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SEATTLE RECORDER SOCIETY
Recorder Notes
March 2019
Vol. L, No. 7
www.seattle-recorder.org
From the Music Director (Vicki Boeckman)
Greetings Everyone,
My goodness, what a whirlwind of a month weather-wise and otherwise. I hope there were no hardships among our members due to the inclement weather. I was sorry to have to cancel our first ROPS rehearsal, but heartened to know that Maple Leaf Lutheran opened their doors for the homeless during the worst of the freeze. On a personal note I will say that I loved the connection with folks in the neighborhood as a result of being snowbound, seeing all the creative snow sculptures on the streets, and the incredible si-
lent beauty - before it all started melting. We had over 11 inches on our street so there is a lot of melting going on!
After four concerts with Cléa Galhano I am thoroughly inspired to keep on play-ing Brazilian music or basically anything with a Latin swing! Cléa and I will be teaching a weekend workshop and performing together in late March in Kona, on the big island of Hawai’i, where our focus will be Bach, Brazil and Beyond. So that, dear members, is what I have planned for the March meeting! There will be an opening program, so I will be efficient and try not to over-plan in my zeal. My goodness, it just occurred to me while writing this, that the March playing session will be my last conducting session of the season. Miyo Aoki will be the guest conductor for the April session and then we have Members’ Night in May. So I promise an entertaining evening full of hip-wiggling, toe-tappin’ music! Works by Astor Piazzolla, Pixinguinha and Sören Sieg, among others. All sizes of recorders SATB,Gb and Contra will be welcome. If anyone wants to bring a shaker or two I’m sure we can find something for you to do. Send me a quick message if you would like the music ahead of time, and let me know what size you want to play.
Looking forward to seeing you soon!
For the opening program we have invited Kris Kwapis to return. Please read below what she has to say.
Newsletter Deadline for March Issue:
Wednesday March 20
SRS Meeting
Friday, March 1, 2019
@ 7:30 pm
Opening Program Kris Kwapis
Playing session led by Vicki Boeckman
All sizes of recorders and viols are welcome.
Back Room Gang led by Miyo Aoki
This is a great option for any-one who is less experienced or
would like a slower pace. If you plan to be there, please
let Miyo know so she can choose repertoire accordingly!
Content Highlights
Play the Recorder Month
Nina Stern comes to Seattle
Port Townsend Workshop (Registration Open!)
Events Calendar
2018/2019
SRS Meetings
Meetings are usually (but not always—see *’d dates below) held on the first Friday of each month, September to May, at 7:30pm,
Maple Leaf Lutheran Church, 10005—32nd NE, Seattle. Meetings often include a short performance of interest to recorder or viol players, en-semble playing for all levels of recorder players, and a begin-ning recorder ensemble.
A $5 donation is requested for non-members.
March 1 *April 12 *May 10
Refreshments (March)
Fruit
Mike Woolf
Veggies
Janice Klain
Baked goods
Betty Swift
Christiane Schultz
Thank you
for volunteering!
Opening Program (Kris Kwapis) — Sound an Alarm! (or How to Play Trumpet Calls Without Being Thrown in Jail)
Most people associate the trumpet with fanfares and bugle calls — for good reason! In my presentation, I will discuss some of the ways the trumpet is used as a symbolic vehicle, primarily based on our historical functions, while shedding a bit of light on the traditions, rights and privileges of mem-bers of the Trumpet Guilds.
Part of the discussion will focus on various concepts of ar-ticulation used on the trumpet to more effectively deliver a musical message, one that sometimes carries with it impli-cations of life and death. If members would like to bring
their own favorite examples of repertoire for recorder containing references to trumpet fanfares, please do!
Local Recorder Happenings
Registration is Open for The 2019 Port Townsend Early Music Workshop
July 7-13 at the lovely campus of the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma. We are especially excited to welcome the composer Sören Sieg from Germany. Check the website to see details and register for the workshop.
Play the Recorder Month—Music From Around the World Sunday, March 10 Join us for a lively concert of recorder music. This annual chapter event will take place at the Third Place Commons in Lake Forest Park, just north of Seattle.
