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SEATTLE RECORDER SOCIETY

Recorder Notes

Summer 2018

Vol. XLIX, No. 10

www.seattle-recorder.org

From the Music Director (Vicki Boeckman)

Greetings Everyone,

This will be our last official newsletter of the season. Once again, thank you all for another great season of music making. I look forward to starting up again on September 7th. Our SRS Board will host their summer retreat on Sunday, June 23rd and we welcome agenda items for discussion as well as any special requests for music next season.

Please remember to check the calendar listings and save dates for local recorder events coming up this summer. Of special note will be Isabella Pagel pre-senting a recital at Music Center in August, Skipper

Skelley hosting the 6th annual Holborne Play Date, and of course our Late Sep-tember Weekend Workshop at SPU, just to name a few. I am hopeful that the timing, location and cost of this weekend workshop will prove to be attractive for our members, and am secretly crossing my fingers that it can be the start of a new tradition.

While the workshop is open to all levels, we are encouraging less experienced players and intermediate levels to sign up as well, and are introducing a special intermediate track to ensure the learning experience is positive and supportive. Online registration goes live on June 1st and closes August 15th. The workshop is designed to accommodate about 55 participants so don't delay! http://www.seattle-recorder.org/Regional_Workshops/

Our faculty “kick-off” concert on Friday evening, September 28th at Queen Anne Christian Church, will be a total blast and we local folks are giddy with joy to have the opportunity to play together and with Rotem Gilbert. The concert is open to all, not just for workshop attendees, so please spread the word and talk us up!

I wish you all a wonderful summer filled with music and joy and all the things that make your spirits bright.

Newsletter Deadline for September Issue:

Thursday August 23

SRS Meeting

Friday, September 7, 2018

@ 7:30 pm

No Opening Program

Playing Session TBD (Vicki Boeckman)

All sizes of recorders and viols are welcome.

No Back Room Gang

Meetings are usually (but not always) held on the first Friday of each month, September to May, at 7:30pm, Maple Leaf Lutheran Church, 10005—32nd NE, Seattle.

Meetings often include a short performance of interest to recorder or viol players, en-semble playing for all levels of recorder players, and a begin-ning recorder ensemble.

A $5 donation is requested for non-members.

http://www.seattle-recorder.org/Regional_Workshops/

Most of our members knew L (stands for Louise) Hotaling, the delightful, wacky, eccentric woman who died a couple of years ago in her upper eighties. L had traveled widely with her husband Dave before he retired, and they had lived in Guam, which she loved. The recorder community hosted a wonderful memorial service for L in the Maple Leaf Lutheran Church basement, attended by many friends and relatives, some who came from afar. After her relatives had sorted her possessions and had taken what they wanted, I had the oppor-tunity to look through her house prior to the official estate sale. Although I didn't need them myself, I bought three of L's recorders including her plastic

Yamaha bass; couldn't pass up the bass for the $20 price tag, knowing that a good use for it would eventually present itself.

I wrote last year in the newsletter about loaning L's bass to bassoonist Anna Marsh, who took it with her to France where she played it at Versailles with a group of early musicians at A = 392, transposing the music a full step. L would have been so tickled at the idea.

At Members' Night, after hearing Isabella Pagel's plea for plastic recorders to take to Nina Stern's group of school children in Kenya, I knew that this was the proper destination for L's bass recorder, and that she would approve highly. So, in mid June the bass will head off on another transcontinental journey, carrying L's adven-turesome spirit with it!

The Further Adventures of L Hotaling's Plastic Bass Molly Warner, Photos Bill Stickney

SRS Board Members (2018/2019)

Music Director: Vicki Boeckman (206-985-9916)

[email protected] Music Director Emeritus: Peter Seibert (206-329-2774)

[email protected] Officers: President: Nancy Gorbman (206-852-4762)

[email protected] President-Elect: Michael Bancroft (206-523-6668)

[email protected] Past President: Molly Warner (206-523-5192)

[email protected] Newsletter: Mike Woolf (206-300-6623)

[email protected] Secretary: Kathleen Arends (425-649-9869)

[email protected] Treasurer: Richard Ginnis (206-633-1969)

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* * * * Membership: Betty Swift (206-323-3879)

[email protected] Refreshments: Maja Eberhardt (206-525-4283)

[email protected] Librarian: Hanan Bell (206-695-2276)

[email protected] Webmaster: Charles Coldwell (206-328-8238)

[email protected] Member-At-Large: Carolyn Wallace (206-782-6898)

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Upcoming Local Recorder Happenings

Passing the Torch: Isabella Pagel with Vicki Boeckman and Jonathan Oddie

Saturday, August 18th, 2018 at 7:30pm Music Center of the Northwest 901 N 96th St

Please join Isabella for a concert before she embarks on her next journey where she will continue her studies in music and pedagogy at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague! Isabella, Vicki, and Jonathan will play works by Corelli, Tele-mann, Castello, Zahnhausen, and others.

