The Recorder Group

Leader:  Joan Gibson - recorder@ashbyu3a.co.uk -

The recorder group, meet twice a month, to make music in a relaxed, fun way. I would hope that we would be able to cater for a wide range of experience and skill. We usually meet each month on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays at 10am, but occasionally it varies. Check here for up to date information.

October

On 2nd October, we had thirteen players, with good balance in parts. We continued to play some of the music from last month, plus a few new pieces. It is good to be able to play music we are familiar with, and also to try new music, which keeps us on our toes, with sight-reading practice, or making sure we have a quick practice beforehand.

We are getting to know Alyson Lewin’s piece “the Lincolnshire Poacher”, which sounds good, and isn’t too hard. It is enough of a challenge to be interesting.

We had two fewer people in the second meeting, where we continued with some of the same music as last time, with the addition of a few more pieces. We are playing some renaissance pieces, some traditional music, and a couple of popular tunes: “Bare Necessities” and “The Goroum”.

We plan to play some different music next month, to vary our repertoire. Requests were made by a few members for particular favourites of theirs, and we will dust them off on 6th November.