About Moss Bay Recorder Society

 

!!! DATE CHANGE ALERT:  Annual Meet is rescheduled to Sat. April 27 from April 13 !!!

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The Moss Bay Recorder Society is a chapter of the American Recorder Society. We meet monthly, September or October through March, usually on the second Saturday of the month, 2-4:30 pm.  Each April we gather on a Saturday to play all day at our annual Moss Bay Meet.  The next Annual Meet will be held on Sat., April 27, 2024, at the Sand Point Community Church, Perry Hall, 4710 NE 70th Street, Seattle, 98115, led by Moss Bay Director Laura Townsend, Seattle Recorder Society Director Vicki Boeckman, and Seattle Recorder Society Director Emeritus Peter Seibert.  See details below.  

Our meetings are usually held at libraries in the King County, Snohomish, and Seattle Public Library systems.  Due to COVID restrictions for the 2021-22 season we collaborated with the Seattle Recorder Society to hold monthly joint meetings via Zoom.   We resumed our Saturday in-person meetings in the 2022-23 season.   In 2024 we began our new opportunity for members to share up to 5 minutes of music.  Future monthly meeting dates will be found here: next meeting location.  

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!!! DATE CHANGE ALERT:  Annual Meet is rescheduled to Sat. April 27 from April 13 !!!

2024 Annual Meet flyer

ANNUAL MEET, Save the date!

Sat., April 27, 2024 from 9:30am – 5pm (rescheduled from April 13)

Sand Point Community Church — Perry Hall, 4710 NE 70th Street, Seattle, 98115

Three Sessions of Recorder Music – Come for one, two or all three!

$60 for all day or $25 for a single session

Please bring all of your recorders, compatible instruments, a music stand,
a pencil, something for your lunch, and, optionally, a snack to share.

Schedule for the Day:

9:30 am      Registration and set-up

10-11:45     Playing session led by Peter Seibert

11:45-1       Bring or buy lunch (coffee and tea provided)

1-2:45         Playing session led by Laura Townsend

2:45-3:15    Break (snacks)

3:15-5         Playing session led by Vicki Boeckman

Pre-registration is strongly encouraged to assist with planning. Payment not due until day of Meet.

Please email your intent to come — or any questions you may have to Laura at beginbaroque@gmail.com.

Peter Seibert is a conductor and composer who has a life-long relationship with the recorder. He was music director of the Seattle Recorder Society from 1970 – 2015. As a board member of the American Recorder Society, he established the ARS Educational Program. In 1983, he founded the Port Townsend Early Music Workshop, which he directed until 2001. His compositions for recorders and for viols are played world-wide.

Laura Townsend combined her two passions, recorder playing and teaching, about 12 years ago and has been developing her skills as a recorder teacher and ensemble leader ever since. She is Music Director of MBRS, leads SRS’s Back Room Gang and has a teaching studio with many ensembles as well as individual students. Originally trained as a developmental psychologist, she’s dedicated to discovering the most effective ways to learn and is committed to continuing to grow her own skills. She takes lessons with Vicki Boeckman, played with the Recorder Orchestra of Puget Sound, studied conducting with Peter Seibert, performed with the ensemble Quintessence, and attends workshops as often as possible.

Vicki Boeckman has been performing and teaching since the 1980s. She is a sought-after instructor at workshops around the country, currently a member of the Farallon Recorder Quartet, Music Director for the Seattle Recorder Society, and with Charles Coldwell, co-director of the ‘soon to be revived’ Recorder Orchestra of Puget Sound. Vicki adores teaching children as well as adults and has been on the faculty of Music Center of the Northwest since 2005. She is overjoyed to be returning to live, in-person concerts and workshops, and honored to be a part of Seattle’s vibrant music community.

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In Person Protocols:

  • Email Laura your intent to come and desired part, if known. 
  • No blowing mouthpiece condensation outward; “sucking” is OK!
  • We prefer that you are up to date with your COVID vaccinations but do not require it.
  • We prefer that you test for COVID within 24 hours of attending the meeting, if feasible, but do not require it.
  • Please stay at home if you are coughing, feeling ill, or suspect you have been exposed to Covid or the flu.

