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Volume L, Number 2 March 2009
Our 2009 celebration continues, with an Features
early-bird discount deadline of May 1 Suite Thoughts of Sitka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
to register for the ARS’s 70th birthday Judith Linsenberg recounts how her life changed
while being the Sitka recorder resident
party—the ARS Festival and Conference.
This year you’ll continue to see AR
covers highlighting 2009 as both Volume Summer Workshop Summer-y . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
50 of ARand as the ARS’s 70th anniver- The annual roundup of summer workshops, 8
including some earlier and some later
sary year. These specially selected covers
are the creative output of the Advanced
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at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts
in Boston, MA, at which students come Advertiser Index and Classified . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40
from all over the world to study.
AR@50: Avoiding Aches and Pains . . . . . . . . . .23
The Education Department in this
Dr. Léonie Jenkins gives advice for those
issue may bear resemblance to “Are you
contemplating a workshop experience
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Smarter than a Fifth-grader?”—but the
Chapters & Consorts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32
questions are a challenge for recorder
players of any vintage. Take Bart Span- Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24
hove’s quiz(page 24) and see how you do! Bart Spanhove tests our musical knowledge
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Music Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37
the AR@50piece in this issue (page 23)
—advice from the late Léonie Jenkins— On the Cutting Edge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27
to prepare yourself for your workshop or Tim Broege puts the recorder into the perspective
of the larger music world and the internet
festival experience.
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If it’s March, then it’s likely that you President’s Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3
expect the bulk of this issue to be devoted Lisette Kielson on how to feed the passion
to the annual roundup of upcoming
Q&A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28
recorderworkshops(page 12).
Carolyn Peskin describes Renaissance fingering
Whether we make your acquaintance at
the Boston Early Music Festival, we meet Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34
More on music-reading glasses, earplugs and Oskar
you in St. Louis for the ARS Festival, or we
cross paths at one of the many workshops, Tidings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
you’ll agree that this promises to be a Mario Duschenes and John Updike die; Early
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memorable summer for recorder players! Music America contest news; Joe Lewnard wins
Gail Nickless Piffaro contest; Matthias Maute teams up
with Lincoln Center musicians
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President’s
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_______ Greetings from Lisette Kielson, ARS President
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In July 2005, before I was on the heard about it, but it is here that I
Board, I attended the very first I now succumb to would like to formally invite you to
ARS Festival, that year held at Regis a more sophisticated our second ARSFestival and
University in Denver, CO. I decided Conference, held July 30-August 2
hunger that involves
to go at the last minute (no early at the University of Missouri—
registration discount for me!). I more than just my St. Louis. (For details, go to
thought: take advantage of this great www.AmericanRecorder.org.)
teaching and performing
opportunity to change roles—partici- The ARS Festival and
—an appetite that
pate as a student instead of as faculty. Conferencewill be a very special
What a wonderful experience it was— now includes what event honoring all aspects of the
to observe, join sessions, and absorb recorder, an opportunity to come
other professionals
all the warmth, humor and knowledge together to share ideas and play our
are saying about
that was presented to me. I recon- beloved instrument, a chance to hear
nected with some and met many who the recorder .... live performances from the best-of-
will remain good friends and respected the-best, and a recognition of those
colleagues throughout my life. saying about the recorder, their who have been an integral part of the
As I recall the 2005 ARS Festival, thoughts on teaching, and their ARS and of those who will carry it
I remember my introduction to the approaches to ensemble direction and forward into the future.
