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arranged for multiple violas by Northern California composer Michael Goss. Next, Dan Weinstein arranged two well-known jazz standards, Chelsea Bridge and I Hear a Rhap sody, allowing the participants to directly expe rience the art of jazz. Finally, we closed with a reading of L.A. composer and violist Maria Newman's Four Hymm, a haunting and engag ing piece originally wrirten for the Southern California Viola Society's 2000 Violafest. More than a dozen violists including profes sionals, students and amateurs participated in the Multiple Violafest. The enthusiastic

response of the participants throughout the entire weekend clearly planted the seeds for future collaboration between the Southern and Northern California Viola Societies. I wish to personally thank all of the workshop presenters, instrument makers, participants, and members, especially Pam Goldsmi th, Damon Graddy, Sue Marie Hall, Tom Heimberg and all others who made this week end such a successful and fulfilling event. - Ray Tischer SCVS President

FINGERBOARD MEMORY

The purpose of this book is to facilitate the learning of scales and arpeggios through a combination of visual and physical memory of the fingerboard. One must memorize scales and arpeggios to become fluent in the very rudiments of musical performance. Playing scales and arpeggios while seeing the notes with fingerings enables one to quickly learn and memorize by associating the sound of each pitch with the written note. In addition to scales and arpeggios, the finger patterns of Emanuel

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Ondrfcek are an invaluable tool for playing repeated figures from memory and visualizing the fingerboard in all different keys. It may well be that the Ondrfcek finger patterns contained in this book are appearing in print for the first time. -AIIyson Dawkins

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