Candidates for the Board of Directors of the ARS

A Supplement to American Recorder for the members of the American Recorder Society Spring 2016

Jennifer Carpenter encountered innovative ways that our already invested in great projects for the Colorado Springs, CO music teachers thrive in bringing recorder coming year. Since September, lots of new to their students while fighting their ever- ideas have poured in from school teachers CP: Freelance musician decreasing arts budgets. The future of the and other sectors, suggesting ways the and educator; mom to ARS depends on these educators being ARS might connect with educators, to an energetic 3-yr-old able to continue to provide recorder “teach the teachers,” and together build a boy programs. I endeavor to promote these bridge between the ARS and its members, grants as an integral part of our service to the teachers and their students, linking EDUC: Ph.D. (all but and benefits. the wealth of tools and affordable dissertation) and MM I want to continue to hear from our resources of the ARS, with the skills in musi­cology with members about what is important to you and opportunities of the educators. emphasis in historical and how the ARS can help facilitate your There are fascinating possibilities performance practices, University of needs and goals as a recorder player. I in their sugges­tions —new projects to North Texas (UNT); BM in clarinet believe this is an exciting time for the ARS develop, and good work to be done. performance, University of North and am enthusiastic about this oppor­ I am excited to begin these new projects, Carolina—Greensboro tunity to serve on the Board. while main­taining and strengthening the programs already in progress on EXP: ARS Board of Directors, 2012– the Educational Outreach committee. present); Freelance recorder teacher, Alice Derbyshire Most of all, I will be honored to continue teaching both private recorder students in Krum, TX serving on the Board, and to spread the TX & CO and at early music workshops joy of recorder playing even further, in TX, CA & CO; Freelance performer, CP: Retired, to all ages and all economies. performing as a recorder soloist with counseling psychol­ various professional Baroque chamber ogy, biodiesel industry ensembles in north Texas as well as a Wendy Powers number of recorder ensembles in TX and EDUC: BA, Spanish, New York, NY 10003 CO; Director of Music, Dallas Recorder North Texas State Society (2009-14); Associate Professor of University. Eight CP: Adjunct assistant music, Collin College (2008-13); Teaching years of graduate professor, Aaron Fellow, UNT (2008-11); Director of study in Counseling Copland School of recorder ensembles, UNT (2002-08) Psychology, Texas Woman’s University. Music, Queens ESL coursework, University of North College, City Univer­ CS: I have had the pleasure of serving the Texas (formerly NTSU); Biodiesel studies, sity of New York, ARS Board of Directors for the past 4 years Iowa State University teaching under­ and my continued objective is to facilitate graduate/graduate communication from the ARS to its EXP: ARS Board of Directors, 2015– music history, and members and to create and promote present; Board of Directors, Texas Toot former co-director of Collegium Musicum; programs that support our members and 2005-09 (vice-president & president), and Assistant director and faculty member, their involvement in their local communi­ 2013–present; President, Dallas Recorder Amherst Early Music Festival; Co-director, ties. In pursuit of these goals, I currently Society, 2011–present; Founding member, CityRecorder! workshop in New York serve as Chair of the communications Cowtown Recorder Society, 2015 (Fort City. committee and work with all other com­ Worth, TX); Charter/current member of mittees to successfully connect with our three recorder trios: Rio Brazos Ensemble EDUC: Ph.D., M.Phil, MA in historical members. This past year we created ARS (2004–present), M.A.D. Recorder Ensem­ musicology, Columbia University; BS in NOVA, a monthly e-mag that helps ble (2013–present); Dolce Stil Antico music education with piano concentra­tion, promote our various programs and reach (2015–present); Performed in the Nether­ magna cum laude, New York University both our members and potential new lands, 2006 & 2013, with Rio Brazos members with news that is important to Ensemble; First performed as a charter EXP: Board of Directors, Music Before you. We have had great feedback member of Earthly Pleasures Renaissance 1800 concert series, New York City, 1988– regarding this endeavor and I look Band (1979), working Renaissance Faires present; Free-lance recorder teacher, forward to being involved in its in TX, and concertizing from Dallas to teaching at many ARS chapter meetings continuation. Kansas; Participated in Link Up with the and workshops in the Northeast; Adjunct Additionally, I was involved in the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, 2014; Regu­ assistant professor, Vassar College, Fall creation of the ARS TTP, our newest larly attend both the Fall & Summer Texas 2008; Program office/first director of program designed to help bring profes­ Toots, and have attended recorder work­ development, New York Council for the sional recorder teachers to underserved shops in AR, CA, CO, OR, Italy and Humanities, 1994-97; Co-directed Early areas of the country. The program (soon!) Scotland (May 2016); Studied Music at Saint Peter’s Church, 1993-96, launched late last year and we are thrilled privately with Jennifer Carpenter co-directed Sag Harbor Early Music, to be reviewing our first set of 1994-98, both concert series; Recorder applications. CS: This past September I attended my teacher, Lucy Moses School for Music and As Chair of the scholarships and grants first ARS Board meeting, and was Dance, NYC, 1983-96; While studying at committee, I was intimately involved in appointed Chair of the Educational Columbia, taught Music Humanities and creating and increasing funding for our Outreach committee. Under this big directed Collegium Musicum; Contribu­tor educational outreach grants, which help umbrella, PtRM is organized, and Grants to Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Timeline fund many under­served music education and Scholarships are administered. of Art History, 2002-04; Book review programs centered around recorder Stepping into a committee-in-progress, editor, American Recorder, 1997-99; instruction. Through this, we have the first thing I saw was the hard work Reviews and articles in American Recorder The 2016 Ballot for the Board of Directors of the ARS CS: In working with the ARS, I am par­ recorder as a perfect instrument for people a team of people, perhaps by the time ticu­larly interested in increasing the of all ages and levels of musical ability. you’re reading this, though implementa­ numbers of participants in the recorder Working with these instruments and being tion may take a while —if it’s feasible at universe, particularly younger players, in direct contact with the makers has given all. both teens and adults. Approaches to me considerable knowledge about them: But my main project at the moment this might include more classes for adult their construction and acoustic properties, is working with our website vendor and beginners, the sharing of best practices of as well as having the opportunity to try Communication team on the redesign of local chapters, and the new ARS TTP. out various inno­vative new models. the ARS website so that it is more easily As an administrator, I have been I see the ARS as an ideal connection for viewed on mobile devices and tablets, as involved with individual fundraising, and recorder players and ensembles and well as desktop computers. Again, I hope would like to help the ARS in its efforts to believe that I can contribute to the organi­ that you’ll be seeing these results by the increase its financial stability through za­tion with membership expansion and time you read this in our spring news­ donor outreach, so that the Soci­ety can education. Working with others who are letter! For much of the past year, I’ve expand its workshop scholar­ships and driven to make the ARS the ultimate been learning how our web site operates, other services to the commu­nity. Through resource for recorder enthusiasts, whether together with Susan Burns, our new and my teaching and workshop experience, I professional or not, would be a privilege capable Administrative Director. Between am acquainted with many, many amateur as well as a pleasure. us, we work to keep the website content and professional recorder players, and current and organized. recorder makers and vendors. The recorder and its music have been The recorder has been central through­ Ruth Seib an essential element woven through my out my adult life as a medium for Oakland, MD life over the past 40 years, connecting me exploring early music history and as a with joy, knowledge, skill, and friendship. vehicle for musical expression, whether CP: Retired 2012 from I am grateful to be a part of our recorder through my own playing or that of my ownership of Cold­well community, and look forward to students. I hope to make this wonderful Banker Deep Creek contributing as I’m able. instrument a rewarding part of many Realty, where I man­ more people’s lives. aged approxi­mately 20 sales agents, as well as James Chaudoir a vacation rental and Oshkosh, WI Greta Haug-Hryciw property management Montara, CA department CP: Professor of Music Composition Emeritus, CP: Appointed ARS EDUC: BA in Fine Arts, Eckerd College, University of Wiscon­ Board member, 2015– St. Petersburg, FL, 1979; Ongoing profes­ sin Oshkosh, present; co-director, sional real estate education & certifications Oshkosh, WI Barbary Coast Recorder Orchestra EXP: Appointed ARS Board, 2014–present EDUC: DMA in music (BCRO); assistant (2-year term). I would very much like to composition, Univer­ director, Mid- continue to serve so that I can follow sity of Maryland; MM Peninsula Recorder through on initiatives that are valuable in music compo­sition, Louisiana State Orchestra (MPRO); to our organization and exciting to me. University; BM in music composition and shop assistant, Lazar’s Early Music, I’d appreciate your vote in this election. BM in clarinet performance, Louisiana Mountain View, CA State University CS: While on the Board, I’ve been EDUC: Drew College Preparatory School, involved primarily with the Communica­ EXP: Oak Park (IL) Recorder School, San Francisco; Skyline Community tions initiative, where I helped to develop Board of Directors: 2015–present; College Adult Education Program; the member survey on ARS member Wisconsin Alliance for Composers, ongoing with private lessons & benefits. In that survey, we learned that Board of Directors: 1984–present; independent study many ARS members were not familiar Wisconsin Alliance for Composers, with many of our benefits, so our team President: 1987–90, 1994; Society of EXP: Assistant workshop director, San started the monthly ARS NOVA e-mag to Composers, Inc., Member National Francisco Early Music Society summer explain and promote ARS offerings, such Council, and Co-Chair of Region V: workshops (Medieval and Renaissance, as the online access to Member’s Library 1992–2003; Milwaukee Area Recorder Recorder); co-directed American Recorder Editions, available grant funding, and Society, President: 2010–present; The Orchestra of the West (AROW) for five support for PtRM. Renard Consort… A Recorder Ensemble, seasons, assist in direction of MPRO, and In the survey, we also saw interest in Appleton, WI, Music Director: 2006– since its inception in 2011, co-direct BCRO; some potential new benefits, such as the present; Appleton (WI) Post Crescent: arrange music; teach recorder to students TTP. I led the task group that developed Music Critic for Fox Valley Symphony of all ages, individu­ally and group lessons, this program, based on a similar one Orchestra, 2006–present; Composer, in person or via Skype; founder and offered by the Viola da Gamba Society Arranger and Recorder Player director, Ensemble SDQ; member, The of America, and I’m happy that as of this Loose Canons Women’s World Song writing we’ve received our first group During my career in academia, I have Ensemble for 10 years; guest