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P UBLISHED BY THE A MERICAN R ECORDER S OCIETY, VOL. XLIII, NO . 2 MARCH 2002 The Fourth Annual Summer June 2-8, 2002 Concordia University • Austin, Texas Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced Studies in Recorder, Viola da Gamba, Early Harp, Reeds, Lute and Voice featuring Saskia Coolen Frances Blaker and Martha Bishop for information: Daniel Johnson - Workshop Director with other outstanding faculty including phone: 512-371-0099 • email: [email protected] Tom Zajac, Sara Funkhouser, Becky Baxter, or visit our website at www.toot.org Daniel Johnson, Bruce Brogdon and more. A week of music by the San rancisco Bay . is the perfect way to advance your playing and singing skills. In a relaxed yet stimulating atmosphere, you’ll study repertoire and performance practice with a faculty of leading musicians and scholars. Now in their 26th year, these highly regarded workshops provide instruction in technique and ensemble performance, plus student and faculty concerts and a host of extracurricular activities in beautiful northern California. Baroque Music & Dance A wide range of baroque repertoire for singers, dancers, and play- June 23July 6 ers of both period and modern instruments. Featured faculty: Marion Verbruggen and Frances Blaker, recorder; Elisabeth Le Guin, cello; Paul Flight, chorus; Angene Feves, dance. Medieval & Renaissance Music Classes include consorts, technique and ensembles for instruments July 713 and voices. Featured faculty: Frances Blaker and Louise Carslake, recorder; Robert Mealy and Shira Kammen, strings; Anne Azéma and Jennifer Lane, voice; Bruce Dickey, cornetto. Recorder Music Explore the full range of recorder repertoire, from the Middle Ages July 1420 to the 20th century. Faculty: Peggy Monroe, Sophie Lariviere, Matthias Maute, Tom Zajac, Eileen Hadidian, and Frances Feldon. SAN RANCISCO EARLY MUSIC SOCIETY SUMMER WORKSHOPS P.O. Box 10151, Berkeley, CA 94709 [email protected] 5105281725 www.sfems.org EDITOR’S ______NOTE ______ ______ ______ ______ Volume XLIII, Number 2 March 2002 You’ve got to admit that Anthony Rowland- FEATURES Jones is onto something. One look at that The Recorder in the Art of Titian. 7 Venus with a lute player (page 12) and you The depiction of the recorder encompasses a wide range of know she is not holding a recorder because meanings in the hands of the Venetian master, she intends to play it! Surely, there is hid- by Anthony Rowland-Jones den meaning here, or else Chapter meet- Arranging Music for Beginning Recorder Players . 14 ings in the Renaissance must have been 5 The fifth in a series of articles by composers and arrangers wild affairs, and well-heated. In the view of discussing how they write and arrange music for recorder, Rowland-Jones, Titian hardly ever painted by Peter van Marissing a recorder without some ulterior purpose; A Planning Guide to 2002 tracing the wide range of the painter’s Summer Recorder Workshops . 16 symbolism makes for fascinating reading. The annual summary of summer workshops where you can After looking at all the bucolic settings improve your playing and expand your early music horizons in the works of Titian, readers may be ready to think about summer study opportuni- 7 ties, an exercise aided and abetted by the DEPARTMENTS annual AR summary of summer work- Advertiser Index . 40 shops where recorder instruction is offered Book Reviews . 33 (page 16). Of course, there’s more to the Chapters & Consorts . 31 world of early music than just recorder, and typically the summer workshops are a Classified . 40 great place to experiment with playing oth- Music Reviews. 23 er instruments, singing, dancing, etc. For Opening Measures . 37 31 recorder professionals, I should call your President’s Message . 3 attention to the new residencies that are Q & A . 39 being made available at the Sitka Center for ON THE COVER: Recorders on Disc . 20 Art and Ecology (page 5). There have been Detail: Tidings . 4 many opportunities for composers and “Three Ages of Man” mainstream instrumentalists to “get away by Titian Students Play with Island Senior Symphony from it all” and be creative in far-off set- © Scala/Art Resource, ARS Founder Dies at Age 94 tings, like the famous MacDowell Colony NY in New Hampshire, but this may be the first such opportunity designed specifical- ly for recorder players. Another topic represented in this issue BENJAMIN S. DUNHAM, Editor concerns young people and the recorder. Contributing Editors Our continuing series on arranging and FRANCES BLAKER, Beginners; SCOTT PATERSON, Book Reviews composing for recorder focuses on making CAROLYN PESKIN, Q & A; CONSTANCE M. PRIMUS, Music Reviews successful arrangements for beginning EUGENE REICHENTHAL, Education; PETE ROSE, 20th-Century Performance recorder players, and our lead story in Tid- GILLIAN KAHN, Design Consultant ings reports on the remarkable collabora- tion between an orchestra of senior citi- Advisory Board zens and an elementary school recorder Martha Bixler • Valerie Horst • David Lasocki Bob Marvin • Howard Schott • Thomas Prescott • Catherine Turocy program. Add to this news of the involve- Kenneth Wollitz ment of the ARS in the Magic Recorder pro- gram of Connecticut’s American Classical Copyright © 2002 American Recorder Society, Inc. 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