Published by the American Recorder Society, Vol. XLIV, No. 5 november 2003 A Flanders Recorder Quartet Guide for Recorder Players and Teachers BART SPANHOVE With a historical Chapter by DAVID LASOCKI The purpose of this book is to help recorder players become better ensemble members. Bart Spanhove has written the book in response to numerous requests from both amateurs and professionals to set down some practical suggestions based on his own experience and thereby fill a long-felt gap in the literature Alamire Music Publishers about the recorder. Toekomstlaan 5B, BE-3910 Neerpelt Price: 22,06 Euro T. +32 11 610 510 Orders can be placed at F. +32 11 610 511 www.alamire.com [email protected] EDITOR’S ______NOTE ______ ______ ______ ______ Volume XLIV, Number 5 November 2003 Death and music are no strangers. FEATURES Death is often found in operatic context— A Recorder Icon Interviewed . 8 the tragic ending in Giacomo Puccini’s A Talk with Anthony Rowland-Jones, Tosca when the title figure leaps to her by Sue Groskreutz death, and the stirring music composed by The Recorder in the Nineteenth Century. 16 Richard Wagner for Siegfried’s funeral near by Douglas MacMillan the end of the four-part epic Ring cycle, af- 4 Arranging an Orchestral Work for Recorder Quintet . 22 ter which Brunhilde flings herself on the The eleventh in a series of articles by composers and arrangers hero’s funeral pyre and sings for another discussing how they write and arrange music for recorder, 10 minutes or so. by Carolyn Peskin Death’s knock shows up in Tchaikovsky’s symphonies and, under- scoring the underlying sorrow of war, in DEPARTMENTS the theme song from M*A*S*H—titled Advertiser Index . 44 “Suicide is Painless,” in the movie version 8 it accompanies a mock suicide by the com- Chapters & Consorts . 36 pany’s dentist (nicknamed Painless). Classified . 44 In the cases above, it’s obvious that the Compact Disc Reviews . 41 act of death was not real, that it’s a dra- matic element incorporated into a musical Music Reviews. 28 work. While I can’t say that death and mu- On the Cutting Edge. 26 sic should be strangers, it’s still difficult to accept including a suicide as part of a real President’s Message . 3 12 musical event—as in the “suicide concert” Opening Measures . 39 supposedly planned as a rock band’s way Q&A . 19 of granting a dying fan’s wish—which got ON THE COVER: Herman Henstenburgh Tidings . 4 me to thinking of this in the first place. Dutch, 1667–1726 Death figures prominently in a new Vanitas Still Life, c.1700 Annual Focus on Business Members, changes in address and date, The Metropolitan Museum of Metropolitan Museum of Art image re- Art, Purchase, Anonymous Gift, in memory of Frits Markus, and a recorder festival in Montréal, David Goldstein dies produced on this issue’s cover and also Frits and Rita Markus Fund, explained in symbolic terms (page 6). 2003, Photograph ©2003 The In recorder terms, was there life after Metropolitan Museum of Art 1750? Several shorter articles trace a few of its Classical, Romantic and even present- day developments—Douglas MacMil- GAIL NICKLESS, Editor lan’s article (page 16) outlines the Contributing Editors recorder in the 19th century, and Car- FRANCES BLAKER, Beginners; JOHN H. BURKHALTER III, Book Reviews olyn Peskin offers an arrangement of a THOMAS CIRTIN, Compact Disc Reviews;CONSTANCE M. PRIMUS, Music Reviews Beethoven contradanse (page 22) as well CAROLYN PESKIN, Q & A; TIMOTHY BROEGE, 20th-Century Performance as answers to questions about modern-era LISA SCHMIDT, Design Consultant recorders (page 19). Advisory Board If you’re a little shaky on vibrato, see Martha Bixler • Valerie Horst • David Lasocki this issue’s Opening Measures column by Bob Marvin • Howard Schott • Thomas Prescott • Catherine Turocy Frances Blaker (page 39), in which she Kenneth Wollitz gives exercises to help you become rock Copyright © 2003 American Recorder Society, Inc. solid in your use of recorder vibrato. AR On-Line Happily, full of life is the subject of an Visit at <www.recorderonline.org> American Recorder (ISSN: 0003-0724), 5554 S. 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