Come and hear a community concert featuring a variety of international music and various genres. Music performed by local recorder ensembles including mixed consorts, members of the Seattle Recorder Society and more!
Join other recorder players at the beginning of the concert to play the composi-tion commissioned by the American Recorder Society for Play the Recorder Day, entitled “Fantasia on Faithless Nancy Dawson” by Phil Neuman.
All events are free. Come for all or part of the program. New this year: for the “Warm Up and Playing Session”, we will rehearse the PTRD 2019 composition and play other pieces.
Thanks to all who have volunteered to play at this event. We have a full program, but if you are interested in performing next year, please do let me know!
1:00pm - 2:30: Warmup and Playing Session (new this year!) in the Stadler Room 3:00pm - 4:00pm: Concert on the Third Place Commons Stage
Sunday, March 17: Nina Stern’s East of the River!!! Nina Stern and her group East of the River will perform in Seattle twice this day. This is a must-not-miss concert for any recorder player who can make it. See the description in the Events Calendar.
Local Recorder Happenings (continued)
Saturday, March 23 @ 2:00 PM: Recorder Orchestra of Puget Sound
ROPS will present their Spring concert in the sanctuary of Maple Leaf Lutheran Church.
Repertoire will include a piece for recorder orchestra and soloists by Sören Sieg, Ari Barroso's Brazil arranged by Peter Seibert, and the fantastic Respighi Ancient Aires and dances arranged by Charles Coldwell.
Free of charge.
Sunday, April 7: Recorder Duo Concert with Laura Faber and Mike Woolf
Please join Laura and Mike for a recital of music spanning the music of the 14th through 21st centuries, including music of the Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, and modern eras. 3pm at the Sand Point Community United Methodist Church, Seattle.
Saturday, April 13 @ 9:30 AM - 5:15 PM: Moss Bay Recorder Society Meet Maple Leaf Lutheran Church in Seattle. Three sessions with three great conductors plus potluck lunch.
Baroque Winds: Chamber music for recorder, oboe, bassoon, and flute
With Vicki Boeckman (recorder), Sand Dalton (oboe), Anna Marsh (bassoon), Jeffrey Cohan (baroque flute) and Jonathan Oddie (harpsichord).
April 22 at 7:00 PM: First Presbyterian Church in Bellingham April 23 at 7:00 PM: Christ Episcopal Church in Seattle April 24 at 7:00 PM: Knox United Church in Vancouver, BC April 25 at 7:00 PM: St. Luke's Memorial Episcopal Church in Tacoma April 26 at 7:00 PM: Brickworks in Friday Harbor, San Juan Island April 27 at 1:00 PM: Grace Church on Lopez Island April 27 at 7:00 PM: Orcas Adventist Fellowship Church in Eastsound, Orcas Island April 28 at 2:00 PM: St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Port Townsend April 28 at 7:00 PM: St. Augustine's in-the-Woods Church on Whidbey Island
Seattle Recorder Society’s Members’ Night on May 10!
Per long-standing tradition of the SRS, the final meeting of the season is Members’ Night. Any SRS member can sign up to perform up to 5 minutes as a solo or with their ensemble. There are no restrictions on performance style, and past years’ performances have ranged from traditional recorder literature to poetry readings to saxophone ensembles. It’s always fun playing for such a supportive audience and also fun for those not performing. You may send performance info (title and composer of piece, names of consort members) to President Nancy Gorbman ([email protected]).
