The March 2 SRS Program will be provided by the Trinity Consort. It was formed at Trinity Parish Church in 2006 by Assistant Music Director Sr. Jo Baim, who writes, “The consort includes Marilyn McAdoo, Gus Denhard, Peggy Monroe, Molly Seibert, Larry Stark, and Tomo Morita. We will also be joined by baritone Rich Hill. The Consort will perform on the Early Music Guild’s First Tuesday Series, held at Trinity on Tuesday, March 7th, at 7:30 p.m. in the Church Sanctuary. Our theme is Chromatic Fantasy Island. Chromaticism was a favorite technique of Renaissance and Baroque composers, who employed its shifting harmonies and unexpected chords to portray the text and set the mood. Chromatic music can be intense and dramatic, or quirky and fun – we plan to offer some of each! The Consort uses a variety of instruments, and Molly and Marilyn provide their incomparable vocal blend and authentic pure style. The program for the March SRS meeting will be drawn from material planned for the EMG concert.”
Playing: Heinrich Isaac was, along with Josquin des Pres, a leading composer of his era, which spanned the latter half of the 15th and early part of the 16th centuries. He was a master of the complex Netherlandish compositional techniques as a composer first in Northern courts, then in Italy. In March, we will play a work of his that simultaneously combines three well-known tunes of the time, En l’ombre/Una musque/Sustinuimus pacem. Having mastered that, we will turn to a new work for recorder quartet that I expect to have completed prior to the March meeting. This work is of only moderate difficulty and sounds more sun-filled than does the Isaac.
ARS Festival: There is increasing buzz about the ARS Festival, which this year for the first time will be held on the West Coast. It is both a workshop and a festival and features 15 presenters, all of whom are well known in the recorder world. Brochures were in the most recent copy of the American Recorder, and another load of brochures will be available at the March meeting. Festival dates: July 5-8, 2012. Venue: Reed College in Portland.
Board meeting: The final SRS board meeting is on Monday, March 26 at 7:30 p.m.
Music of Isaac and Seibert
Peter Seibert, conducting
Recorders SATB+ big basses
