then travel to France, where the style couldn't be more different from Frescobaldi (well,

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I guess it could, but this is still pretty dif-ferent), with a lovely chaconne by the con-summate French composer, who was born in Italy--Jean-Baptiste Lully. The cha-conne comes from his opera Phaeton. In-terestingly, it has some things in common with the La Gamba piece, in that they're both built over ground bass/harmonic pat-terns, but the Lully chaconne is clearly in the high Baroque style, with Baroque or-naments and the typical inégal rhythmic alteration. Finally, we'll end the evening with a piece by Bach: an arrangement of the beautiful slow movement from Branden-burg Concerto No. 2. This works well for as a 4-part recorder piece, where the bass recorders play the bass line of constant ar-peggiated eighth notes, and a soprano and two tenor recorder lines take over the mel-ody lines of the solo recorder, violin and oboe of the original. If you've always wished you could play some of the great music in the Brandenburg Concertos, here's your chance!

Conductors for 2017 Conductors for 2017 Conductors for 2017 Conductors for 2017

February 7, 2017: Judy Linsenberg

March 7, 2017: Greta Haug-Hryciw

April 4, 2017: Louise Carslake

May 2, 2017: Shira Kammen

SRS Non-Member Meeting Policy

Please be aware...

We love having new members and a non-member is welcome to attend two SRS meetings for free. After that there will be a $5 fee per meeting for the non-member.

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Wednesday, February 22: Westmin-ster Presbyterian Church, as part of their Music at Noon series of concerts, is featuring the ensemble Baroque &

Beyond with SRS members Kathryn Canan and Mark Schiffer on baroque flute and recorders, plus Isabelle Henry on recorder, Alexandra Roed-der on cello, and Nancy Lee Harper on harpsichord. The program features fa-vorites by Venetian composers such as Gabrieli, Vivaldi, Ciconia, Marcello, Uccellini, and Scarlatti. Admission is free (but donations will be cheerfully accepted). 12:00–1:00 p.m.

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We had impromptu refresh-ments in January. Thanks to those who brought something! Have you signed up to share a treat? There’ll be a sign up sheet on the table in the foyer at the February meeting. It need not be fancy; bags of Oreos are wel-come (January was proof!).

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Our regular meetings are the first Sunday of each month, 4:30-7, at the Madelyn Helling Library, 980 Helling Way, Nevada City. For more information about meetings, contact Miriam Morris, miriamemorris@gmail.com or Kathryn Canan, kacanan@yahoo.com

Winter and Spring ConcertsWinter and Spring ConcertsWinter and Spring ConcertsWinter and Spring Concerts

Artek

Bridge of Sighs

Friday, February 17: First Presbyterian Church, Palo Alto, 8:00pm Saturday, February 18: St. John’s Presbyterian Church, Berkeley, 7:30pm Sunday, February 19: St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, San Francisco, 4:00pm Information: www.sfems.org

Venice Baroque Orchestra

Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” and other Baroque Masterworks

Saturday, February 25: Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center, Davis, 8:00pm Information: www.mondaviarts.org

Barbary Coast Recorder Orchestra

For All Things Green and Peaceful

Sunday, March 5: Arlington Community Church Parish Hall, 52 Arlington Ave., Arlington, 4:00pm Information: franfeldon@gmail.com

Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin Foreign Affairs: Characters of the Baroque

Saturday, March 11: First Congregational Church, Berkeley, 8:00pm Information: www.calperfs.berkeley.edu

UC Davis Early Music Ensemble

Miserere

Friday, March 17: Ann E. Pitzer Center, UC Davis, Davis, 7:00pm Information: mondaviarts.org

Voices of Music Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater

Friday, March 17: All Saints Episcopal Church, Palo Alto, 8:00pm Saturday, March 18: St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, San Francisco, 8:00pm Sunday, Marcy 19: St. Mary Magdalen Church, Berkeley, 7:30pm Information: www.voicesofmusic.org

Sacramento Baroque Soloists

A London Adventure

Saturday, March 18: Harris Center, Folsom, 7:30pm Sunday, March 19: Harris Center, Folsom, 2:00pm Friday, March 24: St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 7:30pm Information: www.sacramentobaroque.org

The Tallis Scholars

Metamorphosis

Friday, April 7: First Congregational Church, Berkeley, 8:00pm Information: www.calperfs.berkeley.edu

Upcoming workshops...

