Lawrence J. Intravaia discussing reed-making at Ann Arbor IDRS meeting 1972
International Summer School
Secretary: Dorothy Kemp
4 Abbots
Barton Walk
Canterbury, Kent CTI 3AX
England
Master Classes in flute -- bassoon -- oboe -- clarinet.
(Stephen Maxym's course given last summer proved overwhelmingly popular and benefited 21 full-time class members and daily visiting bassoonists. William Waterhouse, F. Porter, and several others in England who are aware of the real worth and excellence of this series, have urged me to recommend it to all IDRS members and readers of this newsletter. I hope that many of our number will be able to attend.
"Schloss Breiteneich" (1541)
"Schloss Karlslust"
(1790)
Chamber Music Courses in Austrian Castles!
Information and
Registration:
Walter Hermann Sallagar (member of IDRS) A-1030 Vienna
Neulinggasse 42/10
(year-around telephone: 57 08 555)
I. Double-Reed Making for Historical Wind Instruments - from shawms and dulcians to baroque oboe and fagott and other, beginners accepted for this course: June 30 to July 7, 1974
II. Historic Wind Instrument Ensembles - July 7 to 21, 1974
III. Classical Wind Chamber Music (Viennese Interpretation) August 25, to
September 8, 1974, at Breiteneich.
Stolen Instrument -- Heckel No. 11374. Taken from the Lyric Theater in Baltimore recently. Send information to Brent Rickman, 2907 Southern Ave., Baltimore, Maryland 21214.
Help requested! On his latest DGG solo bassoon album, Milan Turkovic notes that he is listed incorrectly as a member of the Vienna Philharmonic. Mr. Turkovic is instead a member of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. Because of this mistake many letters to him are being wrongly addressed. His correct address is: Hafengasse 5/15, A-1030 Wien, Austria. Also, he teaches only privately, not at the Hochschule für Musik)
Size of Heckel bocal nipple hole: W. Hans Moennig of Philadelphia has written a note to me that "the size of the nipple opening on the bocal (BVD No. 2), or on any new Heckel bocal is 0.033 inches. It used to be 0.032, I brought it up to 0.033. For some years now Heckel has made it 0.033 inches and it seems to work out alright. I don't know if commercial twist drills are available in 0.033; I usually make these drills by grinding a needle into a cutting edge."
Lawrence J. Intravaia, professor of bassoon at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, and the first IDRS librarian died of cancer on September 9, 1973. He was 53. We so enjoyed working with Larry, admiring his enthusiasm for music and the bassoon. His research into reed-making for historic instruments and modern bassoons and his generosity in sharing his findings with all bassoonists will be long remembered. We send our sincere sympathy to his wife and son.
Elias Carmen, well-known bassoon artist, (NBC orchestra, under Toscanini) teacher, (Manhattan School of Music, Yale University) and superb chamber musician of New York City, was tragically killed by a truck at his home in West Nyack, New York, this December. A great shock to all of us. Some of his recordings have been listed in this newsletter before. I will try to compile a larger list of examples of Eli Carmen's unforgettable artistry in a forthcoming issue.
