Kristin Kuster

Out of Season

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Duration: 6'30"

Instrumentation: Cello duo
Performance Materials: Score and Parts
Delivery Method: Print

Out of Season, Kristin Kuster (2026) 6.5'
for cello duo

Written for cellist Sarah Kim, the impetuses for the music of Kristin Kuster’s Out of Season are the Michigan coastal towns and shores of Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, and the Straits of Mackinac during winter months. Out of season, these Great Lakes and their coastal towns vehemently express their charming, powerful, solitary personalities. The year-round residents are resilient, welcoming, and curious as to why visitors are there. Most hotels’ and motels’ neon VACANCY! signs gleam, many local shops and restaurants are closed up awaiting the summer months, and the beaches are most often devoid of humans.

These shorelines and their towns may feel or look bleak. They also have an inimitable, reassuring beauty.

While these towns are wonderfully still and calmingly hushed absent their summer visitors, the Great Lakes and shorelines continue to do their work. The daylight dances on these waters diffused more grayly; while the beaches and dunes overturn and evolve as always, ever-changing. No matter the cold, no matter the ice and snow. The closed-up buildings in town rest for a bit. And the shorelines lovingly welcome the icy waters.

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Instrumentation: Cello duo
Performance Materials: Score and Parts
Delivery Method: Print

About the Work

Duration: 6'30"

Instrumentation: Cello Duo

Written for cellist Sarah Kim, the impetuses for the music of Kristin Kuster’s Out of Season are the Michigan coastal towns and shores of Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, and the Straits of Mackinac during winter months. Out of season, these Great Lakes and their coastal towns vehemently express their charming, powerful, solitary personalities. The year-round residents are resilient, welcoming, and curious as to why visitors are there. Most hotels’ and motels’ neon VACANCY! signs gleam, many local shops and restaurants are closed up awaiting the summer months, and the beaches are most often devoid of humans. These shorelines and their towns may feel or look bleak. They also have an inimitable, reassuring beauty. While these towns are wonderfully still and calmingly hushed absent their summer visitors, the Great Lakes and shorelines continue to do their work. The daylight dances on these waters diffused more grayly; while the beaches and dunes overturn and evolve as always, ever-changing. No matter the cold, no matter the ice and snow. The closed-up buildings in town rest for a bit. And the shorelines lovingly welcome the icy waters.