GGame of ame of TThrones:hrones: Music for Queens & Kings

Saturday February 11, 2017

10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Directed by Louise Carslake and Hanneke van Proosdij

Christ Church Lutheran, San Francisco

Please join us for a day of glorious music in the heart of San Francisco’s Sunset District, where directors Louise Carslake and Hanneke van Proosdij will present music for royalty composed by a group of composers including Busnois, Charpentier, Dowland, Charpentier, Lassus, Marais, de Monte, du Mont, van Ghizeghem, and Schütz. Information: fkress@aol.com Note: If you’ve never been to a workshop, before this one is very newbie-friendly!

2017 SFEMS Baroque Collegium Make a Joyful Noise

Concerted Vocal Works from Italy and Germany Linda Pearse, Director Saturday, February 25, 2017

10:00AM – 4:00PM Eden United Church of Christ

21455 Birch Street Hayward, CA 94541

This program explores the stylistic changes and compositional developments that occurred in concerted vocal music during the 17th and early 18th centuries by way of the music of Giovanni Gabrieli, Claudio Monteverdi, Heinrich Schütz, and J. S. Bach. All pieces will include parts for voices and instruments. Information: www.sfems.org Link to registration: http://sfems.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/2017-Baroque-Collegium-Flyer.pdf

And a few more workshops (coming up in February and March)!

Next Level Recorder Retreat:

Intensive Workshop on Technique and Ensemble Skills

Friday February 24-Tuesday February 28, 2017

Faculty: Tish Berlin and Frances Blaker (third teacher TBA depending on enrollment) Hidden Valley Music Seminars, Carmel Valley, CA Tuition: $365 Room and board double $310/single $390 Contact Tish Berlin at tishberlin@sbcglobal.net for more information. Download appli-cation at http://tibiaduo.com/performances-and-teaching/

Columbia Gorge Early Music RetreatColumbia Gorge Early Music RetreatColumbia Gorge Early Music RetreatColumbia Gorge Early Music Retreat

This fabulous workshop runs from March 17-20, 2017 at the Menucha Retreat and Con-ference Center, Corbett, Oregon, 97019, about 20 miles east of Portland. Terrific fac-ulty: Alison Melville, Miyo Aoki, Vicki Boeckman, Gayle and Phil Neuman, Laura Kuhlman Information: www.PortlandRecorderSociety.org

Thinking about summer? It’s not too early.

Registration for the Port Townsend Early Music Workshop July 9 - 15, 2017 IS NOW OPEN!

Visit www.seattle-recorder.org/workshop to learn more and to register.

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Sacramento area: Kathryn Canan is available for recorder lessons or ensemble coaching. Contact her at 916-996-7932 or kacanan@yahoo.com. She’s now in Grass Valley, at 469 Pine Street (95945). She is willing to drive to Sacramento to give lessons or ensemble coaching. Of course, she’s also happy to have people drive up here, take a lesson, and go hik-ing in the state park across the street!

These teachers are in the Bay Area (or

willing to come to Sacramento, if

there’s enough interest):

Greta Haug-Hryciw, SRS mem-ber and conductor, would love to give lessons before chapter meetings. Con-tact Greta at (415) 377-4444 or at gr8asf@gmail.com Frances Feldon, conductor of the Barbary Coast Recorder orchestra and music director of the ensemble Flauti Diversi, is available for lessons. She can be contacted at franfeldon@gmail.com Judith Linsenberg, the director of the Baroque ensemble Musica Pacifica, holds a doctorate in early music from Stanford, and has extensive re-corder teaching experience. She may be contacted by phone at 510-444-4113.

