October 2019 Vol

SEATTLE RECORDER SOCIETY Recorder Notes

October 2019 Vol. LI, No. 2

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From the Music Director (Vicki Boeckman) SRS Meeting Friday, Greetings everyone! October 11, 2019 I promise I won’t start every newsletter with“ Oh my @ 7:30 pm gosh where did the month go”, but seriously, what hap- pened to September? Or the summer? Actually I love this transitional time of year when the subtle changes in Opening Program light, color and fragrances gradually become more pre- Trio of Sabine Endrikeit’s sent as the new season takes hold. Not to mention the Students beauty of the abundance of the season with the color- Playing Session: music of ful and unusual squashes and pumpkins adorning the produce sections of the markets. Speaking of abun- Holst, Allegri, and Isaac dance, the coming months are brimming with early mu- (Vicki Boeckman) sic and recorder-related activities, so please take a few moments to keep read- All sizes of recorders ing to see all the interesting recaps and pictures of past events, and notices of and viols are welcome. those to come. Back Room Gang For our playing session on October 11th I'm being drawn to vocal music for mul- Miyo Aoki tiple voices. I’d like to start with the lovely Ave Maria written for girls’ double choir by Gustav Holst, written in the year 1900 and dedicated to the memory of This is a great option for any- his mother. It is stunning in its simplicity and I look forward to sharing it with one who is less experienced or you. My own mother passed over to the other side in October a few years ago, would like a slower pace. If so this month is a reflective time of year for me. Let us dedicate it to all moth- you plan to be there, please ers, those who are still with us in 3rd plane and those in our hearts and memo- let Miyo know so she can ries. We will then play the Miserere by Gregorio Allegri which I am eager to hear choose repertoire accordingly! on recorders! Then we’ll change the pace with Peter Seibert’s arrangement of [email protected] Heinrich Isaac’s A la Battaglia, written in 1485 in commemoration of the battle of Sarzanello, which I will tell you more about when I see you, and we’ll end the evening on an upbeat note with Festive music from Venice. Content Highlights All sizes of recorders and viols welcome. If anyone would like music ahead of Events Calendar time, please send me an email with a request for a specific part. Our opening program will be a trio from the SAGA (Seattle Area German Ameri- can) School under the direction of Sabine Endrigkeit. Many of you will remem- Newsletter Deadline ber Andrea Hsu, Esmae Nelson and Rissi Nelson who performed at Members' for November Issue: Night in May. They are thrilled to return to play an opening program for us. Sunday Looking forward to seeing you all soon. October 20 Local Recorder Happenings 2019/2020

Friday, October 4 @ 7:30 PM: Fall Fipple Flute Forum Faculty Fiesta! SRS Meetings Fantastic Festive Music by Johannes Cicconia, Dieterich Buxtehude, Pieter Campo, Meetings are usually (but not Kai Stensgaard, Antonio Carlos Jobim, and others. always—see *’d dates below) Frances Blaker, Tish Berlin, Miyo Aoki, Vicki Boeckman and Laura Kuhlman held on the first Friday of each Christ Episcopal Church, 4548 Brooklyn Ave NE month at 7:30pm, September to May at Maple Leaf Lutheran

Church, 10005—32nd NE in Saturday, October 19 @ 2:00 PM: Moss Bay Recorder Society Meeting Seattle. Sally Mitchell conducting. Shoreline Library, 345 NE 175th Street, Shore- Meetings include ensemble line. Details Here playing for all levels of recorder players, a beginning record- Sunday, November 10 @ 3:00 PM: Dreams in Motion er ensemble, and often a short performance of interest to Laura Faber, with Vicki Boeckman, Kate Faber, Isabella Pagel, and Mike Woolf recorder or viol players. Music close to our hearts, including the premiere of a new work by Sören Sieg. Music Center of the Northwest, 901 N 96th St, Seattle A $5 donation is requested for non-members.

