DOUGHERTY & RUZICKA

27 minutes, 1984

Songs by Celius Dougherty

Sung by Nancy Williams

Accompanied by the Composer

Introduced by Celeste Holm

Cinematography by Bruce Lane

Interviews by Virginia Bouvier

Directed by Park Dougherty

American Film Festival Finalist

Link to Film:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RKRTDcbCR4
Celius Dougherty & Vincenz Ruzicka with Margaret Speaks on tour in Hawaii, Dec., 1947, where they accompanied her singing and performed Music from Seas and Ships, a duo-piano work dedicated to Dougherty's brother, killed at Pearl Harbor on the USS Arizona.
Dougherty & Ruzicka was one of the top duo-piano teams of the 1940s and 50's. At their first concert (in Town Hall, 1939,) they played Igor Stravinsky's "Concerto for Two Pianos," for which the Herald Tribune credited them with "an uncommonly exhilarating performance.....complete technical mastery and communicative zeal." The team went on to play in every state of the union and in Vienna with the Vienna Symphony in 1955, where it gave the world premiere of Schoenberg's Sonata in C, an orchestral work which Dougherty arranged for two pianos.

INSTRUMENTAL WORKS BY CELIUS DOUGHERTY

PIANO

Concerto for Piano & Orchestra		Premiere, Minneapolis, 1922

I Surrender All

Rhapsody

Sonata in E flat		Premiere, NY, 1927
Allegro con brio
Andante
Allegro molto

Sonata in G	X	Premiere, Princeton, 1935
Appassionato
Rondo piacevoie

CHAMBER MUSIC

Sonata for Violin and Piano	Premiere, New York, 1930
Allegro
Largo
Molto allegro

String Quartet in B Minor	1932
Bold and Incisive
With quiet intensity
With rhythmic force

String Quintet

2 PIANOS

Music from Seas & Ships *	GS	Premiere, NY, 1944
1. Banks of Sacramento
2. Sea-Calm
3. Mobile Bay

ARRANGEMENTS FOR 2 PIANOS

Allegro (from Opus 144)	Schubert
Allegro Moderato	J.S. Bach
American Dance, 1910	Henri Gilbert
Andante	Mozart
Andante (from Concerto in E flat Major)	W.F. Bach	GS	1945
Ballet (Armide)	Gluck
Ballet-Orpheus
Boilero
Canto di Caccia Siciano
Cake Walk	Tansman
Christmas Pastorale (fr. Christmas Oratorio)	J.S. Bach
Choral			with high voice
Circus Polka for a Young Elephant	Stravinsky
The Crab
Danza	Cervantes
El Uifo
Excerpts from Sleeping Beauty	Tchaikovsky	CF	1955
Fandango	de Falla	Ch
Fledermaus Polka
Flugschriften (from Opus 300)	Strauss
Granada	Albeniz
La Fileuse	Fauré
Landleirischer Tanze	Schubert	GS	1951
The Lark	Glinka
Le Boeuf sur le Toit	Milhaut
Les Entretieus de la Belle et de la Bete
Lulu Suite	Alban Berg
Minuetto	Gluck	GS	1944
Pantomine	de Falla	Ch	1944
Parade	Wm Schuman
Poeme	Chausson
Prelude & Fugue	Buxtehide	GS	1944
Rhapsody in Blue	Gershwin
Seguidilla	Albeniz
Serenade (from Opus 44)	Dvorak		February 3, 1982
Sonata #1 (K381)	Mozart
Sonata III (from Sonatas in Four Parts)	Purcell	CF	Premiere, N.Y., 1944
Suffering	Natalie Crane
Summertime	Gershwin		with high voice
To Greet the New Year
Tritsch-Tratsch Polka	Strauss	CF	1949
Variations on a Recitative	Schoenberg	HWG	Premiere, Vienna, 1955
Vindobona	Joseph Lammer	GS	1944

AVAILABILITY OF MUSIC

Except for those marked with an X, all titles listed above are held in the CeliusDougherty.Org archive and the music library at the University of Minnesota -Twin Cities. All published works can also be found at the Schubert Club Museum and the music libraries at St. Olaf College and the College of Charleston. Published works are delineated by initials as follows: "GS" for G. Schirmer, "BH" for Boosey & Hawkes, "CF" for Carl Fisher, "HWG" for H W Gray Co. and "Ch" for J & W Chester, Ltd. Sheet music that is out of print - all piano music - can be reproduced with the permission of the publisher.

Celius Dougherty, 1902-86

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