Seattle Recorder Society presents:
A Zoom Rehearsal of ARS's 'Transparent Letters Across the Sky'

Get ready for the ARS Play-the-Recorder Day event on March 21, 2021! Join Seattle Recorder Society’s Music Director Vicki Boeckman on March 6, 2021 at 1pm PT to rehearse ''Transparent Letters Across the Sky', a joyful, spirited composition inspired by the Pablo Neruda poem quoted below. Commissioned by the American Recorder Society, this 4-part recorder composition was written by Boston-based composer Melika M. Fitzhugh.

Fitzhugh, a graduate of Harvard-Radcliffe (A.B. in Music Theory and Composition), and the Longy School of Bard College (M.M. in Composition), is an award-winning composer, teacher, and director, whose works have been commissioned and performed in the U.S. and internationally.

What happens to swallows
who are late for school?
Is it true that they scatter
​transparent letters across the sky?

~ Pablo Neruda, Book of Questions (1973)

During the March 6, 2021 online practice session, Vicki will provide guidance on the structure of the piece and techniques to help you prepare for ARS’s Play-the-Recorder Day event on March 20, 2021 – an online, en masse orchestra 'performance' directed by composer Melika Fitzhugh and her ensemble.

Here is how to participate in the March 6, 2021 online practice session at 1pm PT:

• Check the correct time for your time zone
• Download the piece from the ARS website, using this link (note that you need to join the ARS to access the music)
• ​Click on this Zoom link
• Then, enter the password: PTRM2021

As part of the March 20 event, Fitzhugh will also offer an online lecture about modern composition for the recorder and the use of extended techniques.