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SEATTLE RECORDER SOCIETY
Recorder Notes
November 2017
Vol. XLIX, No. 3
www.seattle-recorder.org
From the Music Director (Vicki Boeckman)
Greetings everyone, can you believe it is almost November? I cannot, but the rain and climes in the 40s and the splendid fall colors are rather persistent reminders. I think we have finally made up for the summer drought and it is quite love-ly to see green grasses again. As autumn takes a serious hold with shorter, darker, wetter days we have more op-portunities to shift our focus to indoor activities, which means more time to gather round a fire, or space heater and jam with fellow music making buddies!
I was thrilled to read Joseph Lux Jr.'s informative article about Hans Poser and the “New Music” in the fall edition of the American Recorder magazine. The article celebrates the centennial of the birth of Poser and sheds light on his recorder quartets and his compositional techniques. If you happen to have the magazine, do take the time to read it, as it is quite fascinating. (Pages 24–26). For those of you who are not ARS members, no worries, I will read the relevant excerpts from it at our November playing session (but please do consider becoming a member). About his compositional techniques, Poser draws inspiration from Hindemith, Bartok and Stravinsky and writes that the New Music “shows intention aside from harmonic differentiation to discover the elementary strength of melody and rhythm”...
“The meter signifies the regular repeat of accents within a time frame and rhythm is the particular figure of movement superimposed on the meter. With an increasing number of equal values f. ex.: 2+3+4+5+6 eighths, we can speak of a metric crescendo or its opposite”.
Please do not fear if this seems too wordy and/or daunting. All will become clear with the music, which I promise will not be too difficult. We will play the Rends-burger Dances, Op 42, written in 1957. They were in part created during the East German Music Festival of 1957 in Rendsburg, Schleswig-Holstein, and can boast various performances including a live string performance on the West German Radio in December of 1957. A truly delightful collection of dances reflecting many moods and colors – in perfect harmony with autumn in the Pacific Northwest.
Recorder sizes from Soprano to Contra will be needed, and all sizes flutes or stringed instruments are most welcome.
Newsletter Deadline for December Issue:
Thursday November 16th
New Membership Year! If you haven’t already done so, please renew your SRS mem-bership for 2017/18. You can renew your membership: • in person at an SRS
meeting • print and mail the renewal
form found here • renew online
SRS Meeting
Friday,
November 3, 2017 @ 7:30 pm
Playing Session (Vicki Boeckman) The “New Music” of
Hans Poser
All sizes of recorders and viols are welcome.
The Back Room Gang will be led by Laura Faber
SRS Board Members (2017/2018)
Music Director: Vicki Boeckman (206-985-9916)
[email protected] Music Director Emeritus: Peter Seibert (206-329-2774)
[email protected] Officers: President: Molly Warner (206-523-5192)
[email protected] President-Elect: Nancy Gorbman (206-852-4762)
[email protected] Past President: Newsletter: Mike Woolf (206-300-6623)
[email protected] Secretary: Kathleen Arends (425-649-9869)
[email protected] Treasurer: Richard Ginnis (206-633-1969)
* * * * Membership: Betty Swift (206-323-3879)
[email protected] Refreshments: Maja Eberhardt (206-525-4283)
[email protected] Librarian: Hanan Bell (206-695-2276)
[email protected] Webmaster: Charles Coldwell (206-328-8238)
[email protected] Member-At-Large: Carolyn Wallace (206-782-6898)
Celebration of Life and Memorial for
Elsbeth Dudey 1927-2017
Friday, November 3, 2017 2:00 pm Bothell First Lutheran Church
10207 NE 183rd St. Bothell, WA 98011
October SRS Meeting (Kathleen Arends, photos Bill Stickney)
President Molly Warner opened our meeting by banging a fragment from Rite of Spring on a music stand (I've also heard that rhythm characterized as "Stravinsky scraping toast"). Newbies included a retired engineer from Bain-bridge Island, an elementary-school music teacher from Bellevue Schools, and a former trumpet player starting out on soprano; we also were happy to see folks who hadn't played with us in several years!
Laura Faber let us know that Elsbeth Dudey, past member of both SRS and Moss Bay, has passed. As our American Recorder Society representative, she also gave our newest ARS member an official ARS toothbrush (the use of which is beneficial to the brusher's recorder) and then passed out official pencils to longtime members. And after the opening program, Laura took the Backroom Gang to work on motets, madrigals, and more.