Email Laura Townsend:  beginbaroque@gmail.com

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MOSS BAY MEET, 2023

The Moss Bay Meet for 2023 season was held on on Saturday, April 22, 2023 at the Sand Point Community Church.  Participants came from around the region and spirits were high as creative playing sessions were led by Larry Stark, Sally Mitchell, and Laura Townsend.

 

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ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Sept. 2022

Welcome to our new Music Director, Laura Townsend

We are delighted to announce that we have a new Music Director, Laura Townsend, known already to many of us. Laura is looking forward to working with us starting in the fall. Here is more about Laura’s background and interests:

Laura combined her two passions, recorder playing and teaching, about 10 years ago and has been developing her skills as a recorder teacher and ensemble leader ever since.  She has had the privilege to teach dozens of students both individually and in small groups in her studio as well as to lead SRS’s Back Room Gang and a few MBRS meetings and meet sessions.  Originally trained as a developmental psychologist, she’s dedicated to discovering the most effective ways to learn and is committed to continuing to grow her own skills.  She takes lessons with Vicki Boeckman, plays with the Recorder Orchestra of Puget Sound, studied conducting with Peter Siebert, performed with the ensemble Quintessence and attends workshops as much as possible.  Covid has paved the way for even more new skills to use for both teaching and learning: online lessons and workshops and weekly hybrid ensemble classes.

Laura Townsend,  beginbaroque@gmail.com 

Photo by Bill Stickney.

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Miyo Aoki, our former Music Director has moved to Indiana with her husband Jonathan Oddie.  We thank her for her leadership and inspiration, and wish them well in their new home .

A Farewell from Miyo

Dear friends,

As some of you already know, my husband Jonathan recently accepted a teaching position at Indiana University, starting this Fall. I am overjoyed for him but devastated to have to leave the dear friends, community, and landscape that have brought me so much happiness in the seven years I have lived here. The Seattle and Moss Bay Recorder Societies have played important parts in my life, and I am deeply grateful for the substantial community of recorder players that welcomed me here and introduced me to so many wonderful people. Thank you all for your kindness, warmth, generosity, and, of course, music. I will miss you!

I will be here until the end of September and am looking forward to seeing some of you at the Fall Fipple Flute Forum or perhaps the upcoming Farallon concert. Jonathan, Nathaniel, and I intend to visit the Seattle area regularly, so I am hopeful that I will continue to see and make music with you all; and if you ever find yourself near Bloomington, Indiana, please do give me a call!

With gratitude and warm wishes to you all,

Miyo

miyoaoki@gmail.com

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Memorial tribute to Wini Jaeger and Mary Whittington

Mary Whittington wrote that MBRS founding Music Director, Wini Jaeger,  passed away at age 95 on February 10 of this year, 2022.  Mary passed away on July 4, 2022, just a few months after Wini.

In the SRS newsletter of February 2009, Wini wrote about founding MBRS:

In March 1979, Mary Whittington and I moved to Kirkland, after many years in Santa Barbara, CA, where we had been active in the recorder scene and close to Erich Katz, who died in 1973.  In April 1979, we attended an SRS meeting, joined the organization and became regular members. Within the following year, we met enough recorder players, including SRS members, who were interested in forming a sister organization to the SRS, and in the fall of 1980, the Moss Bay Recorder Society (MBRS) became a Chapter of the American Recorder Society (ARS).

A tribute to Wini and Mary is posted on the Haiku Northwest website (www.haikunorthwest.org) where they were both active and beloved members.  The tribute includes information about their lifelong association with recorders and many wonderful photos.  Go to “Celebrating our 35th Anniversary”, click on Poems by Haiku Northwest Members, Winifred Jaeger, Remembering Wini.  

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The Fourth Fall Fipple Flute Forum:

The Fourth Fall Fipple Flute Forum workshop was held at the lovely Bellevue College, easily accessible from I-90, on September 17-18, 2022. A wonderful faculty concert was given on Friday, September 16, 7:00 pm at Maple Leaf Lutheran Church. This year our FFFF theme and inspiration was Focusing on the Feminine. Our fabulous faculty offered class topics ranging from works written by women, works dedicated to or about women, works inspired by women,

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Our operating expenses are covered by voluntary membership dues of $40/year and by contributions. We thank you for your continued support during this challenging time, and we hope that you’ll remain (or become!) an MBRS member.  We look forward to seeing you at our next meeting!

 

Please take care of yourselves, keep making music, and stay well!

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