Chicago Recorder Society

Author: windycityrecorders

  • Next meeting and Annual Concert – Sunday May 17

    Our spring concert returns Sunday May 17 at 2 PM. If you would like to perform, please contact Mark Dawson at msjddawson@sbcglobal.net soon, and provide:

    • Name of the piece(s)
    • Composer name, nationality, and dates
    • Performers’ names and instruments

    The concert will be followed by our Make Music Chicago Dress Rehearsal. The music is on our download section. For additional information on the music, contact Lisette at <LisetteKielson@gmail.com>.

    Please join us for this lively year-end event, and don’t forget to bring treats to share!

    Here is out monthly newsletter:

    May 2015

  • Tish Berlin Workshop

    The Tish Berlin workshop was highly successful. The selection was varied from medieval to modern African freedom songs. Tish gave us an excellent background on each workshop piece without becoming pedantic. Her energy and sense of humor kept everybody engaged.

    Thanks to the board for their work in putting together this event!

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  • Lessons with Tish Berlin Available April 17

    If you have been wondering how to get those high notes, or why you can’t get your lowest note to speak well, or how you can play with better tone, faster fingers, nimbler tongue – a private lesson may be just the thing for you. All topics covered, from technique to repertoire to ornamentation and more. Tish will help you play better, and to have more fun doing it.

    There are still openings for private lessons on April 17 in Oak Park. Let us know if you would like to schedule one. Attendance at the workshop the next day not required.

  • April 19th Monthly Meeting

    Our March meeting at the Oak Park Library featured some of the children from Roosevelt Middle School in River Forest and Longfellow Elementary in Oak Park. We had a lot of fun listening to them and hearing them play. Thank you, Pam Wiese and Mona Mann for arranging this.

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    On April 19th at 2 PM we will return to our usual location for our monthly meeting at Covenant Presbyterian Church, 2012 West Dickens, Chicago.

    Lisette Kielson will be directing. No doubt we will be full of energy after Tish’s wonderful workshop the day before!, and so we will celebrate and honor Alice Maguire, playing her composition that won the chapter’s Composition Competition. Also at the meeting, we will decide whether we would like to perform a couple of pieces at the May Meeting’s Spring Concert and/or perform in June at Make Music Chicago. The performances will comprise of music from the October Meeting, “Klezmer, Tango,” and the “Greatest Hits” from the January Meeting. Look on the chapter web site https://chicagorecorders.org/events for the music. Scroll down to Meeting Downloads.

    Our latest newsletter can be found here: April 2015

    I hope to see you all there!

  • April 18th Workshop Coming Soon – Register Now!

    It’s not to late to make plans to join the Chicago Chapter for their April 18th workshop with Tish Berlin! The theme will be ‘Forbidden Topics: Music for Politics and Religion.’ And if one day of recorder is not enough for you, then join the Chicago Chapter for their monthly meeting the next day. Details here:

    Events

  • March 2015 Meeting in Oak Park

    Join us on Sunday, March 15 at the Oak Park Public Library. We begin at 1:15 PM with Pam Wiese directing children from local elementary schools, who will then join us in playing “Excellentia” by Gary Gazlay. Find a copy in the winter 2014 edition of American Recorder or download it from the Play the Recorder Month 2015 page of AmericanRecorder.org. Lisette Kielson will then direct the chapter in a recorder orchestra playing session. All are welcome, including our friends from WSEMS.

    Our March issue of the newsletter can be found here: March 2015

  • January Meeting Video – Galliard by Michael Praetorius

    At the January meeting the chapter played a Galliard by Michael Praetorius. Lisette Kielson our music director conducted the group. Pam Wiese recorded this for use in recorder classes with the Oak Park school system.

    http://youtu.be/dOhIIadYCSk

  • Chicago Chapter Workshop at Folk Festival Was a Success

    Our Valentine’s Day workshop that the chapter held was a big success!

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  • Chapter Participation at UC Folk Festival

    The Chicago chapter plans to lead a workshop at the University of Chicago Folk Music Festival on Saturday, February 14. We will be in the West Lounge again from 10 to 11 AM in Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 East 59th Street. Street parking is available in the area, or you could take the Illinois Central train to 57th street, or the #6 Bus, and walk.

    We plan to perform two works together, Le Bouree by Michael Praetorius and Rondeau by Jean-Joseph Mouret. Then, we will lead those who attend the workshop in a recorder jam session. We will plan to play from Early Dance Music for Recorders, volume 1 by Andrew Mayes, Magnamusic Distributors RMP0001. All of these pieces are available for download from the Chicago Chapter web page. Visit ChicagoRecorders.org and then go to Events/Meeting Downloads/U of C Folk Music Festival and Jan 2015 Meeting.

    http://www.uofcfolk.org/

    http://www.uofcfolk.org/workshops.shtml

    Dress should be business casual or casual. We can store coats and instruments in the same room where we play. I look to arrive around 9:30, and will probably stay in Hyde Park most of the day.

  • Feb 15 Meeting – Hapsburgers, singing and playing!

    Feb Val 2015Andrew Schultze will lead our monthly chapter meeting—and bring along a group of singers—in a study of 16th and 17th century music from the Hapsburger capitals of Madrid, Naples, and Vienna. This promises to be both entertaining and fun as we will be playing instrumental works by Posch, Flecha, Coppola, Draghi, Schmelzer, Duron and others.

    Our newsletter for February is also available now. February 2015.