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February 2018 • Volume XXXXIV • Number 6 2017–2018 Officers Our next meeting of the 2017–2018 season is President Win Aldrich Friday, February 9, 2018 [email protected] Meeting: 7:30 pm 909-625-7722 Trinity Episcopal Church Vice President, Membership 2400 Canal Street in Orange, California Development Open—looking for volunteers Vice President Hospitality Rotem Gilbert to Conduct Jim Forrest Recorder player Rotem Gilbert is a native of [email protected] Haifa, Israel and a founding member of 626-333-3443 Ciaramella, an ensemble specializing in music of Secretary/Newsletter the 15th and 16th centuries. Ciaramella has Open—looking for volunteers performed throughout the United States, in Treasurer Belgium, Germany, and Israel, and released a Susan Mason CD on the Naxos Label, and two recordings [email protected] with Yarlung Records. Their recent CD Dances 949-733-3397 on Movable Ground has earned 5 stars by the Workshop Program British magazine Early Music Today and was picked the Win Aldrich, Coordinator Editor’s Choice, lauded for its “expressive fluidity and [email protected] rhythmic vitality”. She was a member of Piffaro (1996-2007), 909-625-7722 and has appeared with many early music ensembles in the Gloria Martin United States and in Europe. Rotem has been featured as a [email protected] soloist for the Pittsburgh Opera, the LA Opera, Musica Angelica 909-626-5001 and the LA Phil. After studies on recorder at Mannes College of Lee Waggener [email protected] Music in New York with Nina Stern, she earned her solo 909-624-0236 diploma from the Scuola Civica di Musica of Milan where she Bill Waggener studied with Pedro Memelsdorff. She earned her doctorate in [email protected] Early Music performance practice at Case Western Reserve 909-624-0236 University. She has recently been promoted to associate Gwen Rodman professor at the USC Thornton School of Music where she [email protected] 909-981-1633 teaches Baroque and Renaissance performance practice courses and is an instructor of early music winds. Rotem received the Publicist/Webmaster 2012 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching at USC and is the Carol Jacoby joint recipient of Early Music America’s 2014 Thomas Binkley [email protected] 562-429-4184 Award for “outstanding achievement in performance and Announcements scholarship by the director of a university or meetings so far. Traditionally we have had college early music ensemble.” She has been a 30-35 at a meeting. Again, this is perhaps due regular faculty member of early music to several reasons - again former members workshops and is the co-director of SFEMS who no longer drive or play the recorder, busy Recorder Workshop. Rotem can be heard on schedules, a terrible flu season, and difficult the Deutsche Grammophon’s Archiv, traffic and excessive travel times. This last Passacaille, Musica Americana, Dorian, Naxos one is not easy to solve. One could consider and Yarlung labels. moving the meetings to Saturdays, but a number of members who I have talked to would not come to Saturday meetings and President’s Message tie up what little downtime they have on Well, we have reached the mid-point of the the weekends. I personally have that same OCRS 2017–2018 Season, and it is worthwhile objection. This is also true with a number of to stop and take a look at where we are potential conductors that I have talked with - on several fronts. First, membership this Saturdays would eat into the time they would season has dropped to ~45, where last year have with family and friends. There are no there were 53 memberships and not that easy answers and if you have any thoughts, long ago there were 66 memberships At the please pass them on to a Board member. current membership level, OCRS doesn’t The third concern is Board membership. This cover its expenses; and it is only thanks year we had several Board positions unfilled to several generous donors that OCRS is in as good a financial shape as it is. because nobody would volunteer, and we have had to make due. I would like to Decrease in memberships is not unique among sincerely thank those that did volunteer to recorder societies. Membership is down at our serve on the Board: Susan Mason as Treasurer, sister chapter SCRS, at the Denver Recorder Jim Forrest as VP for Hospitality, and Carol Society, and at many other recorder societies Jacoby as Webmaster. And also the team of across the country. This is probably due to a Gloria Martin, Lee and Bill Waggener, and number of factors. For example, many recorder Gwen Rodman, who have stepped in to help players who started in the ‘60’s and ‘70’s are