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Unknown: going very well so far, yeah, so that's good. One of the great things about being a participant in the Cabrillo Music Festival. I mean, there's so many things. It's

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fantastic orchestra in this beautiful place and passionate listeners like yourselves. And for me, one of the best things is being able to play music by people who are actually still alive. And tonight. All pieces of all four pieces we're playing

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tonight are by people who are still alive. Although album couldn't quite get here he is very much alive. And since the other three composers are with us tonight, I thought it would be nice to hear a few words from each of them. And you all

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probably know Emily Wong, who's been with the festival for many years. Thank you. Well, first, I have to give a heartfelt thanks to Marin for

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inviting me to share this piece with you. I really have the deepest admiration for her work. And it's really a thrill. It's it's really an honor to be included in this kind of programming. There's really not much to say about this

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particular piece. I think that the musical language, well it's a short piece. So I figure I need to you draw it out a little bit. But I did want to explain the title because several people have been coming up to me with with questions about this title

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waves and raves. I thought it would just be self explanatory, but I guess not. It actually stems from a dream that I had during the time that I was writing the piece. And upon awakening, I realized that the dream was a visual depiction of,

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of this musical piece that I was writing, in the sense that both kind of come from my inner worlds. And in the dream, I was walking down a path with a group of friends towards the ocean, we were looking for the we're heading out to the beach. How

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appropriate that right. And when we got there, the waves were so huge. They were about seven stories high. And they were this amazing color of turquoise. They were just incredible looking. And they were so beautiful that I just began raving about these

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incredible waves and the light and the color and so we didn't get that. Yeah. In terms of technically speaking, I borrowed sort of from the musical language of jazz, knowing that Marin is such

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an appreciator of jazz and I really share that love of jazz myself. So you will hear familiar language I think they're, they're in Yeah, unfortunately. Thank you.

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And our next candidate No, Elliot the I hope that you remember our next composer Michael her she was here two years ago and we did a work of his. And this is a relatively new work of Michael's written two years ago.

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Yeah, about two years started about two years ago, his first Symphony, and I've asked him to tell you a little bit of something about the piece. And definitely not to say what he said last time, I don't know if

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you remember. But he stood up and said, Well, I actually never thought anybody would play this piece. So I hope you feel differently now. So I'm actually glad for anybody was here two years ago that you

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can hear you have this piece was was written about two years ago. And this is the second there was a set of performances only about eight months ago. And so this is the second performance of it. And it's it's a fairly large piece, it's about 25 minutes.

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And it is in one condition. There's many sections, but essentially, it's one large movements. And overall, I think it's a fairly dark work. And so I think it's sort of a continuation actually, for those if you do remember that piece

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from two years ago. Hopefully with a little more maturity behind it. But I i've been as always, I've was very excited to come back here and the orchestra is fantastic. And this is one of my favorite places to to visit. So thank you. Oh, enjoy.

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Okay, thank you.