CHANGE OF ADDRESS NOTICE: PLEASE REPORT YOUR CHANGE OF ADDRESS ONLY TO ONE RIGHT SOURCE-- IDRS MEMBERS write to Lowry Riggins, IDRS Treasurer, NLU School of Music, Monroe, LA 71201. Include your old address, your new address and type of membership; indicate which newsletter(s) you receive. ("To the World's Bassoonists" private subscribers ONLY--report your change of address to this Editor, Gerald E. Corey.)
IDRS CONTRIBUTING MEMBERS: The IDRS Journal No. 3, 1975 failed to mention three Contributing Members of the Society. With sincere apologies to these firms whose loyal interest and support helps us immensely, they are:
WANTED: DOUBLE REED INSTRUCTOR. Alan Fox of FOX Products has asked me to mention that the Jamaica School of Music is looking for a double reed instructor. For information, interested parties should contact:
Miss Pamela O'Gorman
Jamaica School of Music
19 Hope Road
Kingston 10
Jamaica
Phone (809) 926-5596
FIRST FOR WEST POINT. Bassoonist, Suzanne Edick, of Allentown, Pennsylvania, is the first woman ever to be admitted as a member of the West Point Military Academy Band. According to an announcement in The International Musician, a new uniform, dress, work and gym outfits were designed for Ms. Edick and will become the standard attire for all future women West Pointers. Congratulations, Suzanne.
Bassoonists Consulted re: The Art: In an article featuring Toronto Symphony's newly appointed conductor, Andrew Davis, (The Canadian, cross-Canada news pictorial, Dec. 6, 1975), co-principal bassoonist Christopher Weait observed of Davis's style of direction, "It's picturebook conducting; it's clear and consistent without being routine. That's a pretty thin line to tread."
In a New York Times article describing the exceptionally fine acoustics of the new concert hall built for the Minnesota Orchestra in Minneapolis, principal bassoonist John Miller was quoted as saying that the hall was so efficient that he could use with the orchestra a reed which was too light for some chamber music and still feel that his tone carried well in the new hall. What a welcome change after the many years in Northrop Auditorium which holds over 4000.