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Monthly Chapter Meeting

Friday, April 10, 2015

7:30 pm to 10:00 pm

Zion Lutheran Church

5201 Park Blvd.

Oakland, CA.

If your name begins with A-L please

bring a snack for break, if possible.

Everyone, bring a music stand, a

pencil, and instruments (SATB and

lower if you have them). Please

arrive in time to set up and be ready

to play at 7:30.

Note Date Change

April

Conductor

Louise Carslake

Louise Carslake is well known to Bay

Area audiences as a performer on the

baroque flute and the recorder. She is a

member of the baroque ensemble Music's

Re-creation and the Farallon Recorder

Quartet, and also plays with Magnificat

and the Jubilate Baroque Orchestra. She

has performed widely in her native Britain,

as well as in New Zealand, Poland, Ireland,

and the Netherlands, and has made over

ten CD recordings. Louise is co-founder

of the Junior Recorder Society in the East

Bay and has taught at many workshops.

She coaches baroque flute at U.C.

Berkeley, and for fifteen years directed the

early music ensembles at Mills College.

At the meeting on April 10th we will play a

selection of Italian music. We will start

the evening with Sicut Cervus a motet by

Giovanni Pierluigi Palestrina. Palestrina

was born in the hills outside of Rome in

1524, and spent most of his life in Rome.

He is famous for his mastery of

Renaissance counterpoint, and this piece

is no exception. The next two composers

are not as well known. Bartolomeo

Tromboncino was probably from Mantua

where he was much favored by Francesco

Gonzaga and his wife Isabella d’Este. He

led a stormy life and had to flee Mantua

several times, most notably when he killed

his wife after finding her with her lover.

Later he was employed by Lucrezia Borgia

in Ferrara. He composed many frottolas,

setting poems by Petrach and others in a

style that is closely associated with the

courts of Ferrara and Mantua. Non Val

Aqua is a hauntingly beautiful song, and I

will be encouraging the soprano recorder

players to play in a very vocal manner.

Luzzasco Luzzaschi was born and died in

Ferrara and it is assumed that he spent the

majority of his life there. He is best known

for his madrigals, especially those written

for the certo delle dame, the “singing

ladies of Ferrara,” who were famous

throughout Italy. He was also a very fine

organist and the piece that we will play is a

canzona published in Venice in 1608.

After the break, we will focus on a six-part

piece by Claudio Monteverdi, Cantate

Domino. This motet was published in

1620, but possibly written much earlier. It

is joyous motet with lively rhythms and

interesting textures. Our final piece of the

evening will be the overture to Georg

Frideric Handel’s opera Rodrigo. The

opera was written while Handel was in

Italy and was first performed in Florence

in 1707. The overture has a grand opening

and a fast 6/8 middle section with

challenging

passage-work

for all the

instruments.

Hello everyone, the Chapter

had a special treat at the last

meeting. Our scheduled

conductor, Judy Linsenberg,

came down with a very bad

virus on the meeting day and

was unable to conduct. She arranged for our long-

time member Kathy Cochran to be our leader for the

night. Kathy conducted the music Judy had picked

out, all of it wonderful to play. Kathy did a fabulous

job of presenting the historical context of the music,

discussing the interpretation and leading us in

delivering wonderful renditions. We missed Judy, of

course, but it was inspiring to have one of our own

do such a good job with the chapter meeting. Kudus

to Kathy!

Alert: April’s chapter meeting is on April 10, the

second Friday of the month, not April 3 which would

be our normal meeting time. The church preempted

the garden room for Good Friday events.

At the April 10 meeting, there’ll be a drawing for two

tickets to the SFEMS concert the following evening

in Berkeley. The concert will feature renowned

Swedish recorder virtuoso Dan Laurin who will join

his distinctive, thoughtful and creative style with the

glorious artistry of Ensemble Mirable for a spring

stroll celebrating the beauty of the Italian baroque,

including works of Mancini, Corelli, Frescobaldi,

Gabrieli, Scarlatti and Vivaldi. Don’t miss the

drawing and the excellent program that Louise

Carslake will conduct.

It’s Headlands time! The organizers have arranged a

fabulous weekend for us. Sign up now!

Susan Jaffe, President

Hi

I stumbled on your site and your gig book

about a month ago, and I just wanted to write

to express our appreciation for your making it

available - and for free !

We are a little group of 5 recorder learners on

a little island off Vancouver Island in British

Columbia. We meet weekly as either duets,

trios, quartets, or quintets, depending on who

is able to show up.

Your Gig Book a great little collection at about

our level, and we also appreciate its philosophy

and primary purpose as a resource for playing

for folks in various kinds of care facilities.

We are going to use your Gig Book collection to

play for a local garden tour in the late spring.

Anyway, I thought you’d like to know that out

here in “cyberspace,” your sharing has been

discovered and appreciated.

Eileen for the five of us.

