The Sacramento Recorder Society

A place for early music of all kinds in Sacramento

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Dear recorder players and friends,

I want to thank everyone who contrib-uted to our winter party. It was a spot of warmth and cheer in our bleak midwinter! I especially enjoyed taking no responsibil-ity this year, and being able to just relax, eat, and participate in friendly conversa-tion, enjoy the widely varied and fun mu-sical entertainment, and observe how amazingly well-run the event was in spite of Patty’s also being side-lined. A lot of people stepped up to make it happen, with Sarah and Amanda as two of the most essential workers. It was great to have both new and familiar performers playing for us, with David emceeing. Mark enriched the musical program, and filled in where needed! Dori$ did some of everything, Joan played AND took pic-tures, the harpists were again a highlight, as were the South American tunes on gui-tar and recorder, and the contradanse group. Our pastoral theme was beautifully portrayed with woolly sheep in green pas-tures, amid a harvest of upright sheaves.

A chapter of the American Recorder Society

An affiliate of the San Francisco Early Music Society

February 2018

For more information about the Sacramento Recorder Society, visit our blog at http://sacrecorders.wordpress.com/

February Meeting

6:45pm

Tuesday, February 6, 2018

at the Friends Meeting House

890 57th Street between J St. and H St.

The food was fine, from the array of soups, the bread and cider, to the homemade choc-olate cupcakes by Robert. It’s a good group that can pull this off! Although the sun is shining today and the pink winter daphne are fragrantly abloom, we can expect more grayness and chill. Winter persists, well into February; we need to be prepared for it to be ostinato (obstinate) and more rain is obbligato. Let’s stay warm (woolly sweaters?), eat well, see and hear beauty (I’m indulging in my new CD by the Anonymous 4, Los Milagros de Santiago), get our exercise, and practice our instruments. Let’s look forward to our next gathering, another chance to share music-

making (and snacks and camaraderie!) in the comfort and fine acoustics of the Friends Meeting House. Our February 6th meeting will be with recorder specialist Judy Linsenberg to stimulate us and bring us together through music. Let’s make the most of it! See you on the 6th, Susan Titus

SRS co-president

SRS Winter Party-Recorder Orchestra

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February 6, 2018: Judy Linsenberg

March 6, 2018: Greta Haug-Hryciw

April 3, 2018: Rebecca Molinari

May 1, 2018: Frances Feldon

Our February Conductor:Our February Conductor:Our February Conductor:Our February Conductor: Judy LinsenbergJudy LinsenbergJudy LinsenbergJudy Linsenberg

Called "the Jascha Heifetz of the re-corder," Judith Linsenberg is one of the leading exponents of the recorder in the US, acclaimed for her "virtuosity," "expressivity," and "fearless playing." She has performed at the Hollywood Bowl and Lincoln Center; and has been featured with the SF Symphony, the SF and LA Operas, the LA Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonia Baroque, American Bach Soloists, the Port-land and Seattle Baroque Orchestras, and others. She is the Director of the Baroque ensemble, Musica Pacifica, whose perfor-mances and eight recordings have received international acclaim and several awards, causing the ensemble to be described by the press as "some of the finest baroque musi-cians in America" (American Record Guide) and “among the best in the world" (Alte Musik Aktuell). Her newest CD, with soprano Dominique Labelle, has just been released on the Parma/Navona label to enthusiastic reviews, including be-ing described as "a beautiful issue that is as heartwarming as it is stimulat-ing." (DailyClassicalMusic.com, Malta). Judy has recorded for Virgin Classics, Do-rian, Solimar, harmonia mundi usa, Koch International, Reference Recordings, Musi-cal Heritage Society, Drag City Records (with Joanna Newsom), and Hännsler

Classics. She holds a doctorate in early mu-sic from Stanford University and has been a visiting professor at the Vienna Conservatory and Indiana University’s Early Music

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The music for this month’s meet-ing is not based on any particular theme; it’s just a variety of lively and also beau-tiful music, in different forms, from the late 16th century to the mid-18th centu-ry, that I think you’ll enjoy playing. We’ll start with a lively canzona by the 17th-century Italian composer from Vi-cenza, Antonio Troilo. It alternates con-trapuntal sections with more dance-like sections. The next piece, from the turn of the 17th century, is a Gagliarda by Gesu-aldo. Best known for his intensely ex-pressive madrigals and sacred music and his extreme and quirky chromaticism, he incorporates those elements here into a lively dance. Then we’ll move back in time a little bit to the late 16th century with a balletto by Gastoldi. The balletto, alt-hough it sounds like a dance, was actual-ly originally a light vocal piece that was rhythmical and dance-like, often homo-phonic, and containing sections with a fa-la-la refrain, as this one does. Gastoldi was the first to apply the term “balletto” to musical compositions in his Balletti a cinque voci . . . per canter, sonare e bal-lare” of 1591. After the break, we’ll jump ahead to the mid-18th century with a beautiful and moving Salve Regina by Pergolesi. In the galant style, it contains some love-ly dissonances and suspensions. Finally, we’ll end with an arrangement of an aria from Bach’s Peasant Cantata that’s actu-ally a version of the Follia theme, but enhanced with Bach’s typical thick har-monies and contrapuntal treatment.

