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Greetings and Best Wishes to our Fellow Recorderists! I had thought this was going to be a message about the happy signs of spring, new life and color, and brighter, warmer days. After all, daffodils, rosemary and some ornamental trees are in bloom, leaf and flower buds are swelling all around us. However, as I write this, more wintry temperatures have returned and we are an-ticipating another major set of storms with high winds and heavy rains. It’s strange after years of drought for the ground to be saturated and streams overflowing; some of us have been or fear being flooded. At the same time, concerns are running high and many hearts are heavy over the ac-tions and directions of our government. The uncertainties and our empathy for those in more vulnerable positions have us worried….

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

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

at http://sacrecorders.wordpress.com/

March Meeting

6:45pm Tuesday, March 7, 2017

at the Friends Meeting House 890 57th Street

between J St. and H St.

In the midst of it all, Play-the-

Recorder month is upon us. Let us not be dis-

tracted more than necessary from making

and experiencing music! We had moments of

satisfying music-making with Judy Linsen-

berg at our February meeting, from martial

and majestic to carousel-like and beyond.

Her guidance enabled us to play more truly

together and in sync with the spirit of the

music. The Musica Pacifica CD I bought is a

treat and an inspiration. Public radio today

played Bach, Handel, and Vivaldi, with in-

sightful commentary: thoughtful and sooth-

ing, providing a sense of a more orderly and

harmonious world, focused on beauty and

meaning. We are privileged to be able to ap-

ply discipline and emotion, to create order

and harmony in our inner and shared worlds

when we play, and to enjoy camaraderie,

warmth and humor.

Our upcoming session with Greta

Haug-Hrciw on March 7th is bound to be

stimulating and enjoyable; among other

pieces, we’ll play James Chaudoir’s Waltz,

“as we wish.” I hope most of us will be able

to be there—and that all of us will be playing

for ourselves and others throughout the

month. May the dams and levees hold! May

the music flow! May the government (fill in

the blank!). Spring IS coming, after all.

See you on March 7th!

Susan Titus

Sacramento Recorder Society

Co-president

Our February ConductorOur February ConductorOur February ConductorOur February Conductor Greta HaugGreta HaugGreta HaugGreta Haug----HryciwHryciwHryciwHryciw

Greta is a frequent conductor at ARS chapter meetings around the greater Bay Area, co-directs the Barbary Coast Recorder Orchestra, and is assistant director with the Mid-Peninsula Recorder Orchestra. A San Francisco native with musical roots in the Bay Area Classical and Early Music scene that span three generations, she is delighted to have such an active part in our recorder community. Her grandfather and father were professional symphony orchestra musicians who often hosted small ensemble chamber music rehearsals at home, creating a lasting and happy association with music and friends for Greta from a very early age. In 2004, she founded the recorder quartet SDQ, carrying that tradition forward. Greta also teaches pri-vate recorder lessons to students of all ages and presently serves on the Board of the American Recorder Society.

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

March 7, 2017: Greta Haug-Hryciw

April 4, 2017: Louise Carslake

May 2, 2017: Shira Kammen June 6, 2017: Annual Business Meeting and Pot Luck Play-in

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James Chaudoir (American (LA), b. 1947): Waltz – SATB, 3-page score. This piece was composed for this year’s Play the Recorder Month by one of the newest ARS board members – also a well-published composer. http://www.americanrecorder.org/docs/Waltz_by_James_Chaudoir_PtRM.mp3 The music is a little jazzy and has a few quodlibets that you’re sure to recognize. At-tached is an MP3 file from the ARS website to give you an idea of how it all fits together.

Heinrich Isaac (Flemish, 1450-1517): La mi

la sol: 2-page “Partifi” parts for ATTB. The top line can be either soprano or alto, and the tenor 2 part can be played on either tenor or alto. This is our “big” piece for the evening. Viols would be great on this piece.

Orlando Gibbons (English, 1583-1625): Fantasy No. 1 – ATB, 2-page score. At tempo, this quick-moving instrumental piece has been transposed down a fifth by SFRS member Daniel Soussan, putting it in a comfortable range for alto, tenor, and bass (no sopranos on this one).

Hinrich Luchterhandt (German b. 1928): Pentatonisch – SATB, 3-page score. From a suite of four pieces by contemporary German composer. Don’t let the 5/8 time sig-nature worry you, it’s quite regular and you’ll get into the groove of feeling the measures.

Edvard Grieg (Norwegian, 1843-1907): Margaretes Vuggesang (Cradle

Song) – SA8TB8, 1-page score. Although intended for voices, it fits well on recorders (and we do like to "steal" vocal music!). Take a look at this ahead of time, because the notation may be a little challenging. Bass plays in treble clef as though an alto reading “up”. This Norwegian composer uses such distinct (and luscious) chord structures, this piece lends itself perfectly to recorders.

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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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

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Our tasty treats at the March meet-ing were provided by Susan Titus and two friends. Have you signed up to share a treat? There’ll be a sign up sheet on the table in the foyer at the March meeting. If you haven’t gotten around to bringing any-thing this year, now’s the time!

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Wednesday, February 22: Baroque and Beyond, which includes SRS member Mark Schiffer and our blog author Kathy Canan, played a fabu-lous concert for the Westminster Pres-byterian Church’s Music at Noon se-ries. The theme was the music of Venice and included a variety of in-struments including (in addition to re-corders) a cello and a harpsichord. They performed before an enthusiastic audience. The church makes a great venue for beautiful early music!

