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 . Join us, and bring your recorder (we’ll have extras, if you don’t have one). Sunday, June 21, 3pmBessie Coleman…

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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 are welcome. If you would like to play in the program, send the names of the performers, the title of…

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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 time to rehearse a selected spots. Lisette emailed out a list of detailed rehearsal notes to those who plan to…

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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. We’ll work through the masterpieces of four giants who defined this sound: Willaert, Lassus, Victoria, and Palestrina. For recorder players,…

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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 program! All music for February is now available here. Meeting location information is found here. See our latest newsletter here.…

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