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Editor’s Note ______ ______ ______ ______ Volume L, Number 2 March 2009 ______ ur 2009 celebration continues, with an Features Oearly-bird discount deadline of May 1 Suite Thoughts of Sitka . .9 to register for the ARS’s 70th birthday Judith Linsenberg recounts how her life changed party—the ARS Festival and Conference. while being the Sitka recorder resident This year you’ll continue to see AR covers highlighting 2009 as both Volume Summer Workshop Summer-y . .12 50 of AR and as the ARS’s 70th anniver- The annual roundup of summer workshops, 8 sary year. These specially selected covers including some earlier and some later are the creative output of the Advanced Glenna Lang Illustration class taught by Departments at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA, at which students come Advertiser Index and Classified . .40 from all over the world to study. AR@50: Avoiding Aches and Pains . .23 The Education Department in this Dr. Léonie Jenkins gives advice for those issue may bear resemblance to “Are you contemplating a workshop experience 9 Smarter than a Fifth-grader?”—but the questions are a challenge for recorder Chapters & Consorts . .32 players of any vintage. Take Bart Span- Education . .24 hove’s quiz (page 24) and see how you do! Bart Spanhove tests our musical knowledge You may want to use his questions as well as Music Reviews . .37 the AR@50 piece in this issue (page 23) —advice from the late Léonie Jenkins— On the Cutting Edge . .27 to prepare yourself for your workshop or Tim Broege puts the recorder into the perspective of the larger music world and the internet festival experience. 12 If it’s March, then it’s likely that you President’s Message . .3 expect the bulk of this issue to be devoted Lisette Kielson on how to feed the passion to the annual roundup of upcoming Q&A . .28 recorder workshops (page 12). Carolyn Peskin describes Renaissance fingering Whether we make your acquaintance at the Boston Early Music Festival, we meet Response . .34 you in St. Louis for the ARS Festival, or we More on music-reading glasses, earplugs and Oskar cross paths at one of the many workshops, Tidings . .4 you’ll agree that this promises to be a Mario Duschenes and John Updike die; Early 32 memorable summer for recorder players! Music America contest news; Joe Lewnard wins Gail Nickless Piffaro contest; Matthias Maute teams up with Lincoln Center musicians GAIL NICKLESS, EDITOR CONTRIBUTING EDITORS ON THE COVER: TOM BICKLEY, COMPACT DISC REVIEWS • FRANCES BLAKER, BEGINNERS & TECHNIQUE TIMOTHY BROEGE, 20TH/21ST-CENTURY PERFORMANCE Illustration by CAROLYN PESKIN, Q & A • CONSTANCE M. 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