Happy Valentine’s Day! We’ll start at 2 PM with an hour of eclectic music selected and directed by Nancy Chabala. Then, Gail Gillispie returns to lead a program of music from the Spanish Renaissance, offering sacred and secular music by…
On Sunday, March 21, join the Chicago Chapter of the American Recorder Society as we anticipate the musical “flowers” of Spring! Patrick O’Malley will lead the group in playing selections from Volume 1 of Philibert Delavigne’s Les Fleurs, Pièces pour…
Andrew Schultze will present a workshop on French Baroque music style and performance practices, focusing on the theoretical works of de Bacilly, Couperin and Hotteterre and modern specialists such as Betty Bang Mather, Mary Cyr and David Fuller. The chapter…
Springtime greetings from the Chicago ARS! Though our usual get-together in May is not possible, we will have an online, virtual meeting and music session, to keep alive our springtime concert and socializing traditions. This year’s Spring Concert will take…
Happy new year everybody! We closed out the new year with a very successful holiday concert. About sixty people in the audience. We also enjoyed a performance the recorder club from the Roosevelt Middle School in River Forest led by…
For the November Meeting, Lisette continues her “Molto Espressivo” theme and leads the group in works by among others, Henry Purcell and Ludwig Senfl, as well as Glen Shannon’s Friendship Canzona. Also, we will rehearse a selection from September’s or…
Our next meeting is the annual Yuletide Concert. Everyone is welcome to perform, or just listen, and all types of music are also welcome, seasonal or otherwise. This year’s event is on Sunday December 16 at 2 PM. To be…
Lisette Kielson returns to lead the Chicago Chapter ARS for our September meeting. The Chapter Board is also delighted to announce that the Viola da Gamba Society “3rd Coast” will be joining us for some of the meetings this season,…
Lisette Kielson returns for our January 21 meeting to lead us in jamming, and to talk about tuning techniques. Titles for playing include selections from the following: Little Interlude I & Reminiscence (from HansMartin Linde’s Suite) Senliche not früh und…
Please send in your workshop flyer now! Our workshop with Anne Timberlake is on April 8, 2017 at Covenant Presbyterian Church, 2012 West Dickens. This is our regular monthly meeting place. We will play all day, starting at 9:30 and…