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Hello from the Flute Examiner team, and welcome to Spring! This is perhaps my favorite season, with flowers blooming and trees budding out…and pollen blanketing absolutely everything! In my garden, I learn a little bit every single year about the inadequacy of my body of knowledge and my lack of actual control over the weather and seeds and sprouts. I plant them, I water them, I watch over them and hope for the best, but really, it doesn’t ever all work out exactly the way I think it does.
This month’s issue of the Flute Examiner inspires that same energy in me, starting with Kelly’s amazing interview with Bridget Rennie-Salonen, a South African flutist, teacher and performance health specialist. She talks with Kelly about her career and her life, and also about South African composers she loves…all of whom I must admit I’ve never discovered. I love that moment of understanding that every single good thing in our musical world doesn’t come from North America or Europe!
We also have a thoughtful and detailed performance guide to James Dillon’s Diffraction for Solo Piccolo, written by Dr. Gillian Sheppard, an introduction to a new course in instrument repair submitted by Lisa Canning, and this month’s New York Women Composers installment: Duets for a Duo by Rain Worthington, who has so brilliantly managed the entire collaboration!
Welcome to the season of rebirth and renewal. We hope you’ll find food for thought in this month’s Flute Examiner!
—Jessica Dunnavant, Editor
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