From Paul Taub

I have many fond memories of Felix. I was so appreciative of him when, within the first year that I had moved to Seattle in 1979, he invited me to play in a performance of the Harvey Sollberger Quartet with two of his graduate students. It was a great way to get to know him, I enjoyed the way he took to the challenge of the piece and how he worked with me, a young professional, and his advanced students, as colleagues. When I became President of the Seattle Flute Society, Felix was VERY supportive and helpful, again, in the most collegial way one could imagine.

In the early 1990s, I was asked to do an oral history of Felix for the National Flute Association. Felix and I spent a couple of hours in a pub with everything recorded on my old Sony "professional" cassette recorder that I hadn't used for years. Or so I thought! I got home to discover that in fact the machine didn't work at all, and nothing from our conversation had been documented (although we had had a great time!) Felix graciously re-scheduled and we got the interview done another time.

The last time I saw Felix was at Cornish in January, when he attended the ZAWA concert that was part of the Horsfall weekend. He was as friendly, curious and appreciative as ever. That's how I will remember him.

Paul Taub is Professor of Flute at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle.