JAVS Fall 2007

Congress hosted tea and cookies/sandwiches at the 11:00 am and 4:00pm hours. This was a wonderful 45-minute opportunity to mingle and chat. Seeing the likes of Dr. David Dalron and Jurra Puchhammer Sedillot charring with buddjng, youthful srudents seemed to me the qwnressential essence of our interna tional congresses. The 11 :45 am recital was in the Hartley Concert Room. Paul McMillan , a large, muscular, red-headed home rown violist with a broad smile and a soft: voice filled the seats with friends, admirers and those that would soon become same. The Hindemith Sonata (1939) was predictably strong and forceful. fntimau D~cision.s by Brett Dean (in attendance) showed a more sensitive McMillan. Something about this piece worked . The final selection Serenade by Benjamin Martin, who presided at the 1930s vintage Steinway baby grand piano, belied the verbal and written descriptions but was an intriguing piece nonetheless. After lunch luthiers gathered in the Hartley for the tra ditional play-in. Jutta Puchhammer-Sedillot, Paul McMillan, Steven Dann and Donald Maurice each played a rufferent viola and a rufferent piece (as opposed to the usual marathon experienced at other congresses, in which one and the same excerpt is played on each instrument). This is a wonderful way tO entice the audience to try the instruments at the exhibits, but not an effective way to compare them. The 3:00 pm concert, in Elder HaJJ, gave Roger Benedict opportunity tO share his ample technique and sumptuous tone. The several brief movements of the Hans Werner Henze S~renad~ for solo viola were wonderfully played. The Sonata for viola and percus sion by Australia's pre-eminent composer Peter Sculthorpe was replete with outstanding counterpoint and wonderful colors - percussion and viola is truly an exciting combination. Naturale, for viola, tape and percussion by Luciano Serio uses the actual taping of a Sicilian folk singer. The extended sections without viola vibraro, the nasal , almost harsh taped vocal sec tions evoked a near eastern or Moorish quality not unlike an Islamic call to prayer.

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