JAVS Fall 2008

many exciting events coming up in the future for our group—we'll keep everybody posted!

living room, where Alan de Veritch lead our intrepid group in impromptu performances of select ed viola ensemble music, including Alan's own arrangement of excerpts from the third act of La Bohéme . Overall, about a dozen violists participated, including a good portion of our charter mem bers plus students from around the area and the state. On October 7, 2008, we plan to attend David Dalton's lecture at Indiana University on William Primrose, where we plan to spread the word about our exciting new organiza tion and hopefully attract new members. Indiana has long had a distin guished history of viola scholarship and performance, and it is only fit ting that there is now a state chap ter for this region. There will be

gonviola.org, where you can find a complete list of our upcoming events. We put together a newslet ter and are getting an excellent response from both professional and amateur players. We are look ing forward to connecting violists across the Northwest.

– Philip Tietze

Oregon

– Miriam English

The Oregon Viola Society has new leadership organizing some excit ing play-ins, master classes, and concerts for this fall. The season gets going with a laid-back (typical Oregon style!) play-in in down town Portland and a viola day in Salem a week later. The Salem event includes a master class with Joël Belgique, principal violist of the Oregon Symphony; and FEAR no MUSIC, a demonstration of little-known works and a play-in. Charles Noble has recently re launched our website at www.ore

Tennessee

Fall will be a busy season for viola activities in the great state of Tennessee. Things kick off September 27 and 28 in Knoxville at the University of Tennessee's Viola Celebration, organized by Hillary Herndon. The response has been so great that we've had to add extra classes! We are now up to seventy participants with stu

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