Westchester

Recorder

Guild

Workshop 2009

Saturday, Sept. 26, 2009

Location:

Emanuel Lutheran Church,

197 Manville Road

Pleasantville, NY

Faculty: Susan Iadone, Bruce Larkin,
Gene Murrow, Wendy Powers

Westchester Recorder Guild

22nd Annual Recorder Workshop

at

Emanuel Lutheran Church

197 Manville Road, Pleasantville, NY 10570

Just a few blocks off the Saw Mill Parkway by car or an easy walk from the train station. Travel directions are enclosed. Ample parking available behind the church and on the street.

Workshop Fee:

WRG Members: $50, All Others: $55

INFORMATION: (

Karen@nelsonresearch.com

Or call (evenings) 914-741-2129

Or look us up on the Web: http://www.westchesterrecorderguild.org

The WESTCHESTER RECORDER GUILD was established in 1985 as an ARS chapter. Playing sessions are held in Pleasantville where three professional teachers coach players from low intermediate to advanced levels. Monthly sessions are held from September through May (except December). A two-semester beginner class is also offered.

Membership inquiries are invited.

Erica Babad, President, (914) 769-5236

Karen Snowberg, Music Director,
(914) 741-2129

Program

9:00-9:30 Registration (coffee, etc.)

9:30-10:45 Class I

11:00-12:15 Class II

12:15-1:15 Lunch J
Music Shop Opens

1:15-2:30 Class III

2:45-4:00 Class IV

4:00-4:30 Last chance to shop at Music Shop

Visit the Music Shop!

Richard & Elaine Henzler, Proprietors

(If you wish to order any music or supplies for them to deliver to you at the workshop, call: 1-800-2-Richie)

J A generous sized LUNCH...is available from the best Chinese restaurant in Westchester! The cost is $8.00 and MUST be ordered with your workshop registration. Choose from the following:

Fried rice and choice of beef with snow peas, sesame chicken, roast pork w/vegetables, or home style bean curd (vegetarian).

Be sure to bring your and !!

If sitting on a folding chair all day presents a problem for you, bring a cushion.

Directions via Train:

Take the Harlem Line from Grand Central Station. Get off at Pleasantville and come up the stairs towards the front end of the train. At the top, turn right and then go left to the street. This is Manville Road. Turn right onto Man­ville and walk past eye-glass shop on the corner, the movie theatre, a parking lot, & the Shell Station. Church will be on left side about 4 blocks later. (Total walk, 10 minutes.)

(Driving directions appear on page 3.)

Workshop Faculty

Susan Iadone: Susan Iadone has a varied and active career as a performer, teacher, and coach on recorder, viola, and viola da gamba. Her experiences include accompanying Victoria de los Angeles in recital, recording Klezmer music with Giora Feidman, touring Europe with Meredith Monk’s opera Atlas, and performing at the Metropolitan Opera on sopranino recorder and viola d’amore with the NY Philharmonic. She can be heard on the sound-track of the “Lady Killers” and “Casanova”. She has also made numerous legitimate recordings. She is on the faculty of the St. David’s School in NYC.

Gene Murrow: Gene Murrow has a degree in music from Columbia, studied oboe with Lois Wann at Juilliard, and toured with the New York Renaissance Band and the Paul Winter Consort. He has been coaching at American Recorder Society Chapters and early music workshops throughout the United States for over 35 years, including Pinewoods, Amherst, SFEMS, Port Townsend, and served as ARS President from 1994-2000. In his classes Gene focuses on the techniques of ensemble playing that result in beautifully phrased, in-tune, cogent readings that please both listeners and players alike. He currently is Executive Director of Gotham Early Music Scene, Inc. and serves on the board of Early Music America.

Wendy Powers: Wendy Powers is an active performer and teacher of recorder in New York
City. She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1994.  As a musicologist, she is currently working on an edition of the complete works of the French composer Hesdin (d. 1538) for Broude Brothers. Wendy is assistant director and faculty member of the Amherst Early Music Festival at Connecticut College and is adjunct assistant professor at Queens College of the City University of New York, where she directed the Collegium Musicum in 2006-07. She taught music history at Vassar College in Fall 2007. She is the former book review editor of American Recorder magazine, to which she has contributed articles and reviews and has written about musical instruments for the Metropolitan Museum of Art Timeline of Art History.