Sunday, March 5: Barbary Coast Re-corder Orchestra presents “All Things Green and Peaceful” in Arlington, near Albany. Several SRS members will be playing in this concert. More information on the concert page.

Wednesday, March 15: Sine Nomine will be playing for residents of Mercy McMahon Terrace, an assisted living facility in downtown Sacramento. A program with a variety of meditative and upbeat music is planned.

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David Rogers, Classical and Crossover Guitar with Frances Feldon, recorder and Suzanne Porte, cello

Spanish music, Bach, Rolling Stones and Beatles covers, improvised jazz and early music

Saturday, February 25: The Backroom, Berkeley, 8:00pm Information: http://backroommusic.com/events-1/2017/2/25/david-rogers-with-special-guests-frances-feldon-and-susanna-porte

Barbary Coast Recorder Orchestra For All Things Green and Peaceful

Sunday, March 5: Arlington Community Church Parish Hall, 52 Arlington Ave., Kensington, 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

Halifax and Jeffrey with Marie Dalby Szuts, Josh Lee, and John Lenti Big, Beautiful, and French: Music for Several Viols and Continuo

Friday, April 7: First Presbyterian Church, Palo Alto, 8:00pm Saturday, April 8: St. John’s Presbyterian Church, Berkeley, 7:30pm Sunday, April 9: St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, San Francisco, 4:00pm Information: sfems.org

Upcoming workshops...

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

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

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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SFEMS Baroque Workshop

June 18-24

Water: Music’s Elixir

Director: Linda Pearse

Rivers connected cities to major

bodies of water—Hamburg on the Elbe, Lübeck on the Trave, Vienna on the Danube, Bremen on the

Weser, Strasbourg, Mannheim and Cologne on the Rhein, and Paris on the Seine. Water carried com-

posers such as G. F. Handel from Hamburg to London, and connected these major artistic and cultural

centers to the world. Our 2017 San Francisco Early Music Summer Baroque Workshop explores the

music of composers who worked in and travelled to these major centers.

Location: Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA

Faculty: Linda Pearse, sackbut; David Wilson, baroque violin; William Skeen, baroque cello

and viola da gamba; Sandra Miller, traverse; Clea Galhano, recorder; Sand Dalton, baroque

oboe; Bruce Dickey, cornetto; Anna Marsh, baroque bassoon; Rita Lilly, voice; Aaron Shee-

han, voice; Peter Sykes, harpsichord; Nigel North, lute and theorbo

Information: sfems.org or baroqueworkshop@sfems.org

SFEMS Medieval and Renaissance Workshop

The Triumph of Music July 2 – July 8, 2017 Director: Adam Gilbert

Francesco Petrarch’s poem knew what trumps what. Enlisting his 14th-century poem The Triumphs (I Trionfi), we invite our faculty and students to explore themes relating to the monumental themes of Love, Chastity, Death, Fame, Time, and Eternity. Class topics will also feature music commemorat-ing the five hundredth anniversary of the watershed 1517, the year that saw the start of the Reforma-tion, the publication of Johannes Reuchlin’s De arte cabbalistica, the death of Henricus Isaac, and the last compositions of his ill-fated student Adam Rener. From one annus mirabilis et horribilis to an-other, we will all find joy in the Triumph of Music!

Location: St. Albert’s Priory, Oakland, CA Faculty: Anne Azéma, voice and medieval song; Bianca Hall, voice and Renaissance song; Mary Springfels, viola da gamba and vielle; David Morris, viola da gamba; Adam Gilbert, recorder, double reeds, collegiums; Rotem Gilbert, recorder and double reeds; Adam Bregman, sackbut and early winds Information: sfems.org or medrenworkshop@gmail.com

SFEMS Recorder Workshop – One session only!

Love and Peace

July 16 – 22, 2017 Recorder workshop directors: Rotem Gilbert and Hanneke van Proosdij

Picture from faculty concert in the lovely chapel.

Directed by recorder players Rotem Gilbert and Hanneke van Proosdij, the SFEMS Recorder

Workshop is located in the intimate setting of St. Albert’s Priory on the border of Oakland and

Berkeley, California. This workshop features every aspect of music making for the recorder,

including technique classes, Renaissance recorder consort, medieval to contemporary music and

consort music. Featuring small class sizes and an international faculty, they invite intermediate to

advanced recorder players. The week concludes with a spectacular performance of all workshop

participants in the Recorder Orchestra at St. Albert’s beautiful chapel. Evening events include faculty

concerts, lecture demonstrations and a focused Wednesday mini-workshop.

Location:St. Albert’s Priory, Oakland, CA

Faculty: Miyo Aoki, Louise Carslake, Rotem Gilbert, Joan Kimball, Peter Maund, Anne Tim-berlake, Hanneke van Proosdij Information: Contact co-directors Rotem Gilbert and Hanneke van Proosdij, recorderworkshop@sfems.org Editor’s Note: All of these workshops are wonderful and are highly recommended by SRS

members who have attended them. The Recorder Workshop fills up quickly, so sign up imme-

diately if you haven’t already done so!

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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!!

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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

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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

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