SEATTLE RECORDER SOC IETY November 2012 Vol. XLIV, No. 2 Recorder Notes ...from the Music Director Peter Seibert Inside this issue: rogram: The SRS welcomes a newly formed recorder ensem- ARS Festival 2012 3 ble for the Opening Program in November. Quintessence is Concerts, Events, 2 Workshops the name of a hot new recorder quintet featuring Vicki Boeckman, Laura Meeting Notes 3 Faber, Sabine Endrigkeit, Silke Harper and Mike Woolf. The opening program for SRS Membership/Board 4 will be their official concert debut before a Music Trivia 3 full weekend of performances that same weekend. Refreshments 3 Quintessence will play an abbreviated ver- Volunteer Opportunity 3 sion of their full concert program and pre- sent excerpts of a concerto by J. B. Bois- mortier for five altos, some gorgeous sacred SRS MEETING melodies from the Lerma Collection by Phillipe Rugier and Francesco Guerrero played on low recorders, some Holborne Friday, Nov. 2 , 2012 Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632 - 1687) (7:30pm) dances, and a couple of movements of Hans Ulrich Staeps' witty Rondelli. (Refreshments following we welcome low basses and viol players to meeting) You can hear Quintessence in full-length add richness to our sound. concerts on Saturday, November 3rd at 3:00 Program: pm at St. Stephen’s chapel in Laurelhurst; Bring two. We cannot anticipate the instru- Quintessence Sunday, November 4th at 7:00 pm at Trinity mental balance for any meeting, so please Lutheran in Lynnwood. bring two instruments (e.g., alto + tenor) if “Music for Five Recorders” possible, so that we can make adjustments if For the November Playing Session, I will necessary. Playing: conduct Suite No. 2 from Lully’s Ballet des The Beginning Ensemble is in the capable Peter Seibert, muses. This is music that I adapted directly hands of Sally Mitchell, who helps beginning conducting* from the Philidor manuscripts of the origi- nal ballet. Even without the choral move- level players each month develop skill and Lully, Ballet des muses, ments, the ballet is so long that it needed to confidence as they work toward participation Suite no. 2 be divided into two suites. (We played the with more experienced players.€ Recorders S,A,A/T,T,B first suite at the January meeting.) This and low basses music is in five parts and was originally written for the Grande Bande: Les Vignt- Beginning Ensemble Quatre Violons du Roi, the house band of SRS Board Reminder Sally Mitchell, directing* string players in the court of Louis XIV. Although the original was for strings, it There will be a board meeting on Mon., *Music provided works quite well as wind music. As usual, Nov. 19 (7:30 pm) at the Seibert house. Page 2 Recorder Notes Vol. XLIV, No. 2 Concerts & Events Calendar NOVEMBer 2012 (FRI) 11/2/12 (7:30pm): Seattle Recorder Society Meeting @ Maple Leaf Lutheran Church, 10005 32nd NE, Seattle (SAT) 11/3/12 (3:00pm): Quintessence (recorder quintet): music by Guerrero, Holborne, Larson, J.S. Bach, Staeps; directed by Vicki Boeckman @ St Stephens Chapel, 4805 N.E. 45th St., Seattle. (SUN) 11/4/11 (3:00pm): New Baroque Orchestra and Sine Nomine: Bach Magnificat for choir and orchestra, Musical Offering (Ricercar a 6) & other works; Linda Melsted, NBO Artistic Director, Gary Cannon, Sine Nomine Choral Director @ Trinity Parish Church, 609 8th Ave., Seattle; donations welcome; (206-325-7066). (SUN) 11/4/12 (7:00pm): Quintessence (recorder quintet): (same concert as 11/3/12); music by Guerrero, Holborne, Larson, J.S. Bach, Staeps; directed by Vicki Boeckman @ Trinity Lutheran Church, 6215—196th St. SW, Lynnwood. (THU) 11/8/12 (8:00pm): Cornish Opera Theater: Venus and Adonis; by John Blow; Cornish Early Music program @ PONCHO Concert Hall, 710 East Roy Street, Seattle; $20 general, $15 senior; $10 student/Cornish alumni w/ ID (FRI) 11/9/12 (8:00pm): Early Music Guild: International Series: Hesperion XXI: “Teares of the Muses”; Consort Music of the Tudor Dynasty—From Henry VIII to Elizabeth I; music by Byrd, Holborne, Henry VIII, Ferrabosco II & others; Jordi Savall, director; Tri nity Parish Church Sanctuary, 609 8th Ave., Seattle; $40; (206-325-7066); www.earlymusicguild.org (FRI) 11/9/12 (8:00pm): Cornish Opera Theater: Venus and Adonis; (see 11/8/12 listing for details) (SAT) 11/10/12 (2:00pm): Moss Bay Recorder Society Meeting; music session led by Sally Mitchell @ Redmond Library, 15990 N.E. 85th, Redmond ; contact: Sally Mitchell @ 206-328-3381 or email: [email protected]; http://mossbayrecorders.org (SAT) 11/10/12 (8:00pm) (pre-concert lecture (7:00pm): Early Music Guild: International Series: Hesperion XXI: Musical Europe: The Golden Age of Consort Viol Music; music by Dowland, Cabezón, Philidor, Scheidt, Rossi & others; Jordi Savall, director @ Town Hall, 1119—8th Ave, Seattle; $40/$35/$25/$15; (206-325-7066); www.earlymusicguild.org (SAT) 11/10/12 (8:00pm): Cornish Opera Theater: Venus and Adonis; (see 11/8/12 listing for details) (SUN) 11/11/12 (2:00pm): Cornish Opera Theater: Venus and Adonis; (see 11/8/12 listing for details) (FRI) 11/16/12 (7:30pm): Ave: Women’s Renaissance Choir: Rebekah Gilmore, conductor @ Trinity Parish Church, 609 8th Ave., Seattle; donations welcome; (206-325-7066). (SUN) 11/18/12 (7:30pm): Ave: Women’s Renaissance Choir: (same concert as 11/16/12); Rebekah Gilmore, conductor @ Trinity Lutheran Church, Lynnwood; donations welcome; (206-325-7066). DECEMBer 2012 (SAT) 12/1/12 (8:00pm): Moss Bay Recorder Society Meeting; music session led by Sally Mitchell @ (location TBA) ; contact: Sally Mitchell @ 206-328-3381 or email: [email protected]; http://mossbayrecorders.org (FRI) 12/7/12 (7:30pm): Seattle Recorder Society Meeting @ Maple Leaf Lutheran Church, 10005 32nd NE, Seattle (SAT) 12/8/12 (2:00pm): Pacific MusicWorks: “Angels and Shepherds: Bach Cantatas for the Holiday Season”; Soloists: soprano Yulia Van Doren, alto Laura Pudwell, tenor Colin Balzer, baritone Jesse Blumberg @ St. James Cathedral, 804 9th Avenue, Seatt le; $40/$35/$20/suggested donation; www.pacificmusicworks.org (SUN) 12/9/12 (7:00pm): La Voce di Gabriela; works by Girolamo Fantini and Girolamo Frescobaldi; Kris Kwapis, baroque trum- pet, Mahan Esfahani, harpsichord @ PONCHO Concert Hall, 710 East Roy Street, Seattle; $20/$15/$10 (FRI) 12/14/12 (8:00pm) (pre-concert lecture (7:00pm): Early Music Guild: International Series: The Baltimore Consort: Wassail! Wassail!: music of the British Isles, Germany, France, Spain and the New World; instrumentation: lute, cittern, viols, crumhorns, recorders, rebec and percussion @ @ Town Hall, 1119—8th Ave, Seattle; $40/$35/$25/$15; (206-325-7066); www.earlymusicguild.org (SAT) 12/15/12 (8:00pm): Medieval Women’s Choir: “Nowell Sing We”; English carols; Margriet Tindemans, artistic director @ St. James Cathedral, 804 9th Ave., Seattle; $30/$25; (206-264-4822) [email protected] (SAT) 12/29/12 (8:00pm) (pre-concert lecture (7:00pm): Early Music Guild: “SBO: Baroque Celebration!”; music by Corelli, Handel, Vivaldi & others; guest soloist Kris Kwapis, trumpet @ Town Hall, 1119—8th Ave, Seattle; $40/$35/$25/$15; (206- 325-7066); www.earlymusicguild.org Recorder Notes Vol. XLIV, No. 2 Page 3 Meeting Notes: Oct. 5, 2012 Volunteer Opportunity: Carolyn Wallace SRS Social Media Coordinator Use your internet knowledge and Welcome to the Seattle Recorder Society skills and become the first SRS so- 2012-13 season! cial media coordinator! We would We began the meeting with announce- like to foster interaction, education, ments, as usual, including introductions of engagement and discussion about SRS board members, concerts, playing ses- our organization and report on our sions offered by the Moss Bay Recorder activities via social media chan- **Refreshments** Society, a summary of the American Re- nels such as Facebook, Twitter, corder Society Festival in July 2012 and blogs, Craigslist, etc. If you are November 2 some enticing information about the SRS interested in this new board posi- Cookies: Ruth Pattison Port Townsend Early Music Workshop in tion, please contact Ellis Hilliger @ Mary Ann Coymer 2013. [email protected] Veggies: Laura Faber The large group of recorders, conducted Fruit: Sharon Schuldt by SRS Director Peter Seibert, was aug- posed that this year the group work mented by two viols and one saxophone, on some pieces regularly, while giving us a strong bass line. We played two working on other pieces on a short- **** Thank You! **** chorales by J.S. Bach and two renaissance term basis or just for fun and to learn dances by Attaignant. For the first chorale, something from them. The group Peter encouraged us to play to the breath liked that idea. So four players, two mark in the first system by making an arc up on tenor, one on alto, and one on to it and then going on to the end of the soprano joined Sally on bass, to play phrase. This small, but important acknowl- the chorale, Meine Seel. Music Trivia edgement of the breath mark gave shape to For the second time through, there the chorale. Lovely! were some changes: one tenor joined What are the names of the Then we played one of the dances by At- the alto to play the alto part, another taignant, the bransle, with all of us playing tenor joined in on the soprano line four most common sizes of the ‘easy’ parts Peter had arranged. This and Sally also played soprano. Those recorder often played today as provided practice on the notes as well as changes worked well, so the next a quartet, and what are the giving the basic outline of the dance. Then time, one tenor moved back to play we each chose our preferred part – ‘easy,’ S, the tenor part and the group played names of the other sizes of A, T or B – and played the dance through.