We are especially grateful for the valuable suggestions about future content; it is our first order of business to make Muzine responsive to the desires and needs of its visitors. Please keep the mail coming!

Perhaps the most pertinent idea received, one which came from no fewer than three independent sources, was a request to suggest ways for beginning music students to combat the inevitable let-down that sets in when the first flush of enthusiasm gives way to the often bleak and repetitious drudgery that accompanies the acquiring of any new skill. This topic was promised, along with one on creative listening, in The Soothsayer page of our Summer issue, where the current Muzine was previewed.

We'll have a go at both topics, but not as part of an editorial. Instead, they will be found where they properly belong: in Part Two of Beginning Music Study, which then continues with Lisa Van Winkle's article on the flute.

Another new page makes its first appearance here: Meet Our Sponsors introduces the visitor to our all-important behind-the-scenes support: West Mesa Music Teachers Assn. and the Department of Music of New Mexico State University.

Muzine will continue for the time being as a quarterly magazine, with a new issue approximately every three months, but it will also have periodic updating in between; don't go away for long!

So "Welcome!" or "Welcome Back!"--whichever is appropriate.