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East Bay Recorder Society
January 2014 Vol. 17 No. 5
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thethe
January
Monthly Meeting
Is Our
Twelfth Night
Celebration
Saturday,
January 4, 2014
at 2:30 pm
Hillside Community
Church
1422 Navellier,
El Cerrito
Everyone—bring your music
stand, a pencil and your
instruments and best of all
bring your delicious offering
for the potluck dinner that
follows our playing session.
Twelfth Night Conductor
Joyce Johnson-Hamilton
Joyce Johnson-Hamilton is well known as a symphony
conductor, professional trumpet player, and as a specialist
in both the renaissance cornetto and the baroque trumpet.
She recently retired after 31 years as conductor of the
Diablo Symphony Orchestra in Walnut Creek. Over the
years she has been a frequent guest conductor/arranger
and trumpet soloist with the Seoul Philharmonic
Orchestra. Ms. Johnson-Hamilton came to the San
Francisco Bay area in 1968 after winning an audition with
the San Francisco Symphony. She went on to do doctoral
studies in renaissance and baroque music at Stanford
University while playing professionally as a soloist and with
most of the symphony, ballet and opera orchestras in the
Bay Area. Her work as a player of the cornetto and
baroque trumpet has brought opportunities to perform
with early music ensembles all over California,
Washington, Oregon, Vancouver, BC, Washington DC,
Innsbruck, Austria, Belgium, Italy and Spain.
The music we will play for Twelfth Night includes:
Darke - In the Bleak Midwinter for 6 parts, arr. jjh (Joyce Johnson-Hamilton)
Praetorious and J.S. Bach -In dulci jubilo - 2 versions
Brahms - Est ist ein ros entsprungen a4
Sweelink - Angelus ad pastores a6
We Wish You A Merry Christmas - arr. Arthur Warrell/orch. for recorders by jjh
Riu, Riu, Chiu - a medieval carol
Holiday greetings everyone. I hope
you all are able to enjoy the season to
its fullest. The New Year will bring
some wonderful opportunities to play
and to hear recorders. The year begins
with our annual Twelfth Night event,
a playing session and potluck. Twelfth
Night is usually on a Sunday but this
year it will be on Saturday, January 4,
at 2:30 pm at Hillside Community
Church in El Cerrito. Joyce Johnson-
Hamilton will be conducting. Bring your instruments
and delicious offerings for a gratifying opportunity to
play, dine and socialize.
January brings two all day workshops. The San
Francisco Recorder Society will host a workshop on
January 18 and the Mid-Peninsula Recorder Orchestra
will host one on January 25. You’ll find details about
these two workshops in the newsletter.
February’s schedule features two wonderful listening
opportunities. Hanneke von Proosdij will present an
eclectic program of medieval to contemporary works at
various Bay Area venues February 13 to February 16.
She will be accompanied by Carla Moore, Elisabeth
Reed, Rodney Gehrke, David Tayler and Peter Maund.
Barefoot Chamber Concerts will host Musica Pacifica
playing concertos by Bach family members on February
27 and 28. Details about these superb performers and
wonderful concerts are in this
newsletter.
March 30 is the date for our
member’s recital where you will have
an opportunity to perform for your
fellow recorderists. Everyone who
participates always has a great time.
It’s also a potluck so we again have
the opportunity to socialize and eat
well. Our Marin Headlands weekend workshop is May
9-11. The final event of the year will be the Early
Music Festival the first week of June where there are
more offerings than any one person can attend. Check
the newsletter for announcements of upcoming
concerts and workshops.
There’s plenty to enjoy, either playing or listening, in
the year to come.
Susan Jaffe
President
Online Gig Book is Here
The East Bay Recorder Society is pleased to
announce the online arrival of its popular Gig
Book. We make this work available to the
recorder community in commemoration of
Eileen Hadidian. It may be used freely for any
non-commercial purpose.
This compilation of accessible music for
amateur ensembles includes duets, trios,
quartets and a quintet drawn from a wide
variety of public domain sources, selected,
edited and arranged by Eileen Hadidian.
