The Early Music Festival at Whitewater is a weekend workshop held the first full weekend in June.  Activities include:  classes for all levels of recorder from beginning to advanced, reeds and wind band instruments, viola da gamba, and voice; vendor exhibits; informal late-night playing sessions; festival-ending concert; and much more.  
Read the Whitewater EMF 2012 Brochure http://whitewaterearlymusic.org/page4/files/Schedule%202012.pdf

New Quintet by Glen Shannon
This remarkable quintet was commissioned by Charles Fischer as a quintet reduction of the recorder orchestra version for 12 instruments. Each player except the bass recorder player is assigned two instruments and must switch at least once between them as the piece progresses  (Si/S, S/A, A/T, T/B, and B)

Play .mp3 file (recorded live!) of Shannon Follia Variations

See and Play Scorch File  of Shannon Follia Variations (requires free plug-in from Sibelius.com)

Play Midi File of Shannon Follia Variations

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Recorder Classroom (Scorch full and MMO files for grades 1-3 and 4-6) -added 4/26/2005

ARTAfacts newsletters now have list of contents - updated 4/25/2005

21 Recorders at 5 Pitches (revised and expanded chart) - added 4/18/2005

Two  Fred Morgan Bressan alto recorders acquired for sale on consignment! - 04/12/2005

Arrangement of Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Chorus) - Scorch Version - added 4/12/2005
Docentenhandleiding voor The Recorder From Zero, Deel I  - Dutch translation of the Teacher's Guide by Anton von Woerkom added 4/4/2005

Frans Brüggen at 60 by Walter van Hauwe, translated by Charles Fischer -  added 07/04/2004
Interview with Nina Stern by Charles Fischer - added 03/26/2004
Interview with Adrian Brown by Charles Fischer - added 12/20/2003
Transitional Recorder Makers  - Reference Table added 12/10/2003

Alto Recorder From Zero and other recorder music now available!
Alto Recorder From Zero  (1st edition, 2003) is now available at: Publications
Duets by Couperin and Corelli for AA, and a wonderful trio by Boismortier for AAA are now available at: Publications
 
The Recorder From Zero, Vol 2  (2nd edition, 2002) was reviewed in The American Recorder.
Excerpts from the review can be seen at: Recorder Methods = added 01/15/2003

The Recorder From Zero, Vol. 1 (2nd edition, 2001)  was recently reviewed by both The American Recorder and The Recorder Magazine (UK). 
Excerpts from the reviews can be seen at: Recorder Methods - added 06/15/2002

You can now see and print errata and corrections of several lessons in RFZ Vol. 1 - added 12/01/2001

Web Site Launched 11/21/2001