East Bay Recorder Society
the
Mouthpiece
Vol. 17 No. 3
www.eastbayrecorders.org
November, 2013
November conductor Shira Kammen
Multi-instrumentalist and occasional vocalist
She has
Shira Kammen has spent well over half her life
performed
exploring the worlds of early and traditional
and taught in
music. A member for many years of the early
the United
music ensembles Alcatraz and Project Ars Nova,
States,
and Medieval Strings, she has also worked with
Canada,
Sequentia, Hesperion XX, the Boston Camerata,
Mexico,
the Balkan group Kitka, Anonymous IV, the
Europe,
King's Noyse, the Newberry and Folger
Israel,
Consorts, the Oregon, California and San
Morocco, Latvia, Russia and Japan, and on the
Francisco Shakespeare Festivals, and is the
Colorado, Rogue, Green, Grande Ronde, John
founder of Class V Music, an ensemble
Day, East Carson and Klamath Rivers.
dedicated to providing music on river rafting
trips.
Monthly Chapter Meeting
Friday, November 1, 2013
7:30 pm to 10:00 pm
Remember to sign up for the
EBRS Workshop on
November 16—see
registration form at the end of
the newsletter.
Zion Lutheran Church,
5201 Park Blvd., Oakland, CA.
If your name begins with A-L please bring a snack for
break, if possible. Everyone, bring a music stand, a
pencil, and instruments (SATB and lower if you have
them.) Please arrive in time to set up and be ready
to play at 7:30.
Shira Kammen continued:
Shira happily collaborated with singer/
storyteller John Fleagle for fifteen years, and
performs now with several groups: a medieval
ensemble, Fortune's Wheel, a new music group,
Ephemeros, an eclectic ethnic band, Panacea,
the early music ensembles Sitka Trio, Calextone,
Cançonier and In Bocca al Lupo, as well as
frequent collaborations with performers such as
storyteller/harpist Patrick Ball, medieval music
expert Margriet Tindemans, singer Anne
Azema, fiddler Kaila Flexer, and in many
theatrical and dance productions, including the
California Revels and The American Repertory
Ballet Company.
She has worked with students in many different
settings, among them teaching summer music
workshops in the woods, coaching students of
early music in such schools as Yale University,
Case Western, the University of Oregon at
Eugene, and working at specialized seminars at
the Fondazione Cini in Venice, Italy and the
Scuola Cantorum Basiliensis in Switzerland.
She has played on several television and movie
soundtracks, including 'O', a modern high
school setting of Othello, and “The Nativity
Story.” She has accompanied many diverse
artists in recording projects, among them
singers Azam Ali and Joanna Newsom. Some of
her original music can be heard in an
independent film about fans of the work of
J.R.R. Tolkien. The strangest place Shira has
played is in the elephant pit of the Jerusalem
Zoo. She has recently taken courses in Taiko
drumming and voiceover acting.
The music will be Medieval and
Renaissance music about particular cities and
places - Venice, Padua, Innsbruck, Rome,
Florence, among others, including pieces by
Heinrich Isaac, Johannes Ciconia, and Thomas
Weelkes.
Best fall greetings to everyone,
As the weather turns darker, wetter and colder, and
Thanksgiving approaches, I begin to think about the
wonderful recorder community we are blessed with. We
are so very privileged to have the splendid array of
outstanding professional talent locally to draw upon for
coaching, conducting and performing. The irrepressible
Shira Kammen, one of them, will entertain us with her
lively conducting in November. The concert season is under way again providing many
opportunities to hear professional recorder players and other wonderful early music
musicians perform. Events involving recorders are always included in the newsletter so
check out the upcoming tasty treats.
Here is a reminder that our very own one-day workshop with Adam Gilbert is
happening on Saturday, November 16 at Zion. Adam is uniquely knowledgeable of early
music and is an inspirational conductor. Look for details in this newsletter or on our
website.
A number of you have not yet renewed for this year. This is the final newsletter that will
be sent to last year’s members. If you want to continue receiving the monthly
newsletter, please take care of your membership dues. You can bring your dues and
registration form to the November meeting or renew via our website. The renewal form
is also conveniently included in this newsletter, ready to be printed, filled in and mailed
with your check.
Susan Jaffe,
President
Recorder Class for Kids
Hi Ellen and Susan:
You may remember me as the younger guy and
lifelong recorder enthusiast who came and sat
in with the East Bay Recorder Society last
Spring.
