
![]() |
Introduction to
WRS
Workshops & Reviews* Roberts Workshop , Oct. 29, 2011 (completed) * Gruskin Workshop, April 14, 2012 (completed) ********** * Gruskin Workshop, April 14, 2012 (Review) * Roberts Workshop , Oct. 29, 2011 (Review)
* 2012 WRS Spring Concert: Review ![]() * Social Hour * Recorders for Sale * Professional
Recorder Teachers * WRS Music Library and Policy
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Societies, etc.
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The Washington Recorder Society is a nonprofit organization dedicated to recorder playing. WRS is a chapter of the American Recorder Society. Currently the WRS has about 47 members.
WRS meets twice a month for ensemble playing, instruction, and guest recorder concerts at the Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church, 9601 Cedar Lane, Bethesda, MD 20814-4099, from 8:00-10:00 pm. Sheet music is supplied to participants at each meeting. These meetings are usually on the first and third Mondays from September through May.
The first Monday of the month is the Nova session, and is devoted to two hours of group playing under the leadership of Dick Shrager. The music ranges from the Middle Ages to modern jazz and tango.
The third Monday of the month is the Antiqua session. It begins with a brief business meeting which is followed by a guest recorder concert by a local group. The concert usually lasts about 30-40 minutes. After the guest concert, the attendees break up into separate ensembles under the direction of a group leader.
In 2011-2012, there will be three ensembles to choose from at each Antiqua session:
In early May, WRS holds a Spring Concert where all Antiqua groups perform along with guest ensembles. On occasion at the Spring Concert, a group of WRS players has premiered a new composition for recorder. See the review of the 2011 concert under Newsworthy Items.
To join WRS, click on how to become a member.
Art Jacobson.....................(301)
983-1310
Vice President
Helen
Eliot......................(301)
593-0061
Member-at-Large
Bruce
Crane....................(703) 241-8210
Web-Master
and
Secretary
Ferdinand
Baer.................(301) 622-4793
Member-at-Large
Anne Hinton......................(301)
229-5569
Treasurer
Vickie Walter....................(301)
891-1367
Ex-Officio
The Viola da Gamba Society of America
Early Music FAQ (frequently
asked questions)
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
Retail Shops Online (some with general
information)
About Recorders by Carson Turner
Winfried Bauer's Recorder Fingerings
Online Music Scores (to
Download)
Music Theory &
History Online (Dr. Brian Blood)
Early Music America
Harmonia - American
Early Music Series Audio Programs
Medieval and Renaissance
Music - Early Music Resources on the Web
Medieval and Renaissance
Instruments If you are traveling in the area
with your recorders at the time of one of our meetings (see
schedules above), you are welcome to join us in playing with
one of our groups. We meet at the following location and
the map should help to locate you:
Cedar Lane Unitarian
Universalist Church
9601 Cedar Lane
Bethesda, MD 20814-4099
MAP(Click)

Roger
Morris and the Morris Music Collection
by
Jayme Sokolov
On Sunday, April 11, 2010, Roger Morris died. He is survived by Myra, his wife of 51 years, and his son and daughter.
Roger grew up in Los Angeles and earned his undergraduate degree in engineering at the University of California at Los Angeles and his master’s degree in urban and regional planning at the University of Southern California. For many years, he worked for the US Department of Energy and the US Environmental Protection Agency.
Outside of work and family, Roger’s two reigning passions were volleyball and music. For many years, Roger conducted WRS’s Nova session. In addition, he led an Antiqua session on Bach that attracted many participants. He also was an excellent recorder player.
Roger brought his infectious exuberance, curiosity, and energy to WRS. He enjoyed conducting music and he really enjoyed transcribing music by hand for his Nova and Bach groups. These highly legible four-part transcriptions captured the essence of Bach and other composers at an intermediate playing level and always were enjoyable to perform.
After Roger and Myra retired to Santa Cruz, California, he continued his involvement with WRS by leading fall workshops for several years. He also shared his musical talents with the South Bay Recorder Society in San Jose.
As Roger lay dying, he sorted through his voluminous files of musical hand transcriptions. He and Myra arranged to ship 90 pounds of music to WRS as his parting gift to us. Some of them include continuo parts on CDs that Roger programmed on his electric keyboard.
These musical transcriptions now constitute the Roger Morris Collection and are housed in the WRS cabinet in the basement of the Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church, which contains our other musical collections.
If you are interested in borrowing music from the Roger Morris Collection, board members have keys to the cabinet.
We will remember Roger with great
fondness.
John Benaglia
(202-234-1837)
Suzana Cooper
(301-718-6454)
Kay
Jones
(301-652-7231) ensemble teacher
Carole Rogentine (301-530-6386), crogentine@gmail.com
. Teaches all levels. Available for
coaching Baroque ensembles.
WRS Music
Library
The
WRS music library consists of two separate collections
of printed music. All the music in both collections is
available to WRS members to borrow. The music is
stored in two cabinets in room 1, downstairs at the
Cedar Lane Unitarian Church where our meetings are
held. The cabinets are unlocked and open before
and during our Nova and Antiqua meetings and
workshops. Instructions for charging out and
returning music are posted on the inside of the
right-hand door of the right-hand cabinet.
The collections consist of the original WRS
music, which has accumulated since the beginning of the
Society itself and the Oler Collection, which was given
to the WRS several years ago by the Oler family.
The music in both collections is fully cataloged
according to number of instruments and by composer or
title. There are also some exercise and
performance manuals. It is easy to find a specific
piece of music you might want or to browse through the
music according to solo or ensemble music.
Meeting policy for snow days