The WRS Spring Recital was held on Saturday, May 16. See the program, recording videos, and some pics here

Get the latest news from WRS : upcoming board members election, participation of WRS in ‘play the recorder month’ with members playing in a school, and interview with Betty Landesman, list of local teachers, list of future summer workshops, a workshop for music and crafts. Click here.

Please register here for an on-line session with Gwyn Roberts. The annual business meeting/meet and greet will start at 7pm, and the music session at 7:30.

Here is a description of Gwyn’s class:

Handel, the great recyclerHandel repurposed, upcycled and rearranged music throughout his life — he seemingly never met a great tune he couldn’t make into something else. Mostly, he quoted himself, but there was that matter of the suitcase of music that he stole when leaving his first job at the Hamburg Opera. We’ll play movements from two of his concertos for double orchestra that quote his oratorios, a vocal duet in Italian that he wrote right before he wrote Messiah with  all sorts of strangely familiar things in it, and a movement from the Water Music that he swiped from his former boss Keiser — PLUS Keiser’s original. 

For the registered participants, the music will be sent ahead of the class and the zoom link the day before. 

Gwyn Roberts, flutist, recorder player and Artistic Director and founder of Tempesta di Mare, has been a featured soloist with the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, the Portland Baroque Orchestra, Recitar Cantando of Tokyo, and at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. She is the director of Early Music at the University of Pennsylvania, and is on the faculty of Peabody Conservatory. A link to her bio is here