The Sacramento Recorder Society A place for early music of all kinds in Sacramento

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Greetings Recorder and Early Music En-thusiasts!

No, I havent gotten my calendar mixed up, although that heading should probably read Happy New Recorder-Playing Year!

Since it is a new year for the Sacramento Recorder Society, Ive been thinking about making resolutions, particularly re-lated to recorders and other early music instruments. Here are some possibilities I have come up with.

#1: Attend all the SRS monthly meetings and play the wide variety of music which the eight conductors scheduled for this year will be bringing.

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

September 2016 For more information about the Sacramento Recorder Society, visit our website

at www.sacrecorders.org or our blog at http://sacrecorders.wordpress.com/

September Meeting

6:45pm Tuesday, September 6, 2016

at the Friends Meeting House 890 57th Street

between J St. and H St.

#2: Take advantage of opportunities to per-form in public - - at festivals, holiday events, religious settings, parks, poetry readings, group homes, schools, and so on. #3: Spread the word that the recorder is WAY, WAY more than a childs instrument.

#4: Participate in a one-day or a multiple-day recorder/early music workshop.

#5: Recruit a new SRS member. You might find out about one in a grocery line or walk-ing through a park or from a person who says, Oh, my daughter plays recorder and is looking for a group to play with.

#6: Learn to play a recorder new to you, e.g. a Renaissance instrument if you play just Ba-roque recorders; alto or bass if you play only C instruments; contrabass (SRS has one to loan).

#7: As a solo or with a few others, learn a musical piece or two well enough to perform at the Winter Party or at the June end-of-year meeting.

#8: Write an article for the SRS newsletter.

#9: Practice more!

My major resolution for the 2016-17 year is going to be the ever-popular #9. Ive already completed #8 (which is the article youre reading right now). What will your musical resolution(s) be??

- - - Doris Loughner, SRS Treasurer and Membership Chair

Our September ConductorOur September ConductorOur September ConductorOur September Conductor Hanneke van ProosdijHanneke van ProosdijHanneke van ProosdijHanneke van Proosdij

Hanneke van Proosdij performs regu-larly as soloist and continuo specialist and is principal early keyboard player with Philhar-monia Baroque Orchestra, Festspiel Orches-ter Goettingen and Voices of Music. She has appeared regularly with Hesperion XX, Con-certo Palatino, Magnificat, American Bach Soloists. Concerto Koln, Chanticleer, LA Phil, Dallas Symphony, Gewandhaus Or-chester and the Arcadian Academy. She re-ceived her solo and teaching diplomas from the Royal Conservatory in The Hague where she studied recorder, harpsichord and com-position. Together with her husband David Tayler, Hanneke cofounded and co-directs Voices of Music. With twenty two million viewers worldwide, Voices of Music is the most popular Early Music ensemble in the United States. Hanneke is a cofounder of the Junior Recorder Society in the East Bay and directs, together with Rotem Gilbert, the SFEMS Recorder Workshop. She has re-corded over eighty five discs for Magnatune, BIS, Koch, Musica Omnia, Carus, AVIE, Accent and Delos. Hanneke teaches recorder at UC Berkeley and has been guest professor at Stanford, Oberlin, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, University of Wisconsin and the University of Vermont. She enjoys reading books, downhill skiing and hiking.

Conductors Notes for the Conductors Notes for the Conductors Notes for the Conductors Notes for the September MeetingSeptember MeetingSeptember MeetingSeptember Meeting

