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Winter 2019 AR Published by the American Recorder Society, Vol. LX, No. 4 • www.americanrecorder.org winter 2019 Editor’s ______Note ______ ______ ______ ______ Volume LX, Number 4 Winter 2019 Features omething old, something new: not just The Recorder in the Streams for weddings, but for modern ways to Part I: Unboxing YouTube . 18 enjoyS an instrument with a rich past. A special edition of Recording Reviews Tom Bickley As points out in his first by Tom Bickley article examining the recorder on the inter- Departments net, recordings now appear in a multitude of formats, including as YouTube videos. This Advertiser Index and Classified Ads . 48 variety is reflected in writings in American Recorder, as we try to steer recorder fans in Department of Amplification . 32 Education Editor Mary Halverson Waldo the direction of relevant resources online. describes interleaving, another practice strategy Read his first installment, “Unboxing YouTube” (page 18)—and find out more Education . 7 about this musical and technological phe- In a look back at a classic column, nomenon (as well as what unboxing is). Constance Primus gives advice and resources The articles in the last four issues of to use when taking up the bass recorder AR have focused on practicing. We also have President’s Message . 3 something old and something new to offer ARS President David Podeschi summarizes 80th anniver- here: at the end of the ARS’s the 2019 ARS Annual Members Meeting sary year, we recap a set of articles with strategies for taking up the bass recorder, Response . 31 One more stop on the recorder tube map updated and combined into one piece by the original author, Connie Primus (page 7). Reviews Amplifying and adding a new approach to Recording. 27 the practicing ideas already covered in AR, New recordings by BRISK Recorder Quartet Mary Halverson Waldo goes into and The Royal Wind Music interleaving as a means to retain skills Music. 35 that you have practiced (page 32). A new “Browning,” ballets plus a waltz Most of the news in Tidings pertains to players who are, well, at least fairly new— Tidings . 4 read there about latest feats of the new Young recorder players in the news: Martin Bernstein generation of recorder players (page 4). is first American finalist in Moeck/SRP competition; Gail Nickless Indiana University honors “Weezie” Smith with endowment; Technique Tip from Anne Timberlake www.youtube.com/americanrecordermag on switching among instruments (page ); www.facebook.com/groups/americanrecordersociety Focus on Business Members (page ) G N, E ON THE COVER: C E Photo by Mary Tom Bickley, Recording Reviews • Mary Halverson Waldo, Education Halverson Waldo: Amanda Pond & Cynthia W. Shelmerdine, Line Editors Sub Bass in F, made by A B Adriana Breukink. Martha Bixler • Valerie Horst Cover ©2019, American David Lasocki • Thomas Prescott Recorder Society. www.AmericanRecorder.org Copyright©2019 American Recorder Society, Inc. 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