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Tuesday, December 19: Gail Crawford and Kathleen Wells played for the Folsom Zoo’s Holiday Lights Spectacular from 5:00-8:00pm at the Folsom Zoo Sanctu-ary. This is a holiday tradition for Gail and Kathleen.

Wednesday, January 13: Baroque and Be-yond gave a last performance of their con-cert at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Davis. They explored composers' views of the place of humans in the cosmos, be-ginning with Hildegard von Bingen and ending with a newly composed piece. Mark Schiffer, Kathryn Canan, Isabelle Henry, recorders, Alexandra Roedder, cel-lo, Nancy Harper, keyboards, with guest vocalists from Vocal Art Ensemble.

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Thank you to Brian Thompson who brought last month’s refreshments. Have you signed up yet? Make bringing some-thing to an SRS chapter meeting your New Year’s resolution! Crackers and cheese, fresh fruit, cookies, cake...your choice! What sounds good? Look for the sign up sheet at the February meeting.

Winter WorkshopsWinter WorkshopsWinter WorkshopsWinter Workshops

Mid-Peninsula Recorder Orchestra presents…

Master and Student Directed by Rotem Gilbert

Saturday, January 27, 2019

9:30am-4:30pm

Good Shepherd Episcopal Church, Belmont

The workshop will explore the music of Franco-Flemish composers illustrating the relationship between famous teachers and their equally fa-mous students. Music by Senfl, Isaac, Josquin, Gombert, Willaert, and Gabrieli will be fea-tured. Information: http:mpro-online.org or contact Leslie Pont at 650-941-3065

South Bay Recorder Society presents…

Flanders Recorder Quartet Farewell Workshop

Sunday, February 25, 2018

9:30am-2:00pm

Opera San Jose

2149 Paragon Drive, San Jose

Leveled sessions (Advanced, Intermediate, All Welcome) include a great variety of music from Klezmer to Richard Rogers to Dowland. This looks amazing!

There’s a link to the flyer on the SRS blog: https://sacrecorders.wordpress.com/ Or you can contact Michele Kelly at mkelly107@gmail.com

Looking for an excuse to go to Hawaii?

Hawaii 2018 Recorder Workshop

March 11-13, 2018

at the Kohala Village Hub, Hawi on the beautiful west coast of the Big Island

with

Adam and Rotem Gilbert Information and Registration now at

http://www.earlymusichawaii.com/events.htm

Winter ConcertsWinter ConcertsWinter ConcertsWinter Concerts

Circa

Il Ritorno

Six acrobats, four chamber musicians, and two singers tell the story of Ulysses’ homecoming using music from Monteverdi’s “Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria.”

Friday, January 26: Jackson Hall, UC Davis, 8:00pm

Information: www.mondaviarts.org Note: Two Saturday, February 4: Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley, 8:00pm locations! Sunday, February 5: Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley, 3:00pm

Information: calperformances.org

Musica Pacifica

A La Mode, A Le Monde

A potpourri of Medieval, Renaissance, traditional, and world music performed on a panoply of bowed, blown, plucked and hit instruments. Friday, February 16: Hillside Swedenborgian Church, El Cerrito, 6:30pm

Information: www.musicapacifica.org

InConcert Sierra presents

Bridget Kibbey, harp, Priscilla Hereid, recorder, and Siwoo Kim, baroque violin

Sunday, February 18: Seventh Day Adventist Church, Grass Valley, 2:00pm.

Details and tickets here:

http://www.inconcertsierra.org/third-sunday/bridget-kibbey-harp-feb-18/

Flanders Recorder Quartet Farewell Tour Concert

Sunday, February 25: Trianon Theater, San Jose, 7:00pm

Flyer: see https://sacrecorders.wordpress.com/ Tickets: sjchambermusic.org

Sacramento Baroque Soloists

Viva Vivaldi! Friday, March 9: St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Sacramento, 7:30pm

Saturday, March 10: Harris Center, Folsom, 7:30pm

Sunday, March 11: Harris Center, Folsom, 2:00pm

Information: www.sacramentobaroque.org

Flauti Diversi Music in the Garden of Delight: Song and Dance of the Medieval Mediteranean

Songs and dances of the 13th and 14th centuries, monophonic and polyphonic, devotional and rowdy, including cantiga, laude, estampie, and Arabic repertoire.

