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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.

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

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

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

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 59^th Street. Street parking is available in the area, or you could take the Illinois Central train to 57^th 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.

Andrew 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.

Two events are planned for February 2015. (Dates have been corrected.)

1. We will be at the University of Chicago on Feb 14 for their annual Folk Music Festival. Those members who have signed up can find the music on our download page.

2. Our monthly meeting on Feb 15 welcomes Andrew Schulz who plans to offer “A Hapsburger Valentine: 16th and 17th century music from Madrid, Naples, and Vienna.”

Keep April 18th on your calendar for our Annual Workshop.

Lisette Kielson returns for our January 18 meeting, with the theme “Greatest Hits from the Baroque and Beyond: famed greatest hits and lesser-known treats.”

Below is a link to our newsletter for January.

January 2015