performer, application! had many opportunities to be actively multiple consorts; producer, chapter The member survey also showed involved with recorders, either as a solo concerts & work­shops for the San interest in a potential new project: an performer, or working with student early Francisco Recorder Society online index of published recorder music music ensembles. As a composer, I began to be available as a tool for players and to write original works for the instrument CS: My love for the recorder is reflected by group leaders who are looking for new in 2000, and have, to date, completed 16 my membership in four local ARS music to play. We envision that this index new pieces for the recorder both as a solo chapters and my continuous organization will also allow people to add comments instrument, and in ensemble. Several of of events for recorder players. In my —sort of a “Yelp” for recorder music! I my solo recorder compositions utilize every-day work, I get to promote the hope to begin exploring this project with extended techniques, especially multi­ The 2016 Ballot for the Board of Directors of the ARS A Supplement to American Recorder for the membersNEWSLETTER of the American Recorder Society Spring 2016 March is Play-the-Recorder Month ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Don’t forget that March is Play-the-Recorder Month (PtRM), when recorder NOMINATIONS sought players from across North America and around the world celebrate with con­ certs and public performances. We hope many of you will remember to play Members are invited to send nomi­na­tions ARS Distinguished Achievement Steamed Bass and Fischmaul by Matthias Maute, a world-renowned performer for the Award and composer. The music was included in the Winter 2015 ARS Newsletter. , which is presented to individuals To enter the 2016 contest, submit a report of your creative PtRM activities who have made an extraordinary contri­ to the ARS office by April 15. The criteria by which the Chapters, Con­sorts & bution to the development of the recorder Recorder Orchestras Committee awards prizes are: in North America. It has previ­ously been Friedrich von Huene, Ber­ • Number of events. presented to nard Krainis, Shelley Gruskin, Nobuo • Where did the events take place? Toyama, LaNoue Daven­port, Martha • How many performers were involved? Bixler, Edgar Hunt, Eugene Reichenthal, • Were outside groups or players involved? Frans Brüggen, Valerie Horst, Pete Rose, • Did an event occur on Play-the-Recorder Day, March 19? Marion Verbruggen, Joel Newman, • Did you perform Steamed Bass and Fischmaul as part of your program? Anthony Rowland–Jones, Ken Wollitz, • Were children involved? David Lasocki, Bernard Thomas • Were beginners/novices involved? and the Piffaro • How did you publicize your event? members of . • Uniqueness factor Please send your nomination, along • Other information about your event(s) you would like to share. with your specific reasons for nominating Prizes are awarded for the most imaginative chapter events, the that individual, to the ARS office. largest percentage increase in new members of a chapter or consort, AOSA provides and the most new members in a chapter. Obtain the Contest Entry form and Steamed Bass and Fischmaul from the dialog with music ARS web site at www.americanrecorder.org/play_the_recorder_month.php. teachers New this year! See the Early Music America web site for related ARS Administrative Director Susan activities in March during “Early Music Month”— Burns traveled to San Diego, CA, in www.earlymusicamerica.org/endeavors/early-music-month. November 2015 to the American Orff- Winners of the Great ARS Giveaway! Schulwerk Association (AOSA) conference entitled “Waves of Learning,” It is with great pleasure that we announce the winners of the 2015 attended by 1100 people. Burns and Great ARS Giveaway, conducted last fall among subscribers to ARS NOVA: volunteer Nami Nesterowicz manned a • Jennifer Smith: handmade cherry wood recorder stand booth and were delighted to meet many • Erica Weaver: Mollenhauer Dream plumwood alto recorder ARS members, welcoming new and • Kelly Whittle: Yamaha Rottenburgh ’S’oSAT recorders with carrying bag returning ones. Visitors to the booth were • Roger Anderson: duets from Glen Shannon Music met with a selection of beautiful used • Bill Urban: Yamaha Rottenburgh ABS plastic bass recorder wooden recorders for sale, thanks to • Adrienne Benjamin: Noteworthy Music Stand donations from generous ARS members, • Glen Shannon: Mollenhauer Dream plumwood soprano including Susan Wood of Lancaster, PA; Please support our sponsors who generously donated prizes: the proceeds helped to offset travel costs • Noteworthy Music Stands: www.noteworthymusicstand.com to the conference. Several happy recorder • Mollenhauer: www.mollenhauer.com teachers are now making music on these • Recorder Stands: www.recorderstands.com instruments. • Glen Shannon Music: www.glenshannonmusic.com One of the highlights of the conference • Yamaha: www.usa.yamaha.com was the ARS playing session with ARS/ AOSA joint member Leslie Timmons Reminder about e-mails from ARS leading featured works including We do our best to keep e-mails to a minimum. Regular communications include: original compositions by Gunild • Four times a year, a notification that AR has been mailed; Keetman and by AOSA members Brent • Once a month, the ARS NOVA e-mag highlighting a specific ARS member Holl, Matt McCoy and Karen Petty. benefit; and ARS member and recorder professional/ • Occasional reminders about application deadlines, fundraising efforts, educator Cléa Galhano was featured or an election (reminder: check this issue for the ballot!). recorder session presenter and also We do not sell or share member e-mail information with non-ARS member performed, inspiring many attending. organizations; you can always opt out of e-mails or ask us not to share The November 2016 conference is in your e-mail address within ARS. Atlantic City, NJ. CHAPTERS, CONSORTS & RECORDER ORCHESTRAS CHECKUP

Music in the Mountains may be the perfect pairing— but an even better refine- ment is: Recorders in the Rockies.

