Consort Class Online: we offer two different online early music ensemble classes (Advanced Consort Class and Intermediate Consort Class). Next term starts in the first week of October 2023. Go to our Consort Class Online page for details.
Advanced Consort Class for Upper Intermediate and Advanced Class Times: Wednesday Evenings at 7:00pm PT
Saturday Mornings at 10:00am PT.
Intermediate Consort Class: Class Times:
Tuesday Evenings at 7:00pm PT
Saturday Afternoons at 1:00pm PT.
Write to [email protected] if you have questions – we hope you can join us!
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Community Music Center Early Music Class Summer Term: 9 week session began on Thursday June 15th 2023. It meets for 90 minutes starting at 7:00pm. Two classes Advanced and Intermediate. See Upcoming Events for details and registration.
If you love early music and early instruments, or want to learn, come join us. We teach 4 terms: Fall, Winter, Spring, and Summer. Location: SE 33rd Place and Francis St. (one block south of Powell) in Portland. Write to [email protected] or contact the Community Music Center for more information.
Fall, Winter and Spring Terms for the Community Music Center Classes, pre-Covid, followed the schedule below:
Advanced Ensemble – 6:30pm (Phil Neuman)
For the advanced early musician. Challenging music for recorders and other early instruments. Must play both C and F recorders. Advanced sight-reading skills necessary.
Recorder 2 (Intermediate)– 6:30pm (Gayle Neuman)
For the intermediate player. Emphasis on sight reading skills and recorder technique. Soprano players are encouraged to play tenor also. May play either C or F recorders, or both.
Renaissance Winds – 7:30pm (Phil Neuman)
A unique class combining early soft double reed instruments with other dynamically compatible early instruments. Sight-reading skills required, must know C and F fingerings. Reed and instrument maintenance will be discussed. We also sing one piece.
Recorder Level 3 (Higher Intermediate) – 7:30pm (Gayle Neuman)
For the upper intermediate player. Emphasis on cut time. Soprano players must also play tenor. May play either C or F recorders, playing both is encouraged. Well developed sight-reading skills necessary.
Collegium Musicum – 8:30pm (Gayle Neuman)
For singers and players of strings and soft wind instruments who perform at an upper intermediate or advanced level.
Loud Wind Band – 8:30pm (Phil Neuman)
For advanced players on cornetto, curtal, sackbutt, crumhorn, cornamusen, and others. Also, we play one challenging modern piece for recorders.
Fall, Winter, and Spring Schedule for Cindy Markham’s CMC Classes:
Recorder Level 1 (Beginning) – Wednesdays at 7:00pm tba (Cindy Markham)
Learn to play correctly from the start. No prior musical experience is necessary. All sizes of recorder welcome.
Contact Cindy at [email protected] for details.
The instructors are Gayle Neuman, Phil Neuman, and Cindy Markham.
For more information, call 503-631-2973. To enroll or to receive a catalog, contact the Community Music Center at 503-823-3177. The Community Music Center is located at the corner of SE 33rd Place and Francis St. (one block south of Powell) in Portland.
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