UPCOMING EVENTS

ENSEMBLE MIRABLE

with Dan Laurin

SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 7:30 pm

St. John’s Presbyterian Church

2727 College Ave at Garber,

Berkeley

JungHae Kim, harpsichord; Elizabeth

Blumenstock and Katherine Kyme, violin;

Joanna Blendulf, viola da gamba; Kevin

Cooper, baroque guitar; with guest artist

Dan Laurin, recorder.

La Primavera:

The Spring of the Italian Baroque

Renowned Swedish recorder virtuoso Dan

Laurin will join his distinctive, thoughtful

and creative style with the glorious artistry of

Ensemble Mirable for a delightful spring

stroll celebrating the beauty of the Italian

baroque, including works of Mancini, Corelli,

Frescobaldi, Gabrieli, Scarlatti, Vivaldi, and

others.

Buy Tickets

April 19

The Albany Consort

Marion Rubinstein recorder; Jonathan

Salzedo, harpsichord; Rita Lilly, soprano;

Laura Rubinstein-Salzedo, violin; Amy

Brodo, cello, viola da gamba and others.

A program of thought-provoking

compositions, ornamentations and

improvisations, tracing virtuosity in

performance from 1550 to 1800.

–1550-1650: Ornamentation on a madrigal

(Doulce Memoire), a bass pattern

(Romanesca), and a nuove musiche song

(Amarilli), including improvisations by the

group and worked out versions by Sandrin,

Ortiz, Cabezon, Monteverdi, Caccini, Van

Eyck

–1600-1700: Virtuoso instrumental music

and song, selections by Castello, Biber,

Purcell, Isabella Leonarda, d’Anglebert,

Marais

–1700-1750: Instrumental music that exists

in both simple and complex versions, by

Corelli, Bach, Telemann

–1750-1800: The improvised cadenza in

concertos by JC Bach and Haydn

Concert begins at 4:30 pm at the

California Jazz Conservatory, 2087

Addison Street, Berkeley. Tickets are $15

(general admission) and go on sale

approximately one month in advance. Their

box office can be reached at 510-845-5373 or

info@cjc.edu.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Frances Feldon

Concert

Please mark your calendar for an upcoming

program that I'm particularly pleased and

excited to present on Friday, April 24 at 7:30

pm at Trinity Chapel, 2320 Dana St.

between Bancroft Way and Durant in

downtown Berkeley.

I will be playing baroque flute in a duo concert

with David Wilson, baroque violin virtuoso. We

will be performing a program of the nearly

complete Op 51 (1734) duet sonatas of the

important French baroque composer

Joseph Bodin de Boismortier.

Boismortier's music is always melodious,

charming and elegant, and I think you will

especially enjoy the intimacy of the baroque flute

and violin instrumentation as well as the gentle

beautiful sound of this combo.

As always, thank you in advance for your

support .

Best wishes,

Frances Feldon

On Saturday, April 25, from 9:30 a.m. to

4:00 p.m. at Hillside Church, 1422

Navellier Street in El Cerrito, the San

Francisco Early Music Society presents its spring

Medieval & Renaissance Workshop Collegium.

Voices, recorders, viols, harps, sackbuts,

dulcians and all manner of early instruments are

welcome! The all-day workshop, titled “All vol,

all vol!” will focus on German songs and

devotional music as well as more rustic fare.

Featured will be works from the Glogauer

Liederbuch, with its unique liturgical chant

settings, and songs by Ludwig Senfl, both moral

and comic.

NOTE TO SINGERS: Nearly every piece will

have a vocal line with text. Bring friends to fill

out your section and make it more fun for

everyone! Use the "Forward to a Friend" link

below.

Proceeds from this workshop go toward

scholarships for the SFEMS Medieval &

Renaissance Workshop in the summer of

2015. Each summer, SFEMS awards upwards of

$7,500 in scholarship funds to its workshop

participants.

More information is available here. Download

an enrollment form.

Forward this message to a friend!

UPCOMING EVENTS

UPCOMING EVENTS

A MUSICAL SMORGASBORD

a workshop for instrumentalists and singers

Choose from many tasty musical styles and flavors, including: motets and songs by

Ciconia, settings of Susanne ung jour music about and for Queen Elizabeth I, motets

and chansons by Josquin des Prez, songs and instrumental music of medieval

Europe and other far-flung places.

WITH

SHIRA KAMMEN, vielle TISH BERLIN, recorder PETER MAUND, percussion

Singers and instrumentalists (including percussion!) welcome

SATURDAY MAY 2nd and SUNDAY MAY 3rd

COME TO ONE OR BOTH DAYS!