Sunday, March 25, 2018: CA Jazz Conservatory, Berkeley. 4:30pm

Advance reservations highly recommended as the show sells out. Tickets are $20. For tickets, call (510)845-5373 or go to: https://cjc.edu/concerts/

Just a cute picture, teachers listed don’t teach cats either…

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Sacramento area: Kathryn Canan is available for recorder lessons or ensemble coaching. Contact her at 916-996-7932 or kacan-an@yahoo.com. She’s now in Grass Valley, at 469 Pine Street (95945). She is willing to drive to Sacramento to give lessons or ensemble coaching. Of course, she’s also happy to have people drive up here, take a lesson, and go hik-ing in the state park across the street!

These teachers are in the Bay Area (or willing to come to Sacramento, if there’s enough interest):

Greta Haug-Hryciw, SRS member and conductor, would love to give lessons before chapter meetings. Contact Greta at (415) 377-4444 or at gr8asf@gmail.com

Frances Feldon, conductor of the Barbary Coast Recorder orchestra and music director of the ensemble Flauti Diversi, is available for lessons. She can be contacted at fran-feldon@gmail.com

Judith Linsenberg, the director of the Baroque ensemble Musica Pacifi-ca, holds a doctorate in early music from Stanford, and has extensive recorder teaching experience. She may be con-tacted by phone at 510-444-4113.

More information about teachers is on our blog:

http://sacrecorders.wordpress.com/

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Our official online location is now our blog at http://sacrecorders.wordpress.com/ All the information that Kathy kept on the website is now here. She can easily author-ize others to post as well, and anyone can add more information by commenting on the posts. You can check the blog for new in-formation any time, or you can subscribe to it by entering your email in the “Follow” field. Information that rarely changes is al-so on the blog. Click on the menu button to find what you’re looking for. We are also on Facebook. Just search for Sacramento Recorder Society and be sure to “like” us!!

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possible: possible: possible: possible: The San Francisco Early Music So-ciety, with whom we are affiliated, offers excellent workshops and concerts in the Bay Area. Their website: www.sfems.org

American Recorder Society, of which we are a chapter, is the national or-ganization which promotes recorders. Their website: www.americanrecorder.org

SRS Non-Member Meeting Policy

Please be aware... We love having new members and a non-member is welcome to attend two SRS meetings for free. After that there will be a $5 fee per meeting for the non-member.

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Our regular meetings are the first Sunday of each month, 4:30-7, at the Madelyn Helling Library, 980 Helling Way, Nevada City. For more information about meetings, contact Miriam Morris, miriamemorris@gmail.com or Kathryn Canan, kacanan@yahoo.com

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Here are some possibilities:

• Sunday Baroque, which airs from 8am to 10am on 88.9 FM, KXPR.

• Harmonia provides podcasts at its website: indianapublicmedia.org/harmonia

• The Chicago Early Music website provides access to many early music resources. Go to earlymusicchica-go.org, then click on “ensembles,” then click on “beyond”

• Magnatune.com allows you to listen to music free and pay when you choose to download, or you can sub-scribe for $15/month for unlimited downloads

• Millennium of Music: "The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach."

http://www.millenniumofmusic.com

• recorder-radio.com streams a varie-ty of recorder music 24 hours a day

• Also available online: Con-certzender Oude Muziek (mostly early music, there’s an announcer every so often who is speaking Dutch). You can find these stations using Tune In Radio.

• The Boston classical station, WCRB, has an early music stream. Go to classicalwcrb.org, click on the play button, and the early music stream is one of your choices. Click on it!

About the Sacramento Recorder About the Sacramento Recorder About the Sacramento Recorder About the Sacramento Recorder SocietySocietySocietySociety

The Sacramento Recorder Society, founded in 1982, is a non-profit, tax-

exempt organization. It is a chapter of the American Recorder Society and an affiliate of the San Francisco Early Music Society. We welcome recorder players of all ages and abilities as well as players of other ear-ly music instruments such as lutes, viols, sackbuts, shawms, curtals, krummhorns, and percussion. Beginners are urged to study privately and learn fingerings and be-come comfortable reading music before joining the recorder orchestra. We meet monthly from September through June, from 6:45pm to 9:30pm on the first Tuesday of each month, at the Friends Meeting House, 890 57th Street, between J St. and H St. Most of our meet-ings are conducted by a professional early music specialist who teaches recorder tech-nique and relevant music history and theory while exploring music of many eras. Many of our members also play in smaller groups in members’ homes during the rest of the month.

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Co-Presidents: Gail Crawford and Susan Titus

Vice President: Mark Schiffer

Secretary: Patricia Johnson

Treasurer: Doris Loughner

Members-at-Large: Robert Foster and Carol Thompson

Education Chairperson: Crystal Olson

For information on SRS, please contact the following board members by email: gail.crawford1@gmail.com or susanlee448@att.net or marschif@gmail.com