Well, I'm very happy to announce that I was
successful in getting one of the finest music
schools in California - the Crowden School of
Music, where I am the Orff specialist - to reoffer an introductory class in recorder taught
by yours truly.
The class is open to all budding young
beginners ages 4 - 8 and is offered Saturday
mornings at 10:00 on their centrally located
Berkeley Campus at Rose and Sacramento.
Here's the link for the class (you have to scroll
down to the group classes): http://
www.crowden.org/CCMC/Programs/
fall_spring.htm#orff
If you know anyone out there that might be
interested, please let them know ASAP!? To be
frank, we're on the edge of being underenrolled and I would really love to keep this
class - and this tradition - going.
Thanks,
Hadley Louden
Seeking Good Home
Evalyn Segal has a full set of Yamaha plastic
recorders (SSATB) and two Dream recorders
she would like to dispose of, as well as a
handsome wooden music stand and quite a lot
of music for solo, duo, trio, quartet. She is not
playing any longer and wants to find these a
good home.
Would anyone be interested? She does not
expect to make a lot of money, but some. She
looked up Yamaha plastic recorders on Amazon.
The new prices are sopranino $14, soprano $16,
alto $37, tenor $57 (has a crook neck done by
Bill Lazar), bass $250. She will sell the whole lot
for $150 obo*. Music stand: $10 obo. Sheet
music: $25 obo. Electronic metronome: $5.
Electronic tuner: $5.
Dream wood soprano and alto, $100 obo for
both.
*(obo=or best offer).
Contact Evalyn at [email protected] if you are
interested.
UPCOMING EVENTS
FARALLON RECORDER
QUARTET
Tish Berlin, Frances Blaker, Louise Carslake and Claudia Gantivar,
with Adam Cockerham, vihuela and baroque guitar.
Music from Renaissance Spain
and the New World
This concert explores the influence of Spanish composers and colonizers on the
music of Central and South American societies. Music by Spanish composers Juan
Vasquez, Diego Ortiz, and Mateo Flecha will be performed next to sacred
works from manuscripts in Guatemala City and Mexico City, and lively, folkinfluenced negritos from manuscripts in Oaxaca and Bogata.
Saturday, October 26th, 8:00 pm,
St. Alban's Episcopal Church,
1501 Washington Ave. Albany, CA
$20 general admission/$15 students, seniors, SFEMS/ARS members.
For reservations please call 510-559-4670 or email [email protected]
UPCOMING EVENTS
Musica Pacifica
Friday, November 8, 8:00 pm
Trinity Chapel
2320 Dana Street
Berkeley, CA 94704
Judith Linsenberg, recorder
Elizabeth Blumenstock, violin
John Dornenburg, viola da gamba
JungHae Kim, harpsichord
San Francisco-based Baroque ensemble Musica Pacifica, is pleased to present their Fall
2013, Northern California Program, Baroque Splendor: Virtuosic Music from 17thand 18th-century Europe. Repertoire includes works by Bach, Rameau,
Sammartini, Telemann, Turini, and more.
Special Event Prices:
$25 general
$20 SFEMS members, seniors, disabled
$10 students
To reserve a ticket call
(510) 549-3864
UPCOMING EVENTS
Frances Feldon and Galax Quartet
in “Wingin’ It”
Sunday, November 17 at 4:30 pm
The Jazzschool, 2087 Addison St., Berkeley
Cost: $15/$12
Reservations recommended as space is limited. For
tickets: http://jazzschool.org/event/frances-feldongalax-quartet/
SFEMS and the Jazzschool are co-sponsoring a new
series featuring “early” improvisational styles that
takes place at the Jazzschool in downtown Berkeley on
Sunday afternoons. The second program in the series
is entitled "Wingin' It," and features Frances Feldon
and The Galax Quartet (Elisabeth Blumenstock &
David Wilson, baroque violins;
Roy Wheldon, viola da gamba;
and Amy Brodo, baroque
violoncello). "Wingin’ It"
features old and new music
(from the early baroque as well
as newly-commissioned
works) that is founded in
improvisational styles and
uses birds and bird calls as its
vehicle for musical variation.
The "Wingin’ It" program grew out of Frances' recent
recorder residency on the central Oregon coast at the
Sitka Center for Art and Ecology in May 2013, where
she began working on a concert program of bird music
for recorder.
