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SINCE LOCKDOWN – Streaming Peformance, Radio Play & Interviews

January 25, 2021
HocTok Interview
https://www.hoctok.com/debra-kaye.html

January 24, 2021
Turning in Time
Kinga Augustyn, violin
Facebook Livestream presented by the Freeport Memorial Library
Freeport, NY

Click Here to Watch
https://fb.me/e/d5ZqjXf5N

January 13, 2021
Turning in Time
Broadcast on Classical Discoveries’, Viva 21st Century Marathon, WPRB/Princeton
Princeton, NJ

November 14, 2020
The New Colossus (Premiere of expanded version for electric guitar & mezzo soprano)
Jessica Bowers, mezzo soprano; Gene Pritsker, electric guitar
Presented by Composers Concordance
Michiko Studios
149 W. 46th St.
New York, NY 10036

October 30, 2020
Visions
Max Lifchitz, piano
Presented by North/South Consonance
Streaming from National Opera Center
New York, NY

October 22, 2020
Give Her the Fruit of Her Hands
3 songs for voice & violin
Kate Fogg, soprano; Gloria Vollmers, violin
Presented by the Bangor Public Library and the League of Women Voters in Celebration of the Woman’s Right to Vote
Streaming from the Bangor Public Library
Bangor, ME

October 9, 2020
Turning in Time
Kinga Augustyn, violin
Streaming from Glacier Symphony Orchestra Concert Hall
Kalispell, MT

August 24, 2020 issue
Flute Examiner
https://thefluteexaminer.com/fantasy-for-flute-and-piano-by-debra-kaye/

July 6, 2020
Turning in Time
Kinga Augustyn, violin
Streaming presentation of The Violin Channel

Summer 2020
PARMA Recordings

Summer Nuggets Playlist

April 26, 2020
Turning in Time
Kinga Augustyn, violin
Presented by M Institute for the Arts
Streaming from Wronski Violin Shop
New York, NY

March 29, 2020
Composers with Drinks Podcast, Dialogues with the Distant Mountains

https://anchor.fm/cwdltm/episodes/Distance–Isolation-ec44un

Sneak Preview!

Sneak Preview of What I’ve Been Working On

May 2020
I’ve been pouring the pandemic into this piano piece.

Here’s a sneak preview, a short midi-clip from in order to remember.…ever felt this way?

Taos Time

Debra Kaye in TaosTaos Time – an artist residency at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico (How it stays with me and begot my first CD And So It Begins)

We used to joke about it…Taos seemed to have its own sense of time, subjective and changing, like the drama of its light, piercing the storm clouds. At 8000 feet, closer to the heavens, there was something palpably different about the place. I read a layman’s guide to quantum physics – how everything is vibration and that the earth itself vibrates at a very low hertz, I sat on my porch and tried to listen to it. If you could hear it anywhere, I was sure it was here. I didn’t exactly hear it, but maybe that’s what I felt. My biggest fear while I was there was that I would forget the wonder of the place and of time expanding before me – 3 months to compose, explore and just be.

The first night there I woke at 4 in the morning, went to the window and it was full of stars, big ones, little ones, yes, like diamonds in the sky. I sat at the piano and improvised what later would become the first of the Visions. And it turned out, through that group of pieces and now with Roxanne Rea’s dreamscape video of them, I haven’t forgotten, when I clear the decks (the mind and all) I can still return to that open sense of fresh air and possibility.

When I returned to New York City after the first summer, (I had the great good fortune of two summers in Taos) I gave a concert of new and recent work, collaborating with performers who had been commissioning and playing my pieces. This was the first of several concerts that culminated in my recent CD And So It Begins. The title piece, a sextet for strings and tenor saxophone, was written during my second summer in Taos. (That summer I also met my now partner, writer Roger Aplon, who was my next-door neighbor at the Wurlitzer.)

The return to New York City was culture shock at first. Walking through crowded Harlem streets, I enveloped myself in a Native American folk tune that I had sung while walking off the grid on Indian land – Now I walk in Beauty, beauty is before me, beauty is behind me, above and below me. Through the sirens and screeching cars, I heard a man singing a gospel version of This Little Light of Mine. We smiled at each other, each continuing our song. This was the impetus for another piece, this time to integrate these experiences (and these tunes). The Beauty Way, the opening piece on the CD, is a trio for viola da gamba, a 7 string pre-cursor to our modern strings. It weaves together three folk tunes to describe what the Navajo call the “beauty way”, those times when we are in harmony with all that is.

Now with the CD out, a cap and summary of a certain period, and so it begins, the end, the beginning…

“…unique sound and feel…perfectly executed tracks. This music is focused, inspirational, and precise. This is an album that will surely stand the test of time.” – Babysue

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