New York Recorder Guild
{{Short description|Musical instrument advocacy group}}
{{Infobox organization
| name = New York Recorder Guild
| formation = 1961
| headquarters = New York, NY
| website = https://www.nyrg.org/
}}
The New York Recorder Guild (NYRG) was established on October 16, 1960, as the New York chapter of the American Recorder Society,{{Cite book |last=Bixler |first=Martha |url=https://americanrecorder.org/docs/ARS-And-Me-140820_FINAL-2.pdf |title=The American Recorder Society and Me...a memoir |year=2014 |pages=36}} and incorporated under its current name in 1975.{{Cite web |date=2022-03-06 |title=The Angelus: Our Newsletter, Volume 24, Number 15 |url=https://www.stmvirgin.org/the-angelus-our-newsletter/2022/3/4/volume-24-number-15 |access-date=2024-02-22 |website=The Church of Saint Mary the Virgin |language=en-US}} The goal of the organization was to increase interest in the recorder as an instrument and to promote music written for it.{{Cite journal |date=February 28, 1972 |title=Up-Beat New York: Where to Sing and Play |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2OYCAAAAMBAJ |journal=New York Magazine |volume=5 |issue=9 |pages=37 |via=Google Books}}
History
The first president of the New York Recorder Guild was Bernard Krainis; Martha Bixler was appointed vice-president and, one year later in 1961, music director. By 1972, the group had 185 members and organized rehearsals monthly with rotating conductors. In the late 1970s, the group moved into offices shared with its parent organization, the American Recorder Society, at 12 East 16th Street, New York, NY.{{Cite book |last=Bixler |first=Martha |url=https://americanrecorder.org/docs/ARS-And-Me-140820_FINAL-2.pdf |title=The American Recorder Society and Me...a memoir |year=2014 |pages=90}} They published the Early Music Newsletter regularly from 1977 through 1991.{{Cite web |title=Subject Heading "New York Recorder Guild Periodicals" |url=https://www.nypl.org/research/research-catalog |access-date=2024-02-22 |website=Research Catalog {{!}} NYPL |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=RILM Abstracts of Music Literature: Database Coverage List: Music Journals |url=https://www.rilm.org/resources.php?product=ram&type=music |access-date=2024-02-22 |website=www.rilm.org}} NYRG organized performances at St. Peter's Episcopal Church{{Cite news |title=Arts and Leisure Guide; Of Special Interest |url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.comhttp//timesmachine.content-tagging.us-east-1-01.prd.dvsp.nyt.net/timesmachine/1979/04/22/111706595.html?pageNumber=144 |access-date=2024-02-22 |work=The New York Times |language=en}}{{Cite journal |date=May 14, 1979 |title=Around Town |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=utYCAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22new+york+recorder+guild%22&pg=PP1 |journal=New York Magazine |volume=12 |issue=20 |pages=24 |via=Google Books}} and Columbia University.{{Cite news |title=COPING; Three Into Two Did Go |url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.comhttp//timesmachine.content-tagging.us-east-1-01.prd.dvsp.nyt.net/timesmachine/1998/06/07/279420.html?pageNumber=203 |access-date=2024-02-22 |work=The New York Times |language=en}}
Monthly gatherings of the group included into the early 2000s,{{Cite web |last=Jowett |first=Shannon |date=August 16, 2004 |title=New York Early Music Celebration |url=https://www.van.org/articles/NewYorkEarlyMusicCelebration20040816.htm |access-date=2024-02-22 |website=Vocal Area Network}} after which point group became largely inactive. In 2017, the NYRG was revitalized by Natalie Lebert and Deborah Booth,{{Cite web |date=2017 |title=New York Recorder Guild Inaugural Meeting, June 29, 2017 |url=https://www.flute-recorder-deborahbooth.com/performance-nyrg-062917.htm |access-date=2024-02-22 |website=Deborah Booth}} with meetings at The Unitarian Church of All Souls in Manhattan.{{Cite web |date=2017 |title=New York Recorder Guild Inaugural Play-in & Meeting - Gotham Early Music Scene, Inc. |url=https://www.gemsny.org/events/events-calendar/194 |access-date=2024-02-22 |website=www.gemsny.org}}{{Cite journal |date=September 2019 |title=New York Recorder Guild |url=http://www.rsli.info/Newsletters/2019SeptNewsletter.pdf |journal=Recorder Society of Long Island Newsletter |volume=42 |issue=7 |pages=5}} In 2022, these monthly meetings moved to the Church of Saint Mary the Virgin in Manhattan, and NYRG members took part in subway performances of music by Bach, with The Uptown Cantata Project.{{Cite web |date=2022 |title=The Uptown Cantata Project |url=https://bachinthesubways.org/performance/the-uptown-cantata-project/ |access-date=2024-02-22 |website=Bach in the Subways |language=en-US}}
Leadership
Past leadership of the NYRG has included:
- Phil Levin{{Cite journal |date=April 20, 1973 |title=BERA Concert Series |url=https://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/pubaf/bulletin/files/1973/19730420.pdf |journal=Brookhaven Bulletin |publisher=Brookhaven National Laboratory Public Relations Office |volume=20 |issue=16}}
- Andrew Acs{{Cite book |last=Bixler |first=Martha |url=https://americanrecorder.org/docs/ARS-And-Me-140820_FINAL-2.pdf |title=The American Recorder Society and Me...a memoir |year=2014 |pages=176}}
- John DeLucia{{Cite journal |last=Begley |first=Rachel |date=May 2015 |title=A Message from RSLI's Music Director |url=http://www.rsli.info/Newsletters/2015MayNewsletter.pdf |journal=The Recorder Society of Long Island Newsletter |volume=39 |issue=3 |pages=1}}
- Michael Zumoff{{Cite web |title=Polyphony.com - Early Music Web Resources |url=http://www.polyphony.com/links/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161114031658/http://www.polyphony.com/links/ |archive-date=2016-11-14 |access-date=2024-02-22 |website=www.polyphony.com}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.nyrg.org/ New York Recorder Guild website]