Published by the American Recorder Society, Vol. LIV, No. 2 • www.americanrecorder.org summer 2013 SOPRANINO TO SUBBA SS A WELL-TUNED CON S ORT www.moeck.com Anzeige_Orgel_A4.indd 1 11.11.2008 19:21:44 Uhr Please support our loyal advertisers! www.youtube.com/user/americanrecordermag www.facebook.com/americanrecordermag www.facebook.com/AmerRec Dream-Edition – for the demands of a soloist Enjoy the recorder Mollenhauer & Adriana Breukink Enjoy the recorder Dream Recorders for the demands of a soloist New: due to their characteristic wide bore and full round sound Dream-Edition recorders are also suitable for demanding solo recorder repertoire. These hand-finished instru- ments in European plumwood with maple decorative rings combine a colourful rich sound with a stable tone. Baroque fingering and double holes provide surprising agility. 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If you want to practice more efficiently Advertiser Index . 40 than you do now, take the advice in Anne Timberlake’s Technique Tip, the second Chapters, Consorts & Recorder Orchestras . 25 8 in an ongoing series (page 13). This issue gives us views of recorder Happy Birthday, Lia Levin orchestras, recently welcomed as ARS affili- ates: from Glen Shan non’s travel tale of Music Reviews . 29 recorder orchestra concert in playing on a Recorder orchestra Germany (page 8) to Fred Palmer’s history recorder orchestras have become of how On the Cutting Edge . 33 possible and popular (page 22), to a reti- A journey around the world with Ricercata tled Chap ters, Consorts & Recorder 22 Orch estras (page 25) plus recorder orches- President’s Message . 3 tra pieces in Music Reviews (page 29). The facets of our instrument extend far ARS President Laura Sanborn Kuhlman beyond recorder orchestra: in history, it asks members to share exists in Medi e val drama (page 6) and early America (page 15), as well as in Tidings . 4 music by living composers (page 4). Other Minds features Michala Petri—and others; Gail Nickless Glen Shannon as an American in Germany; www.youtube.com/user/americanrecordermag 25 www.facebook.com/americanrecordermag The Play of Daniel; Orpheus Music Recorder www.facebook.com/AmerRec Course; Technique Tip from Anne Timberlake Gail Nickless, Editor ON THE COVER: Contributing Editors Tournieres, Robert Tom Bickley, Compact Disc Reviews • Timothy Broege, 20th/21st-Century Performance Le Vrac (1667-1752). Sue Groskreutz, Book & Music Reviews • Mary Halverson Waldo, Education The Chamber Music Trio. 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