Product DescriptionThe works on this recording span 25 years from the Sonata for Cello (1982) to unaccompanied minor (2007). Joel Hoffman comments that, Like so many composers of my generation, I have worked, over these years, with a number of stylistic dialects from a hybrid serialism to a tonal/pan-tonal mix to a folk-inspired modal work to a post-minimalist framework. While I m arguably the least qualified to describe the threads of continuity...I do observe two persistent qualities...a pervading lyricism and a rhythmic vitality. Hoffman is currently Professor of Composition at the University of Cincinnati s College-Conservatory of Music, where he is also Artistic Director of its annual new music festival, MusicX.