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Coming 15th November!
Hildegard and Her Sisters
Katelyn Bouska, piano
Yarlung Records, Los Angeles
Yarlung Records, Los Angeles
Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867-1944)
Her long career, her support of young composers, strong humanity, her sharp intellect, her discipline and drive changed the course of American music.
Hildegard von Bingen (ca. 1098-1176)
O vis eternitatis is taken from Hildegard’s Symphonia armonie celestium revelationum - the main collection of her works including 77 chants and one musical drama.
O vis eternitatis (The Power Within Eternity). The image of eternity, as set by Hildegard, conjured in my mind a dark swatch of distant blue. I felt the large dark soaring pillars of the cathedrals and the play of the various light beams through the stained glass window.
In Celebration of the 90th Birthday of George Crumb Katelyn Bouska, pianist
December 22, 2019
Curtis Institute of Music – Gould Hall Philadelphia PA
A Little Suite For Christmas, A.D. 1979
George Crumb (*1929) after Giotto’s Nativity frescoes in the Arena Chapel at Padua
I.The Visitation
II. Berceuse for the Infant Jesu
III. The Shepherd's Noël
IV. Adoration of the Magi
V. Nativity Dance
VI. Canticle of the Holy Night
VII. Carol of the Bells
The Canticles of Hieronymus by Ruth Schönthal (1924-2006)
Inspired byThe Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450-1516)
Filming and Recording: Rec.Today
For the Bosch image (resident at El Prado): https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-c...
Štěpán Filípek: Cello
Katelyn Bouska: Piano
Recording: Český rozhlas
Video: Julian Veverica
Czech Center in New York Presents:
In this conversation at the piano, Dr. Katelyn Bouska engages with music written during Martinů's final years in Paris, his close relationship with composer Vítězslava Kaprálová and then the dark years following her untimely death in 1940 and his escape to New York in 1941.
Music selections include Martinů’s capricious and oh-so-Parisian Film en miniature, his deeply brooding Piano Sonata No. 1 written in the United States as well as a few rarely-heard compositions by Kaprálová herself.
Druhá sonáta pro klavír
(Second Sonata for Piano) – 1959
I. Allegro assai by Miloslav Ištvan (1928-1990) Katelyn Bouska, piano Curtis Institute of Music Philadelphia, PA
Filming: Rec.Today
Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867-1944)
Dedication in “A Hermit Thrush at Eve”
Holy, Holy! - in the hush
Hearken to the hermit thrush
All in the air Is in prayer -John Vance Cheney
Antonín Dvořák - Silent Woods for Cello and Piano
Štěpán Filípek - Cello
Katelyn Bouska - Piano
Recording: Český rozhlas Brno
Video: Julian Veverica
“Fragments From a Life” Katelyn Bouska, piano
Sunday, May 8th, 2022 @7pm Live at Klavierhaus
790 11th Avenue New York, NY 10019
Flights of Fancy - 14 February, 2021
I hope you enjoy the music and a few of my musings in between!
00.49 Nocturne, Op. 33 (Homage to John Fields, 1959) - Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
10:30 Nocturne in E-flat major, op. 9 no .2 - Frederic Chopin (1810-1849)
17:20 Fantasia in C minor, BWV 906 - Johann Sebastien Bach (1685-1750)
21:25 Fantasia No. 3 in D minor, K. 397 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
31:46 Impromptus (from 1958) - Miloslav Ištvan (1928-1990) I. .Con calore III. Addolorato IV. Con fuoco V. Melancolico
44:30 Fantasie in C major, op. 12 - Jan Václav Hugo Voříšek (1791-1825)