APRIL-MAY 2018
END OF THE SEASON
MPRO’s 2017-2018 season will end with the Spring Concert on May 6. See Fred
Palmer’s column for information on the concert and the remaining rehearsals for this season. Members should have received copies of the flyer for the concert. Please help to publicize it by distributing flyers to interested family and friends and posting them in public places.
This will be the last issue of Upbeat for the season. The next issue should be available in late August or early September. Members who would like to contribute articles or announcements for the September newsletter should email me by mid-August. My contact information is in the membership mailing list.
- Judith Unsicker
GIG OPPORTUNITIES FOR MPRO’S SMALL ENSEMBLES
The San Francisco Early Music Society (SFEMS) is accepting proposals from SFEMS members and affiliates to perform in concerts in the 2018-2019 California Jazz Conservatory/SFEMS “Early Music Sundays” series. The one-hour concerts will be scheduled for Sunday afternoons in Berkeley. Concert programs should involve early music played on period instruments (no modern instruments or jazz, pop, etc.) Web searching shows that the Conservatory’s performance venues are cafe-type settings with table seating for about 60 people. The deadline to apply for specific concert dates is May 15. See this link for more information: http://sfems.org/?p=13053
CONDUCTOR’S CORNER
Dear members of the Mid-Peninsula Recorder Orchestra,
Listed below is information regarding the final three meetings, dress rehearsal and performance that will conclude MPRO’s 2017-2018 season. There will be seating charts for the meeting on April 30, dress rehearsal on May 4 and concert on May 6. Please note that sopranino, great bass and contrabass recorders as well as krummhorns will be needed for the April 30 meeting, May 4 dress rehearsal and May 6 concert and that great bass and contrabass recorders will also be needed for the meetings on April 11 and April 25. The meeting on Monday, April 30, and dress rehearsal on May 4 will take place at Trinity Presbyterian Church, 1106 Alameda de las Pulgas in San Carlos at 7:30 P.M., and the spring concert will be at Trinity Presbyterian Church on Sunday, May 6, 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 6 are asked to send me the following information by April 20: 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 11
Schmelzer: Sonatina
Handel: Concerto Grosso Op. 6, No. 1
Crecquillon: Vidit Jacob scalam
Evans: Waltz for Debby
April 25
Schmelzer: Sonatina
Handel: Concerto Grosso Op. 6, No. 1
Crecquillon: Vidit Jacob scalam
Evans: Waltz for Debby
Monday, April 30
Trinity Presbyterian Church
1106 Alameda de las Pulgas, San Carlos
7:30 P.M.
Schmelzer: Sonatina
Handel: Concerto Grosso Op. 6, No. 1
Encina: Fata la parte, ¿Si abrá en este beldrés
Crecquillon: Vidit Jacob scalam
Evans: Waltz for Debby
Friday, May 4
Dress Rehearsal
Trinity Presbyterian Church
7:30 P.M.
Schmelzer: Sonatina
Crecquillon: Vidit Jacob scalam
Evans: Waltz for Debby
Encina: Fata la parte, ¿Si abrá en este beldrés
Handel: Concerto Grosso Op. 6, No. 1
Sunday, May 6
MPRO Spring Concert
Trinity Presbyterian Church
2:00 P.M.
Schmelzer: Sonatina
Crecquillon: Vidit Jacob scalam
Evans: Waltz for Debby
Encina: Fata la parte, ¿Si abrá en este beldrés
Handel: Concerto Grosso Op. 6, No. 1
Once again, the orchestra’s spring concert will feature a wide variety of attractive and exciting music, and 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 MPRO’s President, Judith Unsicker, and 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 spring concert and to Irene Beardsley for playing keyboard at the orchestra’s meetings and performances. 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 2018-2019 season. - Sincerely, Fred Palmer
MORE INTERESTING LINKS
Orlan Charles is a Brazilian recorder player who also plays flute, piccolo and keyboards, and arranges and composes music. He has performed with orchestras and done international gigs in bars and restaurants. Among other things, he plays recorder quartets and quintets with himself. This performance of Purcell’s Rondeau from Abdelazer is probably the most convincing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tP8YxwLxzs. I concentrated on the music before doing a double take when looking at the “quartet’s” faces. A YouTube search for “Orlan Charles” in quotes leads to other recordings, ranging from Mozart’s Eine Kleine Nachtmusik to the Beatles’ Yesterday.
-Judith Unsicker
The Board: President: Judith Unsicker; Treasurer: Chantal Moser and Mary Ashley; Recording Secretary: vacant; 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