I have an adult student who played flute and is working to really cement her staff reading. Intermezzo helped reinforce what she was learning already between C Major and G Major. She now is comfortable playing in F Major as well. She had played through Movement 1 before admitting she still didn't feel she was as confident at staff reading as she should be, so I recommended this book. She is now in Movement 2 and flourishing. I plan to use this with more students and especially for adding in left hand accompaniments. One downside is that we used this while finishing up the Stage Left Solos book. Many, if not most, of the Interlude pieces were already played in Stage Left, Prelude, or Movement 1. While it was nice to have familiar pieces, the overlap got to be a bit much at times. This is not necessarily a drawback of the book itself, more the timing of when we used this book with other supplemental books.

This book is perfect for students who need a step between the beginner books and Movement 1.

This book has been perfect for a couple of my students so far. They came to me not reading very well so I used Prelude and Interlude to reinforce reading skills.