Performing Consorts

 

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SRS members are encouraged to form smaller ensembles which meet more often than our monthly gathering.
Some of the established consorts are available for public performances.

Absent Minded Women 
Alex Ives, harp and harpsichord
Kathryn Canan, flutes, whistles, and recorders

Gentle Celtic or early music, available for weddings, parties, and concerts.  Seeking a Celtic fiddler.  

Bach et Alia
Billie Hamilton,  John Pronko, Dorothy Orolin, Alex Ives 

Baroque chamber music as well as more modern music on recorders, violin, viola da gamba, harpsichord, hammered dulcimer and mandolin. Available for concerts.

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Kathryn Canan,  recorder and baroque flute
Robin Houston,  recorder and baroque bassoon
Phil Daley, Devon Hough, violin
Adrienne Fortini, voice
Stephen Hudson and Carrie Miller, ‘cello
Alex Ives, harpsichord


Camellia Camerata
Billie Hamilton,  Gerry Greer, recorders
Dorothy Orolin, viola da gamba
Alex Ives, harpsichord

Baroque music on period instruments.  
Available for concerts. 
 

Simply Renaissance
Kathryn Canan,
Glenn McGregor,  Liz Young, Mark Schiffer, Irene Warschauer


Renaissance music on a matched set of Renaissance recorders.  Available for concerts, feasts, and school demonstrations.  
 

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Meets weekly for group playing. Contact Elsa Morrison for meeting time and place. 

Need a Flashy Consort  Name?

 

By Steve Sherman

Several years ago, I devoted some time to thinking about flashier names than Sine Nomine (which means “no name”) for our consort. I actually did some Google research followed by some heavy drinking, and came up with this list of names.  I figured we needed a more memorable name so that bouncers in downtown clubs would finally stop forgetting to admit us to their celebrity lounges.
Consort Gothica – Every day, we earned the right to call ourselves gothic.  We are truly more gothic than any teen with dyed black hair (unless she plays really old music or writes horror/mystery/steampunk stories).
Sacragothica – kinda cool, but it sounds like an historic lower back pain.
Benny & the Baroques – probably not a contender.
A Baroque Cacophony (ABC for short) - I like this one.
DerBlokfluitenmeisters – I thought I had left this kind of thing behind when I moved from Milwaukee.
The Fippletones – Recorders have a fipple in them, honest, they really do.
The Sorrowful Slackers – From an old song title, not too attractive, but perhaps truthful.
Polyffonykka - My (and no one else's) first choice.
As things turned out, we kept our original non-name, Sine Nomine.  All the others are available for your consort’s use!


 

            

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