JAVS Spring 2007

th~ populariZiltion of th~ viola, consickr~d by him as th~ most b~autifol and nobk ofall ocisting instrummts.

Research Society and first editor of irs Newsletter, and was programming chairman for both the 1975 Ypsilanti and 1977 Rochester International Viola Congresses. 2. For readers unfamiliar with the organizational names and acronyms of this period, the Viola Forschungsgesellschaft (VFG), was founded in 1968 in Kassel, Germany, and eventually became the International Viola Society. Viola Research Society (VRS), the English translation of this tide, was the original name of the American Viola Society, changed in 1978. 3. Vadim Borissowsky (1900-1972) died in Moscow, USSR.

Photographs by Richard Schwaru.

Th~r~ is an ~vmt ofsuprem~ importanu in our viola world too. On~ month bifor~ his d~ath D. Shostakovich had cr~at~d his last work- onata for Viola and Piano. It is a masurpi~u. th~ gr~at compos- ~r's swan song and an honour to th~ instrummt chosm by him to ull tlu world his last thoughts and ft~lings.

Notes (by Dwight Pounds):

1. Dr. Myron Rosenblum was a founding member of the original Viola Forschungsgesellschaft (VFG), founder and first president of the Viola

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