Saturday, November 16 @ 2:00 PM: Recorder Orchestra of Puget Sound *October 11 November 1 Under the direction of Charles Coldwell and Vicki Boeckman, with guest conductor December 6 Peter Seibert, ROPS will present works by William Brade, Peter Phillips, Henry Pur- January 3 cell, Felix Mendelssohn, and Sören Sieg. Maple Leaf Lutheran Church, 10005 32nd Ave NE, Seattle February 7 March 6

April 3 Saturday, November 16 @ 7:30 PM: Farallon Recorder Trio—Elemental Harmony *May 8 The Farallon Trio (Frances Blaker, Letitia Berlin, and Miyo Aoki) presents a program of music spanning four centuries, played on renaissance and baroque recorders of all sizes and showcasing the rich variety of the recorder repertoire, including compositions by Bach, Isaac, Henry VIII, and others. Queen Anne Christian Church, 1316 3rd Ave W, Seattle

Sunday, November 17 @ 2:00 PM: Vicki Boeckman Student Recital Refreshments Students of Vicki Boeckman in collaboration with pianist Joan Lundquist will present an afternoon of incredible music by Lennox Berkeley, Sören Sieg, John Bald- (October) win, Jacopo de Bologna and others. Performers will include Jim Pilon, Mike Woolf, Laura Faber, Isabella Pagel, and Vicki Boeckman. Veggies Music Center of the Northwest, 901 N 96th St, Seattle Ellis Hillinger

Saturday, November 23 @ 2:00 PM: Moss Bay Recorder Society Meeting Baked goods Miyo Aoki conducting. Redmond Library, 15990 NE 85th Street, Redmond. Details Here Ruth Pattison Chu-Lan Chiong

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Concerts and Events Calendar SRS Board Members (2019/2020) O Friday, October 4 @ 7:30 PM: Fall Fipple Flute Forum Faculty Fiesta! C Fantastic Festive Music by Johannes Cicconia, Dieterich Buxtehude, Pieter Music Director: T Campo, Kai Stensgaard, Antonio Carlos Jobim, and others. Vicki Boeckman (206-985-9916) Frances Blaker, Tish Berlin, Miyo Aoki, Vicki Boeckman and Laura Kuhlman [email protected] O Christ Episcopal Church, 4548 Brooklyn Ave NE B Music Director Emeritus: E Friday, October 4 @ 7:30 PM: MusicWorks/Underground: Bachtoberfest Peter Seibert (206-329-2774) R Bach’s ability to evoke the whole spectrum of human emotions is often over- [email protected] shadowed by his sheer contrapuntal genius. Soprano Linda Tsatsanis joins the Underground House Band in a celebration of this often-overlooked aspect of Officers: Bach’s music, from high-spirited dances to the depths of sorrow. Epiphany President: Michael Bancroft (206-523-6668) Parish, Seattle. Details Here [email protected] Sunday, October 6 @ 3:00 PM: MusicWorks/Underground: Bachtoberfest Same as October 4, except at Resonance at SOMA Towers in Bellevue. President-Elect: Tuesday, October 8 @ 7:00 PM: MusicWorks/Underground: Bachtoberfest Janice Klain [email protected] Same as October 4, except at Capitol Cider in Seattle.

Saturday, October 12 @ 8:00 PM: Byrd Ensemble: Tallis’ Spem in alium Past President: Opening their 15 year anniversary season is a program featuring Renaissance Nancy Gorbman (206-852-4762) music for large vocal forces, including Thomas Tallis's 40-part Spem in ali- [email protected] um and Robert Carver's 19-part O bone Jesu. Accompanying these master- pieces are some of our favorite motets by Giovanni Gabrieli, William Byrd, Newsletter: and Alonso Lobo. St. James Cathedral, Seattle. Details Here Mike Woolf (206-300-6623) [email protected] Saturday, October 19 @ 2:00 PM: Moss Bay Recorder Society Meeting Sally Mitchell conducting. Shoreline Library, 345 NE 175th Street, Shore- Secretary: line. Details Here Kathleen Arends (425-649-9869) Saturday, October 19 @ 7:30 PM: Gallery Concerts: Crossing the Rhine [email protected]

