1971 - Creation of IDRS

The International Double Reed Society was established in December 1971. Lewis Hugh Cooper, Gerald Corey and Alan H. Fox held the inaugural meeting on December 16, 1971 during the December 1971 meeting of the Mid-Western Band Masters convention. The first edition of To the World’s Oboists was published in 1972 and The Journal of the International Double Reed Society was started in 1973.