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Unknown: it's my pleasure to introduce a new composer to the cumbria festival i'm trying to promote the next generation of composers this is michael hurst and the piece we're going to play for you i've asked him to say a few words he wrote it

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really in his early period when he was 20 he's now 26 so here's michael hurst to say a couple words about his piece i'll try to be very brief i just want to say you know it's just been an incredible honor to be here and to be with the

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composers that are here i really could not have foreseen this happening and she's been really incredible and the works just great and this is really something on this piece this piece

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i'm very excited to they're doing i was kind of shocked i you know i didn't plan on anybody actually doing it but it I think I think it's representative of most of the

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music I write, I just think that it's, you know, it's obviously since it's the beginning, things have changed a lot, but I do think that it will give a sense of, of, of the music I write and, and basically, the time I wrote this, there were some

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difficult things going on. And you know, I don't think I don't like to talk too much about details about everything. Hopefully the music will articulate. didn't introduce her earlier because I figured we'd have

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enough opportunity in that during the concert to introduce one of Cabrillo Music Festival favorite composers Joan tower and I trust she'll have a little more to say than Michael did about her piece since we worked it out right. So where is she

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don't please welcome john. I'm like Michael, I'm old. And senile and postmenopausal and I Bud Light mine Why don't like to talk about playing music. It's also a great honor to be here and my two of my favorite

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very favorite composers on the concert tomorrow, Christopher Rouse and john Korea. Thank God, they're not his brother. Also, one of my favorite conductors is here. And the first fanfare for the uncommon woman was not dedicated and buddy was sort of

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a woman in general, but take risks and who are adventurous type women. And after I met her and work with her a lot, and she had done the piece absolutely perfectly. She's done. It also happens to be I decided to dedicate it to her. So that

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piece is dedicated to her. This Cello Concerto was my first concerto. And as such, I was kind of intimidated by the fact of pitting a cello against an orchestra. Because my music tends to have a certain level of

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decibel level not nearly as much as Chris Rouse or john quarry now, but now that I have compares for the whole, but I just we're just going to do three excerpts showing that that the problem I was having of pitting itself against the

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orchestra, so And one thing is the the register and the information that's being used in both Excel and the orchestra. So these are going to be very simple examples of ways I was thinking of how can I generate a kind of equal voice between the

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tower and the orchestra? The cello is always alone in these places, but these places are very high energy, high kind Whatever. So here's, here's the first one. This is a low Joe and Ohio orchestra.

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That's good. The next one is very simple. Hi, Joe. Hello orchestra. And the third one is pretty much the same material with a Tony Ursa, but the orchestra is slower in rhythm, and the tempo is faster.

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So that's it. I hope you enjoy. It's about 18 minutes long.