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Half way thru summer, are you looking for some recorder related activities? Here are two.   The Pippins, a madrigal group, plans to offer a free porch concert in the Lincoln Square neighborhood in Chicago on Sunday August 25 at…

Our spring concert will be on May 19, 2019. Details in the newsletter: May 2019

The address for mailing resgistration has been corrected. Please use the new version of the form. Workshop Flyer 2019 Thank You!

For our March 17 meeting, Andrew Schultze leads us for “Felix Austria!” Inspired by his four-concert fall tour of Austria with the ensemble Affetti Musicali, the session will present a survey of Hapsburg Empire music for recorders from the Renaissance…

Mark your calendar and register now for the Spring workshop with Clea Galhano. Join us as we learn to put more life in our music, using gesture, articulation and phrasing to interpret Spanish rhythms and playful Irish dances. We will…

Lisette Kielsen will return to our February meeting on the 17th. She will be directing us in a program entitled ‘Viva Italia’. We will also play a piece composed by one of our members, Peter Beck. We hope you can…

Lisette returns on January 20 for Fancy That: Fantasias, Canzonas, and Fugues.Our January 20th meeting will incorporate listening and imitative exercises and the following musical selections from Italy, England, and Germany: Canzona seconda by Giovanni Gabrieli (IMSLP) Dorick Fantasy #2,…

Join us for the November meeting with our regular music director Lisette Kielson. We will be playing English music. Viols and other early instruments welcome!     Our November newsletter is now available: November 2018  

On October 21 we welcome Mirja Lorenz as our director, a member of Black Tulip and of the Chicago Recorder Quartet. Mirja will direct us in a program of music by Northern German organ players and composers of the early…

Everybody in the Chicago Chapter enjoyed playing with the Third Coast Viol group. We had some great Antiphonal sounds going!