ARS by one of my first teachers, performing. This is not an annual event. It has
Roberta Sweet. My passion lay in This President’s Message been years in the making. Whether
making music, and she fed that provides me with a chance not only to presenter, performer, student of every
passion lovingly and consistently— reflect, but also to advertise. This is the age and level, exhibitor, vendor,
one quality, I believe, necessary for March issue—the issue traditionally educator, auditor, amateur,
remarkable teaching. As a professional listing all the summer festivals and professional—we are in this together!
musician (and lifelong student of workshops. I mentioned it in the last All are welcome! (And don’t forget
music and life!), I now succumb to a issue, and you have certainly read and about the early registration discount!)
more sophisticated hunger that
involves more than just my teaching
and performing—an appetite that now
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Tidings
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Joe Lewnard wins young recorder player contest
Passing Notes method, he became a member of the made to Phare - Enfants et Familles,
Carl Orff Canada advisory board in www.phare-lighthouse.com, and
1974. His efforts in music education Maison Emmanuel, www.maison
were lauded by Jamie Portman in The emmanuel.org.
Flutist, recorderist, conductor and (Montréal) Gazette, writing in 1978 Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist
teacher Mario Duschenes(1923- that Duschenes “is probably doing John Updike(1932-2009) also died
2009) died peacefully in Montreal, more for the image of young people’s in January, of lung cancer at age 76.
QC, Canada, on January 31. concerts than anyone else in Canada.” Among his many literary efforts that
Born in Hamburg, Germany, he In 1953 he was co-founder of the include the Rabbitquartet, he wrote for
escaped into Switzerland before World CAMMAC Music Centre, where he The New Yorker, for which he contrib-
War II. His early musical studies taught for many years. Duschenes also uted a 1988 short story entitled “The
focused on recorder, solfège and piano. taught at McGill University (1954- Man Who Became a Soprano.” This
He then turned to the flute, first 70) and at the University of Montréal was later reprinted in The Afterlife and
studying with his father and brothers, (1970-73). He was president in1983- Other Stories(Knopf: 1994 & Fawcett
then in 1943 entering the Geneva 85 of Jeunesses musicales du Canada. Crest, New York: 1995)—and the title
Conservatory. In 1947, he completed Duschenes was recognized as a does refer to a soprano recorder. In
his training and won an award at the leading conductor, and stood before that story, he led the reader through
1947 International Competition for every major orchestra in Canada. various personality conflicts in a
Musical Performers in Geneva. Among numerous awards, he received weekly recorder group that met
After touring Europe as soloist two honorary doctorates (from Con- somewhere in the East. In other
with the Ars Antiqua Ensemble, he cordia University, Montréal, and writings, Updike used classical music
emigrated to Canada in 1948. Memorial University, St. John’s, New- to imply a level of sophistication in his
A new recorder world—in partic- foundland) and in 1985 was made an characters, such as Terry Gallagher
ular Montreal’s —was enlivened in Officer of the Order of Canada. playing Greensleeveson recorder in
the 1950s by the youthful recorderist Duschenes wrote a number of his fifth novel, Couples(1968).
and flutist from Europe, who taught, widely-distributed works, published Updike was himself knowledge-
published a method book (used by by BMI Canada and later by able about music, reviewing classical
thousands around the world and still Berandol—notably his Method for the music concerts in Castle Hill, MA,
available), and arranged for recorder Recorder I(1957) and II(1962) for from 1961-65. He had moved to
ensembles. He made over 30 record- soprano or alto (in French, Méthode de Ipswich near Boston after he left his
ings, including several of flute and flûte à bec I, 1962, and II, 1968); School job at The New Yorker, feeling after 20
recorder duets with his friend, well- Recorder Method(1957) for soprano months that the city was distracting
known flutist Jean-Pierre Rampal. and alto together (in French, La Flûte him and sometimes stifling his creativ-
With his wife Ellyn, who was a à bec à l’école, 1973); and Studies in ity (though he kept his ties to The New
researcher and child psychologist, he Recorder Playing(1960). He edited or Yorkerand continued to send them
brought musicians into schools and wrote easy duos and trios, studies for pieces). He and his family entered
conducted youth concerts. An expert alto recorder, and arrangements of enthusiastically into small-town life:
in the Orff-Schulwerk teaching Renaissance and Baroque works, of Updike wrote and performed in an
Bach, and of Leopold Mozart. historical pageant, and he and his wife
The He is survived by his brother were members of a recorder group.
