It’s time for the TRS May Recital! Family and friends are welcome at this casual recorder recital which will be held at Croasdaile Village in Durham. This will be the first recital we've been able to hold since spring 2019. We know many recorder players have not been practicing as frequently this year, but please don't let that deter you! You don't have to play perfectly. All skill levels are welcome and we are a friendly bunch of recorder fans. We hope you'll sign up and let us hear you play at the recital.
Note: this recital will begin at 2:00. We are starting early so members will be able to attend a special 4:00 performance of Bach's B Minor Mass. (See information below.)
If you would like to perform a solo, duet, or in a small group during the recital, please email TRS president Sue Ann Wright by Tuesday, May 16 at sawrightmusic1@gmail.com.
Please include the following information in your email. If you need a little more time to decide on your final pieces just let Sue Ann know.
Name and PHONE NUMBER for contact person for the group. Name of the piece(s) being performed. Composer and/or arranger. Name of group, director, as appropriate. Performer(s) in the group as well as any instruments other than recorder. Approximate length of the performance.
We hope that this will be a great afternoon of performances.
After the performances, we will play a few pieces from our anthology. Please bring your anthologies. If you don't have one, we have a few to share.
We'll play Aquella mora garrida and Un cavalier di Spagna together.
If you can, please bring a small snack to share! We'll have a reception and a few announcements after the recital.
Directions to Croasdaile Village:
Croasdaile Village
2600 Croasdaile Farm Pkwy, Durham, NC 27705
The May Recital will take place in the Boles Room at Croasdaile Retirement Community in Durham.
Follow GPS directions, and once you are on Croasdaile Farm Parkway, you will come to the gated entrance to Croasdaile Village. Tell security that you are here for TRS. Go two stop signs to the sign for main entrance, turn left and go to main entrance. Park and enter the Village Commons building.
The person at the front desk can give directions to the Boles Room. It is on the lower level. ( At front desk go down hall to first intersection, turn left, turn right at hallway. Turn left at next hallway and go on elevator to LL.) Our host Marie Grauerholz will also put up signs.
Please note that our recital will begin at 2:00! We adjusted the time because Pat Petersen alerted the group to this special concert which will take place later that afternoon at Baldwin Auditorium on the campus of Duke University. Don't miss this special performance of Bach's B Minor Mass, performed by the Mallarme Chamber Players and the Choral Society of Durham. Several TRS members are planning to attend, please join us! More information and tickets at this link.
J.S. Bach Mass in B Minor
May 21 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
$5 – $25
The Choral Society of Durham, led by Rodney Wynkoop, will be joined by Mallarme HIP artists in the presentation of J.S. Bach’s B Minor Mass a work intended to summarize and showcase all the compositional technique and expressivity that this great composer had amassed during his life. Each movement has its own style and stamp of creative ingenuity. Performing it is often described as a lifetime experience, and hearing it from the audience can feel equally transcendent. We’ll be performing this piece at Baroque pitch (A=415), accompanied by Baroque period instruments. Tickets and directions here.
Our April 15 workshop was a success! Thanks to TRS member Toby Speed for this summary:
Mediterranean Holiday with the Triangle Recorder Society
Music from France, Spain, and Italy filled the high-ceilinged rooms of the First Presbyterian Church in Durham, NC, on April 15th as the Triangle Recorder Society (TRS) welcomed back its annual early music workshop. TRS’s signature offering has been held for more than a quarter of a century with a break only in the last two years for COVID. This year’s theme, Mediterranean Holiday, attracted 25 attendees from the Triangle and beyond as well as an elite faculty of seven recorder professionals.
Our tour guides for the musical journey through Southern Europe were Stewart Carter, Phil Hollar, Holly Maurer, Patricia Petersen, Kathy Schenley, Jennifer Streeter, and Douglas Young. Small-group workshops were presented for all levels throughout the day.
Topics for those sessions included beginning consort playing, ornamentation, menuets from King Louis XIV’s dance parties, antiphonal music of the Venetian composers, the rhythms of Spanish dance, and one-line melodies with improvised drones, percussion, and voice. Besides recorder, many of the workshops welcomed voices, strings, and early reeds and brass, which made for some very fun ensemble playing. A session on loud Renaissance band music, for instance, featured cornettos, crumhorns, sackbuts, and more.
The highlight of the day was an inspiring group playing session in the main room for all musicians. It perfectly capped the uplifting nature of the day and marked a welcome return to in-person ensemble playing.
Mediterranean Holiday now joins the archives of Spring Workshops in TRS’s history that have covered such territory as North Sea Odyssey, French Connection, A Musical Brexit, March Musical Madness, Northern Lights, Saints and Sinners, and Viva Petrucci!
TRS has been in existence since 1967 and meets on the third Sunday of each month at rotating locations throughout the Triangle. All skill levels are welcome, and the first meeting is free. For more information visit trianglerecorder.org or contact the group at trianglerecorder@gmail.com.
Name and PHONE NUMBER for contact person for the group.
