01_Cover.qxd 1/9/06 5:16 PM Page 1 VOLUME XXXI, NO.W2 INTER 2006 THE LUTIST QUARTERLY THE OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF THE NATIONAL FLUTE ASSOCIATION, INC 02_25.qxd 1/9/06 5:32 PM Page 3 Table of CONTENTS THE FLUTIST QUARTERLY VOLUME XXXI, NO. 2 WINTER 2006 DEPARTMENTS 5 From the President 26 Student Spotlight 9 From the Editor 29 The Inner Flute 11 High Notes 54 New Products 15 NFA News 57 From the Program Chair 17 Passing Tones 64 NFA Coordinators & 19 Across the Miles Committee Chairs 23 Notes from Abroad 65 Index of Advertisers FEATURES 32 32 When East Meets West: Takemitsu’s Itinerant for Flute Solo by Mary Procopio Toru Takemitsu used influences from very different cultures to create compositions that offer the performer both technical challenges and the opportunity to delve into the characteristics of Japanese music. 40 Playing Flute in Non-Classical Environments by Bill McBirnie When it comes to performing jazz well, it’s all in the timing. 46 William Kincaid and Marcel Tabuteau: A Legendary Collaboration by Lois Bliss Herbine Kincaid and Tabuteau, principal flute and oboe with the Philadelphia Orchestra 40 during its golden era, were leaders of the “American School of Woodwinds” that revolutionized the playing and instruction of their instruments. Key concepts in Kincaid’s teachings, as distilled by John Krell, are explained in this article. Cover Photo: © Suntory Music Foundation THE NATIONAL FLUTE ASSOCIATION 26951 RUETHER AVENUE,SUITE H SANTA CLARITA, CA 91351 FOUNDED NOVEMBER 18, 1972 IN ELKHART,INDIANA This magazine is published quarterly by the National Flute Association, Inc., a non-profit organization. The statements of writers and advertisers are not necessarily those of The National Flute Association, Inc., which reserves the right to refuse to print any advertisement. ISSN 8756-8667 2006 National Flute Association, Inc. 29 11 Winter 2006 The Flutist Quarterly 3 02_25.qxd 1/9/06 5:32 PM Page 4 THE FLUTIST QUARTERLY Anne Welsbacher, Editor Joan Marie Bauman, Christine Cleary, Pascal Gresset, Amy Hamilton, Contributing Editors Tony Watson, Masterclass Reporter Mary Jean Simpson, Consulting Editor Steve DiLauro, Advertising Sales Representative Victoria Stehl, Art Director Editorial Advisory Board John Bailey Professor of Flute, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, Nebraska Zart Dombourian-Eby Principal Piccolo, Seattle Symphony Seattle, Washington Arthur Ephross Flute and Piccolo San Antonio, Texas Susan Goodfellow Associate Professor of Flute, University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah Amy Likar Flute, Piccolo and Alexander Technique Oakland, California Betty Bang Mather Emeritus Professor of Flute, The University of Iowa Iowa City, Iowa Roger Mather Adjunct Professor of Flute (retired) The University of Iowa Iowa City, Iowa Michael Stoune Associate Director of Graduate Studies, School of Music, Texas Tech University Lubbock, Texas Nancy Toff Music Historian New York, New York Michael Treister, M.D. Orthopaedic and Hand Surgeon, Amateur Flutist Chicago, Illinois NATIONAL FLUTE ASSOCIATION, INC, STAFF Phyllis T. Pemberton, Executive Director Madeline Neumann, Convention Manager Maria Stibelman, Membership Manager Brian Covington, Web Design Consultant From the PRESIDENT A Flourishing NFA hank you for the privilege of lessons and procedures are passed serving our fine organization. It from one to the other with trust and Tis a great honor to become pres- confidence. ident of the NFA for a second time. I For musicians, mentorship starts look forward to my association with early. Our private teachers share life many of you, members and flutists, lessons as well as those pertaining to who are the NFA. The many facets of our special love, the flute. Every day I this amazing organization have fed me look back to the lessons learned from personally for more than 30 years. My former teachers as they taught me about first convention experience in 1976 flute playing and music, but many other remains a clear memory. I will never things as well. Remembering past forget the touching moment when mentors, it is those times when they Emil Medicus, editor of the Flutist shared a positive word, told a personal magazine of the 1920s, was given a story, or went out of their way to help; Katherine Borst Jones lifetime membership in our then four- that laugh or anecdote that remains in years-young organization. I was the memory and gives strength at hooked. I remember saying to Samuel another difficult time. How these people Baron how much that Atlanta conven- changed my life for the better! Each of tion had meant to me, and if ever us then takes that gift and passes it there was anything I could do, I would along, thereby sharing legacies that be honored. The mold was cast. will challenge the next generation. Our organization continues to The NFA is a wonderful association flourish thanks to the efforts of many for mentorship. How much fun is it to through the years. Special kudos to introduce students to the excitement outgoing past president John Bailey, and joys of our chosen profession? To who has served the organization for see the awe on their faces when they the past three years, and to outgoing meet someone whose recording they secretary Wendy Kumer. Kumer takes on a new job of local liaison for the have cherished, to meet someone who upcoming Pittsburgh convention. It has just played marvelously for them in will be difficult to follow in the footsteps person, to meet someone up close and of past president, Sue Ann Kahn. personal in the exhibit hall, or elevator? Thanks also to outgoing board members To see the joy on their faces as they Mary Karen Clardy, Carol Kniebusch explore the sounds of instruments Noe, and Michael Stoune. We are grateful only previously available in their for the continuity of fine leadership from dreams, to watch them leaf through these marvelous people, as well as our music, to help them find that new item amazing staff and the many volunteers that intrigues, sharing experiences as who serve our organization on a daily they happen. And to thank our mentors basis as committee chairs and coordi- in person. These are only some of the nators. Please show appreciation to experiences that membership in our these fine people for all the work that great organization, the NFA, makes is done on behalf of the NFA. possible. Please take advantage of the If we are lucky, mentorship is an opportunities and enjoy! ongoing activity in our daily lives. The NFA flourishes thanks to the mentoring of officers, board members, staff and committee members, and chairs. Past —Katherine Borst Jones, President Winter 2006 The Flutist Quarterly 5 02_25.qxd 1/9/06 5:33 PM Page 8 OFFICERS Mark Thomas • Founder & Honorary Life President 824 Charter Plc. Charlotte, NC 28211-5660 704-365-0369 (phone/fax) [email protected] Katherine Borst Jones • President 4635 Rutherford Rd. Powell, OH 43065 740-881-5008 fax: 740-881-5252 jones.6@osu .edu Alexa Still • Vice President 301 UCB, College of Music Box 301, UC Boulder Boulder, CO 80309-0301 303-492-7150 fax: 303-492-5619 [email protected] Patricia George • Secretary 311 S. 8th Ave. Pocatello, ID 83201 208-234-4922 [email protected] Teresa Beaman • Treasurer Department of Music, CSU-Fresno 2380 E. Keats Ave. MS/MB77 Fresno, CA 93740-8024 559-278-3975 [email protected] Carol Dale • Assistant Secretary Dept. of Music, University of Mississippi Oxford, MS 38677 662-234-2978 [email protected] BOARD OF DIRECTORS Robert Aitken (2006–2008) 14 Maxwell Ave. Toronto, ON M5P 2B5 Canada 416-481-4967 fax: 416-481-0040 John Barcellona (2005–2007) 9462 Castlegate Dr. Huntington Beach, CA 92646 714-964-2382 fax: 714-964-2650 [email protected] Zart Dombourian-Eby (2006–2008) 2515 10th Ave. W. Seattle, WA 98119 206-285-0206 [email protected] Sue Ann Kahn • Immediate Past President 96 Fifth Ave. #4-J New York, NY 10011 212-675-1932 [email protected] Rhonda Larson (2005–2007) 514 49th St. Grand Junction, MI 49056 269-434-8462 (phone/fax) [email protected] Amy Porter (2006–2008) 1647 Broadway Ann Arbor, MI 48105 734-623-4853 [email protected] Jim Walker (2005–2007) 401 Rockedge Dr. Oak Park, CA 91301-3841 818-991-4320 fax: 818/991-9797 [email protected] From the EDITOR “How do you get to Carnegie Hall?” the old joke goes.“Practice, practice, practice.” he answer to this old chestnut young flutists about their career plans. might be good on paper, and Ideas for additional articles about the Tcertainly will always be a mantra nuts and bolts of finding and keeping for any musician struggling to make a work as a musician are welcome—as career as well as a life out of playing. are, as always, any topic ideas for But another daunting challenge of the inclusion in your member magazine. profession—perhaps even larger than More immediately and, perhaps, Anne Welsbacher that of learning to perform well—is more pragmatically, the National Flute the work required once the lessons Association’s Web site has partnered and the practice have taken place: the with MyAuditions.com, a site posting arduous search for that elusive job. jobs and auditions for flutists The shrinking numbers of audiences throughout the world. NFA members for orchestras that have plagued this can now log on to the Member Access country’s art world steadily for some section of nfa.org and find listings of time, but particularly since September vacancies along with contact informa- 11, 2001, have further squeezed an tion, audition dates and/or submission already limited market for flutists. deadlines, and descriptions of the Certainly, even in the best of times, organization and the position being infinite pitfalls and challenges await sought.