Katherine Hoover (1937-2018)
Katherine Hoover (1937-2018)
Composer, flutist. NEA Composers Fellowship. Published by Presser, Fischer. Extensively recorded; performed world-wide. Eastman; taught at Juilliard and Manhattan SM.
New York Times Obituary for Katherine Hoover By Neil Genzlinger
Sept. 26, 2018
Katherine Hoover, a composer and flutist who wrote not only for her instrument but also for strings, piano, woodwinds, full orchestra and voice, died on Friday in Manhattan. She was 80.
Her son, Norman Schwab, said the cause was a stroke.
Ms. Hoover began writing music in earnest in the early 1970s, a time when few women were having success in the male-dominated world of classical composing, and she was still creating new works into this decade.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/obituaries/katherine-hoover-dead.html
She wrote pieces for a solo instrument and piano, like “Ritual” (1989), for clarinet. She wrote a bassoon quartet (1976) and a saxophone quartet (1980). She wrote “Medieval Suite” (1984), a five-movement orchestral work that she said was inspired by “A Distant Mirror,” Barbara W. Tuchman’s book about the 14th century.
Her best-known work, though, was probably “Kokopeli” (1990), a piece for flute that was inspired, as were a number of her other compositions, by American Indian music and culture.
“Kokopeli, the flute player, was a great mahu, or legendary hero of the Hopi, and of other Native Americans living in the Southwestern area of the United States,” she wrote in a program note. “He is said to have led the migrations through the mountains and deserts, the sound of his flute echoing through the great canyons and cliffs. In this piece I have tried to capture some of this sense of spaciousness and of the Hopi’s deep kinship with this land.”
Ms. Hoover, who also played professionally, won the National Flute Association’s lifetime achievement award in 2016.
The flutist Nina Perlove once wrote of the alluring power of Ms. Hoover’s works:
“Katherine is a storyteller, and the stories she recounts are ancient whisperings that resonate with a primal sense of mythological archetypes.”
The flutist Zara Lawler, in an email interview, spoke of the pleasures of playing Ms. Hoover’s compositions.
“Katherine was a rare composer in that her music is challenging and satisfying for musicians to play, and yet at the same time beautiful and meaningful for audiences to hear,” Ms. Lawler wrote. “Her music leaves you lots of room to express yourself, and yet any performance of her music is indelibly hers.”
Katherine Lacy Hoover was born on Dec. 2, 1937, in Elkin, W.Va. Her father, Samuel, was a chemist, and her mother, Katherine (Lacy) Hoover, was an artist and editor.
Ms. Hoover grew up in the Philadelphia area and received a bachelor’s degree in music theory and a performance certificate in flute in 1959 from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester. She was already encountering the obstacles that at the time faced any woman who aspired to be a composer.
“For boys, and even more so for girls, in music school there was a sense of ‘What are you doing, writing? Who do you think you are, Beethoven?’ ” she said in an interview with Ms. Lawler for a 2013 issue of the New York Flute Club’s newsletter. “It was really not a good attitude. ‘All the good music has been written’ was basically it.
“And I was the only female in class, with six guys, all grad students,” she continued. “I was an undergrad, and I just sat there, and they never bothered to look at my work, and that’s the way it was.”
In the 1960s Ms. Hoover focused on performing and taught flute in the pre-college division at the Juilliard School and elsewhere. In 1969she began teaching at the Manhattan School of Music, while also resuming her studies and earning a master’s degree in music theory there in 1974.
It was during this time that she began composing in a serious way — though finding time to do so was difficult.
“When I started to write, I had a young child,” she said in the interview with Ms. Lawler. “And the only time I had to write, once I decided I really, really wanted to do this, was in the morning after I took him to preschool. I had a couple of hours and that was it.”
The dozens of works she eventually produced have been performed by some 60 groups, among them the Santa Fe Symphony, the ColoradoQuartet, the New Jersey Chamber Music Society, the Sylvan Wind Quintet and the New York Virtuoso Singers. In 1994 she conducted the Harrisburg Symphony in the premiere of her orchestral tone poem “Night Skies.” Prominent flutists like Carol Wincenc, Julius Baker and Eugenia Zukerman have also performed her pieces.
“She wasn’t one to talk of her legacy, but she was certainly proud of all that she had accomplished,” her son said by email. In addition to her composing and performances, he noted another accomplishment: She started her own publishing company, Papagena Press, to disseminate her work.
“It meant she didn’t have to go hat in hand to the big houses to get a new work in front of people,” he said.
