JAVS Fall 1997

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As I am deaf, it is easy to respond to, since the sound can be felt as well as heard. "I am currently self-employed as a writer/ composer/publisher, trading as Ephemerae Publications and Lazy Cat Publications. My publications include four volumes of poetry, various transcriptions, my own compositions and a series of handbooks for the cor anglais, alto clarinet, and alto flute. Future plans in clude a series of handbooks for the viola and a book of studies.

The American Viola Society congratulates its thousandth member, john H C Pear, who lives in the United Kingdom. At the request of the editor, Mr. Pear has provided the following bio graphical information. "I am thirty and live in South Manchester, in the northwest of Britain. Manchester is very well served for music venues, including the Royal Northern College of Music and the Bridgewater Hall, where the Halle Orchestra are based. "I play viola, cor anglais, alto clarinet, and alto flute and have organised the chamber music programme for the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society. Unfortunately, my health no longer permits this: I am a kidney patient with a transplant that is wearing out. The viola has been especially important to me as it is the first instrument I learned to play.

Yours sincerely, with thanks, John H. C. Pear"

Mr. Pear will receive from the AVS a compli mentary copy of Playing the Viola: Conversa tions with William Primrose byDavid Dalton.

Mr. Pear can be contacted by e-mail at: jhpear@pearfamily.demon.co. uk

In an article about the Primrose Memorial Scholarship Competition that appeared in ]AVS vol. 13, no. 2, some erroneous information was given regarding the career of one of the judges. David Schwartz became principal violist of the Cleveland Orchestra at twenty-three and was lead violist in the Glenn Miller Army Air Force Band during World War II. Later, he became a member of the Paganini String Quartet, taught at Yale University, and became an important studio musician in Hollywood.