JAVS Spring 2001

AN OVERVIEW OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY VIOLA WORKS, PART I

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Auditorium) on December 23, 1974. The entire six etudes take only seven and a half minutes to play; however, one should consider varying the pauses between the etudes, a la Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire. There is no composition date on my copy of Donald Waxman's Sonata in B Major for Viola and Piano but I am fairly certain of hav ing received this copy in the 1940s. It is a three-movement piece-Con moto, Adagietto,

and Presto scherzando. Mter doing two per formances during the last fifty years, I look forward to yet another. 1!: Part II of jacob Glick's './In Overview of Twentieth-Century Viola Works" will be foatured in JAVS 17.2. British, French, and Italian viola works will be addressed, in addition to Mr. Glick's general commentary.

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