Elisabeth Reed, Viola da Gamba, Tekla Cunningham, violin, Jillon Stoppels Treasurer: Dupree, harpsichord. Despite the fact that France and Germany had more Richard Ginnis (206-633-1969) than a few skirmishes through the 17th century, their artistic and cultural tra- [email protected] ditions were inexorably intertwined. This program explores the deep relation- ship between these oft-warring cultures, and discovers that there are more * * * * similarities than differences. Works of Schmelzer, Erlebach, Marais, and Elisa- Membership: beth Jacquet de la Guerre. Ingrid Vrooman (573-578-3016) Queen Anne Christian Church, Seattle.Details Here [email protected]

Sunday, October 20 @ 3:00 PM: Gallery Concerts: Crossing the Rhine Refreshments: Same as above. Maja Eberhardt (206-525-4283) Sunday, October 20 @ 5:00 PM: 19th Annual Costume Ball [email protected] Seattle Early Dance with Anna Mansbridge, band led by Charles Coldwell. Anna will teach fun, easy social dances from 16th-18th France and England Librarian: Hanan Bell (206-579-2301) accompanied by a talented band of musicians playing period instruments. [email protected] Seattle Early Dance will perform, in costume, dances from the Renaissance and Baroque courts of Europe. 12577 Densmore Ave N, Seattle Liaison to Maple Leaf Lutheran: Saturday, October 26 @ 8:00 PM: Pacific MusicWorks: Eternal Beloved Molly Warner (206-523-5192) This timeless story of love, hope, and faith comes to life through the [email protected] heartrendingly beautiful music of Isabella Leonarda, the most prolific female composer of the17th century. Countertenor Reginald L. Mobley and soprano Webmaster: Charles Coldwell (206-328-8238) Danielle Sampson sing the allegorical roles of Jesus and the Soul in this semi- [email protected] staged concert production, accompanied by the Pacific MusicWorks Band.

