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Welcome back from summer!
Joan Kimball will guest conduct our first meeting of the season, Tuesday,
September 11, 2007, at the Kingston Presbyterian Church, 4565 Route 27,
Kingston, NJ 08528. Doors open at 7:00 PM. Playing is 7:30-9:30 PM. Judy
Klotz and I will be providing light refreshments before the playing session,
so come early and catch up with friends
Joan is planning a lively
program for us. We'll spend the evening exploring the tradition of early
dance music from the monophonic tunes of the medieval period through the
complex dance arrangements of Brade and Simpson in the early 17th Century.
We'll experiment with arrangements on the spot, as well as try our hand
at livening up the top lines with divisions and ornaments. All instruments
are welcome-recorders, viols, dulcians, krumhorns, even bagpipes. And
we'll add percussion to the mix as well.
PLEASE
SAVE THESE DATES
Philadelphia Recorder Society Saturday playing session-Saturday, September
15, 2007, 10AM-12PM. Cathedral Village, 600 East Cathedral Road, Philadelphia,
PA.
Westchester Recorder Guild Fall Workshop-Saturday, September 29, 2007,
9AM-4:30PM. Emanuel Lutheran Church, 197 Manville Road, Pleasantville,
NY-more info in newsletter.
Amherst Early Music Fall Weekend Workshop-Friday-Monday, October 5-8,
2007, Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center, Falls Village, CT.
PRS Meeting with Rainer Beckmann guest conducting, Tuesday, October 9,
2007, 7-9:30PM.
Philadelphia Recorder Society Fall Workshop-Saturday, October 20, 2007-details
are forthcoming.
Guild for Early Music Festival at the Grounds for Sculpture-Sunday (Rain
or Shine), October 28, 2007. PRS Ensemble will perform.
PRS Spring Workshop-Saturday, March 29, 2008, 9AM-4PM.
Membership Renewal:
It's time to renew your membership with the Princeton Recorder Society
and the American Recorder Society. You will find this season's membership
form in the mailing you receive, and shortly, on-line. Extra copies will
be available at the September and October meetings. Deadline for renewal
is our second meeting, October 9, 2007, in order to assure timely renewal
in both PRS and ARS.
Need
a ride to meetings? Please contact Alison Hankinson if you
need assistance getting to Tuesday evening meetings. We would like to
organize informal carpooling to help members attend monthly meetings.
Westchester Recorder Guild
Fall Workshop: Faculty for the workshop are: Ken Andresen, Sheila
Beardslee, Valerie Horst and Wendy Powers. Courtly Music Unlimited, Richard
and Elaine Henzler, proprietors, will be on site with their traveling
music shop. Cost is $55. For more information email Karen Snowberg at:
Karen@nelsonresearch.com Or, call (914) 741-2129.
Need a ride to Westchester or Philly Workshop? It makes sense to try
to go with other PRS members to some of the great early music activities
in our area. If you are interested in going to one of the workshops, OR,
if you plan on driving and would be happy to have some company, send me
an email (or phone if you're not on-line) and I'll forward your note to
our membership list.
WWFM (89.1) Fall Pledge Drive: Princeton Recorder Society is a
member organization in the Guild for Early Music. Tuesday, October 23,
2007, is the day that the Guild for Early Music plans to cover phones
for WWFM's Pledge Drive. It's great exposure for the Guild, for the upcoming
festival at the Grounds for Sculpture, and if some of our members volunteer,
great exposure for PRS, too. Volunteers sit next door to the sound booth
(and can see in) and get to interact with the announcers and station staff-a
lively bunch. Meals, coffee and other snacks are provided throughout the
day. It's a fun, convivial experience. If you can cover a two-hour time
slot sometime that day between 8AM and 8PM, please contact Judy Klotz
by phone or email.
PRS Library News: The PRS library got many wonderful additions
this past year and our librarian, Anna Laufenberg will continue to bring
selections to our meetings starting in September. If you still have music
checked out of the library from last season, please return it at the September
meeting. Or, you can call Anna at (609) 448-4097 to make arrangements
to return it.
PRS Workshop Date and Location Selected: Our annual Spring Workshop
will take place on Saturday, March 29, 2008. Once again the workshop will
be at All Saints' Church in Princeton, near the Princeton Shopping Center.
The 2007 workshop was a splendid event, thanks to Sheila Fernekes and
Sue Parisi and their amazing organizational savvy. Please save the date
for 2008 by marking your calendar now.
PRS Publicity Outreach-Your help is needed: Last season Judy Klotz
sent press releases for every PRS meeting and event to the following newspapers:
US1, Trenton Times, Princeton Packet, Hunterdon County Democrat, Hopewell
Valley News, Bucks County Courier Times and Somerset Reporter. Do you
read one of these newspapers? If so, would you be our “PRS spotter,”
and help Judy keep track of if, when and where our press release info
is published? Please contact Judy by phone or email to let her know which
publication you would be able to track. She will copy you on each release
she sends out. This would be a tremendous help in our efforts to attract
new members.
PRS “Adopt-a-Spot” Program-Your help is needed: I've
asked Board members to pick one (or two!) locations each to post PRS flyers
and/or brochures. Now, I'm asking the rest of our members to do the same
thing. Is there a bulletin board at your local library, coffee shop, church,
community center or other activity center where you could post a PRS flyer?
Once the flyer is posted or brochures set out, I'd like you to “adopt”
that location, and see that our publicity materials continue to be displayed
throughout the season. Flyers and brochures will be available at meetings.
Please contact Judy Klotz by phone or email and let her know which site(s)
you've adopted so we can monitor our publicity efforts.
What did you do this summer? Did you go to a music workshop this summer?
Or a concert or festival? Please send me your news to share with the rest
of PRS. As for me, I moved-again. After a busy spring, April, May, June
and July passed in a blur of pre-move packing and post-move unpacking
and exhaustion. As I remind people, “move” is a four-letter
word.
Sincerely,
Nancy
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