JAVS Summer 2001

TABLE OF CONTENTS

From the President ............................................ 5

Announcements .............................................. 9

An Overview ofTwentieth-Century Viola Works, Part II ................ 15 by jacob Glick

The Basics Revisited: Artistic Distinctions .......................... 21 "Flexibility ofVibrato: Controlling Width and Speed" by Heidi Castleman

An Interview with Steven R. Gerber ............................... 29 by Jeffrey james

"Elegy on the Name 'Dmitri Shostakovich' " for Solo Viola .............. 36 by Steven R. Gerber

Report on the Violin Society of America's 14th Annual Competition for Instrument Making .........................................39 by Christine Rutledge

AVS Membership at 30 ........................................ 43 by Catherine Forbes

2001 Primrose Memorial Scholarship Competition .................... 45 by Kathryn Steely

From the IVS Presidency: ...................................... 49 "The XXIX International Viola Congress" by David Dalton

Reviews: Recording Reviews ..................................... 57 by David 0. Brown

AVS Chapters ................................................63

Of Interest/Annual Board Meeting of the American Viola Society ..........69

Searching PIVA Online ........................................ 73