STOLEN: SCHREIBER bassoon, Professional Model 558, serial number 19430. Taken from a locked locker at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. If anyone has information about the location of this instrument, please contact this Editor (613) 745-5057.
SUMMER STUDY:
1. 15th Annual New College Music Festival, Sarasota Florida, U.S.A., will be held June 3 - June 23, 1979. Applications and audition tapes are due FEBRUARY 1, (Feb. 1) 1979. Oboe and Bassoon Faculty Artists are:
Oboe
- Robert Bloom
- Sara Lambert Bloom
Bassoon
- Sol Schoenbach
- Leonard Sharrow
All tapes must be of Reel-to-Reel type and ready to play without rewinding.
Oboe requirements:
- i.) Marcello Concerto: 2nd movement
- ii.) Mozart Concerto: 1st or 3rd movement
- iii.) A work of your choice
ENGLISH HORN players, please include a short example of your playing.
Bassoon requirements:
- i.) Mozart Concerto in B-flat K.191
- ii.) Wilsson Osborne Rhapsody
- iii.) A work of your choice
When requesting information and application forms, please indicate instrument. Address inquiries to: Dr. Arthur R. Borden, Administrative Director, New College Music Festival, 5700 Tamiami Trail, Sarasota, Florida 33580.
2. Inaugural year of the Glickman-Popkin Bassoon Camp. Dates: July 1 to July 7, 1979. Wild-Acres, Little Switzerland, N.C., U.S.A. Fees: $175 covers room and board and all instructional charges. [$75 of the fee should accompany each application.] non-participating spouses may be accommodated for a $100 (room and board) fee.
Loren Glickman and Mark Popkin will provide intensive bassoon teaching, covering all aspects of performance.
Guest lecturers will be: Alan Fox (bassoon acoustics) and James O. Laslie, in residence to provide free basic bassoon adjustments, and will lecture on bassoon repair.
Address inquiries and applications to:
Mark Popkin, Director
Glickman-Popkin Bassoon Camp
740 Arbor Road
Winston-Salem
North Carolina 27104
Tel. (919) 725-5681
MEMORIAL COMPETITION FOR MUCCETTI.
The Director of the
Conservatorio Di Musica A. Boito in Parma, Italy, Maestro Piero Guarino,
recently informed Sol Schoenbach of Philadelphia that a national competition
(Italy) has been organized for a work for bassoon and string orchestra. The Jury
will include Maestri Mortari, Vlad and Bettinelli. First performance to be given
at Pomeriggi Musicali in Milan. It is hoped that a prize of 1,000,000 lire may
be presented to the winning composer. This competition is held in memory of the
celebrated bassoonist/ teacher Enzo Muccetti.
A FITTED REED ROOM AT EASTMAN.
During recent remodeling of the
entire building complex of the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York,
reedmakers of all kinds were remembered by the planners. A special room for
reedmaking was constructed in the annex practice room building of the school.
The accompanying photo did not identify the industrious bassoonists seen
benefiting from the fine design and lighting arrangement.