In the first half of the program, blackbirds will be
featured in the world premieres of three newlycommissioned works for recorder and string
quartet, all of which are loosely based on the famous
jazz standard Bye Bye Blackbird, by Erika Oba, Glen
Shannon, and Roy Whelden. Ms. Oba's arrangement is
done in the style of a Charlie Parker plus strings
recording, but you get alto recorder and strings
instead of saxophone and strings. Mr. Shannon's work
is a jazzy fantasy in a neo-baroque style, and includes
among its sections a five-part fugue on Bye Bye
Blackbird. Roy Wheldon's work - which is
still growing its title at the moment - takes motives
and spins them out, first on the recorder in a rubato
opening section over shimmering strings; then in a
more rhythmic and minimalistic style in its second
section with the whole ensemble. All three works have
opportunity for improvisation.
The second half of the program comprises 17th- and
18th-century works by Jakob van Eyck, Paulus
Matthyss and Francois Couperin which picture the
nightingale (and linnet) musically. The Couperin
works, Le Rossignol vainqueur, Le Rossignol en
amour, and La Linotte effarouchee, are from his
monumental collection
Pieces de clavecin, 3eme
Livre, 14eme Ordre (1722),
which was much beloved
by later composers for its
evocative pictorialism and
formed the basis of many
new pieces (such as
Maurice Ravel's Le
Tombeau de Couperin).
The bird movements are
just as evocative, and are
based on Couperin's own suggestion that the rossignol
pieces are equally as effective on flute as well as
harpsichord. We have orchestrated their two-part
counterpoint with recorder and bass viol. Part of the
lovely style of these pieces is in rendering the French
graces with a sense of spontaneity and accuracy and
they evoke the sense of and opportunity for
ornamental improvisation. The van Eyck and Matthyss
pieces (1649) are multiple sets of divisions, or
improvised melodic variations, on nightingale tunes.
Van Eyck is famous as both a carillon and recorder
player; he was blind, and Paulus Matthys, a viol
composer and publisher himself, notated the
improvisations for him. The program ends with a set
of divisions by Ms. Feldon on Bye Bye Blackbird in the
style of van Eyck, bringing the program full circle.
—-Frances Feldon
UPCOMING EVENTS
Recorder Workshop
With
Paul Leenhouts
On Saturday, January 25, 2014, the Mid-Peninsula Recorder Orchestra will present a
workshop directed by Paul Leenhouts entitled, Dutch Masters, Six Centuries of Music
from The Netherlands and Early Flanders. Paul Leenhouts has earned international
recognition as a founding member of the Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet and is considered one
of the world’s leading performers, conductors, workshop directors, and composers for the recorder.
Two of his recordings have received the prestigious Edison
Award, and he is currently Director of Early Music Studies at
the University of North Texas.
The workshop will take place at Holy Trinity Episcopal
Church, 330 Ravenswood Avenue in Menlo Park from
9:30 A.M. to 4:30 pm.
Music for the workshop will include works by Dufay,
Sweelinck and arrangements by Paul Leenhouts. The workshop
is open to recorder players from the intermediate to advanced
level.
Workshop fees are as follows: MPRO, SFEMS and ARS members, $50.00; nonmembers, $55.00. Please plan on bringing a music stand and a lunch. Snacks and beverages will
be provided. Advanced registration is encouraged as space is limited. For further information or to
register for the workshop please visit the MPRO website at http://mpro-online.org/ or contact Leslie
Pont at 650-941-3065. The location of this workshop is wheelchair accessible. The Mid-Peninsula
Recorder Orchestra is an affiliate of the San Francisco Early Music Society.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Columbia Gorge Early
Music Retreat
March 14-17th, 2014
Menucha Retreat Center,
Corbett, OR 97019
playing techniques and draws subtle musical
interpretations from the class participants. You'll
not easily forget a musical encounter with Paul
Read the details of Paul's biography on the
Portland Recorder Society website and at his
ensemble's site, The Royal Wind Music.
(20 miles east of Portland, OR)
Early Bird Registration opens October 1st
Special $100 discount until December 1st
Download and Print the REGISTRATION FORM
HERE!
Join us for a long weekend of making music with
inspiring coaches and friendly players in a
natural setting of a historic lodge with hearty,
healthy food and
inspiring vistas.
