Do you love to play the recorder? Do you want to learn new techniques and brush up on skills? Have you been thinking about joining the Chapter?
Prospective new members may now join the Chicago Chapter of the American Recorder Society for half the membership rate. That would be $15 for an individual membership increasing to $30 the year after.
If you are already a member, please help our drive by showing this ad to a non-member friend.
Labor Day is approaching and now it is time to turn our thoughts to the new season. We are welcoming back Lisette Kielson as Music Director. She has a great year of programs planned for us. Details are in our monthly newsletter, which you can read by following the link below.
Our first meeting is September 20 at 2 PM at Covenant Presbyterian Church, 2012 West Dickens, Chicago.
On June 21, as part of Make Music Chicago day, the Chicago Chapter played at the Lincoln Park Zoo. We were conducted by Lisette Kielson in a program of renaissance to modern music. We had a nice crowd and beautiful weather!
The Chicago Chapter of the American Recorder Society will be playing as part of ‘Make Music Chicago.,’ a live one day music festival taking place on June 21. We will be at the Lincoln Park Zoo at the Park Place Café, 2 PM.
Please join us!
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!
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.
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.
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!
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:
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