Jeffrey Cohan, "flute guy and harpsichord tuner", gave our opening program. He talked about and demonstrat-ed transverse flutes from the Renaissance through the present. Jeffrey noted that the notion that the earlier flutes were "simpler" is completely backwards: the mod-
Elsbeth Dudey learned to play recorder as a young girl in Germany, and went on to become an accomplished musician, playing recorders of all sizes as well as krummhorns and kortholts. Upon immigrating to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, she and four other musicians founded the Medieval Consort; an interest in music, art, literature and costumes of the Medieval and Renaissance periods brought the ensemble together to perform at many and various events (1965-1977). They recorded an album around 1970, something all of their children thought was especially cool! When Elsbeth moved to Florida she joined the Sarasota Recorder Society and performed in the Sarasota Earlye Musicke Consort (1985-2000). Upon moving to Bothell in 2000, she attended both Moss Bay and the Seattle Recorder Society meetings regularly, and played in a group of five SRS women called the Canzonettes, performing occasionally. Health issues pre-vented her from attending SRS meetings and workshops the past several years, but she was always happy to have the SRS monthly newsletter read to her. She shared her love for early music with her family, countless audiences, and also the many students she taught through the years, from children to adults. The family would like to invite all who share the joy of early music to her me-morial service.
October SRS Meeting—Continued (Kathleen Arends)
ern flute has a cylindrical bore and mostly evenly-spaced, same-sized holes, with mech-anisms to cover them and a taper just in the head joint. The other flutes he showed us have bores with complex tapers, requiring multiple sizes of reamers. (The taper corrects the octaves. "Without the taper in the bore, you need completely different fingerings," usually half-hole ones, he said.) He told us that Renaissance flutes are extremely difficult to make—there are only about 50 in the world—and left us with some lovely sounds. To hear more Renaissance flutes, he noted, one can attend a Salish Sea music festival!
And then Laura Kuhlman took over to direct us in our playing session. She brought us music from South America, examples of how Spanish musicians brought Renaissance and Baroque styles into their compositions in the New World.
We began with a beautiful processional hymn to the Virgin Mary, Hanacpachap Cussicuinin. Laura mentioned that a search on YouTube for this piece, the oldest (1631) printed polyphony from the New World, will yield many different performance styles, from solemn to festive. We performed it in choirs of 4' (SATB recorders) and 8' (an octave lower).
Next, from Juan Gutierrez de Padilla (1590-1664), we played Tristis est anima mea. The text is from Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, asking his disci-ples to stay and watch with him. Laura had us visu-alize our heads as big, with air flow throughout, and reminded us that wrong notes should be played with the same beauty and intensity as right ones (when unsure, don't back off; blow right through any mistakes!) We used the text to determine which notes should be articulated with "t" and which with "d".
Laura arranged our last piece, which was composed by per-haps the most famous Mexican composer of the colonial period of New Spain, Manuel de Zumaya (c. 1678 – 1755). It was Albricias mortales, urging the listener to rejoice in the coming of the new dawn. We played it in three choirs, the second being the largest, or chorus. Laura noted that anoth-er choir was originally for bajónes (dulcians, or early bas-soons), which were very popular in that time and place. The various choirs combined differently for each of the coplas, or verses, and played together for the refrain.
Many thanks to Laura Kuhlman for her warm, straight-ahead energy, and another enjoyable and educational session!
Refreshments (November)
Fruit
Rebecca Olson-Nord
Veggies Jill Shupe
Baked goods Eunice Nakao Janice Klain
Thank you for volunteering!
2017/2018
SRS Meetings
Meetings are usually (but not always—see red dates below) held on the first Friday of each month, September to May, at 7:30pm, Maple Leaf Lutheran Church, 10005—32nd NE, Seattle. Meetings often include a short performance of in-terest to recorder or viol players, ensemble playing for all levels of recorder players, and a beginning recorder ensemble. A $5 donation is request-ed for non-members.
