Kyle Hovatter - Musician
A solo piano track processed to accompany itself in reverse.
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A collection of improvisations recorded at Zion Lutheran Church in San Francisco.
Collaborators include:
Danny Clay, piano – dclaymusic.com
Joseph M. Colombo, guitar + piano – http://josephmcolombo.com/
Luis Escareño, viola – http://www.luisescareno.com/
Robert Hansen, violin
Matthias McIntire, violin + viola – http://matthiasmcintire.com/
Program Note:
“A Crazed Girl” is a setting of the similarly titled poem by William Butler Yeats. The tragic poem is a literal telling of Yeats’ relationship with the mentally unstable Margot Ruddock. Her infatuation with Yeats is analogous to that of the sea. Yet at once impassioned, both impartially move forward without her.
That crazed girl improvising her music.
Her poetry, dancing upon the shore,
Her soul in division from itself
Climbing, falling She knew not where,
Hiding amid the cargo of a steamship,
Her knee-cap broken, that girl I declare
A beautiful lofty thing, or a thing
Heroically lost, heroically found.
No matter what disaster occurred
She stood in desperate music wound,
Wound, wound, and she made in her triumph
Where the bales and the baskets lay
No common intelligible sound
But sang, ‘O sea-starved, hungry sea.’
Premiere recording of Elizabeth Kimble, soprano; Kevin Korth, piano
San Francisco Conservatory of Music
April 22, 2011
Amy Foote, soprano; Stepan Rudenko, piano
Zion Lutheran Church San Francisco
May 14, 2011
Plum Green is three movements of clashing and blending two distinct colors. The piece was begun in December 2010 as a commission from Benjamin Opp to be premiered at his 2011 Faculty Recital. Because of its size and magnitude, Plum Green was Kyle Hovatter’s “Thesis Piece” for his graduate studies at San Francisco Conservatory.The piece is dedicated to two fantastic musicians and friends, Benjamin and Samantha Opp.
