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Editor’s ______Note ______ ______ ______ ______ Volume LVII, Number 1 Spring 2016 Features y start at playing the recorder was unassuming: a friend was thrust into Summertime is always the leadingM a yearly madrigal dinner in 1982 at Texas Tech University when the conductor best of what might be. 9 hurt his back. She thought I could pick up The annual look at summer workshops, the recorder because I was a graduate stu- give or take a couple of months 4 dent in flute. I did, with mixed results, that first year of 12: things could only get better. The Recorder on Postage Stamps . 30 A year or so later, seeing information Collected by Ewald Henseler about a summer recorder workshop, a friend Departments and I traveled to an early relative of the Texas Toot (page 8). While I don’t remem- Advertiser Index . 40 ber very much about the recorder sessions, I vividly recall stumbling through an original Compact Disc Reviews . 22 notation class led by the late Bill Casey of 7 Birds with Stefan Temmingh, Telemann sonatas Baylor University. I was hooked. If you’ve never attended a summer and Jeths concerto with Erik Bosgraaf workshop (page 9), you will meet interest- Education . 25 ing friends, discover new ideas, and make Before you buy a new recorder, you have to know progress towards musical goals you may what types of recorders are out there never have realized that you had. If part of what you decide to do at Music Reviews. 35 a workshop is to buy a new recorder, this Jazzy selections, and Classical-era adaptations issue’s Education article offers background 25 on types of recorders (page 25). Baroque President’s Message . 3 vs. German? Baroque vs. Renaissance? ARS President David Podeschi lists ways you can Gustavo de Francisco outlines differences. help the ARS and participate in the recorder community By special delivery, Ewald Henseler (whose Fall 2015 article was for the birds...) Tidings . 4 stamp collec- mails us a graphic essay—his Teresa Deskur wins Piffaro Competition for young tion. These are not just any stamps, since recorder players; EMA Medieval/Renaissance competi- they all involve the recorder. Enjoy! Gail Nickless tion for young adult ensembles, supported by NEA; 30 www.youtube.com/user/americanrecordermag Texas Toot turns 40; Dale Higbee (1925-2015), www.facebook.com/groups/177397989075511/ Gerhard Braun and Umberto Eco (1932-2016) Gail Nickless, Editor ON THE COVER: Contributing Editors Tom Bickley, Compact Disc Reviews Recorder Stamps Sue Groskreutz, Book & Music Reviews • Mary Halverson Waldo, Education collected by Amanda Pond, Line Editor Ewald Henseler Advisory Board © 2016, American Martha Bixler • Valerie Horst • David Lasocki • Bob Marvin Thomas Prescott • Kenneth Wollitz Recorder Society www.AmericanRecorder.org Copyright©2016 American Recorder Society, Inc. 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