On the Cover
- The late Sol Schoenbach (1915-1999) outside his Settlement Music School, Philadelphia in 1957. See the picture collage and obituaries on dear Sol elsewhere in this issue.
Title page Table of Contents Message from the President by Marc Fink 28th Annual IDRS Conference, Madison, Wisconsin, August 10-14, 1999 IDRS Membership Application IDRS Honorary Members The History of the IDRS, Part V A History of the Special Projects, Competitions, Commissions, Grants-in-Aid, IDRS OnLine and World Wide Web of the IDRS by Yoshiyuki Ishikawa Sponsor-A-Member by Marc Fink IDRS Awards Six Grants-in-Aid for Double Reed Projects IDRS Composition Contest Results IDRS Honorary Membership Nomination Committee, 1999 29th IDRS Conference - Buenos Aires, Argentina From the Bassoon Editor's Desk by Ronald Klimko Letters to the Editors Oboists in the News by Daniel Stolper Sol Schoenbach, 83, Orchestra Bassoonist by Andy Wallace and Peter Dobrin Sol Schoenbach, A Life in Pictures Confessions of a Contra-loving Composer by Roger Soren Obituary - Raymond S. Weaver, Jr. Musical Memories by Raymond Weaver Bassoonists' News of Interst by Ronald Klimko Remembering When A Symposium for Living the Bassoon by Arlene McCallum Oboe Music Reviews by Brent Register Bassoon and Double Reed CD Reviews by Ronald Klimko The O Zone by Nehama Timstitt User Friendly Bassoon Tunes by Daryl Durran In Memoriam - Francis Goelet by Thomas Stacy Encore! Encore! By Hugo Kugiya In Memoriam: John A. Holmes by Jane Murray John Addison by James Brown Bruce Bower Dies at 47 Meet the Challenge by Oscar Petty, Jr. My Experience in the Far East by James D. Hough Shawms Played by the Tailor-Musicians of the Kathmandu Valley by Christian Schneider IDRS WWW Bolero Unraveled: Dissonance as a Factor in Interpretation of Phrasing by Dale Clark A New Oboe Thumb Support by William J. Dawson, M.D. Making Music by Jorge Arango A Bassoon Lite, Please: Gravity of Bassoon, The Fagoon, Purple by Alan Goodman CD Review by James Roe The Extreme Challenges of Simon Bainbridge's At an Uncertain Hour by Matthew Karr Great Oboes of the Twentieth Century by Shelly Sublett and Alvin Swiney Obituary - Cecil James by William Waterhouse Marcel Tabuteau of Philadelphia Orchestra Summarizes Training as told to Robert Sabin Use of "Speaker Keys" on the Contrabassoon by Rebecca Noreen Oboe CD Reviews by Steven E. Ritter Recruiting, Repairing and Roguery: Eighteenth-Century America Bassoonists by Georgia Peeples Old Bassoons in Heidelberg by Dr. K. Gillessen Stolen Oboes and Bassoons Report of the Executive Secretary-Treasurer Lost Sheep Contributing Members Advertising Rates Use of the IDRS Trademark