Free of charge, all are welcome.

Sixth Annual Holborne Play Date and Pot Luck

Sunday, August 19, 2018, 1:30 – 5:00+ pm In Skipper Skelley's lovely garden 5736 59th Ave NE, 98105

Spend the afternoon playing “choice” Pavanes, Almains, and Galliardes from Anthony Holborne's 1599 collection in-terspersed with delicious food and summer stories. All levels of recorders and percussion welcome

Music of the Winds

Friday September 28, 7:30 pm Queen Anne Christian Church

4, 5 and 6 part music for recorders and early winds including bagpipes, dulcians and cornamusen. Rotem Gilbert, Vicki Boeckman, Miyo Aoki, Laura Kuhlman, Phil Neuman and Gayle Neuman

Suggested donation $25

Late September Workshop for Recorders, Voices and Winds

September 29th and 30th 9 – 4 pm Seattle Pacific University

Cost for both days $165

Faculty: Rotem Gilbert, Laura Kulhman, Phil Neuman and Gayle Neuman, Vicki Boeckman, Miyo Aoki

Five of our local, talented instructors from the PNW are joining forces with Rotem Gilbert from USC to present a two day workshop and faculty concert right here in our fair city. What could be better than playing wonderful music with fantastic teachers and great friends during the day and going home to sleep in your own bed at night? Topics will include Caccini, the Florentine Camerata and the roots of Baroque Style (it'll be the 400th anniversary year of the death of Caccini), Reading from early notation, 14th century French and Cypriot music, Music inspired by English, Scottish and Irish Folksong, Jazz and Rock, Music of Soren Sieg, Festive Spanish Music and Early Music from Mexico (Guerrero, Vasquez, Mateo Flecha, Don Hernando Franco). While the workshop is open to all levels, we are encour-aging less experienced players and intermediate levels to sign up as well; we will have an intermediate track designed especially for those who may tend to shy away from larger workshop settings. Registration will be online starting June 1, and the deadline is August 15th.

http://www.seattle-recorder.org/Regional_Workshops/

Concerts and Events Calendar

Sunday, May 27 @ 11:00 AM: Bach & Pancakes Cheer up & calm down: join marimbist Erin Jorgensen for one of the famous Bach cello suites played on a 5-octave marimba. Music will be followed by pancakes made on-the-spot. ALL AGES WELCOME. Studio Current, 1100 E Pike St, Seattle. Details Here.

Wednesday, May 30 @ 7:00 PM: Salish Sea Festival: Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto Bach’s 5th Brandenburg and other works for flute, violin, harpsichord and string chamber orchestra. Carrie Krause, Jeffrey Cohan, Jonathan Oddie, Courtney Kuroda, Stephen Cresswell, Anna Marsh. Christ Episcopal Church, 4548 Brooklyn Ave. NE, Seattle. Details Here.

Saturday, June 2 @ 8:00 PM: Medieval Women’s Choir—Saints and Sinners A musical journey through the pantheon of medieval saints who were felt to have a special relationship to a certain group of believers, such as young clerics (St. Nicholas) or bakers (St. Elizabeth). Songs praising Saints and their good works were common throughout the middle ages. St. James Cathedral, Seattle. Details Here.

Sunday, June 3 @ 3:00 PM: Seattle Bach Choir—Abide with Us Our June concert celebrates great music that is not by Bach! Come to hear some old favorites, and we’ll also introduce you to some new favorites. Trinity Parish Church, Seattle. Details Here.

Saturday, June 16 @ 7:00 PM: Salish Sea Festival: Frederick the Great Featuring Jeffrey Cohan on baroque flute and Oleg Timofeyev on baroque lute, an exploration of music at the court of the flutist King Frederick II of Prussia. Christ Episcopal Church, Seattle. Details Here.

