Jacob Van Eyck's Ultimate Mastery
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Item# TR00042 Score & Parts $5.50 EDITOR’S ______NOTE ______ ______ ______ ______ Volume XLV, Number 1 January 2004 Announced by all the trumpets of FEATURES the sky, arrives the snow.”--Ralph Waldo “Fantasia & Echo” . 14 Emerson Jacob van Eyck’s Ultimate Mastery, The cover artist for this issue of AR, Jeff by Thiemo Wind Jurich (also the artist for the March 2003 Setting a Name to Music . 21 AR cover), seems to have substituted a A work commissioned as a gift to ARS members for recorder for the trumpet—and that idea 4 Play-the-Recorder Month 2004, fits nicely with my frame of mind, as I look by Adam Knight Gilbert out from my office at snow that covers well the dry grass and brown earth underneath. Looking back like Janus at last year, DEPARTMENTS we will find more appearances in this issue Advertiser Index . 44 by the November 2003 AR cover—as Book Reviews . 40 Rebecca Arkenberg examines more Chapters & Consorts . 35 closely the music in the image (page 6), 14 and readers write of their reactions to the Classified . 44 “Vanitas,” in Response (page 25). With this first issue of a new year, we Compact Disc Reviews . 42 welcome a new department editor whose Education . 12 writings will focus on education (page 12). Music Reviews. 27 Jody Miller teaches band at McCleskey Middle School in Marietta, GA, and On the Cutting Edge. 37 applied recorder and early music at Emory Opening Measures . 13 36 University in Atlanta. In previous AR President’s Message . 3 issues, you have read of three performanc- es at the Boston Early Music Festival by the Q&A . 10 McCleskey Middle School Recorder ON THE COVER: Response . 25 Ensemble, which he directs, plus his own Illustration Tidings . 4 ARS Great Recorder Relay performances. by Jeff Jurich Recorder residency at Sitka, new recorder orchestra to debut, Questions, comments or suggestions can ©2004 be e-mailed to him at <Recorder96@aol Flanders Recorder Consort joins New Amsterdam Trio .com>, or mailed to 3970 Norman Road, Stone Mountain, GA 30083. It took several people on two conti- nents to bring you the article in this issue GAIL NICKLESS, Editor (page 14) by Van Eyck expert Thiemo Contributing Editors Wind, whom we are happy to have as an FRANCES BLAKER, Beginners; JOHN H. BURKHALTER III, Book Reviews AR contributor. Van Eyck also shows up in THOMAS CIRTIN, Compact Disc Reviews; JODY L. MILLER, Education this issue’s Music Reviews (page 27). CONSTANCE M. PRIMUS, Music Reviews; CAROLYN PESKIN, Q & A TIMOTHY BROEGE, 20th-Century Performance Using the same methods, two recorder LISA SCHMIDT, Design Consultant ensembles are joining forces as an interna- tional sextet of virtuosi to produce con- Advisory Board certs, as described in a report from Rachel Martha Bixler • Valerie Horst • David Lasocki Begley (page 8). Bob Marvin • Howard Schott • Thomas Prescott • Catherine Turocy It won’t have to be that much of a Kenneth Wollitz production to participate in Play-the- Copyright © 2004 American Recorder Society, Inc. Recorder Month—unless you choose to Visit AR On-Line at <www.recorderonline.org> American Recorder (ISSN: 0003-0724), 5554 S. 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