November 3, 2017 December 1, 2017
January 5, 2018 February 2, 2018
March 2, 2018 April 13, 2018 May 11, 2018
The Recorder Orchestra of Puget Sound under the direction of Charles Coldwell and Vicki Boeckman
is proud to present their Fall Concert
Sunday, November 19, 2017 at 3:00 pm
Music Center of the Northwest
901 N. 96th St.
Our focus this term has been on Scandinavian music
by Edvard Grieg, Jean Sibelius and Johann Roman, tastefully transcribed
by Charles Coldwell, Peter Seibert and Papalin.
Please join us for the beautiful music and stay for the reception afterward.
Concerts and Events Calendar
Saturday, October 21 at 7:30 PM: Leonarda’s Circle North America’s newest early music ensemble, Leonarda’s Circle — Carla Moore and Linda Melsted, violin, Joanna Blendulf, viola da gamba/violoncello, and Jillon Stoppels Dupree, harpsichord — makes its Seattle de-but with the dazzling and sensuous music of 17th-century Italy and Germany. Gallery Concerts, Queen Anne Christian Church, Seattle. Details Here.
Sunday, October 22 at 3:00 PM: Leonarda’s Circle, see above.
Friday, October 27 at noon: Dmitry Sinkovsky with Seattle Symphony, Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Benaroya Hall, Seattle. Details Here.
Saturday, October 28 at 2:00 PM: Pacific MusicWorks, Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo Stephen Stubbs leads Pacific MusicWorks and the Dark Horse Consort in a concert version featuring Colin Balzer in the title role. St. Mark’s Cathedral, Seattle. Details Here.
Saturday, October 28 at 8:00 PM: Byrd Ensemble, RITUAL: Music from Sacred Tradition An exploration of sacred music from the Eastern and Western Christian tradition. The program features mo-tets by Byrd, Palestrina, Gibbons, Tavener, Stravinksy, and Pärt. St. James Cathedral, Seattle. Details Here.
Sunday, October 29 at 4:30 PM: Sine Nomine Renaissance Choir Most Worthy Shepherd: Sacred Music of Heinrich Isaac Trinity Episcopal Parish, Free Will Offering. Details Here.
October 29—November 11: Road Scholar National Early Music Workshop, weeks 1 and 2. See the write-up in the October newsletter.
Saturday, November 4 at 7:30 PM: High Solemn Mass Commemorating All Faithful Departed Byrd—Mass for Four Voices, Harris—Faire is the Heaven Epiphany Chapel, Seattle. Details Here.
Saturday, November 4 at 7:30 PM: Pacific MusicWorks Underground, All in the Bach Family This program features music by five great Bachs, with music spanning the century from 1650-1750. The lineup includes Heinrich, Johann Michael, Johann Sebastian, Carl Philipp Emmanuel, and Johann Bernhard, all per-formed by the Underground House Band led by Tekla Cunningham. Resonance at SOMA Towers, Bellevue. Details Here.
Sunday, November 5 at 1:30 PM: Organ recital with Jo Baim and friends Please join Jo and friends Vicki Boeckman - recorder, Peter Maund - percussion, and Gus Denhard - lute in an hour concert with works from Italy, The Americas, Macedonia, Israel and Sephardic Spain. Trinity Parish Church on 8th and James in Seattle. Admission Free.
Sunday, November 5 at 3:00 PM: Pacific MusicWorks Underground, All in the Bach Family Northwest Cellars, Kirkland
Sunday, November 5 at 3:00 PM: New Baroque Orchestra Trinity Episcopal Parish, Seattle
Tuesday, November 7 at 7:00 PM: Pacific MusicWorks Underground, All in the Bach Family Naked City Brewery, Greenwood, Seattle
Saturday, November 11 at 2:00 PM: Moss Bay Recorder Society Meeting, Miyo Aoki conducting North City Water District Boardroom, 1519 NE 177th St. Shoreline. Details Here.
Saturday, November 11 at 7:30 PM: Seattle Baroque Orchestra, Forces of Nature Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya, Seattle. Details Here.
Sunday, November 12 at 3:00 PM: Seattle Bach Choir, Wachet Auf! Dr. Anne Lyman conducts Bach’s Wachet Auf, motet Jesu meine Freude and other works by Schütz and Men-
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delssohn. The concert will be performed on period Baroque instruments by some of Seattle’s best professional Baroque musicians. Trinity Parish Church, Seattle. Details Here.
