Sacramento Recorder Society report

Sacramento ties Rochester for 2nd Place in 2014 PtRM Contest

Members of the Sacramento Recorder Society will receive a gift certificate from Boulder Early Music. They had in 12 separate events:
(1) one member played the recorder for special music at church services on two Sundays;
(2) several small ensembles played Arrival at various locations;
(3) a quartet performed for a community adult education class in music appreciation;
(4) an ensemble participated (in costume) in daylong Renaissance Faire at K-12 school. They played for dancers and performed during a court reenactment, demonstrated instruments and played music with and for 4th grade recorder and ukulele class;
(5) a trio taught two beginning recorder classes at a community center;
(6) one member played Irish music on recorder for a St. Patrick’s Day dinner at a private home;
(7) a duo taught a class on Renaissance music in the Elizabethan court at a Renaissance Symposium for actors and performers who participate in Renaissance faires;
(8) several members performed in and/or conducted a concert by a regional recorder orchestra;
(9) one member played Irish music with a harp circle at a downtown noontime concert;
(10) on several days one member who volunteers with a cat rescue sanctuary took his tenor recorder to the sanctuary and played for the volunteers and about 120 cats. He reported that not a single cat yowled whenever he played Gregorian chant at low tenor pitch, but the cats were particularly vocal (not in a good way) when he played Vivaldi;
(11) a member taught a 6th grade teacher, who intends to teach recorder playing to his students, how to oil and maintain wooden recorders; and
(12) two members were contacted separately by two different individuals who wanted to learn to play the recorder on their own. Each person was provided with an alto recorder and instruction book, helped with fingerings, and encouraged to come to a chapter meeting (which one of them did).
(reported by Doris Loughner)