The Journal of the British Flute Society President James Galway Vice Presided Albert Cooper from 1st January 1991 Area Representatives Council Susan Milan Cha~rrrran AvonISomerset Elizahetlr Taylor Srcrelary Carole Timms, 'Marlow', Garstone Lane, Blagdon, Avon Judith Fitton Edrlor BSI8 6TG Tel: 0761 62348 Jenny M1ray Me~nberrhipSerretary Birmingham Jonathan Myall Trcasztrrr Margaret Lowe, 10 Navenby Close, Shirley, Solihull, West Adl-ian Brett Er,m/s CO-07-dininntor Midlands BN90 ILH Tel: 021 474 3549 Juliet Keeling Asossln?zl Events CO-wdznnlor Antlreur Thomson Inirnm/ionnl Flulr Socit-lier CO-ordinalor Cardiff Julie Wright Arra Reps. CO-ordinalor Iau Provis, 13 Werfa Street, Roath Park, Cardiff CF2 5EW Tel: Liz Goodwin Edrlvr of Flzrlei~tar 0222 489061 Robin Soldan Ed~rcalionalRcpreserllaltr~e Cleveland Susan Bruce Hon. Legal Adulvirrr Lee Hannah. Fardeanside. Worsall, Yarm, Cleveland Tel: Carolyn Nelson 060981 694 ,Janicc Norman Cumbria Davicl Nicholson ,]anet McCallunr, 9 Droomer Lane, Windermere Albert Cooper LA23 2LX Tel: 09662 661 1 Dennis Clarke Christopher Hyde-Smith East London Kate Cuzner. 52 Turnstone Close, Upper Road, Plaistow. Trevor Wye Arrh~rnsl London Tel: 071 51 1 5552 Guildford The British Flute Society was formed in January 1983 from the Clare Lund, 28 Tillingbourne Road, Shalford, Guildford constitution: GU4 8EY Tel: 0483 35865 'The objects of the Society shall be to advance the education of the public in the Art and Science of Music and in particular the Hertfordshire Art ancl Science of Flute playing in all aspects by the presentation Anne White, 22 Lys Hill Gardens, Bengeo, Hertford of public conrerts and recitals and by such other ways as the SG14 3EH Tel: 0992 586875 Society through its Council shall determine from time to time'. Leeds Pauline Jackson, Croft Cottage. Old Bank Top, Pool-in-Wharfe- The Editor welcomes contributions to Pan - typecl if possible and dale LS21 3BZ Tel: 0532 842457 always double spaced - by post to 116 Woodwarde Road. Dulwich, London SE22 8UT (also see Membership Secretal-y's Norfolk address). Elaine Smith. The White Homestead, Bramerton, Norwich NR14 7DP Tel: 05088 215 Views expressed by the contributors are their own and do not NorthantsIBedfordshire necessarily voice any official view of the Society. Christine Wrigley, 22 Harvey Road, Rushden, Northants NN l0 9JY Tel: 0933 3 14326 North Hampshire Individual Membel-ship (U.K.) Karen Morrison. 3 Barn Cottages, Prinsted Lane, Prinsted, Husband & Wife (I journal) Emsworth. Hants PO10 8HT Tel: 0276 600504 Student (2 1 & under) Flute Clubs North London School Membership Liz Taylor, 46 Farrer Road, London N8 8LD Tel: 081 340 Con~mercial(Worldwide) 209 1 Overseas Membership Oxford Overseas Student (2 1 & under) Carolyn Nelson, 21 Trinity Street. St Ebbes, Oxford Life Member OX I ITN Tel: 0865 250169 Husband & Wife Life Membership South Buckinghamshire Membership Secretary Jenny Wray Ann Davidson, Meadowside, Manor Crescent, Seer Green, The White House Bucks Tel: 0494 676656 Hatton Green. Hatton South Kent Warwickshire CV35 7LA John Gridley, 47 Park Avenue, Deal, Kent Tel: 0304 364806 Ad~~erlrsementRepr~senlalrz,es: Swansea Maple Media Ltd, 411 Wokingham Road, Earley, Reading Hugh Phillips, 116 Delffordd, Rhos, Pontardawe. West Glamor- RG6 2EL. Telephone: 0734 261669 Fax: 0734 66561 1 gan SA8 3EW Tel: 0792 862808 Twickenham Printed by The Lavenham Press Ltd, Lavenham, Suflblk lulie Wright, 41 Devon Avenue. Twickenham TW2 GPN Tel: All cupyngl~lsresm~ed 081 755 1584 Life Members of the British Flute Society West Sussex Lindy Thwaites, 19 Downview Road, Bamham, Bognor Regis Michie Bennett Anne Jakeman PO22 OEG Tel: 0243 553623 William Bennett Trevor ,lames Worcestershire Wissam Boustany lan McLauchlan Alison Uren, 10 Giffbrd Drive, Welland WR13 6SE Tel: 0684 Albert Cooper Susan Milan 3 10066 Philomena Cooper Christopher Paul Money Elena Duran Alexander Murray Will area representatives send all dates leading up to the BFS Michael Emmerson Barbara Noble Convention to Julie Wright Caroline M. Franklyn Stephen Robinson lames Galway Kirsten Spratt Jeanne Cinnante Galway Andy Thonrson Brian Hamilton David St. John-Weyers Cover by permission of the Department of Pauline Jackson Trevor Wye Portraits of the Royal College of Music. Editorial Contents In life one is (I am) constantly eating one's words Editorial and doing the unthinkable, often very soon after having pronounced upon a subject - so you let the children come into your bed, you have two TVs Diary after all (one in the bedroom too), you watch appalling programmes (look forward to them), and eventually yield to a video/microwave which The Back Door? by Julian Coward you didn't want and cannot work anyway. We all bow to peerlchildren pressure, compromise and sometimes break our principles - call it what you Flute-maker - Ewen McDougall 10 will - progress perhaps? lack of prejudice? These thoughts come to me whenever I think of my college days. Some of you may find it hard to The Albert Cooper Competition 12 believe that when I was a student at the RCM, I was the only flute player there playing (by chance) a metal flute. For some time I felt disadvantaged The Royal Northern College of Music 16 because in those days most people (in England) thought that a metal flute could never possess the quality of tone or power of wood. It was unthink- The Magic Flute Day at the Barbican I able that fluteplayers in Britain would ever go over to metal (although there was a strong contingent of them at the Guildhall under the much respected Grandfather, Father and Son by Anthony I Geoffrey Gilbert). Within five years half the Walker 24 I fluteplayers in England had 'gone over' (the waves 1 from America and the Continent where they had I I been playing metal flutes almost exclusively for The NFA Annual Convention by Michael l some years were strong). Within ten years, apart Emmerson from some notable exceptions, nearly everyone, including my now eminent peers at the RCM and the RAM were playing silver, gold and platinum Letter of Marcel Moyse 32 f flutes. What next I wonder? - re-cycled cans perhaps? Happy Christmas. Reviews 36 l Letters Editor Some Days in the Life of. David Butt 42 ' : An AGM will be held in the New Year Members will be informed. STOP PRESS LostJstolen Louis Lot flute No 1562. Open G#, open holes. Metal patch behind mechanism, tear shaped D# key. Please contact Michael Cox 0483-36272: Morganstern's Diary Service 07 1-354 27 1 1 (24 hrs) BBC Symphony Orchestra 07 1-927 42 10. i Diary 12 Dec. The Flute Orchestra 7 Feb. Clive Conway with Gerald Garcia and Jack May 8.00p.ni. York House, Twickenham 8.00p.m. Words & Music The Arts Centre. Chesterfield 3 Jan. Rachel Brown with Musical Offering 8 Feb. Clive Conway with Gerald Garcia and Brian Kay L~~nclitime BBC Studio 7, Manchester 7.30p.m. Words & Music Clive Conway and Christine Croshaw The Mediaeval Hall, The Close, Salisbury Leeds City Art Gallery 22 Feb. Clive Conway with Christine Croshaw and The I6 Jan. Clive Conway and Christine Croshaw 7.00p.m. Five Winds Lunchtime Bradford City Library for 7.30~.m. 'The Tower', Boarstall, Nr Oxford 19 Jan Associated Board Workshop with Ian Denley 22 Feb. Lucy Cartledge mock examinations and discussions on new sylla- 7.30p.m. Mozart Flute Concerto in D Major bus Billingham Technical College, Billingham, Ravel - Introduction and Allegro Cleveland. Details: Lee Hannah. Tel: 060981 694 St Cuthbert's Chnrch, Edinburgh 19 Jan. Christopher Hyde-Smith with Jane Dodd and 28 Feb. Clive Conway with Christine Croshaw and The 8.00p.m. Cummings String Trio 7.45p.m. Five Winds A Mozart Celebration Seaford Music Society, Sussex Flute quartets, piano quartets, duos for violin and viola, etc. 6 March Clive Conway and Gerald Garcia Sutton Library. Sutton, Surrey Lochaber Music Club, Fort William, Inverness- 22 Jan. Ruth Underwood and Olgica Antic shire 12.30p.m. Royal Festival Hall Foyer 7 Mar. Clive Conway and Gerald Garcia 8.00p.m. 23 Jan. Christopher Hyde-Smith and Jane Dodd Town Mill Theatre, Strathaven, Nr Glasgow 12.45p.m. Flute and piano recital 10 Mar. Christopher Hyde-Smith and Jane Dodd Leicester Museum and Art Gallery Evening Flute and piano recital 24 Jan. Rachel Brown with Musical Offering Hurlingham Club, London I 7.30p.m. Programme '18th century Paris' 13 Mar. Rachel Brown with Musical Offering 1 Rameau, Boismortier, Telemann etc. 7.30p.m. 'Concertos and Suites'. Vivaldi Sopranino Clothworkers' Concert Hall. University of Leeds Recorder Concerto, Bach B minor Suite Rachel Brown with Musical Offering Clothworkers' Concert Hall, University of Leeds Programme '18th century Paris' 14 Mar. Clive Conway Royal Northern College of Music 2.00p.m. Masterclass and short recital for the Cheltenham 26 Jan. Rachel Brown with Musical Offering Centre of the ISM ( 7.30p.m. Programme '18th century Paris' 14 Mar. Rachel Brown with Musical Offering Midlands Art Centre, Cannon Hill Park, Birm- 7.30p.m. 'Concertos and Suites' ingham Royal Northern College of Music 15 Mar. Rachel Brown with Musical Offering 2 Feb. Ruth Underwood and Olgica Antic 7.30p.m. 'Concertos and Suites' 8.00p.m. Flute and piano recital Adrian Boult Hall, Paradise Place, Birmingham Lauderdale House. Hieheate. London N6 c. L, Coinciding with Exhibition of Paintings and 29 Mar. Leicestershire School of Music Flute ChoirIBed- Drawings by students of Elvina John (including 7.30p.m. fordshire Flute Choir combined concert, con- some by Ruth Underwood) ducted by Russell Parry and Christine Wrigly Hastingsbury Upper School, Bedford 5 Feb. Clive Conway and Gerald Garcia South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell Julian Coward So you didn't go to Music College! I expect you have come across making music.