What better way to ward off the summer doldrums than to spend the day making music with other recorder enthusiasts? Austin (TX) chapter president Susan Page, secretary/treasurer Derek Wills and three music directors (l to r in photo: Frank Shirley, The Edmonton (BC) Recorder Susan Richter, Victor Eijkhout) planned a day-long Society held its annual retreat workshop in August 2015, both to enhance basic at the welcoming Centre for skills and to enjoy a wide variety of repertoire. Outdoor Education near The event also tied nicely into a long-term goal Nordegg in the heart of the of growing the chapter membership, something Canadian Rockies in late explored over the past year by leaders. Changing September. the monthly meeting time from Friday evening to Recorders galore, plus guitars, ’cello and viola, were brought by Saturday afternoon netted some new members who 18 participants from Calgary, Red Deer, Jasper and Edmonton who preferred daytime meetings. The day-long work­ gathered to play formally and informally for a glorious weekend. shop provided a fun way both to reward loyal This is a homespun event; all sessions are led by volunteer members, and to give a sampling of activities to participants, with one big session per day. About half of the group local players who were hesitant about attending were singers, so there was a full complement of voices for sessions. regular meetings. Members paid a modest fee, and Home cooking is also offered by an Edmonton member. non-members a slightly higher one that included Small group options had titles like “Bring Your Kilts” (led by current year chapter dues, to encourage them to get David Brown), “Baroque Blitz” (Lori Klingbeil) and “20th Century acquainted with chapter organization and activities. Music” (Alan Jessop). The mountains wore their fall colors of gold The workshop schedule featured two simulta­ and green, so participants hiked or drove to nearby lakes on Saturday neous sessions each in four time slots. Topics were afternoon (this after staying up jamming ’til 2 a.m. on Friday night). basic technique and practice methods, as well as The group had a truly grand finale: Star Wars, led by Vince Kelly. playing sessions of Dutch folk tunes plus music by He had also made available the music he publishes under the imprint Bach, Josquin and living composers. Cheap, Choice, Brave and New. Many new participants now attend regular The group will do it all again on the last weekend of September meetings, being convinced that we are a friendly 2016—come join us! group with a wide range of playing abilities; the Vivien Bosley, Edmonton Recorder Society workshop was deemed a success. We paid our music directors a small fee (a first for them!), and In 2015, Lowcountry donated to long-time host Austin Mennonite Pipers—a beginner/ Church to help with air-conditioning cost (this was intermediate recorder August in Texas!). As expected, the chapter ended music program of the up $200 in the red, a result in line with expectations Lowcountry Senior and considered a worthy use of chapter funds. Center (LSC), Derek Wills, Austin Chapter Charleston, SC— More Holiday Activity shared music with The Northwinds Chapter draws members from a 500+ community 15-mile radius around Petoskey in the northwest members. Recently, corner of Michigan’s lower peninsula. There are they played Thanks­ three groups: The Jongleurs meet weekly in Charle­ giving and holiday voix, plus they meet every third Saturday with music at two Respite Sweetwoods of Petoskey and Little Bay Baroque of Care centers, an Assisted Living program and at LSC itself. Harbor Springs. Groups frequently played during Programs included music from Eric Haas’s two “Christmas the holidays, including at fundraisers that benefit Collection” books, with audience participation on a variety of the community, at church services, and for carols and several familiar pieces (Rudolph, Frosty, Silver Bells, etc.). auctions—many occasions in costume. John W. MacKenzie In Memoriam LeClercq, Jeanne Ellen Cadman, Newark, DE, age 74, passed away peacefully at home on October 23, 2015, surrounded by family after fighting a courageous battle with lung cancer. Born in Cleveland, OH, in 1940, she grew up in Teaneck, NJ, and graduated from Teaneck High School where she excelled in music. She was proud to be first chair trombone in the New Jersey All-State Band and Orchestra. After graduating from the University of Connecticut with a BS degree in nursing, she worked at St. Luke’s Hospital in New York, the Visiting Nurses Association, Wilmington Hospital, and Christiana Hospi­tal in Newark, DE. Retiring in 1985, she moved with her husband George to Colorado—first Telluride for five years, then Colorado Springs for 24 years. In Colorado, she taught herself to play the recorder, and also sang in the choir at Colorado Springs Chapel of Our Saviour for 19 years. Colorado Workshop Jeanne and George loved hiking, camping and skiing in the with Glen Shannon high country of the Rocky Mountains. Returning to Delaware in 2009 to be closer to family, she remained active in the church On September 19, 2015, 20 members from ARS chapters and music, joining the choir at Sts. Andrew and Matthew Epis­ in Fort Collins, Boulder and Denver (CO) came co­pal Church and Shep­herds Pipes recorder group. Jeanne and together for a workshop with conductor/teacher/ George joined ARS in 1997; an ARS Members’ Library Edi­tion by composer Glen Shannon (at very back, photo above). Colo­rado composer Richard E. Wood is dedicated to them. Held at the Fort Collins lakeshore home of Seraina and Chapnick, Dr. Ronald, died October 18, 2015. Born January Johannes Gessler, the workshop setting was conducive 1, 1931, in The Bronx (NY), he lived in Kirtland (OH) for the to achieving music as beautiful as the landscape. past 54 years. He received his undergraduate (1951) and Shannon warmed everyone up with tuning and medical (1955) degrees from New York University. He fingering exercises—intermixed with good-humored interned at University Hospitals of Cleveland, OH, followed suggestions about how to arrive at that golden by a residency at the Institute of Pathology. After U.S. Army moment—and then moved to Jay Kreuzer’s Jay’s military service as a captain in the 10th Medical Laboratory in Pyramid Scheme (the Spring ARS Members’ Library) to Landstuhl, Germany, he became pathologist at Lake Hospital see how close we could come to that moment. Inspired Sys­tems and also served as chief of staff. He retired as direc­tor by our imperfect but promising achievement, we joined of pathology for Hill and Chapnick Group in 1997 after 35 in the lovely Amour et la Beauté by Philippe Rogier. years of service. He was also a member of the faculty at Case Testing the participants’ sight-reading ability with Western Reserve University. He joined ARS in 1966, and was a three of his own challenging compositions, Shannon member of the Greater Cleveland Chapter. introduced players to his recent quartet, Federal Fantasia Hall, Dr. John Edgar, 85, of Morgantown (PA), passed & Fugue. He explained that he followed the William away July 24, 2015. Born in Meadville, PA, in 1929, he Byrd model for the fantasia, pairing it with a Bach-style graduated from Mount Hermon School, Northfield, MA. fugue. Inspired to achieve, at the end we applauded not He then received a BS in Zoology-Chemistry and MS in only the composer/conductor but ourselves as well. Zoology from the University of New Hamp­shire, and a Ph.D. In a state of giddiness, the players swung into his in Biological Sciences from Purdue. From 1958 until retirement alto duo, Gin Rickey, with some suggestion that swing in 1997, he was pro­fes­sor of microbiology at West Virginia music was a part of our collective memory. University Health Sciences Center. He served at Walter Reed The last of Shannon’s compositions, The Green Room Hospital in the U.S. Army Medical Corps during the Korean Dance (written after he was in Denver in September War. A member of Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of 2014 at the ARS Recorderfest in the West) called for Morgan­town, he was active in interfaith efforts. He was a all the energy the group could muster to cope with its president of the Mountaineer Audubon Society (also counting rhythmic and technical complexity. birds for years for Cornell Lab of Ornithology), a teacher for As everyone reluctantly had to admit that both more than 18 years at Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, and a brains and fingers were approaching the end of their member of the WVU Collegium Musicum. He volunteered usefulness, he led the players through the beautiful with Boy Scouts and served as a District Commissioner in the Weep, Oh My Eyes by John Bennet, newly typeset and Mountaineer Area Council. He actively participated in forming arranged by Shannon specifically for the occasion of the Global Health program at WVU, and taught in it as long as this workshop. We all knew why, on a lovely September his health permitted. A member of ARS since 1967, he belonged day, we had chosen to make music together. to the Pittsburgh Chapter. Rosemary Whitaker, Fort Collins, CO

CHAPTERS, CONSORTS & RECORDER ORCHESTRA NEWS Newsletter editors and publicity officers should send materials for publication to: AR, [email protected], 7770 South High St., Centennial, CO 80122-3122. Also send short articles about specific activities that have increased chapter membership or recognition, or just the enjoyment your members get out of being part of your group. Send digital photos: 3”x4”x300dpi TIF or unedited JPG files; digital videos for the AR YouTube channel are also accepted. Please send news, photos or video enquiries to the AR address above, and to: ARS Office, [email protected], P.O. Box 480054, Charlotte, NC 28269-5300; and to Nancy Gorbman, CCRO Liaison, [email protected], 17725 28th Ave, NE, Lake Forest Park, WA 98155. MAY CALENDAR OF EVENTS 7 Buffalo Recorder Society Annual Workshop, DEADLINES AND IMPORTANT DATES at Jewish Community Center, Getzville, NY. Leader: March (all month long) - ARS Play-the Recorder Eric Haas. Info: Susan Braen, 716-941-9120, scbraen@ Month (Recorder Day! is March 19). Info: www. verizon.net, http://buffalorecorder.synthasite.com. americanrecorder.org/play_the_recorder_month.php. 14-16 Mieke Van Weddingen Prize International April 7-10 - ARS Board Meeting, hosted by Portland Recorder Competition for Amateurs, at Leuven, Belgium. (OR) Recorder Society. Location TBA. Info: 844-509-1422; Jury members from Belgium, Germany, Brazil, Czech Laura Kuhlman, 630-240-3489, LauraKuhlmanARS@ Republic, U.S. Info: http://english.pmvw.be. 21-22 Denver Recorder Society Workshop, at Metro­ gmail.com, www.PortlandRecorderSociety.org. politan State University of Denver (CO). Leader: Rotem April 1 - Deadline to apply for Lute Society of Amer­­ Gilbert. Sessions all day Saturday and Sunday morning; ica scholarships to attend Lute Festival (June 26-July 2). Panciatichi 27, chorale tunes from before the Reformation, https://lutesocietyofamerica.wildapricot.org Info: . music for larger/lower forces. Info: Joice Gibson, April 15 - Deadline to apply for ARS Scholarships. 