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http://www.erinjorgensen.net/

http://salishseafestival.org/seattle.html

http://medievalwomenschoir.org/

http://seattlebachchoir.org/event/abide-with-us/

http://salishseafestival.org/seattle.html

Molly Warner began the evening by recognizing the SRS officers, board, and other individuals who tend to the many little jobs that contribute to the success of our healthy Recorder Society. From taking care of refreshments or lights to taking care of the treasury, we appreciate each one!

Announcements included our September 29 – 30 weekend workshop at Seattle Pacific University, and a request from Isabella Pagel for "gently used, high-end plastic SATB recorders" to be used in Kenya. Isabella also has become skilled at wrapping the joints of recorders with silk thread, and offered her services where that is needed.

And then Nancy Gorbman began the Event of Seattle Recorder Society's season: Members' Night, where we come, if not to see and be seen, then to hear and be heard.

David Brown, age 7, and his teacher Laura Faber got the evening off to an auspicious start by performing Alan Mencken's "A Whole New World" from Disney's Aladdin as a recorder duet. Solid breath control kept the intona-tion pleasing, and fine attention was also given to correct rhythms and to dynamics. We older members are always delighted to see a young person interested in recorder, especially when he plays so well! David's eight-year-old brother was also in attendance. Both boys sat through a long concert late in the evening!

The Feathered Friends is Laura Faber's Thursday-night ensemble, composed of Michael Bancroft, Chu-Lan Chiong, Kathy Graunke, Christine Jerse, Eunice Nakao, and Kate Riley. They presented four beautiful songs of Johannes Brahms. "Schwesterlein" ("Sister Dear") tells of a girl's death. A song about lost love, "Ich hört’ ein Sichelein rausch-en" ("I Heard a Reaping Sound") is in triple meter and has a cheerful melody. But the two royal children in "Es waren zwei Königskinder" drown trying to reach each other, and Brahms' melody is sad where the story is being told; it al-ternates with a different melody when a character is speaking. And "Ich hab' die Nacht getraumet" describes a dream foreshadowing the death of a lover. The ensemble presented the luscious phrases clearly. Then they turned to a ver-sion of Van Eyck's "English Nightingale" trio, whose familiar melody we enjoyed.

Members’ Night—Kathleen Arends, Photos Bill Stickney

Members’ Night, continued

Ebb and Flow, Laura's Tuesday ensemble, consisted of Mary Ann Clymer, Betsy Darrah, Dave Gloger, Angelique Matthijssen, Rebecca Olson-Nord, Karen Soma, and Ione Turman. They hypnotized us with a Chaconne by Steve Mar-shall. Its repeated bass figure was more active and shorter than other chaconnes from my experience, but still creat-ed a cyclical feeling that pulled us along.

Noreen and Jon Jacky treated us to renditions on recorder and cello of three Norwegian folk tunes. "Kjaerringa mae Staven" ("Old Woman with a Staff") has three straightforward, appealing melodic phrases, and refers to making butter and coffee. Then we heard "En Liten gut ifra Tistedal'n" ("A Little Boy from Tistedal"), a beautiful tune in minor, which Grieg saw fit to arrange for his "Norwegian Melodies" collection. Finally, "Paal sine hono paa haugan utslepte" ("Who Let the Chickens Out?") was especially abundant in folk-song charm.


CC&T was Chu-Lan Chiong, Christine Brown Jerse, and Tom Jerse playing two of Tom's own arrangements. The sweetly-delivered hymn tune of "This is My Father's World" was the basis for the theme for the Shire in the Lord of the Ring mov-ies. Margot Krimmel's composition for harp, "Planxty Earl Grey", was similarly British Isles-flavoured.

Ye Olde Spice Girls (Nancy Gorbman, Cathy Lacefield, Ruth Pattison, and Jill Shupe) played two Canzoni of Clau-dio Merulo. Canzon Decimaottava began with the tradi-tional long, short-short rhythm and was performed with some "spicy" (though tasteful!) ornamentation and a great flourish at the end. The Trigesimasest was cheerful and featured numerous, solidly executed metrical chang-es.

