December 2005

Join us at the December Playing Meeting!
Celebrate! Celebrate! Celebrate!
What better way to celebrate the season than with your fellow recorder players? Plan to join us on December 11 at 2:30 pm at Carol Woods Retirement Home for an afternoon of music and fellowship. We will be playing from the Christmas notebooks, so you will not need to bring your anthologies this month. Playing levels will be varied enough to keep a novice in place, yet still interest the experienced player.

Share your joyful noise
Those who play together in small ensembles are invited to share a seasonal piece or two at the meeting. Plan to delight us with a dash of your group’s holiday cheer! Let Pat know if your group would like to offer a piece or two.

Location and directions:
From Raleigh, take I-40 to the NC 86 exit; turn left on 86, go less than a mile to Weaver Dairy Road (a stop light just past a shopping plaza), turn left; Carol Woods is on the left, about a mile past the Tymberline Shopping Center. From the parking lot, follow the covered walkway to the main building, and look for signs. From Durham, take 15-501 to I-40 West, and proceed as above.

Inclement weather cancellations: If bad weather causes the meeting to be cancelled, WUNC-FM will be notified. Pat (919-683-9672) will also be standing by the phone to give the final word.

Food: There could be nothing better than a covered dish supper, unless it would be a covered dish dessert table. This month, you are invited to bring a holiday treat to share (dessert, appetizer, home-made, deli-prepared, whatever makes your mouth water), and we will set up that covered-dish treat table for you.

Costs: For members, meeting fees are $5.00. For non-members, the first visit is free; subsequent meetings are $7.00. Our newest anthology is $13.00 for members and $14.00 for non-members.

TRS Spring Workshop
Put Saturday, March 18, on your calendar now! Our annual spring workshop at Carolina Friends School will feature music of Germany and Spain, with special guest faculty Marilyn Boenau from Boston and Larry Lipnik from New York, and regulars Stew Carter, Michelle Oswell, Pat Petersen, and Kathy Schenley.

For Sale
Nell Waltner would like her Moeck bass recorder to have a good home. She will let this gently-used instrument go for $400 (direct blow, comes with a foot peg). Call her at 918-3554--or pass this hint along to a family member!

Sally Hubbard
It is with sadness that we announce the passing of long-term TRS member Sally Hubbard, who died early in November. Sally mailed out our newsletter, posted our announcements to local media, and played for the NC State Madrigal Dinners for many years. She was a regular attendee of the Amherst Early Music Festival, where her musical skills were as highly valued in the classroom as her skills as a seamstress were by directors of the theater projects. Her jingle bells always cheered our Christmas meetings. We will miss her!

Egidius Quartet in Durham
March 21
The esteemed Dutch vocal quartet Egidius will give a concert on March 21 in the recently renovated and acoustically thrilling First Presbyterian Church in downtown Durham. They will be coming here directly from concerts in Washington, DC. Here's your opportunity to support early music in the Triangle! We need angels to help produce this concert. For information, contact Pat at 919 683-9672, patpetersen at earthlink.net