SRS Board Members (2018/2019)
Music Director: Vicki Boeckman (206-985-9916)
[email protected] Music Director Emeritus: Peter Seibert (206-329-2774)
[email protected] Officers: President: Nancy Gorbman (206-852-4762)
[email protected] President-Elect: Michael Bancroft (206-523-6668)
[email protected] Past President: Molly Warner (206-523-5192)
[email protected] Newsletter: Mike Woolf (206-300-6623)
[email protected] Secretary: Kathleen Arends (425-649-9869)
[email protected] Treasurer: Richard Ginnis (206-633-1969)
* * * * Membership: Betty Swift (206-323-3879)
[email protected] Refreshments: Maja Eberhardt (206-525-4283)
[email protected] Librarian: Hanan Bell (206-695-2276)
[email protected] Webmaster: Charles Coldwell (206-328-8238)
Concerts and Events Calendar
Friday, March 1 @ 7:30 PM: Pacific MusicWorks—Leading Ladies Burning passion, tender desire, and fierce jealousy come to life in the music of Barbara Strozzi - the best known of a small number of women who found success in the male-dominated world of 17th century professional musicians - and her contemporaries. Sopranos Tess Altiveros and Danielle Sampson join Stephen Stubbs and the Pacific MusicWorks House Band for a journey into the world of love gone right, love gone wrong, and love just plain gone. Rescheduled from prior February dates due to snow. St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Seattle. Details Here
Saturday, March 2 @ 8:00 PM: Bird Ensemble—Polyphonic Feast Composers knew the importance of religious feast days and produced their best for the occasion. The program features richly scored music for six to eight parts by English Renaissance composers John Taverner and John Sheppard. St. James Cathedral, Seattle. Details Here
Friday, March 8 @ 7:00 PM: Salish Sea Early Music Festival: Bach Goldberg Variations Hans-Jürgen Schnoor, Christ Episcopal Church, Seattle. Details Here
Sunday, March 10 @ 3:00 PM: Pacific MusicWorks Underground: Celtic Folk & Baroque Scotland’s natural beauty and rich heritage has inspired musicians for centuries. Internationally acclaimed Scottish fiddler and violinist Brandon Vance joins harpsichordist and guitarist Henry Lebedinsky invite you to explore the interplay between art and folk music in 18th century Scotland. Resonance @ SOMA Towers, Bellevue. Details Here
Sunday, March 10 @ 8:00 PM: Pacific MusicWorks Underground: Celtic Folk & Baroque Same as above, but at The Royal Room in Columbia City, Seattle.
Tuesday, March 12 @ 7:00 PM: Pacific MusicWorks Underground: Celtic Folk & Baroque Same as above, but at Capitol Cider, Seattle
Friday, March 15 @ 7:00 PM: Salish Sea Early Music Festival: Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonatas Hans-Jürgen Schnoor and Jeffrey Cohan, Christ Episcopal Church, Seattle. Details Here
Saturday, March 16 @ 2:00 PM: Moss Bay Recorder Society Meeting, Miyo Aoki conducting Kingsgate Library, 12315 NE 143rd Street, Kirkland. Details Here
Saturday, March 16 @ 8:00 PM: Medieval Women’s Choir—Courtly Love: A User’s Guide Medieval love songs contain elements so universal that they could almost constitute a “how-to” guide for romantic relationships at court. In this concert, we will learn to follow instructions. Seattle First Baptist Church. Details Here
Sunday, March 17 @ 2:30 PM: East of the River—Sultana: Music of the Sephardic Diaspora Founded by woodwind virtuosos Nina Stern and Daphna Mor, East of the River braids together the rich musical traditions of the Sephardic diaspora, inflecting the music with infectious Eastern rhythms, and steeping their performance in the art of improvisation. Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center—SOLD OUT
Sunday, March 17 @ 7:30 PM: East of the River—Sultana: Music of the Sephardic Diaspora Same as above, but at Temple Beth Am in Seattle. For Tickets Click Here
Friday, March 22 @ 7:30 PM: Blue Heron performs Remede de Fortune by Guillaume de Machaut 2018 Grammophone Award winning ensemble Blue Heron performs Remede de Fortune by Guil-laume de Machaut. Gethsemane Lutheran Church, Seattle. Details Here
MARCH
Concerts and Events Calendar—Continued
Saturday, March 23 @ 2:00 PM: Recorder Orchestra of Puget Sound ROPS will share the music of Mouton, Respighi, Sören Sieg, and others. This promises to be an especially fun concert. Free of charge, at Maple Leaf Lutheran Church in Seattle
Sunday, April 7 @ 3:00 PM: Recorder Duo Concert with Laura Faber and Mike Woolf Please join Laura and Mike for a recital of music spanning the music of the 14th through 21st centuries, including music of the Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, and modern eras. Sand Point Community United Methodist Church, Seattle.
