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- And we're incorporating, of course, one of these winters in our concert today. As in all of these towns,

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- now we're incorporating two different winters. We're using one boy in the concert here in Salem, one

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- in the St. Boyd middle. And we used a different soloist in Bedford this morning, and that St. Boyd we're

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- going to be doing in Spencer tonight. Now, this concert competition involved 14 students.

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- in the Bloomington area. And it was really a very island contestant type situation. But amazingly enough,

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- the two winners happened to be a brother and sister, one of whom you're going to be able to hear today.

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- They are members of the Reed family in Bloomington. The sister happened to be a fine pianist, the brother

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- was a fine cellist, and of course the brother is the one who you're going to hear. And, as I say, we

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- made those people co-winners of the concerto competition, and then they all had

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- a boy named Josh Bell who's an 11-year-old violinist who, as I said, played in Bedford this morning.

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- Now without further ado, I think everybody has found seats and we'd like to get started with the program.

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- I'd like to introduce our soloist who will be playing the first piece on the program, Julian Rees from

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- Bloomington. He was a fine cellist. He was a student of Gary Hoffman. He was one of our outstanding

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- graduate students at Indiana University. He'll be playing the

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- I might caution you before he comes out that the piece is an extremely soft piece, and I hope that you'll

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- all find if you're very quiet that you'll be able to enjoy it much more. This is the Foray Elegy, soloist

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- is Junji Ryo.