Frances Feldon, Richard Geisler and Fred
Palmer also contributed arrangements to the
book. The music comes from different cultural
traditions and time periods, including Medieval,
Renaissance and Baroque, American folk and
spirituals, and Celtic tunes.
History of the Gig Book
The Gig Book evolved out of a desire by East
Bay Recorder Society board members to
promote ensemble playing amongst its
members and to encourage outreach to the
wider community. In 2004, several ensembles
were formed which then played in retirement
homes and skilled nursing centers. We
discussed the difficulties of picking appropriate
music for this specialized audience and also the
logistical difficulties of committing to a date
and then having one of the ensemble members
not able to play at the last minute. Both issues
would resolve if only we had a common set of
appropriate music that all chapter members
could own and learn. We realized the perfect
person to accomplish this was Eileen Hadidian,
founder of Healing Muses. She understood the
repertoire needed to entertain this specialized
audience and also the musical issues innate to
recorder and the chapter’s amateur members.
In 2004-5, EBRS hired Eileen to select and edit
music for the Gig Book. We applied for, and
received, the first-ever ARS chapter grant to
help cover expenses. Every member of the
2005-2006 East Bay Recorder Society received a
free Gig Book. Eileen gave a one-day workshop
on healing music and special considerations for
presenting music to the elderly and/or sick.
The preface of the Gig Book provides useful
advice on topics such as instrumentation,
choosing repertoire, contacting venues, and
how to introduce your group to an audience
which might be either lethargic or agitated. For
example, the first piece played should match the
mood of the audience at that moment and
might have to be switched upon arrival.
Although the Gig Book was specifically created
to be played for an elderly audience by
intermediate players, the music appeals to all
ages. At its annual summer party this year,
EBRS chose to play solely from the Gig Book in
tribute to Eileen. Its focus on “beautiful
melodies, simple harmonies and straightforward
rhythms” led to a musically satisfying afternoon
for all.
The Gig Book is an ongoing memorial to the
many contributions of Eileen Hadidian as well
as her innovative program Healing Muses
which brings music specifically designed for
healing to hospital settings.
Thanks to John Ferguson for scanning the Gig
Book and Glen Shannon for the PDF version.
Thanks also to our webmaster for making it
available via our website.
— Britt Ascher
Click on the Gig Book cover below to access the
book. Be warned that it takes awhile to load.
When the PDF opens look to the upper left
and you will see two little white pages. Click on
that icon and all the pages will list down the left
side. Clicking on a page will take you there.
Below the little white icon is another one
(yellow with blue strip) and if you click on that
one a title list appears down the left side.
Clicking on a title will take you there.
It’s not too early to start
planning your solo or
group performance for
our member’s recital.
The Gig Book has
beautiful selections.
EBRS Members' Recital
March 30, 4-6 pm
Hillside Swedenborgian Community Church
1422 Navellier Street,
El Cerrito
THAT UGLY PVC PIPE
CONTRAPTION
You may have noticed me playing one of my
home-made PVC chalumeaux at EBRS
meetings. I am exploring whether a low-
pitched chalumeau sounds good
playing the low voices in mixed
groups with recorders and whether
they are tolerated by recorder
players.
My thoughts are as follows:
recorder groups often play music
written for groups that include
rather low-pitched instruments, and
when we do we often play "up an
octave." We do this at least partly
because a great many of us own no
instrument lower than a bass.
Recorders, like most instruments,
tend to become more costly as the size
increases. In the case of recorders, instruments
larger than a bass are quite expensive,
particularly since there are no relatively
inexpensive plastic instruments made larger
than a bass. So, we typically play SATB and our
lowest note is the F below middle C, somewhat
higher than the lowest note of an ordinary
soprano B-flat clarinet.
Now the clarinet, and its progenitor, the
chalumeau, play an octave lower than most
woodwinds of similar size. (They are
cylindrical, with the mouthpiece end effectively
closed; this produces the lower pitch.) Thus a
chalumeau of rather low pitch will be of
relatively modest size, one-half the size of a
recorder of similar pitch. Then a mixed group
of recorders and lower-pitched chalumeau(x)
may play "at pitch" rather than our usual “up an
octave."
