Michael Kurth: Murmuration for double bass and piano

About the Composition Murmuration was originally written for string quartet, arranged here for bass and piano, with piano parts in both tunings included. It's extremely lyrical, with a sostenuto melody in the solo and a flurry of avian wing-fluttering in the accompaniment. Duration about 4 minutes. Listen to the original version for string quartet.  About the Composer Kurth has been a member of the Atlanta Symphony bass section since 1994.  Michael Kurth thinks most artist biographies are pretentious and boring, and feels a welcome sense of liberation, not to mention mischief, when writing about himself in the third person. He further believes that all artist biographies should include whether the artist prefers cats or dogs, or is ambivalent. He allows that there is room for ambivalence on this issue. Kurth prefers dogs. He also enjoys shrimp burritos, dive bars, road trips, thrift stores, found art, shiny pants, folk plumbing, collecting odd musical instruments, neologism, and bourb