Our spring concert returns Sunday May 17 at 2 PM. If you would like to perform, please contact Mark Dawson at msjddawson@sbcglobal.net soon, and provide: Name of the piece(s) Composer name, nationality, and dates Performers’ names and instruments The concert…
The Tish Berlin workshop was highly successful. The selection was varied from medieval to modern African freedom songs. Tish gave us an excellent background on each workshop piece without becoming pedantic. Her energy and sense of humor kept everybody engaged.…
If you have been wondering how to get those high notes, or why you can’t get your lowest note to speak well, or how you can play with better tone, faster fingers, nimbler tongue – a private lesson may be…
Our March meeting at the Oak Park Library featured some of the children from Roosevelt Middle School in River Forest and Longfellow Elementary in Oak Park. We had a lot of fun listening to them and hearing them play. Thank…
It’s not to late to make plans to join the Chicago Chapter for their April 18th workshop with Tish Berlin! The theme will be ‘Forbidden Topics: Music for Politics and Religion.’ And if one day of recorder is not enough…
Join us on Sunday, March 15 at the Oak Park Public Library. We begin at 1:15 PM with Pam Wiese directing children from local elementary schools, who will then join us in playing “Excellentia” by Gary Gazlay. Find a copy…
At the January meeting the chapter played a Galliard by Michael Praetorius. Lisette Kielson our music director conducted the group. Pam Wiese recorded this for use in recorder classes with the Oak Park school system.
Our Valentine’s Day workshop that the chapter held was a big success!
The Chicago chapter plans to lead a workshop at the University of Chicago Folk Music Festival on Saturday, February 14. We will be in the West Lounge again from 10 to 11 AM in Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 East 59th…
Andrew Schultze will lead our monthly chapter meeting—and bring along a group of singers—in a study of 16th and 17th century music from the Hapsburger capitals of Madrid, Naples, and Vienna. This promises to be both entertaining and fun as…