May 2025

 

NEXT MPRO MEETING

The orchestra’s next meeting will be held on Monday, May 19th at 7:00pm.

 

CONDUCTOR’S CORNER

Dear members of the Mid-Peninsula Recorder Orchestra,

 

     Listed below is the music for the orchestra’s next meeting on May 19. Please note that great bass and contrabass recorders as well as bassoon and krummhorns will be needed at this meeting. As a reminder, the orchestra’s spring concert has been scheduled for 2:00 P.M. on Saturday, June 28, at the Veterans Memorial Senior Center in Redwood City, and small ensembles are encouraged to appear in this concert. Those groups that intend to perform in the spring concert on June 28 are asked to send me the following information at their earliest convenience but no later than June 13: the title(s) of the music to be performed, the name(s) of the composer(s), the name of the ensemble (if any) and the names of the ensemble’s members.

 

May 19

Anonymous: Planctus quem Virgo Maria facit

Passereau: Il est bel et bon

Debussy: Sarabande

 

I look forward to seeing you at this meeting and working on this music with you. Please let any of your friends who play early instruments know about the orchestra’s varied activities and invite them to attend an MPRO meeting or concert.

Sincerely,

Fred Palmer

 

 

COMING EVENTS AND ONLINE RESOURCES

 

Here are some upcoming concerts of interest.

The Peralta Consort is a mixed instrument chamber ensemble emphasizing Baroque music: Bach, Telemann, Handel, Vivaldi, Graupner, de Selma & Caccini. Kraig Williams, director. They are performing three concerts.

Suggested donation is $10. More information can be found at https://www.theperaltaconsort.com/

 

Palo Alto (Museum of American Heritage, Thursday, June 26, 7 PM)

Boulder Creek (B.C. United Methodist Church, Saturday, May 10, 2:30 PM)

Union City (Masonic Home, Saturday, May 31, 2:30 PM).

 

 

Judy Linsenberg (recorder), Bill Skeen (cello/viola da gamba) and Yuko Tanaka (harpsichord) will perform a program of (mostly) Bach on Friday, May 23, 6:30 PM at the Parish Hall of St. Mary Magdalen Church, 2005 Berryman, Berkeley. Admission is $25 (no one turned away for lack of funds). Reservations can be made in advance by email to info@barefootchamberconcerts.com (highly recommended), and pay at the door when you come. More information can be found at  https://barefootchamberconcerts.com/2024-2025-season/linsenberg-skeen-tanaka/

 

 

Frances Feldon’s new group Mixus Mundi makes its East Bay debut at Hillside Community Church in El Cerrito on Friday May 16 at 7:30. Mixus Mundi (Latin for “blended world”) is an ensemble whose voice stretches the boundaries between jazz, early music, world music, new music and improvisation. Music by JS Bach, Bela Bartok, Hoagy Carmichael, John Coltrane, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Steve Kuhn, Joyce Todd McBride, Thelonius Monk, Hermeto Pascoal, and others, as well as an arrangement of an Egyptian melody. Cash donations will be gratefully accepted at the door to offset the cost of this self-presentation. For more info: (510)527-9029.

 

 

Registration is now open for  SFEMS’ week long summer workshops. They will be held at First Church Berkeley (First Congregational). For information see https://www.sfems.org/workshops.

 

Baroque Workshop: June 16–22

Medieval/Renaissance Workshop: July 13–19

Recorder Workshop: July 20–26

Classical Workshop: July 27–August 2

 

 

 

Music Director: Fred Palmer

 

The Board:

President: Kathrin Hoffnagle                             Treasurer: Chantal Moser

Secretary: Francie Souza                                   Membership: Chris Flake

Publicity: vacant                                               Graphics: vacant

Newsletter Editor: Tom Granvold                      Virtual Meeting Host: Ray White

Workshop Coordinator: vacant                          Hospitality: vacant

Music Sales: vacant                                          Webmaster: Dan Chernikoff

 

MPRO website: http://www.mpro-online.org