Photo by Hanneke van Proosdij
San Francisco Early Music Society has been offering summer workshops since 1980, and this year's activity culminates in historically appropriate recorder events during the week of the Fourth of July. (Back in the colonial days, the instrument was called common or English flute.)
Tonight at 7:30 p.m., in Oakland's St. Albert’s Priory Chapel (6172 Chabot Road at College Avenue), a free faculty concert features Vicki Boeckman, Rotem Gilbert, Gayle Neuman, Phil Neuman, Hanneke van Proosdij, recorders; Farley Pearce, viola da gamba, and Katherine Heater, harpsichord.
On Friday, yes the Fourth of July, also in St. Albert's Priory Chapel, the SFEMS All-Workshop Recorder Orchestra, directed by Rotem Gilbert, performs musical settings from the Song of Songs, followed by a performance by the Recorder Workshop faculty at a free event.