MARCH 2017
HAPPY 100TH BIRTHDAY TO SID SIMON!!!
Sid Simon, who joined MPRO shortly after it was formed in 1962, will turn 100 on March 26, 2017. In honor of his birthday and his long association with MPRO, the Board of Directors has decided to make him a lifetime Honorary Member. Congratulations, Sid!
(Sid’s biography, titled “MPRO’s Oldest Member,” is included in the November 2013 issue of Upbeat. This and other past issues are available through the “Newsletter” link at www.mpro-online.org.)
MORE AUTHENTIC THAN GREEN BEER
The following are links to interpretations of early music by two Irish traditional music bands.
Planxty Mozart is a “battle of the bands” between the Chieftains and the RTE Orchestra. RTE (Raidio Teilifis Eirann) is Ireland’s national radio/television network. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yPMb48OAQs .
Arrival of the Queen of Sheba in Galway Bay is played by De Danann (with no apologies to Handel) at https://youtu.be/MB8NhXtgG_A .
You can also celebrate March 17 with Celtic music at http://thistleradio.com/ .
“Thistle and Shamrock” is a radio program, produced in Scotland and syndicated on some NPR stations, that is apparently unavailable in the Bay Area. However, you can listen online to streaming music through the “Listen Now” button, and access the ten most recent one-hour radio programs through the “Listen Again” button.
-Judith Unsicker
CONDUCTOR’S CORNER
Dear members of the Mid-Peninsula Recorder Orchestra,
Listed below is the music for the orchestra's next four meetings. Please note that there will be sectional seating for the Frank Gloria Patri, qui creavit nos with those in Primus Chorus on the right as they face the conductor and those in Secundus Chorus on the left. Please observe this seating arrangement when you choose your place at the beginning of all four meetings. Also, please note that sopranino, great bass and contrabass recorders, bassoons, krummhorns and bass viola da gamba will be needed at all four meetings as well.
March 8
Franck: Gloria Patri, qui creavit nos
Praetorius: La Canarie
Vivaldi: Concerto RV 531
Ravenscroft: Remember, Oh Thou Man
Fortuna desperata
Trenet and Lasry: La Mer
March 22
Franck: Gloria Patri, qui creavit nos
Praetorius: La Canarie
Vivaldi: Concerto RV 531
Ravenscroft: Remember, Oh Thou Man
Fortuna desperata
Trenet and Lasry: La Mer
March 29
Franck: Gloria Patri, qui creavit nos
Praetorius: La Canarie
Vivaldi: Concerto RV 531
Ravenscroft: Remember, Oh Thou Man
Fortuna desperata
Trenet and Lasry: La Mer
April 12
Franck: Gloria Patri, qui creavit nos
Praetorius: La Canarie
Vivaldi: Concerto RV 531
Ravenscroft: Remember, Oh Thou Man
Fortuna desperata
Trenet and Lasry: La Mer
I look forward to seeing you at these upcoming meetings.
Sincerely,
Fred Palmer
REMEMBER, O THOU MAN
On March 8, MPRO will begin rehearsing Richard Geisler’s arrangement of this song for recorder orchestra. Thomas Ravenscroft was a chorister at Chichester Cathedral and moved to London where he sang at St. Paul’s and wrote music to accompany plays at the Globe Theater. He is best known for publishing three collections of British popular music, including catches, rounds, and street vendor songs. Remember, O Thou Man was first published in Ravenscroft’s Melismata in 1611. This is a facsimile of the 1631 edition: http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/ravenscroft/melismata/. The last entry in the index is a link to the facsimile page for Remember, O Thou Man, with the lyrics. This is a vocal recording of the piece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUj7gEYezRM, and this is an instrumental recording by an early music ensemble including a recorder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUj7gEYezRM.
ARS CHAPTER NEWSLETTER ARCHIVES
The American Recorder Society’s web page now includes links to the newsletters of affiliated chapters, consorts, and recorder orchestras at http://www.americanrecorder.org/community_news.php . This includes recent issues of Upbeat. (If you are an aspiring author who would like national exposure, please consider contributing an article to our newsletter!)
These archives provide interesting information about what other recorder organizations are doing, and some “good stuff” like the following links to free sheet music from the San Diego County Recorder Society’s February 17 newsletter.
http://recorder-flute-free.com (links to many free sheet music web pages)
www.pjperry.freeuk.com/music.htm (solos for bass recorder)
http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/Hendricks (Renaissance music arrangements from the Society for Creative Anachronism web page)
www.geocities.jp/loverecder (lots of arrangements by a Japanese recorder player; the web page is in English)
www.mutopiaproject.org/browse.html
The Board: President: Judith Unsicker; Treasurer: LouAnn Hofmann; Recording Secretary: Helen Shamble; Membership: Chris Flake; Publicity: vacant; Graphics: Mary Ashley; Newsletter Editor: vacant; Workshop Coordinator: vacant; Hospitality: vacant; Music Sales: Laura Gonsalves; Historian: vacant; Webmaster: Dan Chernikoff; Music Director: Fred Palmer; Assistant Music Director: Greta Haug-Hryciw.
MPRO website: http://www.mpro-online.org