Arlington Community Church, 52 Arlington Ave., Kensington, CA

WORKSHOP REGISTRATION

Mail form with your check to Tish Berlin at 806 Washington Ave., Albany CA 94706

Name: _____________________Phone: _________________e-mail:________________

Instruments you will bring to the workshop (workshop pitch is A=440):

If you plan to sing, indicate your voice type and range:

Workshop tuition: $220 for both days (after April 1 - see below)

May 2 only: $125 May 3 only: $110

Early registration discount: register by April 1st and pay $110 for Saturday or $100 for Sunday, or

$200 for both days)

Amount enclosed: (please make check out to Tish Berlin)

Workshop Schedule

Saturday May 2nd: 10:00-5:00 (bring a lunch)

Sunday May 3rd: 1:00-5:30

QUESTIONS? Call Tish at 510-882-1169 or email tishberlin@sbcglobal.net

UPCOMING EVENTS

UPCOMING EVENTS

SFEMS 2015 SUMMER

WORKSHOPS

Registration is now open for SFEMS's

2015 Recorder Workshops! Both weeks are

filling quickly--please register now to reserve

your spot, particularly if you would like room

and board on campus.

Directed by recorder players Rotem Gilbert and

Hanneke van Proosdij, the SFEMS Recorder

Workshops are located in the intimate setting of

St. Albert’s Priory on the border of Oakland and

Berkeley, California. These workshops feature

every aspect of music making for the recorder,

including technique classes, Renaissance

recorder consort, medieval to contemporary

music and consort music. Featuring small class

sizes and an international faculty, they invite

intermediate to advanced recorder players to

sign up for one or both weeks. Each week

concludes with a spectacular performance of all

workshop participants in the Recorder Orchestra

at St. Albert’s beautiful chapel. Evening events

include faculty concerts, lecture demonstrations

and a focused Wednesday mini-workshop.

Enjoy daily Feldenkrais® movement classes,

recorder master classes and a supportive and

social environment in the inspiring setting of St.

Albert’s Priory.

Week I: July 12-18, 2015

Theme: "Vilain et Courtois - Music for Kings,

Queens, and Peasants"

Faculty: Louise Carslake, Rotem Gilbert, Lisette

Kielson, Paul Leenhouts, Peter Maund, Hanneke

van Proosdij

Week II: July 19-25, 2015

Theme: "Metamorphoses"

Faculty: Saskia Coolen, Rotem Gilbert, Joan

Kimball, Laura Kuhlman, Daphna Mor, Hanneke

van Proosdij

Please visit www.sfems.org for more

information on these and the other four weeks of

SFEMS Workshops, including Baroque (June 21-

27, 2015, at Dominican University of California

in San Rafael - with Clea Galhano, Recorder

faculty) and Medieval & Renaissance (June 28-

July 4, 2015, at St. Albert's Priory - with Wouter

Verschuren, recorder and double reeds faculty).

Contact: Katie Hagen, SFEMS Administrator -

khagen@sfems.org, (510) 842-5256

East Bay Recorder

Teachers

David Barnett

Letitia Berlin

www.tibiaduo.com

Tom Bickley

www.metatronpress.com/artists/tbickley/

Frances Blaker

www.tibiaduo.com

Louise Carslake

www.sfems.org/musicsre-creation

Frances Feldon

Judy Linsenberg

www.linsenberg.com

http://www.musicapacifica.org/

Hanneke van Proosdij

www.hannekevanproosdij.com

Hello Susan,

I am a professional recorder player and teacher

based in the UK. I have recently published my

first eBook, titled Recorder Technique: A guide to

the basics and beyond. This 40 page PDF eBook

is packed full of useful information about all

aspects of recorder playing, from the basics of

posture and breathing to articulation, finger

technique, effective practicing and repertoire

suggestions. It is published in PDF format and is

compatible with all tablets, computers and

smartphones.

I wondered if this might be helpful for any

members of the East Bay Recorder Society and

I'm emailing to ask if you might be willing to

forward this information if you think it might be

of interest. The book is available to buy for £4.50

(the price is automatically converted if

purchasing in a currency other than Sterling)

from my newly launched website at

www.helenhooker.co.uk/shop.

Many thanks.

Best wishes,

Helen Hooker

2014 – 2015 EBRS Board of Directors

President: Susan Jaffe

Treasurer and Electronic Distribution: Susan Merrill

Conductor Locator: Rachel Bradley

Newsletter Editor and Producer: Carol Coon

Chapter Meeting Music: Linda Skory

Webmaster: Suzanne Siebert

Headlands Committee: Glen Shannon (Coordinator),

Merlyn Katechis (Registration),

Bill Stewart (Contract), Patricia Wheeler (Publicity)

Publicity/Librarian/Composer-in-Residence: Glen Shannon

Member Performances: Cindy Keune

Annual Workshop: Cindy Keune and Jody Harcourt

Hospitality: Anna Lisa Kronman, Ray White, Brenda Bailey

Members at Large: Britt Ascher, Kathy Cochran, Brenda Bailey

The Mouthpiece is published by the

East Bay Recorder Society.

EBRS is a chapter of the American Recorder Society and an affiliate of the

San Francisco Early Music Society.

Please send information and photos for newsletter consideration to Carol Coon at

ccoon.wildwood5@att.net

The deadline for the May issue is April 15, 2015

Don’t forget!

Sign up by May 1st for the Marin Headlands workshop

and get your $10 discount.