PERUSALSCORE
Out of Season
for cello duo
PERUSALSCORE
Kristin Kuster
Program Note
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. e 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.
ese shorelines and their towns may feel or look bleak. ey 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. e 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.
e closed-up buildings in town rest for a bit. And the shorelines lovingly welcome the icy waters.
Symbiotically out of season.
Instrumentation
Two Cellos
Duration: c. 6:30
First printing: January 2026
PERUSALSCORE
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Kristin Kuster (2026)
Violoncello 1
Violoncello 2