On December 21st we will have our annual yuletide concert as part of our December meeting followed by group playing. Please let Mark Dawson or Ben Eisenstein know if you would like to perform, and provide the name of the pieces, the composer, and the names of the members of your group.
Here is our monthly newsletter for December:
We’re really excited to have our first-ever “Recorder Orchestra” session planned for the Chicago Chapter meeting this weekend (November 16th)! We will supply the music and the parts will all be laid out for you to pick up (first come, first served) when you enter the meeting room.
Guests welcome!
The meeting time is 2:00 at our usual location, Covenant Presbyterian Church, 2012 West Dickens, Chicago IL, 60647.
Thanks to the board members and Arlene Ghiron for making the lunch a success!
I’m looking forward to seeing you at the upcoming Chapter Meeting on Sunday, October 19th.
The schedule is below. We’ll start off by reading new music. Take a break. And then read through the performance pieces for the Holiday Presentation at the Harold Washington Library in December (Date TBD).
All of the music for the October Meeting can either be purchased (publication info below) or printed off the Chicago Chapter website at <https://chicagorecorders.org/events/music-for-october-meeting-and-library/>. (Some of you may have some of the music from last year’s library holiday performance and won’t need to print it again!) We can always share too!
You may want to bring a CHICAGO RECORDERS folder/binder (if you don’t already have one) to keep your music organized.
All the best,
Lisette
Chicago Chapter Meeting Agenda – October 19, 2014
Session I: 2:00-3:30
Selections from Heger’s Strassenmusick à 3: Klezmer, Blues, Ragtime und Latin-Folk [Noetzel Edition N 4888]
Break: 3:30
Session II (following the break)
Holiday performance run-through (for those performing at the Harold Washington Library in December)
Repertoire:
Joyful Tidings: Seventeen Beloved Christmas Carols [Sweet Pipes 2348]
Lindvall: All Through the Night
Selections from Strassenmusick?
Area recorder and early music enthusiasts, I received this from Anne Timberlake.
Hi Chicago recorder players! Just wanted to pass along the info for my group’s upcoming Chicagoland concerts- Wayward Sisters is an award-winning early music quartet featuring recorder, violin, cello, and theorbo. We’re presenting an all-Bach program in October, and I’d love to see some recorder folks there!
Saturday October 18, 7:30pm
First Presbyterian Church of Lake Forest
700 N. Sheridan Rd, Lake Forest, IL
Sunday October 19, 2:30pm
St. Chrysostom’s Church
1424 N. Dearborn Parkway, Chicago, IL
St. Chrysostom’s Concert Series
Lisette Kielson returns as director in October with a program dedicated to Klezmer, Blues, Ragtime, and Latin-folk. We will also spend some time looking at holiday music for our planned concert at the Harold Washington Library Center in December.
The October newsletter is here:
This may be of interest to area recorder players. Early Music America announces its Baroque Performance Competition finals for 2014 in association with The University of Chicago Presents. The purpose of the competition is to encourage the development of emerging artists in the performance of Baroque music. The finalists were selected from a pool of applicants by an independent panel of three judges. The competition finals are scheduled for Saturday, October 11, 2014 at 7:00 p.m. in the Performance Hall at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts located at 915 East 60th Street in Chicago, Illinois. Free to the public.
Here is a link with more information about performing ensembles and prizes offered:
One of our favorite leaders, Andrew Schultze, asked us to pass information about an Early Music Workshop for singers, dancers and instrumentalists presented by Chicago Syntagma Musicum.
It will be an intensive week long program featuring in depth Coachings, Masterclasses and Lectures focusing on Music from the Imperial Hapsburg Courts including works by Italian, Austrian, Spanish and German Composers such as Monteverdi, Caldara, Draghi, Krieger, Duron, and Emperor Leopold I himself!
The workshop will be August 2 – 10, 2014.
Contact Andrew for more information at aschultze@comcast.net.
The 2014-2015 season wrapped up with our first performance at the Make Music Chicago event. An exciting 2014-2015 season is being planned now!
Pat Russo has a set of Hopf recorders for sale as a set: Great Bass, Bass, Tenor, Alto and soprano with cases. Pictures and description upon request.Contact her at patrusso@myfairpoint.net.
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