The next step will be, I hope,
to organize a quartet (or trio
or ?) to play at the EBRS
Members’ Recital on March
30, 2014. My idea is to play a
piece "up an octave" with
SATB recorders, and then play
the same piece "at pitch" with
recorders on the upper parts,
say TB or TBgB on those
parts, and chalumeau(x) on the
bottom 1 or 2 lines.
Any suggestions and volunteers for music and
for players are most welcome. I am thinking
that the music should be of modest difficulty,
since I would like to play a chalumeau line and
my capability as a recorder (and chalumeau)
player is distinctly modest. Let me know if you
would like to experiment with me on this idea.
Ray White
UPCOMING EVENTS
The San Francisco Recorder Society
(SFRS) is happy to announce that
registration for its Winter Workshop is now
open! This is the chapter’s TENTH annual
workshop for recorder players from low-
intermediate through advanced levels. As
always, we welcome players who have never
attended workshops before. Mentoring will
be available. There will be plenty of
challenging music presented for the advanced
players as well in this bi-level setting. Please
register as early as possible.
La Bella Musica
Four centuries of beautiful
Italian music
Directors Louise Carslake and Tish
Berlin will bring music to delight and inspire
from Italy – the land from which the
Renaissance of art and music sprang, giving us
some of the most elegant and beautiful
polyphony in history. These excellent teachers
will guide us through the repertoire, helping us
gain a deeper understanding and appreciation
of it as they do.
Please join us for this day of joyous music and
reconnection with recorder friends from other
areas. SFRS will provide a bounty of delicious
snacks in addition to coffee, tea and juice. Just
bring your own lunch, as there are no
restaurants in the area.
Saturday, January 18, 2014
10:00 am to 4:30 pm
Christ Church Lutheran
1090 Quintara Street
(at 20th Avenue)
San Francisco
Tuition: $45
Attached to this newsletter is a PDF of the
registration form which you can fill in on
your computer before printing it and sending it
in with your tuition to Florence Kress at the
address on the form. If you have any
questions, please feel free to contact me at this
email address ([email protected]).
Hope to see you there! Please pass this along
to any recorder friends or students who may
be interested.
Many thanks,
Greta Haug-Hryciw
President, SFRS
(415) 377-4444
UPCOMING EVENTS
The Art of the Recorder
Hanneke van Proosdij, recorders
Sunday, February 16, 2014, 7:30 pm
Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists,
Berkeley
Adult $40/Senior/Student:$35 SFEMS/EMA/
ARS member:$35
For information please call: 415-260-4687 or
see website
Musica Pacifica
Bach Family Concertos
Judith Linsenberg, recorders; Elizabeth
Blumenstock, violin; Josh Lee, viol; Charles
Sherman, harpsichord with fabulous surprise
guest artists.
Friday, February 28, 2014, 6:00 pm
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church Parish Hall,
2300 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94704
Tickets $15 general, $13 seniors/students/
SFEMS members, 18 and under admitted free
and welcome.
Tickets at the door or order online (cheaper)
at www.BrownPaperTickets.com/
event/436465 for the Friday in Berkeley
Recorder Workshop
With
Paul Leenhouts
Saturday, January 25, 2014
Holy Trinity Episcopal Church
330 Ravenswood Avenue
Menlo Park from 9:30 am to 4:30 pm.
Workshop fees are as follows: MPRO, SFEMS
and ARS members, $50.00; non-members,
$55.00.
For further information or to register for the
workshop please visit the MPRO website at
http://mpro-online.org/ or contact Leslie Pont
at 650-941-3065.
Our Musical Shakespeare;
Reveling in the music of Henry
Purcell. A week of daily classes
taught by John Prescott.
Monday, January 13 through
Friday, January 17 from 9:30 am
to noon.
Flyer is attached to this
newsletter.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Affiliate of the San Francisco Early Music Society
Chapter of the American Recorder Society
Save the date for…
Marin Headlands Recorder Workshop
May 9-11, 2014
Join us on the beautiful coast of Marin County just north of San
Francisco. Make music with fellow recorder enthusiasts. Visit with old
friends and meet new. Information about conductors and topics to
follow.
