Published by the American Recorder Society, Vol. LIX , No. 2 • www.americanrecorder.org summer 2018 summer Editor’s ______Note ______ ______ ______ ______ Volume LIX, Number 2 Summer 2018 Features think I first saw the Flanders Recorder Quartet (FRQ) approaching across a East Bay JRS@20: mistyI field, carrying recorder cases. The mist Young Recorder Group comes of Age . 16 was fog elsewhere, causing their plane to cir- In an Education Department Special, cle and land late—and the quartet to have to dash to their concert as the recorder head- Mary Halverson Waldo interviews the liners at the 2000 Berkeley (CA) Festival leaders of the East Bay Junior Recorder Society (September 2000 AR). Immediately setting to the work of unpacking recorders, and Departments having no time to warm up, they proceeded to play a stellar concert. It was my birth- Advertiser Index and Classified . 32 day—and what a lovely present. ARS members scattered around the Compact Disc Reviews . 24 U.S. sent in reports on the FRQ “Final Byrd plus Vivaldi and Bach Chapter” tour in North America this spring—but you can hear them play, one Music Reviews. 27 more time, during the Amherst Early Music Festival on July 16. After that performance, Duets, quartets and quintets by Lance Eccles they will be presented the ARS Distin- guished Achievement Award (page 8). President’s Message . 3 At the other end of the spectrum for ARS President David Podeschi invites you to recorder playing is the East Bay Junior volunteer to serve on ARS committees Recorder Society, a group for young recorder players, now celebrating 20 years Tidings . 4 of its success. In an expanded Education Depart ment, Mary Halverson Waldo Cléa Galhano appointed to recorder faculty of Indiana interviews the leaders of that group University; change of personnel for Musica Pacifica; (page 16), with additional thoughts from its present and former members. It’s a particu- #FRQexit; Lazar’s Early Music Shop to be sold; larly good example of a way to cultivate the recorder examined as an object of art at Boston next crop of recorder players. Museum of Fine Arts; Bob Dorough (1923-2018); Gail Nickless 1 www.youtube.com/americanrecordermag Divine Art Recordings Group celebrates 500 releases www.facebook.com/groups/americanrecordersociety Gail Nickless, Editor ON THE COVER: Contributing Editors Photo by William Tom Bickley, Compact Disc Reviews • Mary Halverson Waldo, Education Stickney of display of Amanda Pond & Cynthia W. Shelmerdine, Line Editors recorders being sold by Lazar’s Early Music Shop Advisory Board Martha Bixler • Valerie Horst • David Lasocki • Bob Marvin ©2018, American Thomas Prescott • Kenneth Wollitz Recorder Society www.AmericanRecorder.org Copyright©2018 American Recorder Society, Inc. ARS Chapters & Recorder Orchestras Alabama Illinois Triad–Greensboro: Birmingham: Chicago: Ben Eisenstein 847-998-0198 Susan Benson 252-414-4044 Janice Williams 205-870-7443 Chicago–West Suburban: Triangle: Jan Jenkins 919-870-0759 Arizona Joanne Miller 847-359-8750 Ohio Indiana Desert Pipes (Phoenix): Greater Cleveland: AMERICAN Karen Grover 623-687-4791 Recorder Orchestra of the Midwest: Edith Yerger 440-826-0716 Arizona Central Highlands–Prescott: Marilyn Perlmutter 419-265-3537 Toledo: Charles Terbille 419-474-6572 RECORDER Georgeanne Hanna 928-775-5856 Oregon Tucson: Scott Mason 520-721-0846 Louisiana Arkansas New Orleans: Victoria Blanchard Eugene: Lynne Coates 541-345-5235 SOCIETY 504-810-8540 Oregon Coast: INC. Aeolus Konsort: Jane Boyden 541-994-5198 Don Wold 501-666-2787 Maryland Portland: Honorary President California Northern Maryland: Susan Campbell 503-288-4024 Richard Spittel 410-242-3395 Erich Katz (1900-1973) Barbary Coast Recorder Orchestra: Recorder Orchestra of Oregon– Frances Feldon 510-527-9029 Massachusetts Portland: Laura Kuhlman 503-234-2530 Honorary Vice President Central Coast Recorder Society: Boston: Winifred Jaeger Karen Bergen 310-850-1227 Henia Yacubowicz 978-857-7418 Pennsylvania East Bay: Susan Jaffe 510-482-4993 Recorders/Early Music Metro-West Statement of Purpose Inland Riverside: Bloomsburg Early