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O St. James Cathedral, Seattle. Details Here C Sunday, October 27 @ 2:00 PM: Pacific MusicWorks: Eternal Beloved T Same as above, except at Epiphany Parish in Seattle. Sunday, November 10 @ 3:00 PM: Dreams in Motion N Laura Faber, with Vicki Boeckman, Kate Faber, Isabella Pagel, and Mike Woolf O Music close to our hearts, including the premiere of a new work by Sören Sieg. Music Center of the North- V west, 901 N 96th St, Seattle E Sunday, November 10 @ 3:00 PM: Pacific MusicWorks/Underground—Will Power M William Shakespeare’s incomparable poetry and powerful insights into the human condition have inspired B artists and musicians for over 400 years. Tenor Zach Finkelstein joins the Underground House Band for a E unique program of the Bard’s wit and wisdom set to music by Henry Purcell, Ignatius Sancho, Thomas Arne, R and more. Resonance at SOMA Towers, Bellevue. Details Here Tuesday, November 12 @ 7:00 PM: Pacific MusicWorks/Underground—Will Power Same as above, but at Capitol Cider, Seattle Saturday, November 16 @ 2:00 PM: Recorder Orchestra of Puget Sound Under the direction of Charles Coldwell and Vicki Boeckman, with guest conductor Peter Seibert, ROPS will present works by William Brade, Peter Phillips, Henry Purcell, Felix Mendelssohn, and Sören Sieg. Maple Leaf Lutheran Church, 10005 32nd Ave NE, Seattle Saturday, November 16 @ 7:30 PM: Farallon Recorder Trio—Elemental Harmony The Farallon Trio (Frances Blaker, Letitia Berlin, and Miyo Aoki) presents a program of music spanning four centuries, played on renaissance and baroque recorders of all sizes and showcasing the rich variety of the recorder repertoire, including compositions by Bach, Isaac, Henry VIII, and others. Queen Anne Christian Church, 1316 3rd Ave W, Seattle Sunday, November 17 @ 2:00 PM: Vicki Boeckman Student Recital Students of Vicki Boeckman in collaboration with pianist Joan Lundquist will present an afternoon of incredible music by Lennox Berkeley, Sören Sieg, John Baldwin, Jacopo de Bologna and others. Performers will include Jim Pilon, Mike Woolf, Laura Faber, Isabella Pagel, and Vicki Boeckman. Music Center of the Northwest, 901 N 96th St, Seattle Friday, November 22 @ 8:00 PM: Pacific MusicWorks and Seattle Symphony—Orfeo ed Euridice PMW, BEMF and the Seattle Symphony dive into the mythical world of Orfeo, the legendary musician who journeyed into the underworld to bring his beloved wife Euridice back to life. Rockstar countertenor Philippe Jaroussky assumes the role of the mythic Orfeo alongside PMW favorite, Amanda Forsythe, guiding us through three major operatic settings of this tale by opera pioneers Monteverdi, Sartorio and Rossi. Benaroya Hall, Seattle. Details Here Saturday, November 23 @ 2:00 PM: Moss Bay Recorder Society Meeting Miyo Aoki conducting. Redmond Library, 15990 NE 85th Street, Redmond. Details Here Sunday, November 24 @ 3:00 PM: Seattle Bach Choir—Beginnings The Seattle Bach Choir introduces our new Artistic Director with a season of Beginnings, Passings, and Endings. Selections from Schütz’s Psalmen Davids frame this program of beginnings. The tracing of Jesus’ ancestry back to Adam, Pärt’s hypnotic“ Which was the son of…,” serves as the centerpiece linking settings from the Genesis creation narrative with German chorales and Latin motets for Advent—the beginning of the church year. Trinity Parish Church, Seattle. Details Here Saturday, November 30 @ 7:30 PM: Byrd Ensemble and SBO—Bach’s Wachet auf and Magnificat The Byrd Ensemble and Seattle Baroque Orchestra join forces once again for a performance of Bach’s Wachet auf and Magnificat. Markdavin Obenza, Conductor. Ingrid Matthews, Concertmaster. Town Hall, Seattle. Details Here September Meeting—Kathleen Arends, Photos Bill Stickney

