1. When and how to renew your IDRS membership: As announced in IDRS membership Interim Report No. I (December, 1973 ) mailed to all members except those joining after Dec. 31, 1973 "When you receive newsletter No. 3 of 1973 or not later than January 31, 1974, mail your renewal request and check (payable to International Double Reed Society) to: Noah Knepper, IDRS Treasurer, The School of Fine Arts, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas 76129, USA."
Dues are the same as for 1973 with one addition: if you wish to receive both oboe and bassoon newsletters, add $2.25 to your membership fee. (Make checks payable to IDRS and indicate membership year - 1974 - on your check as well.) Regular Membership - $10 ($12.25 receiving both newsletters) Student Membership - $ 5 ($ 7.25 receiving both newsletters) Contributing Membership - $ 100
2. Changes of address. Please notify the IDRS corresponding secretary, Lowry Riggins, NLU School of Music, Monroe, LA 71201, USA, of your changes of address as soon as possible. We have a large number of newsletters and Journals marked "addressee unknown." We will send them out again as soon as we are in receipt of your new address.
3. Publications not received? ? Because of the possibility of over-sight and the increasing size of IDRS, we may have neglected sending you one or more of the IDRS publications. If you became a member in 1973 (to December 31.) you should now have a Journal and 3 newsletters (Bassoon: Vol. III, 1.2.3. Oboe: Vol. I, 1.2.3.). If you joined IDRS after January 1, 1974, you will receive Journal No. 2 and the newsletters will be bassoon: Vol. IV, 1.2.3. and oboe: Vol. II, 1.2.3. (Note: Vol. III, No. 1 of the bassoon newsletter was mailed from East Lansing, Michigan, and issue No. 2 and 3 have been mailed from Ottawa, Canada. We also ran out of print on Vol. III, No. 1, so quite a few late 1973 members of IDRS may still not have received this issue. Reprints are being made, and they will be mailed as soon as possible).
If you failed to receive any (other) of the 3 newsletters or Journal No. 1, notify the corresponding secretary, Lowry Riggins. He will check your name on the list of paid members and will communicate with the necessary parties to assure a prompt mailing of the publications you need.
4. A more active IDRS? All of us wish we could devote more time to the on-going work of the IDRS. We are all busy with performances, teaching, and the other pursuits of life. However, we will be responsive to the ideas, concerns, and requests of the membership. When we receive communications on any subject from the membership, we feel the society is really working and progressing. We will keep you informed of all activity and thinking more frequently in 1974 by means of the interim reports to be mailed occasionally between our regular publications. Please take the time to write to your officers and editors with your views and ideas concerning the IDRS. Our sincere thanks to those members who have already responded and who have been of such great assistance to us all.