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Edition Fazer of Helsinki, Finland's largest, major music enterprise has an extensive catalog (available from Magnamusic-Baton) of wonderful student works by talented composers that expose young players to modem performance practices to develop technique in strikingly practical musical settings. These compositions should encourage teachers to try something new, for they will reap benefits for their students by broadening technical prowess in a new dimension through today's music. Sonata, written in 1975-76, offers attractive, idiomatic writing with some passagework, logical sequential patterns in reasonable range utilizing bass and treble clefs with a few well-chosen, easy double stops. No fingerings are offered but with the logic of the musical patterns, even a student could supply them. In fact, this might be introduced as an independent study piece to test a student's ability. The first two movements in moderate tempos of Andante and Adagio, respectively, offer opportunities for the instrument to really sing. The final Allegretto is capricious and flashy with a variety of pizzicati, natural harmonics, and light, brilliant passagework utilizing repetitive patterns, sequential motives, and the technicalities of arpeggiations. Gr. 5. GJS