Plumbers Union
On this episode of Concerts Plus, host Robert Sherman and the members of Plumbers Union explore the repertoire for recorder ensemble in a program of live music and conversation. Martin Bookspan hosts the intermission feature.
This program was broadcast live before a studio audience in the WQXR Concert Theater.
Note: This recording contains an additional thirty-five minutes of performances and conversation which were never broadcast.
From host Robert Sherman's notes:
Although The Plumbers Union might seem, at first flush, to be a rather unusual name for a musical group, even in Canada, it isn't, really. After all, a recorder is a kind of pipe, and if you put several pipes together you get a joining, and a joining is a union, so there you are. And here they are, thanks to assisting grants from several cultural foundations in Alberta, plus the \Af.orld class delivery service of Air Canada.
The artists performing in"Recorders Plus" are:
The Plumbers Union
Harlan Green
Rogers Deegan
Bill Damur
Marg Daly
Tami Cooper
Part I:
Johann Petzel - Peter Siebert Andrew Charlton
George Andrix Dean Blair
Ralph Herman-Roger Deegan arr.G.E.Holmes
J.S. Bach - Andrew Charlton Morton Gould - Roger Deegan Roger Deegan
arr.Kenneth Meek Malcolm Forsyth Andrew Charlton
Bal (5 recorders)
*Inverness Gathering;
*Ward's Brae from Celtic Fancies (5 recorders)
*Plumber's Lite (5 recorders) (Rag. Love song, Dance)
*Baroque Suite (5 recorders) (Gavotte, Pavane. Gigue)
*Flute Willow (4 flutes S harpsichord) Listen to the Moc;king Bird (4 piccolos)
*Invention No (4 recorders a harpsichord)
*Pavanne (5 recorders)
*Heritage Suite (4 recorders with finger cymbals, spoons S drums)
Old World in the New World Morris Dance
Begrrah!
Ophelia's Songs from Hamlet (4 recorders)
*Viva Vivaldieu (4 recorders S harpsichord) Ayre Conditioned
*Jig
*Blues (4 recorders S harpsichord)
- INTERMISSION -
* Music composed or arranged for The Plumbers Union
Part II
arr.Anne Mendoza
Paul McCartney - Murray Reid Andrew Charlton
Lane-Freed-David Carroll arr.Carl Dol.metsch
Regney- Shayne - Tom Banks Tom Banks
Five English Dances (3 recorders, drum, tambourine, finger cymbals)
News from Denmark The Ramble
The Black Dance
The King of Denmark's Favorite The Cymbal
*Junk (5 recorders)
*Suite Americana (5 recorders) Turkey in the Straw
Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair Dixie
Oh Shenandoah Yankee Doodle
Medley: Go Down Moses, Erie Canal, Aura Lee, Skip to My Lou, Down in the Valley, When John Comes Marching Home
*How About You (5 recorders) Greensleeves (4 recorders S tambourine)
*Do You Hear What I Hear (4 recorders)
*Recorder Rag (4 recorders S harpsichord)
* Music composed or arranged for The Plumbers Union
WNYC archives id: 152087
