Our director will be Mirja Lorenz. Mirja expects us to dance. Or, rather, to play Italian and French dances from the 16th century, pavanes, gagliardas, and saltarellos, as well as French Chansons from 1530 to 1550. These will be works…
Louise Austin, a good friend of the Chicago Chapter, will be leading a workshop sponsored by the Milwaukee Recorder Society entitled ‘Starship Louise’. It will be on April 30 at Lake Lawn Lodge in Delavan, WI. See details: MARS Workshop
The January meeting will be on January 17th. Our subject this session will be Jazz recorder. Patrick O’Malley will lead us in understanding how to play Jazz on the recorder. Following our playing session, we will have a special meeting.…
Do you love to play the recorder? Do you want to learn new techniques and brush up on skills? Have you been thinking about joining the Chapter? Prospective new members may now join the Chicago Chapter of the American Recorder…
On June 21, as part of Make Music Chicago day, the Chicago Chapter played at the Lincoln Park Zoo. We were conducted by Lisette Kielson in a program of renaissance to modern music. We had a nice crowd and beautiful…
The Chicago Chapter of the American Recorder Society will be playing as part of ‘Make Music Chicago.,’ a live one day music festival taking place on June 21. We will be at the Lincoln Park Zoo at the Park Place…
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…
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…
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.