Clayton Wilson
RAY STILL, first oboist of the Chicago Symphony, will again give master classes at the Stratford Festival in Ontario. Dates are August 23 through August 31. Repertoire to be studied includes the Vivaldi G Minor Sonata, trio sonatas of Telemann and Handel, the Bach Double Concerto, the Beethoven trios, the Mozart and Strauss concerti, the Schumann Romances, and the Poulenc Trio, as well as orchestral studies. The classes are designed for advanced students and professional musicians, but anyone may attend as an auditor. Fees for performers - $150.00; for auditors $75.00. For further information write the Music Administrator, Festival Theatre Stratford, Ontario NSA 6V2 Canada. Telephone inquiries: (519) 271-4040, Ext. 238.
MICHEL PIGUET will again teach the baroque oboe at Oberlin's Baroque Performance Institute. Special emphasis will be placed on French and Italian music in this summer's session. Dates are June 29 through July 20 and tuition is $80.00 per week. For further information write or call: Professor James Caldwell, Conservatory of Music, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio 44074. Telephone: (216) 7741221, Ext. 5602.
Do you have an open ring oboe or English horn you want to sell? Write to ED PARISE, Norway Hill, Hancock, New Hampshire 03449 for more information.
ROBERT BLOOM, RAY STILL, and PHILIP WEST will teach the oboe at the Aspen Music School in Colorado this summer. MARION GIBSON and SARA LAMBERT will be associates on the oboe faculty.
The 24th International Music Competition sponsored by the Broadcasting Corporations of the Federal Republic of Germany includes a category for wind quintet. The competition will be held in Munich from September 2 through September 19, 1975. Applicants must be born between the years 1945-1958, with the exception of one member, who may be born between 1940-1958. The required literature includes one work from each of the following three groups: a) Danzi, Op. 56/2 or Reicha, Op. 88/2; b) Ibert or Nielsen or Onslow, Op. 81/3; c) H. Genzmer: Blaserquintett, or Hindemith, Op. 24/2, or Schoenberg, Op. 26 (first movement). Two more works must be chosen from a long list. Further information is available from: Internationaler Musikwettbewerb, D-8 Munchen 2 (Germany), Bayerischer Rundfunk. There will be a category for oboe soloists in the 1976 competition.
GREG STEINKE is compiling materials for a book on new oboe performance techniques. He is eager for suggestions and to have scores, records, etc. All contributions will be carefully cleared and acknowledged before publication. The address is: Department of Music, California State University, Northridge, California 91324.
Check the catalog of Seesaw Music Corporation for an extensive listing of contemporary music for woodwinds. It is available from them at 177 East 87th Street, New York, New York 10028.
BERNHARD KLEBEL will teach renaissance reeds, shawm, recorders, and baroque oboe at the Early Music Institute sponsored by the Festival Music Society of Indiana, Inc. Dates are June 30 through July 27. Further details are available from: Frank Cooper, Musical Director, Festival Music Society, Suite 422, Board of Trade Building, 143 North Meridian Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46204. Telephone: (317) 639-1013.
CLAYTON WILSON, Associate Dean of the College of Letters & Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara, will devote October and November of 1975 to playing recitals on college campuses in California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and Nevada. He anticipates playing some thirty programs in fifty days!
Mark your calendar! August 10 and 11 for the 1975 IDRS meeting at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.