Happy new year everybody! We closed out the new year with a very successful holiday concert. About sixty people in the audience. We also enjoyed a performance the recorder club from the Roosevelt Middle School in River Forest led by Mona Mann.

Mona Mann and some of her students.

Roosevelt Middle School Recorder Club performs for the Chicago Chapter ARS.

Our next meeting will be January 19th. Lisette Kielson returns in January to lead us in music by William Byrd, the six-part “Christ Rising Again” and our own Peter Beck’s four-part arrangement of the English ballad “Willy O’Winsbury.” And we plan to continue work on our spring concert selection, Glen Shannon’s “Friendship Canzona” as well as the “Abendlied” piece for the Folk Music Festival in February.

Details on all the above, plus more can be found in our newsletter: January 2020