RAY STILL will spend five weeks on Vancouver Island this summer conducting all the serenades and divertimenti of Mozart.

Book Two of the extraordinary oboe method by STEVENS HEWITT is now available. It is entitled Facility and Memory and is priced at $8.00. Also highly recommended: Mr. Hewitt's 360 Daily Exercises after Kroepsch ($ 11.00) - perhaps the best possible collection of studies for technical development.
Stevens Hewitt, 614 65th Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19126.

THOMAS STACY has been appointed to the faculty of the Juilliard School of Music in New York, making it possible to major in the English horn there.

SEIZO SUZUKI, one of Japan's leading oboists, was instrumental in the formation of a new orchestra in Tokyo, the Shin-Nihon Philharmonic. Mr. Suzuki participated in the Marlboro Festivals in the early 1960's.

We have been in touch with MIROSLAV HOSEK, first oboist in the opera orchestra of Olomouc, Czechoslovakia, in connection with his plans for the formation of a World Oboe Center, including archives of oboe literature, collections of discs and tapes, displays of historical instruments, etc. The IDRS is eager to participate in this interesting project.

NANCY FOWLER has sent an abstract of her dissertation - The Effects of Instrument Orientation and Abstraction on Motor Response Time and Accuracy to Slide Presentations of Oboe Fingerings. Her research on effectiveness of various types of fingering charts should be of interest to teachers and specialists in the use of visual aids. For further information write Dr. Fowler c/o School of Music, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306.

Making the American Scrape Oboe Reed, a 27 minute color, 16mm sound film by BLAINE EDLEFSEN should be of value to those who teach reed-making to groups of students. The photographic quality is outstanding. Interestingly enough, the scrape Mr. Edlefsen demonstrates is quite different from the "American" scrape shown in the Hedricks' book on reed-making. The film is available - for purchase or rental - from the Visual Aids Service, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois 61820.

ALVIN ETLER, composer and oboist, died at the age of 60 on June 14 at Northampton, Massachusetts. Mr. Etler was Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities at Smith College where he had taught since 1949. He had also taught at the University of Illinois, Cornell University and Western Reserve University. He had also been a member of the Indianapolis Symphony. Among his better known works were the Concerto for Wind Quintet and String Orchestra, played by the New York Philharmonic with Leonard Bernstein conducting in the opening concerts at Philharmonic Hall in New York's Lincoln Center, two Wind Quintets, and the Introduction and Allegro for oboe and piano.

MARILYN ZUPNIK, a recent Curtis graduate, has joined the Israel Philharmonic.

Other oboists moving to new positions include:

• ARNO MARIOTTI to the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor;
• SARA WATKINS to the National Symphony (Washington, D.C.);
• DAVID WEISS and ROBERT COWART to the Los Angeles Philharmonic:
• ELAINE DOUVAS and BETTY CAMUS to the Atlanta Symphony;
• GREG STEINKE to the University of California at Northridge;
• JAMES GRUSH to the University of the Pacific at Stockton, California;
• DONALD BAKER, THEODORE BASKIN, and STEVEN LABINER to the Detroit Symphony;
• PAMELA PECHA to the Cincinnati Symphony;
• ERIC BARR to the Dallas Symphony;
• MALCOLM SMITH to the Indianapolis Symphony;
• RICHARD HENDERSON to the University of Texas at El Paso;
• VANCE REGER to the New Jersey Symphony; and
• JOSEPH ROBINSON to the University of Maryland.

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