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American Recorder magazine: Extra Coverage

 

Extra Material supplementary to American Recorder magazine:



Spring 2021
Martha Bixler receives the ARS Distinguished Achievement Award at the 1996 Berkeley (CA) Festival - see PDF
 
Ornamentation: Third in a series of Learn articles by Michael Lynn, this issue covering flattement - PDF
Video posted on the AR Magazine YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRSCc1oj-NQ
 
Also in Learn:
A Technique Tip article from Lobke Sprenkeling about use of air - PDF   
Video posted on the AR Magazine YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEDqlL1J1UE
 
Multiple versions of Walking with Gordon Jacob, a duet composed for the ARS by Fulvio Caldini, who is interviewed in the Winter 2020 AR
- Duet for soprano/alto PDF and sound file (both parts); play-along minus soprano part; play-along minus alto part 
- Duet for tenor/bass (bass part in treble clef) - PDF and sound file (both parts); play-along minus tenor part; play-along minus bass part
- Duet for tenor/bass (bass part in bass clef) - PDF


Winter 2020
Ornamentation: Second in a series of Education Department articles by Michael Lynn, this issue covering mordents
Video posted on the AR Magazine YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-xLfTCgIl4&t=3s
PDF:  Mordents by Michael Lynn
A list of recorder works composed by Fulvio Caldini, who is interviewed in the Winter 2020 AR.



Fall 2020
Ornamentation: First in a series of Education Department articles by Michael Lynn, this issue covering appoggiaturas and trills
    Video posted on the AR Magazine YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot6uQ36nqAI
    PDF: An Introduction to Appoggiaturas and Trills
 
"Giving Voice to Music: The Art of Articulation":
Musical examples discussed in the article: (can all be found on the ARS YouTube Channel)
         Gottfried Finger, Prelude with double-tongued articulation, for alto solo
         Gottfried Finger, Prelude with single-tongued articulation, for alto solo
         J. J. Quantz, Fantasier og Capricier, for soprano solo
         Sören Sieg, Darkness from Ukuvalelisa (Ten Miniatures for Recorder Solo), for C instrument
         Tommaso Vitali, Prelude, for alto solo


Summer 2020
Solo Recorder Pieces to play while Safe at Home compiled by Beverly Lomer


Winter 2019
"The Recorder in the Streams": Interested in making and uploading your own video to YouTube? Click here to learn how (PDF).


Fall 2019
Practice Project: 4th Article in Series of 4
Division Flute

Summer 2019:
Practice Project: 3rd Article in Series of 4
Stick Dance by Bela Bartok
Practice Project Page
Supplements to Robert de Bree's Improvisation articleTechnique Tips for Beginners
Indices to American Recorder (Vols. I through XXXX): https://americanrecorder.org/docs/AR_full_index_to_VolXXXX.pdf

Spring 2019:
Practice Project - 2nd Article in Series of 4
Practice Project Page

Winter 2018:
Practice Project Page
Practice Project  - 1st Article in Series of 4
Six Ways to Make Recorder Practice Fail


Fall 2018:
Berkeley Festival and Exhibition 2018 Double Coverage
Si Scior Madrigal by Casulana (PDF), entire piece
Senior Thesis on Erich Katz by students at Regis University, home of the Recorder Music Center


Spring 2018:
Anthony Rowland Jones Publications


Winter 2017:
A Mala for Pauline, music by Tom Bickley


Fall 2017:
David Bellugi Extra Coverage


Summer 2016:
Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet Extended Interview
Hear a piece by Ibert played by Karel van Steenhoven on the modern Helder alto recorder
PDF of the music by Ibert

Summer 2015:
Dan Laurin, the "Swedish Recorder Rock Star," gives a lesson to Glen Shannon


Winter 2014:
Another Way to Play (Adaptive Recorders for players with atypical hands), by Valerie Peters
Memoir for Antony Hopkins

Fall 2014:
Geoffrey Burgess Presentation on Friedrich von Heune, with sound clips (PDF)