303-249-5735, www.denverrecordersociety.org. Info: 844-509-1422, www.americanrecorder.org. June 1 - Postmark date for ARS election ballots. august Info: 844-509-1422, www.americanrecorder.org. 14-20 “SRP – Strange, Rare & Peculiar,” Recorder June 21 - Make Music Day! Info: Summer School, at Moulin de Cajarc near Cordes-Sur-Ciel http://makemusicday.org. in south France. Leader: Evelyn Nallen. Also schools for Baroque flute, viol, harpsichord. 10-12 players (partners march welcome). Info: www.moulindecajarc.com. 19 “Yin and Yang ~ Music Terrestrial and Celestial,” South Bay Recorder Society Spring Workshop, at First ON TOUR / IN CONCERT Congregational Church of San José (CA). Leader: Greta Cléa Galhano: (concert with Ferulan Fire) April 3, St. Haug-Hryciw. In addition to recorders, soft instruments Paul, MN; (Recorder Orchestra of the Midwest/ROM) 16, (viols, harps, soft reeds) welcome. Info: Liz Brownell, Bloomington, IN; (concert with Belladonna) 22, St. Paul, 650-223-7139, http://sfems.org/sbrs. MN; (Winds and Waves workshop/concert) 29-May 2, Sitka Center, Otis, OR; (Vivaldi concerto with Flying Forms) 6-8, APRIL St. Paul, MN; (Bach Brandenburg concerto) June 5-6, Min­ 2 Princeton Recorder Society Spring Workshop, at NJ neapolis, MN; 19-25, San Francisco Early Music Society location TBA. Fac: Rainer Beckmann, John Burkhalter, Susan workshop, Oakland, CA. Info: www.cleagalhano.com. Iadone, Gwyn Roberts. Info: www.princetonrecorder.org. Lisette Kielson: March 20, River Forest, IL; 2 “Spring Fling: Seasonally flavored music of the (with Peoria Lunaire) April 4, Peoria, IL; (with Bach Week British Isles,” Triangle Recorder Society Spring Festival) 22 & 24, Evanston, IL; (with Peoria Bach Festival) Workshop, at First Presbyterian Church, Durham, NC. June 10, Peoria, IL. Info: [email protected]. Fac: Stewart Carter, Valerie Horst, Patricia Petersen, Quinta Essentia (Felipe Araújo, Fernanda Castro, Kathy Schenley, Jennifer Streeter, Douglas Young. Info: Gustavo de Francisco, Renata Pereira, 10th anniversary U.S. www.trianglerecorder.org/spring-workshop.html. tour): May 20, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL; 2 Boston (MA) Recorder Society Spring Workshop, 21, Wheaton, IL; (concert and master class) 22-23, Ames, IA; location TBA. Info: www.bostonrecordersociety.org. (workshop) 24, Twin Cities Recorder Guild, St. Paul, MN; 29-30 “Teaching Music to Students on the Autism (concert) 25, The Baroque Room, St. Paul; 26-30, Suzuki Spectrum,” at Boston (MA) Conservatory. Presenters: Association Conference, Minneapolis, MN; (concert and Alice Hammel, Stephen Mark Shore, Julie Patterson Duty; master class) June 3-4, Whitewater (WI) Early Music teaching demonstrations by Conservatory music instructors. Festival; (concert) 7, Dallas, TX. Info: http://5eofficial.com; Info: www.bostonconservatory.edu/extension-programs/ U.S. agent: [email protected], 708-408-8843. autism/autism-conference. 30 “Back Before Bach, “Early Music Guild of Seattle (WA) concert by Piffaro: The Renaissance Band, at Town Hall Seattle. Info: www.earlymusicguild.org, 206-325-7066. April 15 Scholarship deadline If you plan to attend a workshop and want to apply for an Submitting Calendar Listings & News ARS scholarship, submit your application no later than There are several ways to submit advance information April 15. The ARS awards scholarships of $150-$500 for about an event or to send a report on a recent event. summer workshops and $125 or less for weekend E-mail the basics: Date; Title of Event; Facility/City, workshops to deserving recorder students of all ages and Presenter(s)/Faculty–if a workshop; short description; ability levels. You need not provide proof of financial need. and contact information to [email protected] For more information, please contact the ARS office at (for AR) and [email protected] (the 844-509-1422, or visit www.americanrecorder.org/workshop_ ARS office). Newsletter/magazine deadlines: December scholarships.php. 15, March 15, June 15, September 15. Plan to announce an event in an issue at least one month before it takes place. Reminder to Snowbirds Digital photos of events should be at least 3”x4”, and By the time you get this issue, many of you will be planning at least 300 dpi in a TIF or unedited JPEG format. to go back home from your warm winter locations. Please let Send calendar info to the ARS office by using the form the ARS office (844-509-1422, ars.recorder@americanrecorder. at www.americanrecorder.org/events/concerts.htm. org) know your change in location as soon as possible. If you do not have internet access, please mail event Updating your address information will ensure that you’ll basics or news items to ARS Newsletter, 7770 South High St., continue to receive the next issue of American Recorder Centennial, CO 80122 U.S. without interruption and save postage on forwarding orders. phonics. One piece