President Michael Bancroft got our attention with a New Zealand toy called a "chatter ring" and began the meeting by asking who was new; welcome to Monica and Lyz! And this was the final meeting for our member Christiane, who is returning to Germany. There were lots of announcements since our May meeting: • Laura Faber is our American Recorder Society rep. • Laura is suspending her ensembles for a few months; during this time, Vicki and Isabella Pagel are cooking up an Interim Ensemble Opportunity. Let Laura know if you would like to find out how it will work. (Laura is also available to teach individual lessons.) • Molly Warner noted that online registration for the popular Columbia Gorge workshop (March 20 – 24) will open at 8am on October 19th, and that the workshop "fills up instantaneously". Mark your calendar! • Miyo Aoki coaches the Backroom Gang, which meets most months while other members play in the big room, and is an option for those wanting a slower pace or a little less challenge. Attendance varies, so if you can let Miyo know ahead of time (her email, and Laura's too, are in this newsletter) she can more easily have music suita- ble for the group that turns up. • Fall Fipple Flute Forum: Miyo notes that this October 5 – 6 event needs volunteers to bring some refreshments. Let her know if you'll do this. • Note the Faculty Concert the night before (see our Calendar.) Tish Berlin, Frances Blaker, Laura Kuhlman, Miyo, and Vicki are performing. • Tish and Frances will return to Seattle to play a concert with Miyo (see our Calendar). There's a Recorder Orches- tra concert in the afternoon, but Tish, Frances, and Miyo's concert is in the evening. • Miyo directs the Moss Bay Recorder Society, which meets one Saturday a month, usually at an Eastside public library. Check out this additional opportunity to play! Instead of having a Backroom Gang split off from the big group, we stayed together, with Miyo available to sit next to anyone who wanted her support. Vicki began the playing session by distributing a simplified "Blue Earth", the third movement from Sören Sieg's African Suite No. 24, whose title in English is Sweet Dreams. The basses and tenors played a short, sweet bass line with harmony, over and over. As the piece progressed, successively higher voices rhapsodized dreamily above them. Vicki asked those high voices for the softest possible articulations whenever playing sixteenth notes and to sound "sparkly, like starlight". The last chord did not resolve the piece, but "floated" instead (Vicki said the next movement resolved it.) I would have liked to spend more time with the piece. Instead we had more Sieg: "The Day is Not Far", the second movement from African Suite No. 15: The Best Moment. This "hopeful" composi- tion used call and response. Its meter was 9/8, or three dotted-quarter beats per bar; but the melody fell on only the first of the beats. Rather than moving on the second or third beat, the melody notes were tied across those beats; this created rubato, relaxing the melody rather than syncopating it. Vicki had us echo the melody before we read it. "You should feel like you're pushing against the beat, as if you're fighting it," she told us. It clarified the rhythms when we played all the pitches as eighths, repeating to fill the note value. Again we used soft articulations. And then we played six of Anthony Holborne's Greatest Hits, beginning with "The Honeysuck- September Meeting—continued le" (#60). Vicki noted that lutenist Holborne wrote the music for his own instrument; there's a bass line, and the melody is generally on top. The inner lines fool around. (Vicki didn't actually say that.) "Play lightly . . .plucking the strings . . .dancing on your toes . . .put pillows of air between the notes," she told us. For #55, "The Night Watch", she asked us to make the strings of eighth notes as smooth as possible; and we noted the contrasting rhythms of the inner lines with the melody, which provide so much of the fun in Holborne. We went on to the sweet Pavan and Galliard #39 and #40. Galliards are very interesting rhythmically; they begin on the fourth of six eighth notes, and any part can be either in two or in three at any given moment. When your rhythm opposes another, you get to play it up with accents. These unpredictable accents popping up within a steady beat are fun for both performers and listeners. Whack-a-mole, anyone? "The Widow's Myte" is another galliard, so we enjoyed those polyrhythms and amusing sudden ending. And finally we played what is for recorderists—well for me, anyway—the star in Holborne's crown, "The Faerie Round", with everyone switching meters right and left. Meditative Sieg and energizing Holborne—thank you for the fun and balanced evening, Vicki!

Report on the Recorder Rodeo—Vicki Boeckman, photos Bill Stickney

The Meadowbrook Community Center's brightly lit and spacious Multipurpose Room provided a welcoming setting for an all-ages inclusive event featuring the recorder. The idea was birthed from the Lake City Waites' desire to share and provide additional opportunities in the community for music making on the recorder, especially hoping to entice the youth in the area. The Waites all met at SRS meetings a couple of years ago and were in one of Laura Faber's evening groups. SRS seized the opportunity to team up with the Waites and the Meadowbrook Community Center, all masterfully choreographed and coordinated by Linet Henry, who ran an impressive ship herding volunteers to specific tasks. Highlights of the afternoon included wandering minstrels in costume (Charles Coldwell and Jherek Swanger) a "Petting Zoo" run by Hanan Bell, a "Learn to play the Recorder" corner led by Isabella Pagel, a "Recorder Nickelodeon" corner led by Virginia Felton where kids could write notes on staff paper and have players play it, a "Recorder Through the Ages" history booth led by Chris Corfman and Nancy Gorbman and "Center Ring" performances by the Spice Girls, the Lake City Waites, Dan Cornelisson's home-schooled group, and Sabine Endrigkeit's trio from the SAGA school. Thank you everyone for a highly successful event that also was a ton of fun! Stay tuned for more to come!