JAVS Fall 1996

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lilting British accent, that his piece "is not in any key." It would be a pleasure to hear the . . ptece agam.

prominent feature. Even though the harmonic vocabulary is definitely twentieth-century, at first hearing, tonal centers seemed to be lurking. However, in a brief intermission conversation, Mr. Lubbock maintained, in a

-Thomas G. Hall, Chapman University

Ulrich Koch Tokyo, Japan

U lrich Koch, eminent German violist and teacher, died at his Tokyo home on 7 June 1996 at the age of seventy-five. He was an honorary professor of viola at the Musashino Academia Musicae. Koch had been a longtime faculty member of the Musikhochschule in Freiburg. Counted among his most prominent students are Tabea Zimmermann and Wolfram Christ. He also served as principal of the Southwestern Radio Orchestra at Baden-Baden. He enjoyed a personal acquaintance with Paul Hindemith and he championed the com poser's Solo Sonata (1937) long before it was published, playing it from a copy of Hindemith's manuscript. Koch featured this work at the Stuttgart International Viola Competition in 1982. He can be heard on record in the Sancho Panza role in Don Quixote with Rostropovitch and the Berlin Philharmonic under von Karajan. Earlier recordings include the Milhaud First Concerto.

Abraham Skemick Bloomington, Indiana

O ur colleague Abraham Skernick died in Bloomington, Indiana, 13 December 1997. Skemick was principal violist of the Cleveland Orchestra under George Szell before joining the faculty of Indiana University. He will be eulogized in the next issue of ]AVS.