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Advertiser Index Arizona State University. . . . . . . . . . . . IFC AVS History & Reference Guide . . . . . . . . . 48 AVS Viola Ensemble Database. . . . . . . . . . 30 Balmforth Violas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Baylor University. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Charles E. Harman, Luthier. . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Connolly Music Company. . . . . . . . . . . BC David Dalton Competition . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Primrose International Viola Archive. . . . . . . . 50 Rice University. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Robertson & Sons Violin Shop, Inc. . . . . . . . . 41 Seman Violins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 SUNY Potsdam Crane School of Music. . . . . . . 13 University of Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 William Harris Lee & Co., Inc. . . . . . . . . . IBC is included: Murovisation-Celebration by Paweł Michałowski, a rousing–and rousingly performed by Murawski’s students–birthday tribute to the composer’s teacher and initiator of the project that has now come to an end. Unless, that is, Michael Kimber still has a few further compositions up his sleeve… on its collective toes. The Four Melodious Etudes (2009) are so many morsels that Murawski shapes beautifully with that kind of art that conceals art; even the Wieniawski-like flourishes that conclude the set retain a cantabile quality. After becoming a founding member (with Christine Rutledge, Elizabeth Oakes, and Nathalie Cruden) of the Iowa City Viola Quartet in 2004, Kimber wrote many pieces for this group, three of which are included in this volume. Violapalooza! (2009) is a minute-long, nicely lilting trifle, the Three Quirky Pieces (2006) are just that, their amusingly alliterative titles adding to the general feeling of innocent merriment! The Fugal Fantasia on “The First Noel” (2012) is beautifully built and develops to a rousing culmination. The odd one out—in the sense that it was not written for Kimber’s own group—is Traveling Music (2005), a mellifluous suite of three movements that exists in several versions (that for string orchestra is featured in Vol. 4 of the series). This agreeable piece of Americana should not be confused with the similarly named Traveling (2006) for string orchestra and harp, a lovely medley of Latin-influenced rhythms that concludes the present CD. As in Vol. 3, a non-Kimber composition

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