Bruce Larken has been an early music specialist, performer, and teacher of recorder for more than thirty years.  He studied musicology at the Un. of Michigan and early music performance at Sarah Lawrence College.  He has studied with Michael Lynn, LaNoue Davenport, and – especially for pedagogy -- with Eva Legêne.  In 2004 he founded the Richmond Recorder Consort to explore and present a wide-ranging repertoire for recorder in formal and informal concerts.  A former symphony orchestra musician, Bruce now lives in New Haven, Connecticut.  Widely respected as a teacher and ensemble coach, he was conductor of the Connecticut Recorder Orchestra and is a founding member and past director of the American Recorder Teachers Association,  He has taught at many early music workshops, including Amherst, Hudson Guild, and American Recorder Society chapter workshops.  He has been music director of the Eastern Connecticut Recorder Society ARS chapter since 2005.

Richie Henzler will teach if a fifth coach is needed. Richie is a graduate of Juilliard, and has been teaching and performing on the recorder in the greater New York metropolitan area for over thirty years. In 1987 he and his wife Elaine opened Courtly Music Unlimited and in 1989 they began the recital series, American Performer on the Recorder. He and Elaine conduct workshops in the Adirondacks several times a year (held on the shores of beautiful Lake George) and also teach and perform in that area.

Workshop Registration Form
Deadline for ALL is September 21, 2009
(WRG members have priority in enrollment only if registration postmarked by Sept. 9th.)

Last Name____________________________________

First Name ___________________________________

Street_______________________________________

City_________________________________________

State___________Zip____________

Phone: (H)_____________________

(W) __________________________

E-mail Address:__________________

Check your recorder playing level & circle the recorders you play at that level. All levels of players must comfortably play at least 3 voices of recorders. You are also required to BRING the instruments to play on!

[ ] Intermediate S A T B GB

[ ] High intermediate S A T B GB

[ ] Advanced S A T B GB CB

Note: Please be honest in your assessment of your playing level. We don’t want to know how you “used to play” or possibly might play if you have a good day! It isn’t fair to the rest of the class when one person holds them back.

Due to insufficient enrollment in past work­shops, we no longer offer a Lower Intermediate class.

2009 Workshop Fee:
(Includes $10 non-refundable deposit)

WRG Member $50

Non-Member $55

Box Lunch? ____Yes ____No

Lunch Selection:

____Beef with snow peas

____Sesame Chicken

____Roast pork w/vegetables

____Home style bean curd

Amount Enclosed:

Workshop Fee $_____

Box Lunch ($8) $_____

Total $_____

No refunds after September 21st.

Checks Payable:
Westchester Recorder Guild

Mail by September 20th to:
WRG, c/o Nelson Research, Inc.
427 Bedford Rd., Pleasantville, NY 10570

Waiver: I agree to hold harmless Westches­ter Recorder Guild (WRG) and/or its members, guests and coaches from any damages, claims, cost or expense (including reasonable attorney's fees) arising out of participation in WRG's Recorder Workshop.

_____________________________(Signature)

Note: For the comfort of those suffering from asthma and allergies, PLEASE refrain from wearing perfume on the day of the workshop!!!

Directions via Car:

Pleasantville is just 15 min. from the Tappan Zee Bridge; 15 min. from White Plains; 45 min. from NYC or Danbury; & 45 min. from the Bergen Chapter.

From the South: Take the Sprain Brook Pkwy North to the Saw Mill Pkwy North. Take the Grant Street exit (right lane, exit 30) at the 2nd traffic light thereafter. Go 1 block on Grant & turn left onto Manville Rd.

* Go straight through lights, past the Shell Station (on right), follow road as it curves, and church will be on the left side of the street, 3 blocks later.

(From the West side of the county, just take the Saw Mill all the way. From East take 287 to the Sprain Brook to the Saw Mill.)

From the North via Taconic: Go south to Pleasantville Road Exit. Turn left towards Pleasantville. Go to the 3rd traffic light, which will be Manville Road. (If you go by the Key Foods Grocery Store, you’ve gone about a block too far.) Turn left onto Manville Road. (Follow from * above.)

From the North via the Saw Mill Parkway: Go south to Exit 29 (Manville Rd.). At the end of the ramp, turn right. (Follow from * above.)

From the Tappan Zee Bridge: After going through the tolls, take Exit 8A (right hand lane) for the Saw Mill Parkway North (taking left lane when ramp eventually splits). Go to the 2nd traffic light there­after, Grant Street, Exit 30. Go one block on Grant and turn left onto Manville Rd. (Follow from * above.)