More information about teachers is on

our blog: http://sacrecorders.wordpress.com/

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Our official online location is now our blog at http://sacrecorders.wordpress.com/ All the information that Kathy kept on the website is now here. She can easily author-ize others to post as well, and anyone can add more information by commenting on the posts. You can check the blog for new in-formation any time, or you can subscribe to it by entering your email in the “Follow” field. Information that rarely changes is also on the blog. Click on the menu button to find what you’re looking for. We are also on Facebook. Just search for Sacramento Recorder Society and be sure to “like” us!!

Consider joining one of the larger Consider joining one of the larger Consider joining one of the larger Consider joining one of the larger organizations which make our own SRS organizations which make our own SRS organizations which make our own SRS organizations which make our own SRS

possible: possible: possible: possible: The San Francisco Early Music So-ciety, with whom we are affiliated, offers excellent workshops and concerts in the Bay Area. Their website: www.sfems.org American Recorder Society, of which we are a chapter, is the national or-ganization which promotes recorders. Their website: www.americanrecorder.org

Listening to Early MusicListening to Early MusicListening to Early MusicListening to Early Music

Here are some possibilities:

• Sunday Baroque, which airs from 8am to 10am on 88.9 FM, KXPR.

• Harmonia provides podcasts at its website: indianapublicmedia.org/harmonia

• The Chicago Early Music website provides access to many early music resources. Go to earlymusicchi-cago.org, then click on “ensembles,” then click on “beyond”

• Magnatune.com allows you to listen to music free and pay when you choose to download, or you can sub-scribe for $15/month for unlimited downloads

• Millennium of Music: "The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach."

http://www.millenniumofmusic.com • recorder-radio.com streams a vari-

ety of recorder music 24 hours a day

• Also available online: Con-certzender Oude Muziek (mostly early music, there’s an announcer every so often who is speaking Dutch). You can find these stations using Tune In Radio.

• The Boston classical station, WCRB, has an early music stream. Go to classicalwcrb.org, click on the play button, and the early music stream is one of your choices. Click on it!

About the Sacramento Recorder About the Sacramento Recorder About the Sacramento Recorder About the Sacramento Recorder SocietySocietySocietySociety

The Sacramento Recorder Society, founded in 1982, is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization. It is a chapter of the American Recorder Society and an affiliate of the San Francisco Early Music Society. We welcome recorder players of all ages and abilities as well as players of other early music instruments such as lutes, viols, sackbuts, shawms, curtals, krummhorns, and percussion. Beginners are urged to study privately and learn fingerings and be-come comfortable reading music before joining the recorder orchestra. We meet monthly from September through June, from 6:45pm to 9:30pm on the first Tuesday of each month, at the Friends Meeting House, 890 57th Street, between J St. and H St. Most of our meet-ings are conducted by a professional early music specialist who teaches recorder tech-nique and relevant music history and theory while exploring music of many eras. Many of our members also play in smaller groups in members’ homes during the rest of the month.

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Co-Presidents: Gail Crawford and Susan Titus

Vice President: Mark Schiffer

Secretary: Patricia Johnson

Treasurer: Doris Loughner

Member-at-Large: Robert Foster Education Chairperson: Crystal Olson

For information on SRS, please contact

the following board members by email:

gail.crawford1@gmail.com or susanlee448@att.net or marschif@gmail.com

Soupe and Musick 2017

The Holly and the Ivy

Take Four

Mark Schiffer, Greta Haug- Hryciw, Jerry Schwartz, Gail Crawford Foxes Three

Susan Titus, Carol Thomp- son, Doris Loughner

Ars Subtilior Brian and Susan Greta Haug-Hryciw Brian Thompson Mark Schiffer Susan Titus Trio a bec

Mark Schiffer, Brian Thompson, Jerry Schwartz

Mellodika Harp Duo

Alex Ives

Elizabeth Bogdanovich

David and Greta

David Dodds

Greta Haug-Hryciw

Sine Nomine Patty Johnson Doris Loughner Robert Foster Carol Thompson Elsa Morrison Susan Titus