May 2024
NEXT MPRO MEETING
The orchestra’s next meeting will be held on Monday April 15 at 7:00pm. Note that the meeting will be held in the Veterans Center Theater.
CONDUCTOR’S CORNER
Dear members of the Mid-Peninsula Recorder Orchestra, Listed below is information regarding the final meetings and performance that will conclude MPRO’s 2023-2024 season. Please note that sopranino and contrabass recorders as well as bassoon will be needed at all three meetings, great bass recorders on April 15 and April 29, racket on April 29 and May 6 and krummhorns and sordun at the meeting on May 6. Please note as well that these meetings will start at 7:00 P.M. and will take place in the Veterans Center Theater.
The spring concert will be in the Veterans Center Theater on Saturday, May 11, at 2:00 P.M. As in the past, small ensembles are encouraged to appear in the spring concert. Those groups that intend to perform at the spring concert on May 11 are asked to send me the following information by April 26: 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.
April 15
Veterans Center Theater
7:00 P.M.
Dufay: Quel fronte signorille
Grieg: The Last Spring
Josquin: Mille regretz
Corelli: Sonata Op. 4
April 29
Veterans Center Theater
7:00 P.M.
Schein: Suite No. 15
Dufay: Quel fronte signorille
Mozart: Ave Verum
Mesomedes: Hymn to the Sun
May 6
Veterans Center Theater
7:00 P.M.
Josquin: Mille regretz
Susato: Pavane Bittre Reue
Corelli: Sonata Op. 4
Saturday, May 11
MPRO Spring Concert
Veterans Center Theater
2:00 P.M.
Schein: Suite No. 15
Dufay: Quel fronte signorille
Mozart: Ave Verum
Mesomedes: Hymn to the Sun
Josquin: Mille regretz
Susato: Pavane Bittre Reue
Corelli: Sonata Op. 4
This will be the orchestra’s first spring concert in four years and will offer a wide variety of exciting and attractive music. I encourage you to invite your family and friends to attend this performance. I would also like to thank the members of MPRO for all of the time and effort that they have put in preparing this season’s music, as well as the orchestra’s officers for seeing to the necessary tasks that make MPRO’s programs possible. Special thanks go to Greta Haug-Hryciw for continuing to serve as the orchestra’s Assistant Director and conducting a portion of this season’s meetings. I wish all MPRO members the very best this summer and look forward to seeing all of you again in September at our first meeting of the orchestra’s 2024-2025 season.
Sincerely,
Fred Palmer
COMING EVENTS AND ONLINE RESOURCES
The San Francisco Early Music Society is putting on The Berkeley Festival & Exhibition, June 9-16, 2024. For information about this festival see the web site
SFEMS is also holding a series of workshops this summer, including ones on Baroque, Medieval/Renaissance, and Recorders. For information about these workshops see the web site < https://www.sfems.org/workshops>.
The East Bay Recorder Society is putting on Headlands in Berkeley on May 18, 2024. Conductors will be Frances Baker, Tish Berlin, Greta Haug-Hryciw, and Andy Canepa. For more information see the web site
< http://www.eastbayrecorders.org/special.html>
Music Director: Fred Palmer
Assistent Director: Greta Haug-Hryciw
The Board:
President: Kathrin Hoffnagle
Treasurers: Chantal Moser and Mary Ashley
Membership: Chris Flake
Publicity: vacant
Graphics: Mary Ashley
Newsletter Editor: Tom Granvold
Virtual Meeting Host: Ray White
Workshop Coordinator: vacant
Hospitality: vacant
Music Sales: Laura Gonsalves
Webmaster: Dan Chernikoff
MPRO website: http://www.mpro-online.org