Saturday, November 18 at 2:30 PM: EMYA presents Bad Kings: Music from Troubled Monarchies Early Music Youth Academy at Good Shepard Chapel. Details Here.
Saturday, November 18 at 7:30 PM: Queen Anne Concerts, Bach & Beethoven Violoncellist Tanya Tomkins and fortepianist Tamara Friedman explore the rich repertoire of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Suites for Solo Cello and Ludwig van Beethoven’s Sonatas and Variations for cello and piano. Queen Anne Christian Church, Seattle. Details Here.
Sunday, November 19 at 3:00 PM: Recorder Orchestra of Puget Sound (ROPS) Under the direction of Charles Coldwell and Vicki Boeckman, ROPS will present a concert of beautiful Scandi-navian music by Johann Roman, Edvard Grieg and Jean Sibelius. Free of charge. Music Center of the Northwest, 901 N. 96th St, Seattle
Sunday, November 19 at 7:30 PM: Queen Anne Concerts, Bach & Beethoven, see above.
Monday, November 20—Wednesday, November 22: Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Music! 3-morning workshop for bowed/plucked string players age 8-12, usually with 2+ years experience, taught by Shulamit Kleinerman in Lake City, Seattle. Details Here.
Saturday, December 2 at 7:30 PM: Gallery Concerts, The Virtuoso Clarinet Thomas Carroll, period clarinetist, performs virtuosic chamber music by Mozart, Hummel and Backofen. Mr. Carroll is joined by Ingrid Matthews and Christine Wilkinson Beckman, violin, Laurie Wells, viola, and Page Smith, violoncello. Queen Anne Christian Church, Seattle. Details Here.
Sunday, December 3 at 3:00 PM: Gallery Concerts, The Virtuoso Clarinet, see above.
Friday, December 8 at 7:30 PM: Pacific MusicWorks, Light in the Darkness: Bach Cantatas for Advent Four Advent cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach. Featuring soprano Tess Altiveros, alto Laura Pudwell, tenor Zachary Finkelstein, and baritone Zachary Lenox along with Stephen Stubbs and the PMW Orchestra. Trinity Lutheran Church, Lynnwood. Details Here.
Saturday, December 9 at 2:00 PM: Moss Bay Recorder Society Meeting Miyo Aoki conducting, Redmond Library, 15990 NE 85th St, Redmond. Details Here.
Saturday, December 9 at 7:30 PM: Pacific MusicWorks, Light in the Darkness: Bach Cantatas for Advent Same as above except venue is Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Mercer Island.
Saturday, December 9 at 8:00 PM: Medieval Women’s Choir, Nowell Sing We The Medieval Women’s Choir provides a uniquely medieval musical celebration of one of our biggest holidays. Saint James Cathedral, Seattle. Details Here.
Sunday, December 10 at 2:00 PM: Pacific MusicWorks, Light in the Darkness: Bach Cantatas for Advent Same as above except venue is St. Mark’s Cathedral, Seattle.
Friday, December 15 at 8:00 PM: Cappella Romana, A Byzantine Christmas: The Sun of Justice John Michael Boyer directs Cappella Romana in a Byzantine chant ensemble featuring guest soloist Rassem El Massih with Byzantine chants for Christmastide in Greek, Arabic, and English. St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church, Seattle. Details Here.
Friday, December 15 at 8:00 PM: Seattle Symphony & Chorale, Handel’s Messiah. Benaroya Hall, Seattle. Details Here.
Saturday, December 16 at 1:00 PM: Seattle Symphony & Chorale, Handel’s Messiah. See above.
Saturday, December 16 at 8:00 PM: Seattle Symphony & Chorale, Handel’s Messiah. See above.
Sunday, December 17 at 2:00 PM: Seattle Symphony & Chorale, Handel’s Messiah. See above.
Tuesday, December 19 at 7:30 PM: NW Baroque Masterworks Project, Vivaldi’s Gloria and Magnificat Violinist Monica Huggett leads readings of these masterworks as they were originally heard, performed by an
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all-female orchestra, soloists, and chorus, including the Seattle Girls Choir. Bastyr University Chapel, Kirkland. Details Here.
Thursday, December 21 at 7:30 PM: NW Baroque Masterworks Project, Vivaldi’s Gloria and Magnificat Same as above, except venue is Seattle First Baptist Church.
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