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Coming in October, on the 18th, Andrew Schultze returns, this time to lead us in music composed by Jewish musicians from the Baroque era.

The meeting will be at at Covenant Presbyterian Church, 2012 West Dickens, Chicago. Enter the front door of the parish building west of the church and go to the large fellowship hall on the right.

Our October newsletter is now available. Included is a tribute to Tom Zajac, a musician who had many ties to the Chicago early music community.

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

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!

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

For November 16, we are seeking recorder players. Lots of recorder players. Our plan is to play through several multi-choir and orchestra works, pieces that may have as many as 10 or 12 parts.Those of you who live in the area and who have been thinking about attending a Chicago chapter meeting for some time but have not managed to appear, we know you feel guilty. But all will be forgiven if you appear in November. We will provide the music, just bring your instruments and stands. We will look forward to welcoming you and jamming together.

Here is our newsletter for November with all the details.

November 2014

The board has just finished planning our exciting 2014-2015 season. We plan on building on the successes of last year with Lisette Kielson returning as our music director.  This next season will bring us our regular meetings, performance opportunities, a recorder orchestra meeting, a luncheon honoring Hildé Staniulis,  and a workshop with Leticia Berlin in April.

Please plan on joining us for our first meeting of the season. The meeting will be directed by our own Mirja Lorenz and will occur on September 21 at our usual location at the education building of the Covenant Presbyterian Church, 2012 West Dickens, Chicago.

Here is our September newsletter. The newsletter also contains the membership form for the 2014-2015 season.

September 2014

Our May meeting is May 18 and will include our annual May concert performances and rehearsal for our participation in the June 21 Music in Chicago event. We are still open to participation at this event, so come to the meeting and play along!

Our May newsletter has been published.

May 2014

Come join us for the February meeting as Andrew Shultze leads us in a session devoted to music of the German Baroque. Andrew Schultze, is well known as an interpreter of the standard opera/oratorio repertoire and as a specialist in the performance of early music. We always look forward to learning new things when he leads our meetings! The meeting will be at the at Covenant Presbyterian Church, 2012 West Dickens, Chicago.

The February newsletter with details and Chapter news can be found here:

February 2014

Come join us for the first meeting of 2014. Patrick O’Malley will be leading us in our continued survey and rehearsal of Music Through The Ages! As usual the meeting will be at the at Covenant Presbyterian Church, 2012 West Dickens, Chicago.

The January newsletter with details and Chapter news can be found here:

January 2014