Welcome, Paul
Leenhouts! We are
pleased to welcome
Paul to lead classes
at CGEMR. His
international
reputation as a
founding member of
the Loeki Stardust
Quartet, soloist, recording artist, teacher,
composer, arranger and editor of several works
for the recorder places him as one of the
outstanding recorder leaders today. Those who
have attended his workshop classes describe him
as inspiring, friendly and funny. He unveils
The faculty you already know and love
includes Rotem Gilbert (recorders and double
reeds), Vicki Boeckman (Music Director and
recorder), Gayle and Phil Neuman (all winds/
strings). Yes, they are back again because we all
had so much fun last year! Class topics from
them will be announced soon.
For more information and to
register: www.portlandrecordersociety.org
Again, we'll be staying at beautiful Menucha
Retreat and Conference Center, enjoying the
views, wholesome and delicious food, afternoon
elective sessions, renaissance dance, the ultimate
faculty concert and more!
Faculty
Housing and Meals
Registration
Travel Information
Tuition and Fees
Schedule and Classes
Download the Registration Form and secure
your place at the retreat now! Last year we sold
out by December 1st. Come join the music and
the fun!
East Bay
Recorder
Teachers
David Barnett
Dear Susan,
On behalf of ARS, we
thank you for your
generous support of our
organization. Since
2005, your chapter has
donated over $2,300 to
ARS. That is amazing!
You are doing
wonderful work to make
this happen.
Kathy Sherrick,
Administrative Director
Letitia Berlin
www.tibiaduo.com
Tom Bickley
www.metatronpress.com/artists/
tbickley/
Frances Blaker
www.tibiaduo.com
Louise Carslake
www.sfems.org/musicsre-creation
Frances Feldon
Judy Linsenberg
www.linsenberg.com
http://www.musicapacifica.org/
Hanneke van Proosdij
www.hannekevanproosdij.com
2013 – 2014 EBRS Board of Directors
President: Susan Jaffe
Treasurer and Electronic Distribution: Susan Merrill
Conductor Locator: Greta Hryciw
Newsletter: Carol Coon, Editor and Producer
Chapter Meeting Music:
Linda Skory
Webmaster: Suzanne Siebert
Headlands Committee: Bill Stewart (Coordinator), Merlyn Katechis (Registration)
Nancy Smith (Publicity)
Publicity/Librarian/Composer-in-Residence: Glen Shannon
Member Performances: Cindy Keune
Hospitality: Anna Lisa Kronman, Ray White, Brenda Bailey
Members at Large: Britt Ascher, Greta Hryciw, Kathy Cochran, Brenda Bailey
Schedule of Conductors
Nov. 1 - Shira Kammen
Dec. 13 - Letitia Berlin (Note the date—2nd Friday in December)
Jan. 4 (Twelfth Night Celebration) - Joyce Johnson-Hamilton; 2:30 at Hillside
Feb. 7 - Andrew Levy
March 7 - Louise Carslake
April 4 - Frances Feldon
May 2 - Judy Linsenberg
The Mouthpiece is published by the
East Bay Recorder Society.
EBRS is a chapter of the American Recorder Society and an affiliate
of the
San Francisco Early Music Society.
Please send information and photos for newsletter consideration to Carol Coon at
[email protected]
The deadline for the December issue is November 15
EBRS
Presents:
Missa Vidi speaciosam
AworkshopwithADAMGILBERTforintermediatetoadvancedplayers:
Saturday,November16,2013
9:30AMto4:30PM(registrationat9:00)
ZionLutheranChurch–5201ParkBoulevard,Piedmont*
DirectedbyAdamGilbert,musicforthedaywillhighlighttheMissaVidispeaciosamforsixvoicespublishedin
1592bySpanishcomposerTomàsLuisdeVictoria(1548‐1611).AdditionalmusicwillincludeseveralRenaissance
gemsthatwillsurelyinspireanddelighttheplayers.
AspecialfeatureofthisworkshopwillbeashortsessioninthemorninginwhichAdamwillteachsome
elementaryRenaissanceornamentation,givingparticipantstheopportunitytoexperimentwithitthroughout
thedayastheyplaythisbeautifulrepertoire.
