JAVS Fall 2008

Journal of the American Viola Society A publication of the American Viola Society Fall 2008 Volume 24 Number 2 Contents

From the Editor

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From the President

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p. 7 News & Notes: Announcements ~ On the Move ~ AVS Meeting Minutes ~ IVS News Feature Articles p. 17 11th Primrose International Viola Competition: Dimitri Drobatschewsky surveys the scene at America’s premier viola competition p. 21 36th International Viola Congress Review: David M. Bynog and Tom Tatton report from Tempe, Arizona p. 29 Power-Plays in Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante: A Question of Philosophies on the Genre: Is the work a concerto, a symphony, or chamber music? Andrew Filmer, the 2008 first-prize winner of the David Dalton Viola Research Competition, makes his case Departments

p. 39 AVS Retrospective: Tally Turner gets to know Maurice Riley while organizing his collection at PIVA

p. 45 Alternative Styles: David Wallace reveals the six principles of interactive performance

p. 51 In the Studio: Barbara Sudweeks shares her experience teaching a blind violist

p. 55 Student Life: Adam Paul Cordle introduces AVS’s new Facebook page

p. 59 Orchestral Training Forum: Robert Vernon on Brahms’s fourth symphony

p. 63 New Music Reviews

p. 67 Recording Reviews

p. 73 At the Grassroots

On the Cover:

Pietro Paolini (Italian, 1603-1681) Young Man Playing a Viola Oil on canvas 33.38 in. x 27.5 in. (84.77 cm x 69.85 cm) Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 61.4.14