for solo alto, Proposed Changes to 2016 BALLOT FOR Chant des oiseaux, also adds digital replay. ARS By-laws I have presented several lecture/ ARS BOARD OF demonstrations, along with concert The ARS Board of Directors has performances of my original works, endorsed the following amendments DIRECTORS to composer organizations. These to the By-Laws. Changes to the By-Laws presenta­tions were given in an effort to must be approved by vote of the full introduce the recorder to composers in ARS membership, so please include Clip and remove this section of hope that they may develop an interest in your vote along with your election the page. Vote for up to five (5) writing for the instrument. This has ballot. created an open dialogue with me and candidates below, and print other composers. As a result, I have had ISSUE 1: To allow electronic your name and address legibly two new pieces written for me. distribution and return of ballots. on the outside of the official I feel this in addition to my extensive Currently we are incorporated in committee work in academia and my Missouri, which requires the use of return envelope. Place a stamp service on professional boards qualify me snail mail for this purpose. We would on the return envelope. Ballots to serve on the ARS Board of Directors. like to be ready to use the more convenient electronic option whenever must be postmarked by June 1, CS: I consider myself a classically trained it becomes legal for us, either because 2016. contemporary composer with a heartfelt Missouri law changes or because we love for early music … especially music reincorporate in a different state. The that includes, or can be played by following two proposed changes to  Jennifer Carpenter recorders. That said, there are four areas the Bylaws cover this issue: Colorado Springs, CO of expertise and interest, or experiences, that I can bring to the ARS Board: my Proposed amendment to Article II— experience as an educator, my experi- Members:  Alice Derbyshire ence as a composer and arranger, my Amend Article II, section 8, to add Krum, TX experience as a performer, and my as the final sentence: “When permitted experience as the director of student and by law, ballots and any related community recorder ensembles. material may be sent by electronic  Wendy Powers I would be particularly inclined to transmission by the ARS and the New York, NY work with Education Outreach. Be it to responses may be returned to the students ranging in age from elementary ARS in the manner prescribed by law.” to secondary grades, or the American  Greta Haug–Hryciw public in general, the recorder message [Current version of Article II, Montara, CA needs to get out so that a greater aware­ section 8: Voting by Mail. ness of the instrument will work its way “When Directors are to be elected, into our society. As one who has been such election may be conducted by  Ruth Seib involved with recorder ensembles both mail in such manner as the Board of oakland, MD in academic and community settings, Directors may prescribe.”] I feel that I have much to offer here. I feel it is important that the ARS Proposed amendment to Article  James Chaudoir encourages the creation and growth of VIII—Amendments: oshkosh, WI smaller ensembles within its larger Amend Article VIII to add as the final chapter organizations. These sub-groups sentence: “When permitted by law, the can function at different levels of ability, proposed amendment or amendments Candidate names are listed in and with the proper direction, their and any related material may be sent random order so as to avoid members will grow into more advanced by electronic transmission by the ARS, alphabetic bias. players. and the amendment or amendments I also feel that it is vital that ARS may be voted upon by ballot sent by Proposed amendment to expands its membership, bringing more electronic transmission by the ARS active players of all levels of ability into and the responses returned to the Article II—Members: the fold. Along with this, it is also ARS in the manner prescribed by law.”  YES  NO important that the ARS becomes more visible in communities where chapters [Current version of Article VIII: exist, be it through educational systems, Amendments. Proposed amendment to or arts initiatives, etc. It is crucial that “An amendment to these Bylaws persons other than members know must be approved by: (a) the Board by Article VIII— about ARS. majority vote; and (b) by the Members Amendments: Finally, as a composer, I think it is by the affirmative vote of two-thirds of essential that ARS be a guardian of the the votes cast or a majority of the  YES  NO future of recorder music. voting power, whichever is less. I would welcome the opportunity to Amendments to these Bylaws may be work on the Board of the ARS. It is an proposed by the Board or by written Proposed amendment to organization with much to offer its mem­ petition signed by at least five percent Article VII—Chapters: bers, and the music community as a (5%) of Members and submitted to the whole. To be elected to the ARS Board of Secretary. The proposed amendment  YES  NO Directors would be an honor and a privi­ or amendments shall be submitted by lege, one that I would earnestly accept. the Board to the Members by such YOUR VOTE

