Chicago ARS

Join us on May 17th for our Spring Concert to celebrate the close of our 2025-2026 recorder season!

Spring Concert on May 17 at 2 PM.

All are invited to perform, or just listen and enjoy, and all types of music are welcome.
After the concert, stay for refreshments, followed by group playing.
Whether performing or not, all are welcome!

Meeting location: St. John’s Episcopal Church, 3857 N Kostner Ave, Chicago.

If you would like to play in the program, please contact us ASAP.

The May issue of Recorder Reporter is out.
Full with news of recent meetings of the Chicago Chapter, West Suburban Early Music Society and the Recorder Orchestra of the Midwest. Don’t miss it.

chicagorecorders.org

Our newsletter, Recorder Reporter, April 2026, is now available. It includes a very nice article about the March meeting, directed by David Echelard from Minnesota.

“The idea of the meeting was to play the recorder with an understanding of how a singer makes music, how the singer breathes and opens his or her throat to form vowels.”

Check it out!

chicagorecorders.org

Join us on March 15th to welcome Spring with a little polyphonic music!

On March 15th David Echelard presents: “The Art of the Motet ; Exploring the Stile Antico”. This is the pure, balanced, woven style of music that made the 16th century the golden age of polyphony. We’ll work through the masterpieces of four giants who defined this sound: Willaert, Lassus, Victoria, and Palestrina. For recorder players, this will be an exercise of playing the recorder with an awareness of how a singer sings, focusing on vocalized articulation, using the underlying text vowels and consonants of the motets to dictate our tonguing, phrasing, and breathing.

March 15 from 2:00 – 5:00 PM
At: St. John’s Episcopal Church, 3857 N Kostner Ave, Chicago (Entrance on Byron Street)
Please contact us for the music.
Please join us in March for this great opportunity to delve into the wonderful polyphony of the Renaissance! All are welcome

For more news: see https://chicagorecorders.org/
Don’t miss the March newsletter, with a description of classes byDavid Echelard at the Early Music Festival at Whitewater WI:https://chicagorecorders.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/march-2026.pdf