Recorders,singersandplayersall“soft”instrumentsarewarmlywelcomed:
stringsofallsizes(pluckedorbowed),flutes,sackbuts,cornetti,dulcians,
chalumeaux,douçaines…others?Asspacepermits.Pleaseenrollearly.
Professorofmusicology,recorderandhistoricaldoublereedsatUSC’sThorntonSchoolofMusic,Adam
KnightGilbertisoneofthepremiereinternationalplayersoftheRenaissanceshawm.Hegrewupin
Columbia,SouthCarolinaandbecamethefirstgraduateoftheEarlyMusicprogramattheMannesCollege
ofMusicinNewYorkCity.HehasperformedasamemberofNewYork’sEnsembleforEarlyMusic,the
WaverlyConsort,Piffaro,andhasappearedwithnumerousotherearlymusicensembles.Heisafounding
memberofensembleCiaramella,whichperformsintheU.S.,Israel,andBelgium.Gilbertstudiedrecorder
atRotterdam’sConservatoriumandstudiedinLeuven,Belgiumfrom1998to2000asarecipientofthe
FulbrightandBelgian‐AmericanEducationFoundationgrants.HecompletedhisPhDatCaseWestern
ReserveUniversityin2003,andtaughtfortwoyearsasavisitingassistantprofessoratStanfordUniversity.Helectures,gives
masterclassesinternationallyandisanadjunctfacultyofTilburgConservatoriuminHolland.Clickheretolearnmore!
*Directionsandmapareonthefollowingpage.Bringinstruments(pitch:A=440),musicstand,andabaglunch.
Musicisincludedintheworkshopfee:PDFswillbesentbeforehanduponrequest.Snacksandbeverageswillbe
providedforbreaks.Formoreinformation,contactGretaHaug‐Hryciw:[email protected];(415)377‐4444.

2013 East Bay Recorder Society Fall Workshop Enrollment Form
Enroll before November 9
Workshop Fees: EBRS/SFEMS/ARS members $45 BEFORE NOV. 9, $50 AFTER (space available)
Non-members $50 BEFORE NOV. 9, $55 AFTER (space available)
Please make checks out to EBRS and mail with this form to:
 Susan Merrill, 4440 Harbord Drive, Oakland CA 94618  ❏ EBRS member ❏ SFEMS member ❏ ARS member ❏ Non-member
EBRS is an affiliate of the San Francisco
Early Music Society and a chapter of the
American Recorder Society
www.eastbayrecorders.org
Name(s)___________________________________________________________________
Phone (day)_______________________________(eve)____________________________ # participants ____________
Email_____________________________________________________________________
fees $____________
Instrument(s)_______________________________________________________________
donation $____________
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TOTAL $____________
Berkeley
Rt. 13
5201
Park Blvd
Bay Bridge
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I-580
San Leandro
Directions to Zion Lutheran Church (wheelchair accessible):
From t he East Bay South:
Take 580 toward Oakland
Exit on Park Blvd, head up the hill
Just before Rt 13 you'll see the church on your left
Park in the lot.
From the East Bay North:
Take 580 toward Hayward
Exit on Park Blvd, head up the hill
Just before Rt 13 you'll see the church on your left
Park in the lot.
From S
an Francisco:
Take Bay Bridge to 80-Hayward
Exit on Park Blvd, head up the hill
Just before Rt 13 you'll see the church on your left
Park in the lot.
From North Bay/Marin:
Take Richmond Bridge to 580-Hayward
Exit on Park Blvd, head up the hill
Just before Rt 13 you'll see the church on your left
Park in the lot.
Susan Merrill, Treasurer
4440 Harbord Dr.
Oakland, CA 94618
510/601-0911
Susan Jaffe, President
4122 Coolidge
Oakland, CA 94602
510/482-4993
Application/Renewal for
Sept 2013—August 2014
I am joining EBRS only:Enclosed:
Individual—$45________
Family (2 members, same address)—$65
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Student (high school and full-time undergrads)—$15
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OR
Combined EBRS and ARS (American Recorder Society):
Special deal for first time ARS members: when you join both today with this form
you get $5 off the EBRS cost combined with the $45 ARS membership.
First time ARS—Individual $85; Family $105; Student (FT) $60
Continuing ARS--Individual $90; Family $110; Student (FT) $65
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Oakland, CA 94618
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The East Bay Recorder Society is a chapter of the American Recorder Society and an affiliate of the San Francisco Early Music Society.