(continued overleaf) MATTERS! The 2016 Ballot for the Board of Directors of the ARS means as the Board may determine to be most suitable Instructions for under the circumstances, but such submittal to the Members shall occur no later than six (6) months after Completing the 2016 Ballot such petition has been submitted to the Board. An amendment may be voted upon by mail provided that As required by the ARS By-Laws, the Nominating the material soliciting the approval shall contain or be Task Force selected qualified candidates for election accompanied by a copy or summary of the to the ARS Board of Directors. The 2016 Task Force amendment.”] includes: Cléa Galhano (non-Board representative); Laura Kuhl­man (Board representative), and ISSUE 2: To add Consorts and Recorder Orchestras Susan Burns (ex officio, ARS Administrative to the By-Laws. Right now the wording only includes Director). ARS members in good standing as of chapters, but we now have consorts and recorder February 2016 receive a ballot through the mail orchestras as well. This proposal would expressly grant the Board or its Executive Committee the ability to create (standard members via the ARS Newsletter mailed as other affiliate organizations. It would also remove the a supplement to American Recorder). Please note that current requirement that chapters must “consist members sharing a joint membership are entitled to predominantly of [ARS] Members.” only one vote as provided in the ARS By-Laws. Proposed amendment to Article VII—Chapters: Reword the Heading to read “Chapters and other You may vote for up to five (5) candidates. Print Affiliate Organizations,” and reword the Article as your name and address legibly on the official return follows: envelope. In order to verify your current member­- ship, your name must appear on the outside of the “1. The Board or the Executive Committee shall establish the requirements and qualifications for envelope. Under supervision of a representative of Chapters and other affiliate organizations. Subject to the Nominating Task Force, the ballot will be the control of the Board, local chapters (“Chapters”) separated from the envelope and tabulated. This may be formed by Members. The Board or the will ensure that your vote is counted and your Executive Committee may create other types of choices kept confidential. affiliate organizations formed by Members. 2. Chapters and other affiliate organizations shall operate in accordance with the Mission of the ARS. No other enclosures may accompany your ballot 3. Each Chapter and other affiliate organization when it is returned in the enclosed envelope. shall organize its own administration and activities Place a stamp on the envelope and postmark by according to the needs and interests of its members and participants. June 1, 2016. Duplicated or photocopied ballots, 4. Each Chapter and other affiliate organization shall late ballots, ballots with more than five selections, manage its finances independently. Without limiting or any received with­out legible identification the generality of the foregoing sentence, the ARS shall on the envelope will be disqualified. not be responsible for collecting dues from Chapter and other affiliate organization members and partici­ pants and shall not be responsible for any debts or Those elected will be announced in the Fall ARS liabilities of any Chapter or other affiliate organization. Newsletter. The new Board of Directors take office 5. Chapters and other affiliate organizations may not in September 2016, joining continuing Directors at enter into contracts on behalf of the ARS. the next Board meeting after that date, and serve a 6. The Board may prescribe additional rules and regulations pertaining to the operation of Chapters four-year term. and other affiliate organizations.”

Attached is biographical and work information, [Current version of Article VII—Chapters: and a statement of each candidate’s goals as a Subject to the control of the Board, local chapters Director. Some editorial changes may have been (“Chapters”) of the American Recorder Society may be formed by Members. Chapters shall consist made in the interest of space and consistent usage. predominantly of Members, but not all participants Please study the candidates’ information­ before in Chapters need be Members. Chapters shall completing your ballot. This election is your chance operate in accordance with the Mission of ARS. Each to have a direct voice in the administration and Chapter shall organize its own administration and future of your Society. activities according to local needs and interests of its Chapter participants. Each Chapter shall manage its finances independently. Without limiting the generality Please call the office at 844-509-1422 if you have any of the foregoing sentence, ARS shall not be responsible questions about the election process. for collecting dues from Chapter participants and shall not be responsible for any debts or liabilities of any Key to abbreviations: EDUC: Education Chapter. Chapters may not enter into contracts on behalf BM/BA: Bachelor of EXP: Experience of ARS. The Board may prescribe additional rules and Music/Arts CS: Campaign Statement regulations pertaining to the operation of Chapters.] MM: Master of Music PtRM: DMA: Doctor of Play-the-Recorder Month Musical Arts TTP: CP: Current Position Traveling Teacher Program

The 2016 Ballot for the Board of Directors of the ARS