JAVS Spring 2019

From the President

Hello my friends,

By the time you read this the period of time for proposals to the 2020 AVS Festival will be past. We are planning on an excellent Festival with many different types of sessions and concerts. The University of Tennessee-Knoxville is a great setting. The area is beautiful, and the university is being extremely accommodating. Speaking of the 2020 AVS Festival, it’s not too early to begin thinking about having your university host the 2022 AVS Festival. This isn’t a call for festival site applications; that will be announced officially later, it’s just something to get you thinking about it. I will be in touch with the Primrose International Viola Competition people soon as we begin planning for another great competition. The competition in 2018 at the Colburn School was incredible and set a high standard for future PIVC competitions. Are you a member of the AVS Facebook Group? It’s easy to join us and keep in touch with your friends. Currently we have over 1,800 members. All you have to do to join is go to www.facebook.com/groups/americanviola and click on the Join link. You will be asked three simple questions to assure us you aren’t a robot. As I close this letter I want to thank you personally for your continued support of the AVS. Membership is the lifeblood of any organization, and every member is equally important in sustaining this great organization that we call the American Viola Society.

I hope everyone reading this issue of the JAVS is doing well and staying healthy. It’s a beautiful, albeit a bit windy day in Utah. Warm weather was a long time coming, but it has finally arrived, and my wife and I have been enjoying it.

The redesign of the AVS website is going well. There are a lot of links to adjust and outdated information to remove, plus new information to add. Thanks to Adam Cordle and Brian Covington for their work continuing, and to all of the members who have assisted by providing new information in one form or another. One of the ways that every member of the AVS can have a part in shaping the website is to provide us with current contact information about your local viola organizations. We are revamping the information under the Local Organizations tab and we need your help. Whether you are a member of a statewide society, a local city group, a college or university viola class, or any combination of organizations, the AVS would like to be able to list your organization on the website. Please send me an email with names and contact information for your officers, and if you have a webpage, the URL. Send information to mpalumbo45@gmail.com. Are you a violist without any type of local organization in your area? If you are, we can help get you with information about creating a local viola group. Just contact me at the above email. Advertiser Index AVS History & Reference Guide . . . . . . . . . 15 Balmforth Violas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Connolly Music Company/Thomastik-Infeld. . . . BC David Dalton Competition ad. . . . . . . . IFC, 61

Warm regards,

Mike Palumbo AVS President

Maurice Gardner Competition for Composers. . 62, IBC Robertson & Sons Violin Shop, Inc. . . . . . . . . 36 University of Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

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Journal of the American Viola Society / Vol. 35, No. 1, Spring 2019