Contact: Brenda Bailey
East Bay
Recorder
Teachers
David Barnett
Letitia Berlin
www.tibiaduo.com
Tom Bickley
www.metatronpress.com/artists/tbickley/
Frances Blaker
www.tibiaduo.com
Louise Carslake
www.sfems.org/musicsre-creation
Frances Feldon
Judy Linsenberg
www.linsenberg.com
http://www.musicapacifica.org/
Hanneke van Proosdij
www.hannekevanproosdij.com
Happy New Year
Last minute notice of a
workshop for instrumentalists
and singers.
Sunday, January 5 and Sunday,
January 12 from 1:30 pm to 8:00
pm with Tish Berlin, Shira
Kammen and Peter Maund.
Arlington Community Church,
Kensington. See flyer and
registration form attached to this
newsletter.
2013 – 2014 EBRS Board of Directors
President: Susan Jaffe
Treasurer and Electronic Distribution: Susan Merrill
Conductor Locator: Greta Hryciw
Newsletter: Carol Coon, Editor and Producer
Chapter Meeting Music: Linda Skory
Webmaster: Suzanne Siebert
Headlands Committee: Bill Stewart (Coordinator), Merlyn Katechis (Registration)
Brenda Bailey (Publicity)
Publicity/Librarian/Composer-in-Residence: Glen Shannon
Member Performances: Cindy Keune
Hospitality: Anna Lisa Kronman, Ray White, Brenda Bailey
Members at Large: Britt Ascher, Greta Hryciw, Kathy Cochran, Brenda Bailey
The Mouthpiece is published by the
East Bay Recorder Society.
EBRS is a chapter of the American Recorder Society and an affiliate
of the
San Francisco Early Music Society.
Please send information and photos for newsletter consideration to Carol Coon at
The deadline for the February issue is January 15
Schedule of Conductors
Jan. 4 (Twelfth Night Celebration) - Joyce Johnson-Hamilton; 2:30 at Hillside Community Church
Feb. 7 - Andrew Levy
March 7 - Louise Carslake
April 4 - Frances Feldon
May 2 - Judy Linsenberg
A MUSICAL SMORGASBORDa workshop for instrumentalists and singers
Choose from many tasty musical styles & flavors, including: motets of Palestrina, Dowland and Holborne dances, music of early and late
Medieval England, percussion classes, beginning musical improvisation, and much more
WITHSHIRA KAMMEN, TISH BERLIN and PETER MAUND
Workshop classes will include Medieval, Renaissance, and traditional musicSingers and instrumentalists (including percussion!) welcome
SUNDAY JANUARY 5TH and SUNDAY JANUARY 12THCOME TO ONE OR BOTH DAYS!
Arlington Community Church52 Arlington Ave., Kensington, CA
WORKSHOP REGISTRATIONMail form with your check to Tish Berlin at 806 Washington Ave., Albany CA 94706
Name:Phone: e-mail:Instruments you will bring to the workshop:Your voice type and range:
FeesWorkshop tuition: $215 January 5th only: $110 January 12th only: $110Both Sundays: $215Early registration discount: register by December 30th and pay $100 per Sunday ($200 for two Sundays)Amount enclosed: (please make check out to Tish Berlin) _____
Workshop Schedule (location: Arlington Community Church, Kensington CA)Sunday January 5th: 1:30-8:00 (potluck supper – bring something to share)Sunday January 12th: 1:30-8:00 (potluck supper – bring something to share)
Workshop classes will include Medieval, Renaissance, and traditional musicSingers and instrumentalists (including percussion!) welcome
QUESTIONS? Call Tish at 510-882-1169 or [email protected] or [email protected]
Portrait of Henry Purcell after John Closterman (NPG1250)
Our Musical Shakespeare Reveling in the music of Henry Purcell
Five independent sessions led by John Prescott for interested adults:
The seventeenth centurywas one of themost turbulent and difficulttimes in English history. However it also saw one of the greatestflowerings of Englishmusic. Henry Purcell (1659‐1695) represents theapotheosis of thismusical flowering. In these classeswewill experiencePurcell'sintenselydevoutsacredmusic,hisgrandcourtodes,hislivelyandtendertheatermusicandhisbawdytavernsongs.Inadditiontolisteningto and learning about the details of music and word setting whichcontributetoPurcell'sgenius,wewillexplorethetangledwebofreligion,politics, social thought and economics which form the backdrop forPurcell'sstunningmusicalachievements.Nopreviousmusicalexperienceisnecessary.Cometolearn,listenandjoinintheadventure.