Saturday, April 13 @ 9:30 AM - 5:15 PM: Moss Bay Recorder Society Meet Maple Leaf Lutheran Church in Seattle. Three sessions with three great conductors plus potluck lunch. Details Here
Saturday, April 13 @ 7:30 PM: Gallery Concerts Next Generation Competition Winner’s Concert Rachell Wong, violinist extraordinaire won our national juried competition for young artists! She will perform music of Bach, Biber, LeClair, Tartini and Veracini, accompanied by Byron Schenkman, harpsi-chord. Join us to hear a star of tomorrow featured with a star of today! Queen Anne Christian Church in Seattle. Details (including a great recording of the soloist) Here
Sunday, April 14 @ 7:00 PM: Schenkman & Friends—Leclair and Rameau: The Age of Enlightenment An evening of decadent and delicious music from the late French Baroque, including Couperin’s La Paix du Parnasse (“Peace on Parnassus”), Leclair’s second Récréation de Musique, and selections from Rameau’s works for harpsichord, solo and accompanied. Monica Hugget, Toma Iliev, Joanna Blendulf, and Byron Schenkman. Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall, Seattle. Details Here
Sunday, April 14 @ 3:00 PM: Pacific MusicWorks/Underground—International Woman of Mystery Born in Venice, Antonia Padoani Bembo showed prodigious talent as a singer, staged a daring escape from a violent marriage with the help of a globetrotting guitar virtuoso, and made her way to Paris, where she lived and composed under the protection of King Louis XIV. Soprano Danielle Sampson joins violinist Romaric Pokorny, cellist Caroline Nicolas, and harpsichordist Henry Lebedinsky. Resonance at SOMA Towers, Bellevue. Details Here
Sunday, April 14 @ 8:00 PM: Pacific MusicWorks/Underground—International Woman of Mystery Same as above, but at The Royal Room in Columbia City, Seattle.
Tuesday, April 16 @ 7:00 PM: Pacific MusicWorks/Underground—International Woman of Mystery Same as above, but at Capitol Cider in Seattle (ages 21+)
Tuesday, April 23 @ 7:00 PM: Baroque Winds: chamber music for recorder, oboe, bassoon and flute Presented by the Salish Sea Music Festival, with Vicki Boeckman (recorder), Sand Dalton (oboe), Anna Marsh (bassoon), Jeffrey Cohan (baroque flute) and Jonathan Oddie (harpsichord). Christ Episcopal Church in Seattle. For additional dates and venues around the Puget Sound area, see the description in “Local Recorder Happenings” or at Details Here
Friday, April 26 @ 7:30 PM: Seattle Baroque Orchestra and Byrd Ensemble—Handel’s Messiah Bastyre University Chapel in Kenmore. Details Here
Saturday, April 27 @ 7:30 PM: Seattle Baroque Orchestra and Byrd Ensemble—Handel’s Messiah St. Mark’s Cathedral in Seattle. Details Here
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February Meeting Notes (Kathleen Arends)
At the February meeting we had some younger people in attendance, including a home-schooling family or two.
President Nancy Gorbman announced the March 10 Play-the-Recorder playing session and concert. See the calendar.
You can still sign up for the Port Townsend Workshop (in Tacoma at University of Puget Sound)! The web page went live February 1st. Two scholarships are available on the Tuition page.
Our President-Elect, Michael Bancroft, announced that Members' Night will be May 10th this year. Consort with your consort and you may present a piece of five minutes or less. (At least one consort member must be an SRS member.) Or you can play solo! It's fun playing for such a supportive audience. You may send performance info (title and com-poser of piece, names of consort members) to President Nancy Gorbman ([email protected]).
A number of members went to the "Back Room" with Miyo Aoki to play in a smaller group. They worked on three tunes: a "La Parma", a "Gagliarde" of Mainerio, and "Putta Nera Ballo Furlano". We may well hear a couple of them at Members' Night in May!
