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At 2:00, Lisette will lead us in exploring a Bach Fugue, a Guami Canzonette, and hold our final rehearsal of Peter Beck’s La Marche des Rois for our performance in the Yuletide Concert in December.

NOTE: Players must have been present at October’s meeting and/or our upcoming November meeting in order to perform with the Chapter! Please contact Lisette at LisetteKielson@gmail.com with any questions.

All the music for November to be available here. Meeting location information is found here.

For info on our enjoyable October meeting and future plans, see our latest newsletter here.

Then at 2 PM Lisette Kielson returns, with two early Renaissance trios, an arrangement of Machaut’s Douce Dame, a march by Strauss and another march by one of our own chapter members!

All the music for October available here. Meeting location information is found here.

For info on our thoroughly enjoyable September meeting and future plans, see our latest newsletter here.

Join the Chicago Chapter on Sunday September 17 at 1 PM as we begin our new season. All the music for September is available here now. Meeting location information is found here.

Make plans to join us for our final meeting of the 2022-2023 season, our spring concert on May 21 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 at msjddawson@sbcglobal.net.

Music selections for group playing after the concert are found here.

For more information on our April meeting and our highly successful weekend workshop, see our May newsletter here.

As always, we will begin the meeting at 1 PM with free-form group playing, music provided and posted by the chapter.

At 2 PM, Lisette will lead us in our final rehearsal of Charpentier’s Ouverture (in preparation for our Spring Concert). In addition, we will explore JS Bach’s Contrapunctus I, Clara Schumann’s Romance arranged by chapter member Libby Rudolph, and of course some Rooda technique work!

Music for April is available here now! Meeting location information is found here.

For info on our truly entertaining March meeting, and our chapter in general, see the latest newsletter here.

As always, we will begin the meeting at 1 PM with free-form group playing, music provided and posted by the chapter.

At 2 PM, Mirja Lorenz will conduct the group in a variety of beautiful Renaissance pieces by Italian, English and German composers, with one modern arrangement of a favorite Renaissance dance.

All music for March is available here now! Meeting location information is found here.

For info on our outstanding February meeting, and our chapter in general, see the latest newsletter here.

We will begin the meeting at 1 PM with free-form group playing, music to be provided by the chapter.

At 2 PM, Lisette Kielson will direct the group in dances by Attaignant, a fantasie by du Caurroy, Contrapunctus I from Bach’s Art of Fugue, another shot at Machaut’s Doulz Amis from last month (because who can capture medieval music in one session?!), and Charpentier’s Ouverture (a contender for the May concert).

For info on our wonderfully successful January meeting, and our chapter in general, see the latest newsletter here.

Music for February is available here now! Meeting location information is found here.

Join us in a whirlwind tour of French medieval, Renaissance and Baroque music, plus Bach!

We will begin the meeting with free-form group playing, with music to be provided by the chapter.

At 2 PM, Lisette Kielson returns with a celebration of French music from the 14th to 20th centuries. Machaut will represent the Middle Ages, Dornel and Charpentier the Baroque and Poulenc the early 20th century, with a nod to the late Renaissance. All following, of course our non-French Rooda scale warmups!

For info on our December holiday concert, and our chapter, see the latest newsletter here.

All the music for January is available here now! Meeting location information is found here.

Join us in beginning a Happy New Musical Year!

All are invited to participate in the 1 PM 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.

All chapter members are invited to play in the chapter performance pieces, that are available now on this website (here). Also contact Mark Dawson, above, if you plan to participate in the chapter performance.

We will then close the meeting with some group playing of music to be provided by the chapter.

Please mark December 18th on your calendar and come to our annual holiday celebration!

Please join us on November 20, at 1 PM, when Andrew Schultze returns to offer music from the 18th century Hapsburg Court of Vienna. Besides courtly chamber music and dances, Andrew will consider life in Vienna in Mozart’s day, including music for household gatherings intended for friends to play together in the parlor, as well as popular works and the first written notations of Hungarian songs. Join us!

For info on our October meeting and our chapter, see the latest newsletter here.

All the music for November is available here now! Meeting location information is found here.

Hope to see you on the 20th!