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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 to be included in the printed program, but all will be welcome to play in any case.

The traditional holiday treats table will be featured after the concert portion of the meeting. Feel free to bring some holiday edible to share – or not!

We will then close the meeting with group playing of music to be provided by the chapter. Please mark December 21st on your calendar and come to our annual holiday celebration!

For more information on the concert and the CRS, check our latest newsletter here.

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 welcome!), and the (new) swing version of Les anges dans nos campagnes (S,A8va,T with doubling octaves encouraged). Attendance required if you’d like to perform! Email Lisette Kielson (lisettekielson@gmail.com) with any questions.

Music downloads for the meeting are available now on this website (here).

More music playing will follow at 4 PM, after Lisettte’s program. See you on the 16th!

Meeting time and location information is found here. Check out our latest newsletter here!

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), an Italian priest and influential composer during the Counter Reformation. Gail, a performer of early music on lute, recorder and voice, will also review info about methods for transcribing music from 16th century notation, and how Renaissance composers used pre-existing chansons and madrigals to create new works. Music downloads for the meeting are now available on this website (here).

More music playing will follow at 4 PM, after Gail’s program. See you on the 19th!

Meeting time and location information is found here. Check out our latest newsletter here!

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 meetings, each filled with sight-reading sessions and preparation for three performances (dates below).

We begin our 66th Season with Lisette leading us through readings of G. Gabrieli’s double choir “O magnum mysterium”, Peter Beck’s arrangement of “Gaudete” (SATBB), Lully’s “Chaconne des Africains” (nSATB) and finally “My Bonny Boy” by Ralph Vaughan Williams, for recorder orchestra. (Whew!) For those who want a sneak peek or to get a head start on practicing (optional!), this music is now available on the website (here).

More music will follow at 4 PM, after Lisette’s program. See you on the 21st!

Meeting time and location information is found here. Check out our latest newsletter here!

SAVE THESE DATES!
Sunday, December 21 at 2:00PM: Perform at Yuletide Concert
Saturday, February 7, 2025 (mid-morning): Perform at UofChicago Folk Festival
Sunday, May 17 at 2:00PM: Perform at Spring Concert

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 at the University of Chicago’s Folk Fest, and played for worship services at two churches!

We’d like to give much appreciation to the volunteers who helped make it happen, our music director Lisette Kielson, and everyone who joined us to play recorders together.

We’re working on next year’s program. Make sure our dates (below) are on your calendar, and here’s looking forward to another year of happy music making.

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 of music are welcome. If you would like to play in the program, send the names of the performers, the title of the pieces you plan to play, and the name of the composer or composers, to Mark Dawson, msjddawson@sbcglobal.net. (Participants are asked to keep their performances to 5 minutes or less.)

Then stay after the concert for refreshments, followed by group playing. Meeting location information is found here. All are welcome!

For more information on our April meeting, see our May newsletter here.

We’ll start at 2 PM with Renaissance Redux and more music from the Odhecaton, led by Nancy Chabala.

At 3 PM, for our final chapter meeting before the Spring Concert, Lisette leads us in our dress rehearsal of Lachrimae Tango. In addition to rehearsing this double-choir performance selection, we will stay in England and read through Purcell’s Funeral Sentences in honor of Queen Mary, John Adson’s vibrant Royal Wind Music. Peter Beck will then spend a few minutes preparing us to perform jazz piece Now’s the Time in May.

For our April 13 meeting, all the music will be available here. See our latest newsletter here.

Happy New Year to All!

In January we begin an hour of sharing and exploration with Christmas tunes that slipped by us in December. Then for our regular session Lisette continues to prepare us for two more performances! First, we will reprise the Pezel dances during our participatory workshop at upcoming University of Chicago Folk Music Festival on Feb 8th. Second, Lisette will rehearse us in the fun double choir Lachrimae Tango (from September) which we will perform at our community concert and social in May. But that’s not all – the January meeting will also include sight-reading, exploring Tallis’ beautiful O Sacrum Convivium and more!

Start the new year making music with us on Jan 19!

Music for January is available here. Meeting location information is found here. See our latest newsletter here.

All are invited to participate in the 2 PM concert, performing or listening. If you or your group would like to perform, contact Mark Dawson at msjddawson@sbcglobal.net . To be included in the printed program let him know ahead of time, but all will be welcome to play in any case.

Our traditional holiday treats table will be featured immediately after the concert. Feel free to bring some holiday edible to share – but it’s not required!

We will then entertain ourselves with group playing of music, to be provided by the chapter, until the close of the meeting.

Please mark December 15th on your calendar and come to our annual holiday celebration!

For more information on our last meeting and future plans, see our newsletter here.

And don’t forget to save the date!

Saturday, March 22, 2025 – Our 1-day Spring Workshop: Renaissance Music with Liza Malamut of the Newberry Consort! Check our webpage here for more info and registration!