We will start the season with my ar-rangement of Telemanns Overture in F with the nickname Alster. Telemann wrote this in Hamburg; the Alster is a river which flows out into the Elbe. The arrangement is for ten recorder parts ranging from sopranino to greatbass. It has four horn parts, great fun and not too hard for our tenor players, as well as some flashy alto parts. We will then play the beautiful 8-part Crucifixus by Antonio Lotti, scored for SSAATTBB. What makes this Crucifixus so incredible is its use of striking dissonances. Beginning with three simple notes quietly played by the bass, the music builds quickly into the 8 parts and with every other entry, Lotti creates a semitone clash that sounds both mysterious and beautiful, which reflects the sad tone of the text about Christ's cruci-fiction. After such painful beauty we will cleanse our palate with a Menuet by Haydn from his Symphony No 59, also known as the Fire Symphony- composed between 1766 and 1769, a relative early work of Haydn. It received its name, "Fire Symphony," as the result of it being played in 1774 as entr'acte music for a play by Gustav Grossmann, called Die Feuersbrunst (The Conflagration), at the Eszterhza palace where Haydn was employed. Following the Haydn, we will return to the Baroque for a beautiful and fun folk tune from 18th century Slovenia and we will finish the evening joyfully with Falalaln falalalera from the Cancionero de Upp-sala, 1556.

New: SRS Non-Member Meeting Policy

Conductors for 2016Conductors for 2016Conductors for 2016Conductors for 2016----2017 2017 2017 2017

September 6, 2016: Hanneke van Proos-dij

October 4, 2016: Glen Shannon

November 1, 2016: Frances Feldon

December 6, 2016: Jerry Schwartz

January 3, 2017: Jerry Schwartz

February 7, 2017: Judy Linsenberg

March 7, 2017: Greta Haug-Hryciw

April 4, 2017: Louise Carslake

May 2, 2017: Shira Kammen

Refreshments at Monthly MeetingsRefreshments at Monthly MeetingsRefreshments at Monthly MeetingsRefreshments at Monthly Meetings Isnt it great to take a few minutes of our chapter meetings to visit with other members and have a little something to sustain us for the last part of the meeting? Please plan on helping out with refresh-ments this year. Therell be a sign up sheet on the table in the foyer.

SRS Dues Increase for 2016-17

After looking at the SRS budget for the new year, the board has decided to raise the yearly dues to $50 for 2016-17. That $5 increase is equivalent to just 50 per meeting. The last time dues were raised was more than eight years ago. In the meantime our major expenses (conductor fees and meeting space rental) have gone up quite a bit.

Dues have never covered our yearly expenses entirely. We rely on cash dona-tions (large and small) and the occasional bequest, on income from the June tag sale, and on proceeds left after expenses from the Winter Party to allow the Sacramento Recorder Society to provide the musical opportunities we all enjoy so much.

Please renew your membership for the 2016-2017 year now, or join if you are not yet a member. The new membership form is attached to this newsletter (or to the email it was sent with). Fill out the form completely, attach a check for your dues ($50, along with an extra donation to SRS if possible), and mail it to the address on the form. You can also turn in your membership form and dues to the SRS Treasurer at the chapter meetings.

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Here are some cool things from the American Recorder Society that you may not be aware of: Ars Nova email newsletter: This arrives in your email on a monthly basis, and I initially

mistook it for a recap of the magazine. No! Its a short article on something interesting and pertinent. Thumb rests (and more), ARS travelling teacher program, and how to keep your instrument clean have been some recent topics.

ARS Facebook page: If you are on Facebook, I guarantee you will enjoy this! Posts in-clude links to performances and music, questions (and answers), and links to personal study helps.

On the Facebook page: Links to Susan Jeffries, a lively and informative recorder expert.

Are you an ARS member?

Every summer Sine Nomine (and friends, this year) takes ad-vantage of a lovely summer evening and plays in McKinley Park. Those out for an evening stroll often stop, listen and ask questions. Players (from back right, counter clockwise): Brian Thompson, Susan Titus, Patty Johnson, Doris Loughner, Elsa Morrison, Dorothy Orolin,

Sine Nomine (and friends) was asked to provide music for a celebration of Shakespeares Birthday held at the McClatchy branch of the Sacramento Public Library. Players (left to right): Cheryl Precivale, Elsa Morrison, Robert Foster, Carol Thompson, Doris Loughner.

Sacramento Recorder Society was well-represented at the San Francisco Early Music Soci-etys Recorder Workshop. Heres Robert Foster (on the right). Mark Schiffer, Steve Teel, Doris Loughner, Patty Johnson, and Greta Haug-Hryciw were also there. This group of SRS members played together for an appreciative au-dience at Open Mic night.

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