Dailyclasses–9:30AMto12:00noonMondayJanuary13throughFridayJanuary17,2014
Location:St.MaryMagdaleneChurch2005BerrymanStreet,BerkeleyCA94709
Registerforeitherthefullcourse($85/$80SFEMSmembers)orforindividualdays($20each):
Monday:Therestorationofthecathedrals:Purcell'ssacredmusic
Tuesday:FromChurchtoStage:Purcell'stheatricalandoperaticvocalmusic
Wednesday:TheSplendorandintimacyofPurcell'sinstrumentalmusic
Thursday:FromStagetoChambertoTavern:theManyMoodsofPurcell'sSongs
Friday:WhateverhappenedtoEnglishBaroqueMusic?Purcell'slegacy
JOHN PRESCOTT received his M.A. and Ph.D. in musicology from U. C. Berkeley. Prior to this, hereceivedhisB.A.magnacum laude inMusicandwaselectedtoPhiBetaKappafromCarletonCollege(MN). He has been the recipient of a number of academic honors, including the British MarshallScholarshipfortwoyearsofstudyatSt.John’sCollegeinCambridge,England.HealsostudiedatOxfordUniversity’sWorcesterCollege.Dr.PrescotthaswrittenextensivelyonthemusicofHandel.Hewrotehis doctoral dissertation on John Stanley, the 18th‐century blind organist, conductor, violinist andimpresario.Dr.PrescotthastaughtmusiccoursesatU.C.BerkeleyandmusictheoryatTheCrowdenSchool(BerkeleyCA),andwasthemusicologistfortheSanFranciscoElderhostelArtsandHumanitiesProgram.HeteachesmusichistorycoursesfortheOsherLifeLongLearninginstitutesatU.C.BerkeleyandatSanFranciscoStateUniversity.Hegivespre‐operalecturesforBerkeleyWestEdgeOperaandthe Livermore Valley Opera Company. He also gives pre‐concert lectures for Philharmonia BaroqueOrchestra.
Proceeds from thiscoursego tobenefit theSFEMSMusicDiscoveryWorkshop,adaycamp that introduceschildren toearlymusicandRenaissancesocialhistorythroughmusicinstructionandtheaterprojects.Lookforinformationaboutthissummer’sMDWcomingsoontowww.sfems.org.JohnPrescottisanaffiliateoftheSanFranciscoEarlyMusicSociety.
Forfurtherinformationandregistration,contactSuzanneSiebert,[email protected]/843‐2425.
Please circle all that apply:
Thank you!
The San Francisco Recorder Society (a SFEMS affiliate) presents
Tune in to the Recorder XX Our TENTH annual workshop for recorder players (low-intermediate to advanced)
We welcome players who are attending their first workshop!
La Bella Musica Four centuries of beautiful Italian music
Saturday January 18, 2014 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
with Louise Carslake and Tish Berlin
Christ Church Lutheran • 1090 Quintara Street (at 20th Avenue) • San Francisco
Tuition: $45
Bring a music stand, pencil, and a bag lunch. Coffee and snacks provided during breaks. For information contact Florence Kress, (415) 731-9709, or [email protected]
Registration form is also available at www.arssanfrancisco.org
Please detach the completed registration form and mail with your check.
Make check payable to Florence Kress, 34 San Andreas Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94127
Name ______________________________________________ Phone____________________________
City____________________________________Zip____________ E-mail_________________________
Donation to SFRS beyond tuition $__________
This will be my first music workshop Amount enclosed $____________ Recorders I play: Si S A T B GB CtrB Recorders I’ll bring: Si S A T B GB CtrB
I play with others: Seldom Occasionally Frequently
Level I consider myself to be: Low Intermediate High Intermediate Advanced
I can help with: Set Up Clean Up