CRS News
- Announcing our Summer Concerts
Good news! The Chicago Recorder Society presents three performance and participatory workshops this summer. We will perform a short set of classic and popular works, then invite the audience to learn and play with us.… Read more: Announcing our Summer Concerts - Join us on May 17th for our Spring Concert to celebrate the close of our recorder season!
Please join us for our final meeting of the 2025-2026 season, our Spring Concert on May 17 at 2 PM. All are invited to perform, or just listen and enjoy, and all types of music… Read more: Join us on May 17th for our Spring Concert to celebrate the close of our recorder season! - Join us on April 19th to welcome the warm(?) Chicago weather and prepare for May!
At April’s meeting Lisette will lead us in our dress rehearsal for the spring concert. We will run, in order, Handel’s Sarabande, Williams’ My Bonny Boy, Gabrieli’s Alla Battaglia, and Lully’s Chaconne. We will have… Read more: Join us on April 19th to welcome the warm(?) Chicago weather and prepare for May! - Join us on March 15th to welcome Spring with a little polyphonic music!
On March 15th David Echelard presents: “The Art of the Motet ; Exploring the Stile Antico”. This is the pure, balanced, woven style of music that made the 16th century the golden age of polyphony.… Read more: Join us on March 15th to welcome Spring with a little polyphonic music! - Join us for our ‘Halfway to Summer’ music-fest on February 15!
At February’s meeting with Lisette, we will sightread Andrea Gabrieli’s 8-part Alla Battaglia and confirm & rehearse the pieces we’ll be playing in the May Concert (R.V. Williams/Lully/Handel/Gabrieli). More music-playing (Ciconia, Shannon!) will follow Lisette’s… Read more: Join us for our ‘Halfway to Summer’ music-fest on February 15! - Have a Happy and musical NEW YEAR, and join us on Jan. 18, 2026!
Join us in the new year as Lisette plans to rehearse for our annual performance, the Spring Concert on Sun, May 17th. Bring your inégal for Lully’s Chaconne des Africains; your arpeggiated technique for V.… Read more: Have a Happy and musical NEW YEAR, and join us on Jan. 18, 2026! - Join us for our annual Happy Holiday Concert on December 21st at 2 PM!
All are invited to participate in our 2 PM Yuletide concert, performing or listening. If you or your group would like to perform, contact Mark Dawson at msjddawson@sbcglobal.net . Let him know ahead of time… Read more: Join us for our annual Happy Holiday Concert on December 21st at 2 PM! - Join us and have a real cool time at our November 16th meeting!
For our November meeting, Lisette will lead us in a dress rehearsal for our Yuletide concert. Come prepared to rehearse Gabrieli’s O magnum mysterium (double choir), Peter Beck’s arrangement of Gaudete (more altos and tenors… Read more: Join us and have a real cool time at our November 16th meeting! - Join us for a scary good time at our October meeting!
Join us for our next meeting on October 19th, when Gail Gillispie will direct us in works by Arcadelt and Verdelot, and present a survey of the works of Vincenzo Ruffo (c. 1508 – 1587),… Read more: Join us for a scary good time at our October meeting! - Save the date! Join us on September 21st when we open our 2025-2026 Season!
Join the Chicago Recorder Society on Sunday, September 21st, at 2 PM as we begin our new season, with a new name and a slightly new schedule! This season Lisette Kielson conducts us in five… Read more: Save the date! Join us on September 21st when we open our 2025-2026 Season! - 2024-25 Season Review
It’s been a busy 2024-25 season for the Chicago Recorder Society. In addition to our regular monthly sessions, we sponsored a day of Recorders and Renaissance Wind Music with Liza Malmut, presented a participatory workshop… Read more: 2024-25 Season Review - Join us on May 18th for our Spring Concert to celebrate the close of our recorder season!
Make plans to join us for our final meeting of the 2024-2025 season, our Spring Concert on May 18 at 1 PM. All are invited to perform, or just listen and enjoy, and all types… Read more: Join us on May 18th for our Spring Concert to celebrate the close of our recorder season!