The Denver Chapter of the ARS celebrated Play the Recorder Month with a concert at a local shopping mall. For more pictures from this year's celebrations in Denver and elsewhere, click here.

Recorder players from across North America celebrate March as Play-the-Recorder Month. Many ARS chapters plan special concerts and presentations to illustrate the versatility and beauty of this wonderful instrument. March 15, 2008, was designated "Recorder Day," when individuals and chapters around the world were encouraged to play Matthis Maute's Recorder Rally.

Laurie Tretter, an elementary music specialist in the Mehlville School District in suburban St. Louis, created a lesson plan for Elementary B-A-G Soprano Recorder Composition for Play-the-Recorder-Month. The plan included two pieces composed by fourth-grade students. You can download the lesson plans, videos of the students playing, and midis of their compositions by clicking here.

Other schools were invited to create their own compositions using Ms Tretter's B-A-G lesson plan. Soon, you will be able to click here to see the compositions from other schools or students.

Chapters and consorts have submitted event reports on their activities and those entries are now being judged to determine the winners of prizes in the "Most Creative Event" contest. 

For more information about Play the Recorder Month, contact the ARS office at ARS.Recorder@AmericanRecorder.org.