ensure that we would have a workshop this no longer able to drive or to play the recorder, season. The OCRS Bylaws state that we need and the pool of younger players have such to appoint a Nominating Committee shortly to busy lives these days that they do not have the seek out candidates for the Board elections to time or energy for record-playing. Many of you be held in June. Personally, I have been on the play in other groups or know of other recorder Board now for 6 years and feel that it is time players who are not OCRS members, and it for me to move on. So there will be a number would be helpful if you would bring them to of Board positions that will need to be filled in a meeting and encourage them to join OCRS. June to ensure the continuation of OCRS next The second concern, although related, is season. So give it some thought, step up to the low attendance at meetings this season. volunteer and as we enter our 44th year, help We have had 17-25 people attending the 5 2 Announcements OCRS continue to be a strong, vital, chapter and Jayanthi (Jay) Wijekoon for always serving the interest of recorder players. helping with the clean-up after the break. At this month’s meeting we will have Rotem Sally Price, Hava Blasberg, and Joe Gilbert, a long-time favorite, leading us. I hope Whiting will supply the refreshments to see you all there. —Win Aldrich for the upcoming February meeting. Please contact Jim Forrest: stringpresser@ earthlink.net, or 626-333-3443 to sign OCRS Dues up for a turn to treat the group, or catch Time to pay your dues! him at the next meeting to sign up. A membership application is included in this newsletter. Please pay your dues before or at the September meeting. Please include a Music Availability completed membership application with your Sheet music for each monthly meeting dues payment in order to provide OCRS with is available at the OCRS website, www. your up-to-date contact information and your ocrecorders.org. The pdf files for the music election whether to print your own sheet music. are usually available a few days before the meeting. If your computer for some reason If you intend to pay your dues in cash at the lacks a program for reading PDFs,download meeting, please complete the membership Adobe Reader here: https://get.adobe. application and place it in an envelope with com/reader/?promoid=KSWLH—select your money, write your name on the outside of operating system, language, and version the envelope, and then seal the envelope before and then click on “Download Now”. giving it to the Treasurer. If paying by check at the meeting, please paper-clip or staple Sheet music is provided at the meeting only for your check to your completed application. those who have paid the sheet music printing Alternatively, you may mail your dues check fee in addition to their membership dues. and completed application to the Treasurer If you indicated that you will print your music at the address shown on the application. and you’re unable to do so for a particular —Susan Mason, Treasurer meeting, you will need to contact another member to ask him or her to print your music for you. If you can’t contact another member, Refreshments please arrive at the meeting early and ask another member whether you can look on We want to thank Susan Mason for the to his or her sheet music for the evening. beverages, Matt Ross for the wonderful gooey Persian treats and Susan Marquez for Soprano players please also bring another the delicious home-baked pear pastry for size recorder and print the music for that the refreshments at the January meeting. We part. This gives the conductor the opportunity would also like to thank the Lieblang family to balance the parts for each piece. 3 Announcements Gerhard Huber Model III Alto New OCRS Web Site Recorder in f’, Plumwood Carol Jacoby has spent considerable time, effort, and talent on developing a new web site for OCRS after all the problems we had with These premium-quality Swiss-made the old site last year again being corrupted. instruments are superior in quality of wood, The new web site address/url is: http://www. workmanship, appearance, and performance to ocrecorders.org. It is similar to the old address most other recorders currently available. The but there is now an “s” on “recorders”. She will Model III hardwood instruments have a light, be using this site to post the pdf music files clear, well-focused tone that lends itself equally selected by the conductors for each month’s well to solo and ensemble use. All Huber meeting as well as other pertinent and useful recorders feature extremely easy and accurate information, so be sure to update your address.