East Bay Recorder Society

March 2014 Vol. 17 No. 7

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March 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, the

Farallon Recorder Quartet, Magnificat and the

Jubilate Baroque Orchestra and has performed

widely in her native Britain, as well as in New

Zealand, Poland, Ireland, and the Netherlands.

She has made over ten CD recordings. Louise

teaches early music performance on the faculty

at Mills College, and coaches baroque flute at

U.C. Berkeley. She is co-founder of the Junior

Recorder Society in the East Bay and has

taught at many workshops including SFEMS,

Palomar, Port Townsend, Amherst and the

Roads Scholar Workshop in Carmel Valley.

Louise holds the graduate diploma from

Trinity College of Music, London, and also

studied with Wilbert Hazelzet in the

Netherlands, and Nikolaus Harnoncourt at the

Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria.

Monthly Chapter Meeting

Friday, March 7, 2014

7:30 pm to 10:00 pm

Zion Lutheran Church,

5201 Park Blvd., Oakland, CA.

If your name begins with M-Z 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.

Music for the March Meeting:

Come to the EBRS meeting on March 7th and

enjoy an evening of English music!

The earliest piece that we will play is an

anonymous 14th motet “Triumphat Hodie”

with two soprano (or alto up) and two tenor

parts. It’s an interesting and fun motet with

lots of imitation between the two soprano parts

and the two tenor parts.

Philip van Wilder was born in Flanders but

worked in England and was one of Henry

VIII’s most favored musicians. In 1522,

Phyllyp of Wylde, Frenssheman was living in

the Parish of St. Olave and is described as

possessing “£60 in goodes and £48 in fees,”

substantial possessions for a musician and a

foreigner! His Chanson “Je file quand Dieu me

donne de quoy” is in a fast 6/8 with

challenging rhythms.

William Byrd and Henry Purcell are two of

England’s most famous composers. At his

death Byrd was hailed as “Brittanicae Musicae

Parens,” the father of English music. We will

play two pieces by Byrd. “Come Jolly Swains” is

one of his lighter madrigals celebrating the joys

of life, which is “void of strife” and full of

laughter. “Gaudeamus Omnes in Domino” is a

joyful motet written for the feast of All Saints,

November 1st. Henry Purcell is best known

for his theatre music and we will play a

Chaconne from the masque “The Gordian

Knot Untied.”

We will end the evening with “A Knell of

Johnson” by Robert Johnson (c.1583-1634) the

“knell” is always present, moving through all

the parts and creating a very exciting piece of

consort music.

If you would like to bring a great-bass or

contra-bass we will use them in the Byrd

“Gaudeamus”, the Johnson and the Purcell.

Hello everyone,

March is Play-the-

Recorder Month! EBRS is

happy to offer two

activities to celebrate Play-

the-Recorder. The first is

a drawing for two tickets

to the Farallon Concert

on March 15. Farallon consists of our very own Bay

Area professionals, Annette Bauer, Tish Berlin, Frances

Blaker and Louise Carslake. The drawing will happen at

the March 7 chapter meeting at Zion. If you know you

can’t be there for the drawing but would like to enter,

email Linda Skory at travisskory@gmail.com and she

will put your name in the hat for you.

The Farallon concert is sure to be a winner. The quartet

continues to perform with more surety and vitality each

time I hear them. I am asking everyone to make an

effort to attend because SFEMS doesn’t believe that

recorders draw an audience. We need to show them

that our favorite instrument can fill the venue. For

some extra spice this concert includes a singer and a

lutist. The flyer in this newsletter has all the details.

The second Play-the-Recorder Month activity is the

Members’ Recital on March 30. It is not too late to

prepare something to play in front of the most

supportive audience you can find anywhere. Whether

you play or not, come and join us on March 30 at

Hillside Community Church in El Cerrito. The music is

always varied and enjoyable and of course a potluck

finishes off the day. It’s a good time for all.

Susan Jaffe

President

EBRS Members' Recital

March 30, 4-6 pm

Hillside Swedenborgian Community

Church

1422 Navellier Street,

El Cerrito

1) Aim for your part of the program to be under 10 minutes of playing.

2) Send your program information to: cindy_keune@yahoo.com

Information includes: Piece name, composer, and the players’ names.

3) This is a recital/potluck/party!

Please bring food to share.

Deadline for information to Cindy is March 26.

Thanks so much, Cindy Keune

The Bulletproof Musician

Wouldn’t it be nice to get on stage with confidence, nail your performance, and walk off with a big smile?

I read about The Bulletproof Musician in an issue of Early Music America and it piqued my interest. It is a website to teach musicians how to overcome stage fright, performance anxiety, and other blocks to peak performance. To be, in a word, bulletproof.

The website’s creator, Dr. Noa Kageyama, is on the faculty of The Juilliard School in New York and the New World Symphony in Miami, Florida where he helps talented musicians prepare for orchestra job auditions. He conducts workshops and “webinars” on performance enhancement and overcoming performance anxiety, and has done so for institutions including the New England Conservatory, Indiana University, Oberlin Conservatory, and the U.S. Armed Forces School of Music.

