Auloi Double Reed Ensemble - Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa.

4/74. A nine-member small college student double reed group founded and directed by Assistant Professor E. Harvey Jewell, who also plays oboe and English horn in the ensemble. Concert featured works of Telemann, Baldassare Galuppi, Beethoven, Britten, Osborne, and Hovhaness. Bravo please send us a tape sometime.

The New York Bassoon Quartet - Bernadette Zirkuli, Julie Feves, Lauren Goldstein, and Alice Black, with assisting bassoonist Leonard Hindell, soprano Judith Hubbell, Counter-tenor William Zukov, and harpsichordist Edward Brewer.

6/74. Carnegie Recital Hall concert. Music by des Pres Obrecht, Gosteley, R. Kaiser, Schutz, M. Corrette (Le Phenix), Harbison, Alvin Brehm, A. Dubensky, and "encores," including a Janet Joplin ragtime piece, Peter Schickele's Last Tango in Bayreuth and bassoonist Zirkuli's arrangement of Gounod's Funeral March of a Marionette, best known as Alfred Hitchcock's musical theme. Very complimentary New York Times review by Raymond Ericson.

Dan Welcher - composer/bassoonist. Principal Bassoon of the Louisville (Kentucky) Orchestra.

4/74. His Concerto for Flute and Orchestra, performed by flutist Francis Fuge, was given a world premiere by the Louisville Orchestra, conducted by Jorge Mester. The Concerto will be recorded in 1974. Mr. Welcher is also working on a solo bassoon work to be announced soon.

Kirkland Ferris - principal bassoon, Honolulu Symphony.

2/74. World premiere of Sardonics for bassoon alone, by Armand Russell of the University of Hawaii (multiphonics, harmonics and improvisation employed) - also a performance of Carl Almenraeder's Air Varie Ancien, accompanied by violin, viola, and cello.

Gabor Janota - Hungarian bassoon virtuoso, briefly revisiting Canada.

3/74. Recital program: Galliard (a minor), Handel Concerto in C Minor, Christoph Schaffrath Duetto in F Minor for bassoon and harpsichord obbligato, Beethoven Duetto in C for clarinet and bassoon, Devienne Quartet in C op. 73, No. 1 for bassoon and string trio, Hindemith Sonata, Hindemith Pieces for bassoon and cello, Miklos Kocsar's Divertimento for woodwind trio, George Perle Three Inventions for solo bassoon, Debussy The Little Negro and Ravel, Habanera. Five days later, on a concert of the London (Ontario) Symphony Orchestra, Mr. Janota performed J. C. Bach's Concerto in B-flat Major. Clifford Evens conducted. The recital was performed at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.

John Steinmetz - California Institute of the Arts and School of Music.

2/74. A fine concert of concerted double reed music: credit for the performance is given to the teachers of oboe and bassoon, Allan Vogel and William Douglas, respectively. But much of the music was arranged, conducted and performed by John Steinmetz - Gabrieli Canzon XIV (2 oboes, E. Horn, 2 bsns), Beethoven Variations on a theme of Mozart (2 obs and E. Horn), J. S. Bach Inventio I (Oboe and Bassoon), Sinfonia VII (oboe, oboe d'amore, E. Horn - arr. by Marsha Taylor) and Contrapunctus 4 from Die Kunst der Fuge (oboe, oboe d'amore, E. Horn and bassoon), Three settings of Herzlich thut mich verlangen (four bassoons - the Val Verde bassoon quartet), Prokofiev's Humorous Scherzo (4 bassoons), William Moulton's Rain (3 bassoons, dancer, lights), C. Debussy La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin (2 oboes, oboe d'amore, 2 E. Horns, 3 bassoons), Gabrieli's Canzon XV (3 oboes, oboe d'amore, 2 E. Horns and 4 bassoons). Encore: Sousa's The Stars and Stripes Forever.

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