Recorder Magazine Rolf, five children and 12 grandchil- Updike commented in 2003,
dren; his wife of 42 years, Ellyn “The real America seemed to me
we invite you to visit the site
(1929-1994), preceded him in death. ‘out there’... Out there was where I
www.recordermail.demon.co.uk
Donations in his memory may be belonged.”
8 March 2009 American Recorder
Recent Performances of Note Given as part of St. Bart’s midday with its recorder obbligato played by
in New York City midtown concert series, a concert of Larry Zukof, was lovely.
Last November, at the Chapel of the more Telemann held very nice playing Chelsea Windshad an interest-
General Theological Seminary in from Deborah Boothon December ing experience when we were invited
New York City, NY, Chelsea Winds 17. In addition to soprano and alto to play a short program for a United
Recorder Ensemble(Lucinda and recorders, Booth played Baroque Nations conference on cooperation
Barrie Mosher, Gregory Eaton, flute. I particularly liked her rendition between the UN and the world’s
David Hurd, and this author) offered of the Telemann Partita in C Minorfor religions (December 16). Labouisse
an all-Bach program. It started with soprano recorder and continuo, and Hall, where the concert was held, was
the Ricercare a3from the Musical the alto recorder obbligato to the aria full of people, very many in exotic
Offering, transposed up a step to “Ein stetes Zagen” from Telemann’s attire. I confess I was dismayed at this
D minor; and continued through cantata for Advent, “Lauter Wonne.” sight, because I feared our program of
10 contrapunctifrom Art of the Fugue. At the end of the liturgical season contrapuncti from Bach’s Art of the
of Christmas, the ensemble at the Fuguewould make no sense to the
If there were ever any Holy Trinity Lutheran Church many non-Westerners brought up in
Vespers series presented J.S. Bach’s other music cultures.
doubt, Maute made it
Cantata No. 152,“Tritt auf die I need not have feared. The
very clear that the
Glaubensbahn,” for the first Sunday music was enthusiastically received.
recorder could hold its after Christmas (December 28). The Bach’s music really is universal.
aria “Stein, der über alle Schätze,” Anita Randolfi
own in the company of
“modern” instruments.
The final days of 2008 held some
fine recorder playing. Recorderist
Matthias Mautejoined 16 members
of the prestigious Chamber Music
Society of Lincoln Centerin a
program titled “Baroque Collection:
the Beautiful and the Bizarre.” The
performance included sonatas, con-
certos, programmatic pieces, and arias
by Pachelbel, Muffat, Telemann,
Biber, Vivaldi and Handel. Maute
contributed his graceful and fluid
playing to the Telemann Concerto in
A Minorfor alto recorder, two violins
and basso continuo, and also to the
Vivaldi Concerto in G Minorfor
recorder, oboe, bassoon, violin and
continuo (R107.) Mary Halverson Waldo was a Suzuki teacher trainer for the
The concert was presented in the January Festival Suzukiin Lima, Perú. Pictured are the
large Rose Theater at the Lincoln Huancavelicanos, who attended the festival from the city of
Center Jazz Center on December 19 Huancavelica in the most poverty-stricken region of Perú.
and 21. If there were ever any doubt, Padre William Lopez (center front) is the school master and
Maute made it very clear that the recorder teacher (being an excellent recorder player him-
recorder could hold its own in the self). They were extremely grateful to Corinne Newbegin
company of “modern” instruments,
(OR) and Jane Harper (MN), who donated SATB recorders
even in a large concert space.
in excellent condition for two vibrant Suzuki programs in
Colombia and Perú!
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Awards and Honors music charts (see the CD review in the (individual or organizational) of EMA
Music educator and recorderist September 2007 AR, and an interview who reside in the U.S. or Canada.
Deborah Greenblattand David with Bosgraaf in the May 2008 AR; Applications are due April 30.
