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This is an abbreviated ARS NEWS to announce all of the virtual events being offered by the American Recorder Society and professionals starting in January 2024.
Start the New Year off the right way with some fantastic classes to hone your technique or introduce you to some new repertoire!
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ARS 2nd-Level Class for Alto Recorder: Continuing Technique*
with Lisette Kielson
If you’ve taken one of ARS’ Online Beginners’ Courses for the alto recorder, then you are ready for Level 2! If you didn’t master everything the first time around there will be plenty of review! In this 2nd-level 4-part course that starts January 3, 2024, professional recorder player and teacher Lisette Kielson will guide you in continued work on recorder technique and musical expression, getting a good (relaxed!) grip on notes and fingerings, and continuing the quest for beautiful tone and articulation. Start the New Year with recorder-playing cheer!
*ARS 2nd-Level classes are free and available only to ARS Members.
Classes are on Mondays and Wednesdays at 4 PM, ET January 3rd - January 13, 2024 - don't wait to register!
For more information and to register, please click HERE.
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ARS Beginners' Course for Soprano/Tenor *
with Jennifer Carpenter
If you have never played recorder before, or if it has been eons ago since you have played, this is the course for you! Build a solid foundation for learning soprano/tenor through this 4-part beginners’ course starting on January 16, 2024. Professional recorder player and teacher, Jennifer Carpenter, will cover basics such as hand and finger position, tonguing, and tone, and instill good habits for continuing to learn on your own or with a teacher. All ages are welcome, but children should be joined by an adult during the classes.
*ARS Beginners' Courses are free and open to everyone.
Classes are on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 8:30 PM ET January 16 - January 25, 2024. Register Today!
For more information and to register, please click HERE.
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ARS 2nd-Level Class for Soprano/Tenor Recorder: Continuing Technique*
with Jody Miller
Here's an excellent opportunity to continue your work from the Beginners' Course for Soprano being offered right before this class! In this course, professional recorder player and teacher Jody Miller will guide you in continued work on solidifying good recorder technique and musical expression, including exercises for tone and articulation. Classes start on January 30, 2024!
*ARS 2nd-Level classes are free and available only to ARS Members.
Classes are on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 5 PM, ET January 30 - February 10, 2024. Register Today!
For more information and to register, please click HERE.
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Two Class Options
with Anne Timberlake
1) Wednesday Webinar: Alternative Fingerings:
1/17/2024, 7:00 PM US CT
Alternative fingerings are a topic of great curiosity for recorder players. They are a valuable tool in your toolbox, but they can also compromise your progress if you use them in the wrong way. In this live, one-hour Zoom webinar, I’ll share the alternative fingerings I consider most essential, as well as why and where to use them.
To register, please visit my website. The registration fee is $20.
2) Bass Lab
Tuesdays 1/23/24, 1/30/24, 2/6/24, and 2/13/24: 3:45-4:45 PM, CT
Improve your bass recorder playing with this four-week small-group short course. We’ll ground our technique through a thorough review of bass fundamentals, followed by opportunities to apply what we learn in targeted repertoire. This live, small-group course, held on Zoom, includes take-home sound files and a week-by-week program to help you develop your skills. Make space for more bass in your life!
This class assumes familiarity with bass clef and the ability to read it with at least low-intermediate fluency. It is also possible to take this class on C bass.
Register here.
If you have questions, or if you prefer to write me a check, you can contact me at anne@annetimberlake.com.
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Two Class Options
with Tish Berlin
1) Out and Beyond the Bass-ics
Tuesdays, January 30, February 6, 13, 27 (note no class on February 20): 10 - 11:30 AM, PT
Take all four or many as you like. Each individual class is $25, or $30 if you want to be able to download the recording.
Anyone wishing to go to the next level with their bass recorder playing who can read bass clef and can play a chromatic two-octave scale from the low F is welcome. We will use some material from the 1986 edition of Helmut Mönkemeyer’s bass method, work with Eric Haas’ books of duets for the bass, and movements from J. S. Bach’s cello suites in recorder transcription. Some work on improvising over ground basses will be included. Pitch: a=440.
2) Duos by Telemann, Staeps, and Blaker
Tuesdays, January 30, February 6, 13, 27 (note no class on February 20): 1:30 - 3 PM, PT
Explore a sampling of the wealth of recorder duos from the 18th, 20th, and 21st centuries by Georg Philipp Telemann, Hans Ulrich Staeps, and Frances Blaker. Geared toward upper intermediate to advanced alto recorder players but all are welcome.
Take all four or many as you like. Each individual class is $25, or $30 if you want to be able to download the recording.
For more information and to register, contact Tish at tishberlin@gmail.com.
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Crooked Tunes
with Debby Greenblatt
Tues, 1/9/24 at 7 PM, ET
Wed, 1/10/24 at 10 AM, ET
Fri, 1/12/24 at 7 PM, ET
*Different tunes will be played at each session.
We will read, play, and discuss various survival skills for these charming pieces. A treble clef version of the sheet music for the tunes being played will be displayed on the screen during the workshop.
There is limited enrollment, and pre-registration is required. The cost for each workshop is $10. The cost of each optional book is $15 (includes shipping if ordered with workshop registration).
For more information, and to register:
https://www.greenblattandseay.com/workshops_crooked.shtml
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Multiple Class Options
with Marea Chernoff
Marea Chernoff through The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra School of Music is offering online recorder classes for the Winter term. Two workshops of three sessions each are available:
1) Intro to Basic Ornamentation
1/29/24, 2/5, 24, and 2/12/25
2) Intro to the Sonata
2/26/24, 3/4/24, and 3/11/24
In addition, A 10-week beginner alto recorder class is also offered, a hybrid of in-person and online. Use the link below to see full descriptions of the courses and to enroll.
Please contact instructor Marea at marearecorder@gmail.com with any questions.
Recorder - VSO School of Music
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NAVRS presents their January Playing Meeting
with Annette Bauer
When: Saturday, January 27, 2 - 3:30 PM, ET
Cost: NAVRS Membership is $20 and each playing session is $15; membership is not required for your first meeting but there is a charge of $15.
"In A Perfect Circle: Rounds, Grounds, Circle Dances, and Circular Songs."
The infinite shape of the circle is represented in music throughout the ages in many different ways: from the idea of simple (or very complex!) rounds - two or more equal melody parts in continued pursuit of each other, to the sheer endless possibilities of melodic and rhythmic variation over a repeating ground bass, music played for circle dances, or lifting voices together in a circle. Visually, we can think of medieval representations of the ever changing wheel of fortune, the circle used as a symbol for a mensuration in early notation representing "tempus perfectum", a perfect relationship of 3:1, or the circular mapping of the circle of fifths. We will explore a wide range of music related to this idea of the perfect circle, and enjoy some images along the way.
For more information and to register, visit the NAVRS website.
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Amherst Early Music Online presents January Classes for recorder players.
1) Brazilian Music and its Portuguese Routes: from medieval, colonial, popular, and modern times with Cléa Galhano
Saturday, January 6, 2024 at 1 PM, ET
Cost: $25
2) Ensemble Skills for Intermediate Recorder Players with Miyo Aoki
Tuesdays, January 9, 16, 23, and 30 at 5 PM, ET
Cost: $100 for all 4 classes
For more information and to register, click HERE.
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