Calling early music folks and recorder musicians

[cjsmith]

Any musicians and hobbyists interested in recorder music or early music out there? I'm sure I have a handful of early music people on my friends list. There might be enough to call it a passel of 'em.

If you folks are so inclined, head on over and say hi to my new LJ-friend recordersmith. We know each other from waaaaay back. She will totally geek out with you on topics like manuscript formats, modern arrangements of period music, Finale, and other stuff I wouldn't even know to name. :-)

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[lkeele.livejournal.com]

Rondo and Tim both play recorder (Rondo has a couple of excellent pear-wood recorders; Tim's only got the one), but neither of them have livejournals. :)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I guess you could go say hi anyway. On the strength of knowing Rondo and Tim. ;-) ;-)

[recordersmith.livejournal.com]

:-) Thanks for the post, CJ, and hello out there!

[jtidwell.livejournal.com]

What an excellent icon, Carolyn! :-)

[jmkelly.livejournal.com]

Well, yes -- recorder music as a subset of early music. Since high school.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Oh excellent. I sense the beginning of a beautiful friendship. :-)

[recordersmith.livejournal.com]

It occurs to me (slightly belatedly) that I really ought to post a little bit about me, since CJ is being so kind as to connect me here.

I've been playing recorder since I was 9, it's the only instrument that I have seriously studied to the point where I consider myself close to professional. I took a brief break in college, where I majored in biology. Got back into it a few years later and finally went and got a master's in early music (primary instrument-recorder). I'm currently working by days as a glorified lab tech and trying to work in as much music as possible around the edges. I'm in two ensembles right now--a trio that does medieval and renaissance polyphony (lots of Odhecaton at the moment) and a quartet that does everything from Arcadelt to arrangements of Rockin' Robin and Take Five. I teach beginning recorder classes to adults at a local adult education place, teach private lessons whenever I can manage to snare students, and perform not nearly as much as I'd like.

Associated with music, I've been studying baroque dance for a decade and have also done a fair amount of renaissance dance, partly because they inform the music and partly because I just enjoy the dances.

I also recently discovered that there actually is 19th century recorder music (actually, it's for czakan, but it fits beautifully on recorder) and I've been exploring that. Krahmer, Heberle and Bousquet.

Web site is there but under construction--www.recordersmith.com and there is a podcast attached to it that has some recordings of myself and my ensembles. The solo stuff is kind of stilted, in my opinion, as I'm finding that it's very hard to play as musically as I'd like while doing the umpteen takes and having to have everything so close to note perfect to be acceptable as a recording. The bar is so much higher for recording than for live music.

Anyhow, it's nice to meet you all! I hope to chat lots in the future :-)