Seay, of “The Old Schoolhouse” in see also www.erikbosgraaf.com). Finalists will be selected by June 30,
Avoca, NE, were featured in the Iranian-born Esfahani, who has and will receive hour-long coaching
November 2008 International Musi- appeared in ensemble performances sessions with an early music artist
cian, the official journal of the Ameri- reviewed in AR, was a BBT Fellowship and present live 20- to 30-minute
can Federation of Musicians of the winner. He makes his Wigmore Hall performances in New York City, NY,
U.S. and Canada. They have played début in London as soloist with The in October.
and sung folk music together for more English Concert this month. For application requirements, visit
than 30 years. The duo has published Two BBT awards of £20,000 each www.earlymusic.org.
books for a variety of instruments from and six fellowships of £10,000 each EMA has also announced two
’cello to tin whistle. Among the latest were given by the Trust’s artistic com- early music ensembles receiving its
are Barn Dance Fiddle Tunes for Twoand mittee—Franco Buitoni, Adam Gate- 2008-09 Collegium Musicum
Singing Cowboy Fiddling Tunes for Two. house, Martijn Sanders and Mitsuko Grant: Sacabuche!, at Indiana
Visit www.greenblattandseay.com Uchida. See www.bbtrust.comfor University’s Early Music Institute,
for information. more on the foundation and its policies directed by Linda Pearse; and the
The 2009 Borletti-Buitoni Trust plus news, video and audio of BBT UNT Baroque Orchestra and
(BBT) Awardsacknowledge that musicians (now 45 individuals and Collegium Singers, from the
some instruments present a challenge 14 ensembles from 22 countries). University of North Texas under the
for talented and ambitious young direction of Lyle Nordstrom.
classical musicians striving for a solo Early Music America News Sacabuche! performs vocal music
career. Recorder player Eric Bosgraaf EMA, with support from a private with sackbuts and organ.
(below) and harpsichordist Mahan donor, will sponsor its third Medieval/ UNT has one of the largest and
Esfahani are among those selected to Renaissance Performance Compe- most active collegium programs in
receive BBT financial assistance as titionin 2009. The winner receives a North America. The most prestigious
well as advice in such areas as public cash prize (the Unicorn Prize) and is ensembles there are the 30-piece UNT
relations, auditions and finding agents. guaranteed three concert performances Baroque Orchestra and 26-voice
sponsored by EMA and presenters in Collegium Singers, whose members
Pittsburgh, PA, Milwaukee, WI, and regularly perform at the Boston Early
Seattle, WA. The contest’s goal is Music Festival (BEMF).
to encourage the development of Nordstrom, the director of these
emerging artists in the performance ensembles, was co-director with Paul
of Medieval and Renaissance music. O’Dette of The Musicians of Swanne
Applicants must be ensembles Alley, and was the founder and artistic
with at least two performers, of age 39 director of the Atlanta (GA) Baroque
or younger, who have not performed Orchestra. He received EMA’s
together for more than five years Thomas Binkley Award in 2000 for
(“emerging artists”). Repertoire is his work with collegiate ensembles at
limited to the period of roughly 800- Oakland University and Clayton
BBT Award winnerBosgraaf,of 1550 A.D., performed on voice(s) State College.
The Netherlands, is hailed as one of and/or period instrument(s) and in a EMA Collegium Musicum
the most gifted and versatile recorder style that is historically informed. Grants provide $1000 toward the cost
players of his generation.Current plans The competition is open to members of bringing a college or university
include solo performances with the student early music ensemble to
Dallas (TX) Symphony Orchestra and perform in a BEMF fringe concert
the Dutch Radio Chamber Philhar- (odd-numbered years) or at the Berke-
monic. His début recording, a three- ley (CA) Festival (even-numbered
CD set of music by Jacob van Eyck, years). The two winners will perform
was No. 1 on the 2007 Dutch classical during BEMF, June 7-14.
10 March 2009 American Recorder