Michio Wakabayashi - bassoonist with Edmonton (Canada) Symphony - plays French system bassoon; honors graduate Paris Conservatoire.

6/75. An excellent and creative performance of B. Martinu's La Revue de Cuisine on Canadian national television (CBC). Violinist Shirley Hostetter, 'cellist Carol Feist, clarinetist Randall Bain, trumpeter Ed Nixon, and pianist Janet Scott. The musicians changed costumes for three of the movements to fit the changing styles (Tango Ragtime), and two cafe dancers also helped the visual impression. Emphasis was primarily on the music though, and it was excellently performed.

Richard Lottridge - University of Wisconsin at Madison, professor of bassoon.

9/75. 20th century music for flute/ piano and bassoon/piano. Robert Cole, flute. First performance of Alec Wilder's Sonata No. 3 (Richard says music is temporarily available from Haney Philips, School of Music, University of Indiana, Bloomington, Indiana). Also, Child's Play for Bassoon and Piano by david ward-steinman (sic) (Galaxy Music Corp.) "very well received; uses multiphonics, rhythmic improvisation; piano uses mallets and brushes on strings - very effective." - and Trio for Flute, Bassoon and Piano by Andras Borgulya (General Music Publishers) "not a major work, but a pleasant short piece - 8 minutes."

Milan Turkovic - Vienna Symphony Bassoonist. With Ray Still, Chicago Symphony oboist and John Perry, piano.

November 9-15 tour and subsequent performances and master classes November 18-25. Finding time in jam-packed orchestra schedules to continue a chamber music partnership which began at Marlboro, Vermont, a few summers ago, and followed with a memorable duo-recital at Northwestern University, the double reed ensemble - Still/Turkovic/Perry - performed six recitals in seven days at: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois; Chicago, Illinois; Notre Dame University, South Bend, Indiana; Cleveland, Ohio; Toronto, Canada; and New York City's Carnegie Recital Hall. I heard the Toronto performance, luckily, and it was a pleasure from beginning to end. The review from the Carnegie concert also is completely laudatory. Music included Hindemith's oboe sonata, the Saint-Saëns bassoon sonata, Willson Osborne's solo bassoon Rhapsody, Schumann's Romances for oboe and piano and the Poulenc Trio for oboe, bassoon and piano. After the trio's final concert in New York, Mr. Turkovic also performed a solo recital, master class, and concerto at Pullman Washington; Moscow, Idaho (master class on ornamentation and continuo playing); and Cheney, Washington.

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