And we're incorporating, of course, one of these winters in our concert today. As in all of these towns,
now we're incorporating two different winters. We're using one boy in the concert here in Salem, one
in the St. Boyd middle. And we used a different soloist in Bedford this morning, and that St. Boyd we're
going to be doing in Spencer tonight. Now, this concert competition involved 14 students.
in the Bloomington area. And it was really a very island contestant type situation. But amazingly enough,
the two winners happened to be a brother and sister, one of whom you're going to be able to hear today.
They are members of the Reed family in Bloomington. The sister happened to be a fine pianist, the brother
was a fine cellist, and of course the brother is the one who you're going to hear. And, as I say, we
made those people co-winners of the concerto competition, and then they all had
a boy named Josh Bell who's an 11-year-old violinist who, as I said, played in Bedford this morning.
Now without further ado, I think everybody has found seats and we'd like to get started with the program.
I'd like to introduce our soloist who will be playing the first piece on the program, Julian Rees from
Bloomington. He was a fine cellist. He was a student of Gary Hoffman. He was one of our outstanding
graduate students at Indiana University. He'll be playing the
I might caution you before he comes out that the piece is an extremely soft piece, and I hope that you'll
all find if you're very quiet that you'll be able to enjoy it much more. This is the Foray Elegy, soloist
is Junji Ryo.