After finishing his masters at Juilliard, he went to Indiana University to pursue a doctorate in psychology. He created this blog so that he might share with its readers what he has learned over the years from both his musical background and his psychology training.

Visit the Bulletproof Musician at: http://www.bulletproofmusician.com/ and sign up to receive his weekly article or just read him online.

—Carol Coon

Five Best Metronome Apps

By Dr. Noa Kageyama (Reprinted with permission from Dr.

Kageyama)

Picking the best metronome app can be a little difficult since the only way to test out an app is to buy it. Most only cost a few dollars, but that can add up pretty quickly given the number of apps that are available. Dr. Kageyama asked which metronome apps his blog readers thought were the best. Here are the top five:

Metronome Plus (iOS – $1.99) is a simple, elegant, and easy to use metronome app. It’s accurate and loud, includes a tapping feature to gauge tempo, and

allows for some customization of meters and customizations. It also has multitasking capabilities, so you could read sheet music on your iPad, while keeping the metronome going in the background. But most of all, Metronome Plus is easy to use, and has a beautifully uncluttered interface. It’s about as intuitive and visually attractive a metronome app as you’ll find.

Tempo (iOS – $1.99 & An-droid – $.99) and its more full-featured sibling Tempo Advance (iOS only – $2.99) is another popular metronome app. Offers the usual range of features, from a variety of time sig-

natures and compound meters to saving of cus-tom rhythm presents and the ability to keep the metronome going even when your device is locked or running another app. The Advance version adds additional customization options and nice little touches like the ability to control the volume of the app independently of the phone’s volume.

Time Guru (iOS – $2.99 & Android – $1.99) is a unique metronome app developed by guitarist Avi Bortnick. It does all the things you’d expect a met-ronome to do, but it’s kill-er feature is that the app

gives you the ability to selectively – or randomly – mute the sound. This can be very revealing, and let you know if you have a tendency to rush or drag. It could also help you develop a stronger internal sense of time, rather than be-coming reliant on a continuous external beat.

Dr. Betotte (iOS – $9.99) is the most ex-pensive of the top five, and the most Dr. Beat-like of the bunch. Most musicians will probably never use half of what

it’s capable of, but it does all sorts of weird funky rhythms and allows you to save all of these settings for future practice sessions (unlike apps like Polynome, which won’t save your settings). It also has a cool feature where you can program it to slowly increase the tem-po over time, which can come in handy when you want to start working a tricky passage slow-ly, and gradually get it up to full speed without having to fiddle with the metronome settings in between reps.

Metronomics (iOS – $2.99) is not the most at-tractive metronome in the world, but it has a unique beat randomization fea-ture (which looks and sounds cool, but I can’t

for the life of me figure out how/why I’d use this – what am I missing here?). You can save your rhythm settings, and even send/receive them with other Metronomics-using friends. This app also has an “Independence” setting which allows you to mute the sound for a cer-tain number of bars. This is similar to Time Guru’s random muting, just without the ran-domness.

Honorable mention goes to Polynome (iOS – $1.99), and Mobile Metronome (Android – free) also gets a nod.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Recorder

Orchestra

Gloriosi

Sunday March 2, 2014 at 7:00 pm St. Alban’s Episcopal Church

Parish Hall 1501 Washington, Albany

The Barbary

Coast

Recorder

Orchestra will

present a

program of

new

compositions and arrangements for recorder

orchestra. Conductors Frances Feldon, Greta

Haug-Hryciw, Joyce Johnson-Hamilton, and

Glen Shannon will lead the nearly 40-member

recorder orchestra in works by Juan Aranes,

Antonio Caldara, Francisco Guerrero,

Guillaume de Machaut, Maurice Ravel,

Dietrich Schnabel, Glen Shannon, and Peter

Seibert. Admission is free; donations are

gratefully accepted.

Five JRS Students

invited to play in Junior

Bach Concert

Five members of the Junior Recorder Society

auditioned for Junior Bach and were invited to

play in one of the concerts.

Congratulations to Annika Braucher, Amalia

Keilholtz, Jorjie Kirirvangchai, Sarah Ng and

Alec Thilmony!

They will play J.S. Bach’s "Fantasia in A minor"

BWV 904 at the Junior Bach concert on:

Friday March 28, 7:30 pm St. John’s Presbyterian Church

2727 College Ave, Berkeley

UPCOMING EVENTS

Saturday, March 8, 2014

South Bay Recorder Society

Recorder Workshop

Directed by Frances Blaker

For more information call (650) 223-7139 or email Liz Brownell.

