About the MusicLove reduces us to the comical and elevates us to the profound. Love brings us together and tears us apart. Love creates fierce warriors and eloquent poets. Let's explore the many meanings of love as expressed through music across the centuries. About the InstructorWendy Powers splits her time between teaching music
history and coaching the recorder, with each interest
informing the other. She received her Ph.D. in historical
musicology from Columbia University in 1994.
Wendy is assistant director and faculty member of the
Amherst Early Music Festival at Connecticut College.
She co-directs with Valerie Horst the annual CityRecorder
in New York City, and has coached recorder at
ARS chapter meetings and workshops throughout the Northeast. Wendy is adjunct
assistant professor at Queens College of the City University of New York,
where she teaches undergraduate and graduate music history courses, and
where she has taught early music notation and co-directed the Collegium Musicum.
She taught music history at Vassar College in Fall 2007. She is the former
book review editor of American Recorder magazine, to which she has contributed
articles and book reviews and has written about musical instruments
for the Metropolitan Museum of Art Timeline of Art History. Cost$25 for a half day (9am-noon or 1pm-4pm)$45 for a full day Purchase a box lunch for $7.50 (must pre-order). RegistrationPre-registration ends March 11, 2016.Participants should be proficient in two recorder voices to attend. Low voices are especially encouraged. Download the registration form. It may be printed and mailed with a check made out to American Recorder Society, Rochester Chapter, or emailed to rochesterars@gmail.com. Registration Form (PDF) Schedule8:30am—Registration/Refreshments
9am—Morning Session
12pm—Lunch (bring your own or purchase a box lunch)
1pm—Afternoon Session
LocationFirst Baptist Church of Rochester
175 Allens Creek Road
Rochester, NY 14618
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