Music Ens.: Boston: Bonnie Kelly 781-862-2894 Susan Brook 570-784-8363 The mission of the American Recorder Society Greg Taber 951-683-8744 Worcester Hills: Los Angeles Recorder Orchestra: Bob Bodman 603-424-8646 Erie: Linda McWilliams 814-868-3059 is to promote the recorder and its music by Philadelphia: Matt Ross 949-697-8693 Michigan developing resources to help people of all ages Mid-Peninsula Recorder Orchestra– William Bowie 215-884-5041 Palo Alto: Fred Palmer 650-591-3648 Ann Arbor: Pittsburgh: and ability levels to play and study the recorder, Nevada City: Kevin Gilson 734-780-7476 Helen Thornton 412-486-0482 presenting the instrument to new constituencies, Miriam Morris 530-265-0986 Kalamazoo: Rhode Island North Coast: Kathleen Kinkela-Love David Fischer 269-375-0457 encouraging increased career opportunities for 707-822-8835 Metropolitan Detroit: Rhode Island: professional recorder performers and teachers, Orange County: Molly Sieg 313-532-4986 David Bojar 401-944-3395 and enabling and supporting recorder playing as Win Aldrich 909-625-7722 Northwinds Recorder Society: Tennessee Redding: Kay Hettich 530-241-8107 Cynthia Donahey 231-526-7157 a shared social experience. Besides this journal, Sacramento: Western Michigan: Greater Knoxville: ARS publishes a newsletter, a personal study Mark Schiffer 916-685-7684 Jocelyn Shaw 231-740-8110 Ann Stierli 828-877-5675 San Diego County: program, a directory, and special musical Minnesota Greater Memphis: Vanessa Evans 619-297-2095 Samuel Sidhom 901-848-1955 Twin Cities: editions. Society members gather and play San Francisco: Greater Nashville: Greta Haug–Hryciw 415-377-4444 Anne Mundahl 651-895-5049 Carol Vander Wal 615-226-2952 together at chapter meetings, weekend Sonoma County: MISSOURI and summer workshops, and many Nancy Kesselring 707-823-7455 Texas Heartland Rec. Orchestra–Warrensburg: ARS-sponsored events throughout the year. South Bay: Ani Mahler 408-638-0161 Austin: Derek Wills 512-471-3424 Southern California: Patrick Larkin 660-909-1835 Dallas: Alice Derbyshire 940-300-5345 In 2019, the Society celebrates 80 years Ricardo Beron 818-782-0710 St. Louis: Cora Lippi 314-614 0042 Nevada Fort Worth–Cowtown Recorder of service to its constituents. Colorado Society: David Kemp 940-224-7896 Boulder: Trudy Wayne 303-651-6860 Las Vegas: Buddy Collier 702-610-6148 Rio Grande: Colorado Recorder Orchestra: Sierra Early Music Society: Marcia Fountain 915-544-3427 Kay Judson 775-742-4507 Rose Marie Terada 303-666-4307 Utah Board of Directors Denver: Joice Gibson 303-249-5735 New Hampshire David Podeschi, President Fort Collins: Pattie Cowell Utah Salt Lake: Monadnock: 970-484-0305 Ruth Seib, Vice-President, Asst. Treasurer Kristine Schramel 413-648-9916 Mary Johnson 801-272-9015 Jennifer Carpenter, Secretary and Connecticut & Lynn Herzog 802-254-1223 Vermont Communications Chair Connecticut: New Jersey Monadnock: John Vandermeulen 203-810-4831 Bergen County: Kristine Schramel 413-648-9916 Wendy Powers, Treasurer Eastern Connecticut: Reita Powell 201-944-2027 & Lynn Herzog 802-254-1223 Betty Monahan 860-536-7368 Alice Derbyshire, Asst. Secretary and Highland Park: Virginia Membership Chair District of Columbia Donna Messer 732-828-7421 Northern Virginia: Mollie Habermeier, Governance Chair Washington: Montclair Early Music: Daniel Bruner 202-669-3388 Julianne Pape 845-943-0610 Edward Friedler 703-425-1324 David Melanson, Educational Outreach, Delaware Princeton: Shenandoah–Charlottesville: Grants & Scholarships Chair MaryJoan Gaynor 609-924-8142 Gary Porter 434-284-2995 Brandywine: New Mexico Tidewater–Williamsburg: Barbara Prescott, Fundraising Chair Roger Matsumoto 302-731-1430 Vicki H. 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Idaho 423-612-0421 Greenville Recorder Society: Les Bois–Boise: Jon Shaw 252-355-2737 Please contact the ARS office Kim Wardwell 360-202-3427 to update chapter listings. 2 Summer 2018 American Recorder President’s _______Message _______ _______ Greetings from David Podeschi, ARS President _______ _______ [email protected] s I write this, in many parts of so pleasant and easy.