Marin Headlands

Workshop

May 9-11, 2014

The workshop will begin on

Friday evening and close after

lunch on Sunday. It will be held

at the Point Bonita YMCA

Conference Center in the Golden

Gate National Recreation

Area. Cost for the Full Weekend

will be $280; for Partial Weekend

(Friday-Saturday or Saturday-

Sunday), $190; Full Weekend

without lodging, $210; and

Saturday only, $120. Faculty will

include Louise Carslake, Frances

Feldon, Greta Hryciw, and David

Morris.

Watch for updates as planning

continues. Contact: Brenda

Bailey, bbmh12@gmail.com

Flyer attached at the end of

this newsletter.

Registration for the

2014 SFEMS SUMMER WORKSHOPS

is now open on the redesigned SFEMS website.

June, 15-21, 2014

Medieval and Renaissance Workshop

Classical Workshop

June 22–28, 2014 Baroque Workshop

Music Discovery Workshop for kids 7-15

June 29-July 5, 2014

Recorder Workshops Week I

July 6-12, 2014 Recorder Workshops Week II

Save the Dates: September 18-21, 2014 for the

Recorderfest in the West event. Click here for more

information.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Farallon Recorder Quartet

Annette Bauer, Letitia Berlin, Frances Blaker and Louise Carslake, recorders; with Jennifer Paulino, soprano; and John Lenti, lute

Amaryllis—Love Songs and Consorts from the Courts and Countryside of Renaissance Europe

Farallon Quartet with guest artists Paulino and Lenti perform haunting love songs by Dowland, Vásquez, and Arcadelt, lively pastoral tales, and virtuoso divisions by Ortiz and Cabezón. Farallon's warm, rich sound evokes images of a caramel fountain or honey turned into wood.

SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 7:30PM St. John's Presbyterian Church 2727 College Ave at Garber, Berkeley

SUNDAY, MARCH 16, 4:00PM St. Mark's Lutheran Church 1111 O'Farrell Street at Gough, San Francisco

Buy tickets

To order tickets and for further information, contact the SFEMS Ticket Office:

Telephone: 510-528-1725

Mail: P.O. Box 10151, Berkeley, CA 94709

E-mail: tickets@sfems.org

UPCOMING EVENTS

Winds and Waves Recorder Workshop

Join us for three days of music-making by the sea. You'll find the

group to be a friendly mixture of first-timers and loyal repeat

participants. April 26-28, 2014, Saturday through Monday, with the

faculty concert in the evening of April 25.

At Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, just north of Lincoln City, Oregon.

Faculty: Tish Berlin and Frances Blaker of the duo Tibia, Cléa Galhano, and Charles Coldwell.

Co-sponsored by the Oregon Coast Recorder Society and Sitka Center for Art and Ecology.

Tuition for the three days is $260 and includes a faculty concert Friday evening.

Registration opens February 25 for members and March 10 for non-members and is

through Sitka Center.

In celebration of Play-the-Recorder Month

EBRS is having a drawing for two tickets to

the Farallon Concert on March 15. The

drawing will happen at the March 7 chapter

meeting at Zion. If you know you can’t be

there for the drawing but would like to enter,

email Linda Skory at travisskory@gmail.com

and she will put your name in the hat for you.

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

March 15 is

Play-the-Recorder

Day

The third Saturday in March, March

15, 2014, is designated "Recorder

Day," when individuals and chapters

around the world are encouraged to

play the "Arrival" movement of A

Day in the Park by LaNoue

Davenport. This piece has been

chosen in celebration of “ARS is

75”. You will find the printed

music in the Winter issue of

American Recorder magazine in the

center spread, pages 23-25.

2013 – 2014 EBRS Board of Directors

President: Susan Jaffe

Treasurer and Electronic Distribution: Susan Merrill

Conductor Locator: Greta Hryciw

Newsletter Editor and Producer: Carol Coon

Chapter Meeting Music: Linda Skory

Webmaster: Suzanne Siebert

Headlands Committee: Bill Stewart (Coordinator), Merlyn Katechis (Registration),

Brenda Bailey (Publicity)

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

Member Performances: Cindy Keune

Hospitality: Anna Lisa Kronman, Ray White, Brenda Bailey

Members at Large: Britt Ascher, Greta Hryciw, 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 April issue is March 15

Schedule of Conductors

March 7 - Louise Carslake

April 4 - Frances Feldon

May 2 - Judy Linsenberg

Marin Headlands Recorder Worfcshop

When:Where:

The East Bay Recorder Societypresents the

Marin Headlands Recorder Workshopfor intermediate and advanced players

May 9-11.2014Point BonitaYMCA Conference CenterGolden Gate National Recreation Area (Marin Headlands)

Fees:Full Weekend: $280Full Weekend without lodging: $210Partial Weekend: $ 190(Friday-Saturday or Saturday-Sunday)

Saturday only: $ 120(all fees increase $ 10 after May I)

For More Information contact:

Brenda Baileybbmh 12@gmail.com(510)893-9128

Faculty will include:• Louise Carslake• Frances Feldon• Greta Hyrciw• Shira Kammen• David Morris

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A Chapter of the American Recorder SocietyAffiliate of the San Francisco Early Music Society