The Woodland Consort, an ensemble of long standing embodied by Susan Burris, Susie Keithly, and Ellis Hillinger, gave us a Fantasia by Ludwig Senfl. "Trium vocum carmina" ("Song for Three Voices") had a mourn-ful sound and was played with precision. They then jumped 500 years to play "Kanon für drei gleiche Stim-men" ("Canon for Three Equal Voices") by Friedrich Kühn. It became more and more intricate as it went along, until I had the impression of more music than a mere three people could make.


Wild, Wild Women (Nancy Gorbman, Gerrity Shupe, and Anne Dennis) performed a Sonata in F major by Giovanni Battista Somis. It opened with a lovely, ornamented Ada-gio, then went on to a cross-fingered Allegro with a sudden ending. The following Adagio was delicate and songlike, with pizzicato bass; and the final Allegro was in compound time, with very little room for breathing!

Di Dodici Bassi was outfitted with eleven chairs during the intermission, so as to open the second half of the program. The eleven were Christine Brown Jerse, Chu-Lan Chiong, Betsy Darrah, Dave Gloger, Tom Jerse, Barbara McKnight, Rebecca Olson-Nord, Christiane Schulz, Karen Soma, Ione Turman, and Mike Woolf; the twelfth bass, Maja Eberhardt, was unable to attend. This ensemble of basses coached by Laura Faber played Alfonso Ferrabosco's De Sei Bassi (The


Six Basses) on F and C basses. We knew we were in for a treat when their five-second tuning session sounded like music! The piece was slow, peaceful, and sonorous to the end.

The Two Tones, David Gloger and Karen Soma, took on the challenges of a new fingering and a new clef to give us Thomas Morley's delightful "Loe Heere Another Love". Then they diverted us with Giuseppe Giam-berti's "Duo Tessuti con Diversi XX" with sweet soprano and alto voic-es. Their endings were notable for their precision.

Christopher Corfman used neither chair nor music stand to present G. P. Tele-mann's Fantasie for Solo Flute No. 4, D-flat major. In the opening Andante, higher melodic notes alternated with softer, lower, harmonic notes, as is usual when a solo instrument accompanies itself. Chris also took advantage of the freedom in tempo afforded by true solo playing. The second movement was Allegro, and the third Presto.

Trio MSG consisted of Barbara McKnight, Karen Soma, and Barbara Green. They played Telemann's "Introduzione au Venerdi", which had a catchy melody and straightforward rhythms, in triple time. This they followed with their favor-ite movement from Deena T. Grossman, titled "Oh White Bird, Sound of Wings, Over Water Find Me". Long notes created tension and release, with a simple, calm ending.

Laura Faber and Mike Woolf conspired to give us definitive performanc-es of three pieces from contemporary Australian composer Lance Ec-cles. "Caterpillars on the Branch" had a few queasy crunches and a lot of variations in tempo; it ended by restating its beginning material. "The Eagle Soars" was slow, majestic, and yes, soaring. "Nesting Swallows" was high, cheerful, and quick, with chirps and trills. It came to its ending so abruptly that we giggled in surprise.


Little Byrds Molly Warner, Anne Dennis, Kathleen Ar-ends, Tommy Arends, and Hanan Bell performed begin-ning and ending sections of Arkadische Szene, by Hans Ulrich Staeps. While the soprano twittered and trilled, the other voices provided unpredictable harmonies and gentle support, with a "fresh" sound.

Quintessesntial Quartet Isabella Pagel, Vicki Boeckman, Mike Woolf, and Laura Faber exe-cuted Rondino & Finale by Leif Kayser, a Danish composer of the same school as Staeps, though less dissonant. As in many Renaissance recorder quartets, the Rondino had its melody in the tenor voice. Its mood was playful, at one point prompting me to think of the melody of "Pop! Goes the Weasel", and at another us-ing the falling minor third of children's taunts around the world. The Finale alternated be-tween sections of insistent repeated notes and sections using a descending melodic line. The piece closed with a "Good Evening, Friends" trope.

Isabella Pagel and Vicki Boeckman closed the evening by playing for us two pieces by Matthias Maute. The first was "Circle Song II". Its compound-time melody put me in mind of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy strolling down a street in black and white. And then we heard the virtuosic "How I Love You, Sweet Follia", much of which was at breakneck speed. It was jazzy; it featured a line played with emphatic "chiff" and some tango-esque sections; and it finished in a whirlwind of notes.

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