Debra Kaye Composer

Colorful, Witty, and Profound

Discography

And So It Begins

Debra Kaye - And So It Begins
Classical
RR7899

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Composer Debra Kaye’s debut Ravello Records release, AND SO IT BEGINS, catapults the listener into her deep universe of sound – an expedition down one New York City street and up another, through the warp and weft of interior landscapes, to Taos Mountain, on a journey through a dream, a dying, a love – as she blends her classical roots with traces of jazz, pop, world music, the pulse of city rhythms, and the expansiveness of spacious landscapes.

In Finding Accord, the 3-way conversation goes in and out of agreement in a tête-à-tête of musical opposites as the composer creates new timbres for the piano trio using prepared piano techniques and percussive accents of an ankle bell. Incidental Ducklings brings quacking ducks to life through Kaye’s playful wit and irony. Béla Fleck meets Schubert in Africa in The Doppelganger as Kaye explores the colors of the trombone, while The Beauty Way and Visions bring us the light, the air, the magic of Taos NM.

Holding degrees from Mannes College of Music and New York University, Kaye is on the faculty of the Mannes College Preparatory Division. She has served as Executive Director of the NY Composers Circle and President of the Howland Chamber Music Circle in Beacon New York.

Track List

The Beauty Way   8:42
Instrumentation:  soprano, tenor and bass viols
Martha McGaughey, Jeanne Dorche, Carlene Stober; soprano, tenor and bass viols
Commissioned by Empire Viols

Finding Accord   7:36
Instrumentation:  violin, cello, piano, ankle bell, pencil
Amy Kimball, violin; Arthur Cook, cello; Marcia Eckert, piano
Commissioned by Alaria

Duet After Winter   8:59
Instrumentation:  2 violins
Amy Kimball and Lynn Bechtold, violin

Incidental Ducklings   6:42
Instrumentation:  violin, cello, piano
Amy Kimball, violin; Arthur Cook, cello; Marcia Eckert, piano

I.         Duck Etiquette   :50
II.       Ducks in Summer   3:33
III.     Duckling Dance   2:14

Dialogues with the Distant Mountains   8:19
Instrumentation:  alto sax, piano
Javier Oviedo, alto sax; Marcia Eckert, piano
Commissioned by Atlanta Music Teachers’ Association

I.     Andante   2:51
II.    Moderato   3:41
III.    Allegro Moderato   1:40

Visions   5:58
Instrumentation:  piano
Elizabeth Wolff, piano
Commissioned by Access to Music

I.  …In the dead of night I awoke   2:01
and went to the window – it was
filled with stars.

II. From my window I look out   1:40
on a field aflutter with butterflies.
The season wanes as the day,
we as ephemeral as they.

III.  The path to her studio was laid with stones,   2:14
and there we walked years later, in her footsteps.

The Doppelganger   8:30
Instrumentation:  trombone
Haim Avitsur, trombone

And So It Begins   16:25
Instrumentation:  2 violins, viola, cello, double bass, tenor sax
Javier Oviedo, tenor sax; Amy Kimball, Lynn Bechtold, violin; Entela Barci, viola; Garo Yellin, cello; Frank Wagner, double bass
Commissioned by Classical Saxophone Project

I.  Processional   3:51
II.  Andante   4:38
III.  Moderato a la Bossa   7:48