Charles Coldwell directed our playing session this evening. We benefitted from his careful study of Ottorino Respighi's Suites of Ancient Airs and Dances, playing three movements Charles orchestrated from Respighi's works. We also en-joyed playing earlier versions of the Renaissance tunes Respighi orchestrated for his suites.
We began with the "Aria del Gran Duca" by Peter Philips (~1560 – 1628), first conducted in half notes, then again in whole notes. Both its top and its bottom voices were Renaissance pop tunes we encountered again later. "If you can't hear yourself—and you ARE blowing," Charles told us, "then you're probably playing in tune."
We went on to "Oche nuovo miracolo", composed and choreographed by Emilio de Cavalieri for a spectacular perfor-mance at the 1589 wedding in Florence of the Grand Duke Ferdinand de' Medici and the French princess Christine of Lorraine. Its bass line is the same as the Philips we had just played.
And then we played Charles' recorder orchestration of Respighi's use of the tune. Respighi was making Italian cultural heritage available to be played by orchestras of his own time. In this case he didn't change the tune; we heard a re-cording of Fabrizio Coroso's arrangement, then played the same tune as Respighi used it. I especially enjoyed the way it was brightened by Charles' use of sopranino.
Charles demonstrated a sort of über-staccato technique for recorders to use in rendering lute/plucked string lines. We were pretty successful with it.
We played Charles' orchestration of a Siciliana used by Respighi. Here the Italian did add his own touches to the "Spagnolette" by Caroubel from Terpsichore (of 1612). We played the Caroubel too.
I enjoyed playing Charles' colorful orchestration of the suites much more than I have ever enjoyed listening to Respighi's work. This was especially true in the last movement we played, whose middle melody (B of ABA) we also tootled in a "Volte" from Terpsichore. Charles' orchestration combined drones and sopranino in a way I found magi-cal. Thank you for a delightful time, Charles!
Playing Session with Cléa Galhano (Kathleen Arends)
Saturday morning, February 2nd, Seattle Recorder Society members had a special treat: two hours with Brazilian (now Minnesotan) recorderist Cléa Galhano! Energetic Cléa was in the area to play several concerts with Vicki Boeckman and company.
We began with a three-part Ma fin est mon commencement ("My end is my beginning; My beginning is my end") of Guilliame de Machaut. The voices were quite independent, with lots of syncopation, but did occasionally meet. Cléa helped us keep the voices moving, not plodding: "Act on the line, to push it forward." It was simultaneously important to exaggerate the beginning of each note, to make the rhythms clearly heard. The piece is also a perfect palindrome, perhaps explaining the title.
Next we played a double choir Ave Maria by Tomas Luis de Victoria. Again, horizontal thinking was important to the polyphony. "It's about the gesture of the line", Cléa told us. After working on it, we stood to render this gorgeous choral piece.
Our third selection was another Ave Maria, this one by Gustav Holst. Cléa kept a strict beat and we stood, again, to play this beautiful piece written near the end of Holst's life.
And then we played "The Shadow of Your Smile", written by Johnny Mandel (b. 1925) and arranged for Cléa by Paul Leenhouts. We skipped the florid introduction to begin at the main melody, enjoying a panoply of delicious flats in the harmony. It was a bossa nova, whose syncopation fulfilled the theme of the morning; again, we used space to clarify the rhythms, and made sure to keep the music moving along. Some of us were pleased that the arrangement had us flutter tongue a couple of the notes.
Thanks to Cléa for the best Saturday morning this SRS member has had in a long time!
Playing Brazilian music with Cléa Galhano (Vicki Boeckman, photos Bill Stickney)
I met Cléa for the first time in 1999 at the pre-workshop faculty gather-ing for the PT early music workshop at Peter Seibert’s house. We became friends in less than 5 minutes, sharing stories and laughter. I was still living in Denmark at that time and delighted in meeting up at workshops and playing together in faculty concerts where and whenever we hap-pened to be teaching at the same workshop. Cléa is a fountain of knowledge and inspiration, intelligent, caring, passionate and completely present and engaged. It was an absolute pleasure to play full-length con-certs together as opposed to just one piece here and there on a work-shop faculty concert. Thank you, Bill, for capturing the spirit in these wonderful photos!