Chicago ARS

08/06/2026

Sunday, August 16 around noon (after the 11 am Mass)
Old St. Mary’s Church in the South Loop

Join us for a free short concert and play-along. Parents and children welcome.
Director Lisette Kielson will demonstrate the virtues of this versatile instrument.
Bring your recorder if you have one. Some instruments will be available for those who want to learn how to play!

Handel, Lully, Gabrielli, Vaughan-Williams, Teddy Bear's Picnic

Visit chicagorecorders.org for more information about the Chicago Recorder Society

1500 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60605

07/24/2026

One concert performance is worth ten lessons, the saying goes, and so, looking back at our second summer concert, the members of the Chicago Recorder Society, associates from West Suburban Early Music Society and other good friends who played together on Sunday can reflect on all we learned as we grew into a tighter ensemble, savoring the pleasure of blending our sounds in the ideal acoustics of the Block House gallery. A big thanks to the PullmanArts Board for co-sponsoring the event, especially Soren Spicknall and Megan Krout.

Despite the air quality alert -- which may have affected our audience size by discouraging sensible parents from letting their children leave home -- 21 intrepid ambassadors of music and our director, Lisette Kielson, braved the orange alert and traveled south to 111th Street to perform to a dozen or so curious souls, five of whom later accepted gifted recorders for the play-along session. Seven Dinda, our featured soloist, wowed us with "Le Rossignol en-amour (the Nightingale in Love),” by François Couperin.

Our final summer concert will be held on August 16, at 12:15 pm (not 3), at Old St Mary’s Catholic Church.

07/19/2026

This afternoon!

Indoors, so no worries about bad air

Listen and play, or just listen. Enjoy

Wildfire smoke messing with your weekend plans? Come inside Sunday afternoon for music from the Chicago Recorder Society! Parents and kids welcome.

We're hosting Chicago ARS for a free public performance and optional play-along at the Block House Gallery at 3PM on Sunday 7/19, with a limited number of recorders available for eager participants to learn a tune alongside the 21-member recorder orchestra.

07/18/2026

Join us tomorrow!
Sunday, July 19, 2026, at 3 PM

CRS performs at Pullman

Here is one of the pieces we'll be playing, as performed in May. The Sarabande from Georg Friedrich Händel's Suite No. 4 in d minor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIxKBm6EKOc&list=RDxIxKBm6EKOc&start_radio=1

It's a free, short concert and play-along with 21+ members of the Chicago Recorder Society. Parents and children welcome.

We will also be playing Lully, Gabrielli, Vaughn-Williams,Teddy Bear’s Picnic.

Director Lisette Kielson will demonstrate the virtues of this versatile instrument. Bring your recorder (and teddy bear) if you have one. Some instruments will be available for those who want to learn.

Block House Gallery
Pullman Arts
11137 South Langley Avenue
Chicago, IL 60628
[email protected]

The Sarabande from Georg Friedrich Händel's Suite No. 4 in d minor,...

07/17/2026

Sunday, July 19, 2026 at 3 PM
CRS performs at Pullman

A free short concert and play-along with 21 members of the Chicago Recorder Society. Parents and children welcome.

Handel, Lully, Gabrielli, Vaughn-Williams,Teddy Bear’s Picnic. Here is a May recording of the Teddy Bear's Picnic, to get an idea.

Director Lisette Kielson will demonstrate the virtues of this versatile instrument. Bring your recorder (and teddy bear) if you have one. Some instruments will be available for those who want to learn.

Block House Gallery
Pullman Arts
11137 South Langley Avenue
Chicago, IL 60628
[email protected]

Members of the Chicago Recorder Society perform "The Teddy Bears' P...

07/17/2026

Sunday, July 19, 2026, at 3 PM
CRS at Pullman

A free short concert and play-along with 21+ members of the Chicago Recorder Society. Parents and children welcome.

Handel, Lully, Gabrielli, Vaughn-Williams,Teddy Bear’s Picnic. Here is a performance of the Teddy Bear's Picnic last May, to get an idea.

Director Lisette Kielson will demonstrate the virtues of this versatile instrument. Bring your recorder (and teddy bear) if you have one.

Some instruments will be available for those who want to learn.

Block House Gallery
Pullman Arts
11137 South Langley Avenue
Chicago, IL 60628
[email protected]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAdTvnNkgIM

07/16/2026

Twenty-one Recorder Salute to Pullman
Sunday, July 19, 2026 at 3 PM

A free short concert and play-along with 21 members of the Chicago Recorder Society. Parents and children welcome.

Handel, Lully, Gabrielli, Vaughn-Williams,Teddy Bear’s Picnic.

Director Lisette Kielson will demonstrate the virtues of this versatile instrument. Bring your recorder (and teddy bear) if you have one. Some instruments will be available for those who want to learn.

Block House Gallery
Pullman Arts
11137 South Langley Avenue
Chicago, IL 60628
[email protected]

07/14/2026

Sunday!
July 19 at 3:00 PM
At the Pullman Center

25 Recorder Players performing older and newer music. Followed by the opportunity to experience playing yourself.

Don’t miss it

06/23/2026

On Sunday, we had a wonderful, well attended Make Music Chicago event, at the Bessie Coleman Library. The Library staff went out of their way to make it a success.
After our performance, the audience was invited to participate in the play-along and experience playing recorder themselves. Quite a few people did, and it was a lot of fun.

06/19/2026

Sunday, June 21: Make Music Chicago
The Chicago Recorder Society performs at the Bessie Coleman Public Library, at 3:00 PM
Performance, followed by a play-along, where the audience members are invited to learn and play the
recorder with us. Recorder provided or bring your own!
731 East 63rd Street
Chicago, IL 60637