Ms. Hoover’s first marriage, to John Schwab, ended in divorce in the 1970s. In addition to her son, she is survived by her husband, Richard Goodwin, whom she married in 1985, and three grandchildren.
Ms. Lawler remembered Ms. Hoover as a woman who was both creative and practical.
“She gives you inspiration, and also a screwdriver to fix your flute,” she said. “I keep a tiny screwdriver from her in my flute case!”
From the time she was a teenager, Ms. Hoover enjoyed writing poetry, but she mostly kept it to herself until late in life. In 2015, with the encouragement of friends and family members, she published a book of her poems, “This Way About.”
One poem in the collection is called “Music, My Love.” It concludes this way:
Music, my love,
you have taken my hand
in sorrow and led me
from darkness.
You have taught me grace
and forgiveness.
Music, my love,
you whisper to me
of paradise.
A version of this article appears in print on, Section B, Page 16 of the New York edition with the headline: Katherine Hoover, 80, Flutist and Composer Whose ‘Kokopeli’Is Often Performed.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/obituaries/katherine-hoover-dead.html
Night Skies
Year: 1992
Duration (in minutes): 25'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Instruments: harp, percussion, timpani
Description: Premiere Harrisburg Symphony 1/94.
Sonata
Year: 1991
Duration (in minutes): 16'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo woodwind with piano
Instruments: any woodwind, oboe, piano
Publisher: Papagena Press
Description: Commissioned by Vinland Duo. Premiered at Weill Hall, 4/90.
Canyon Echos
Year: 1991
Duration (in minutes): 18'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: any string, any woodwind, flute, guitar
Publisher: Papagena Press
Description: Commissioned by and Premiered by Duologue, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, 11/91.
Sound Bytes Op. 43
Year: 1990
Duration (in minutes): 10'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, woodwind ensemble
Instruments: any woodwind, flute
Two Sketches, Op. 42
Year: 1990
Duration (in minutes): 12'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Instruments: celesta, harp, percussion, timpani
Description: Commissioned by and Premiered by Bay Area Women's Philarmonic, Faletta, cond., 4/20/90.
Kokopeli
Year: 1990
Duration (in minutes): 4'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo woodwind instrument
Instruments: any woodwind, flute
Publisher: Papagena Press
Description: Winner, NFA Newly Published Music, 1991.
Ritual
Year: 1989
Duration (in minutes): 8'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo woodwind with piano
Instruments: any woodwind, clarinet, piano
Description: Commissioned by N.Y.S. Music Teacher's Assoc. Premiered October 1989. Papagena Press
Double Concerto
Year: 1989
Duration (in minutes): 14'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: concertos
Publisher: Papagena Press
Description: Commissioned by Eastern Kansas Orchestra.
Quintet "Da Pacem"
Year: 1988
Duration (in minutes): 25'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, mixed instrument ensemble, string quartet
Instruments: any string, cello, piano, viola, violin
Description: Premiered N.J. Chamber Music Society, Alice Tully Hall, NYC, 5/20/89. Papagena Press
Qwindtet
Year: 1987
Duration (in minutes): 16'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, woodwind ensemble, woodwind quintet
Instruments: any brass, any woodwind, bassoon, clarinet, flute, horn, oboe
Publisher: Papagena Press
Description: Commissioned by Hudson Valley Quintet & Peter Alexander.
Clarinet Concerto, Op.38
Year: 1987
Duration (in minutes): 19'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: concertos
Publisher: Theodore Presser
Description: perc, sax, strs Premiered Eddie Daniels, Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra.
Eleni: A Greek Tragedy, Op. 36
Year: 1986
Duration (in minutes): 15'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Instruments: percussion, timpani
Publisher: Theodore Presser
Description: guit, al, 3+3+3+3+, strs Premiered Harrisburg Symphony, Newland, many others performed.
Summer Night Op. 34
Year: 1985
Duration (in minutes): 8'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: any brass, any woodwind, flute, horn, piano
Publisher: Theodore Presser
Aria, Op. 31
Year: 1985
Duration (in minutes): 4'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo string with piano, solo woodwind with piano
Instruments: any string, any woodwind, bassoon, cello, piano
Publisher: Papagena Press
Allegro Giocoso Op. 32
Year: 1985
Duration (in minutes): 2'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo string with piano
Instruments: any string, cello, piano
Publisher: Papagena Press
Summer Night, Op. 34
Year: 1985
Duration (in minutes): 8'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: concertos
Publisher: Theodore Presser
Description: Premiered 1985 Bournemouth Sinfonietta; recorded Leonarda CD.
Sweet Thievery, Op. 35
Year: 1985
Duration (in minutes): 4'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) a cappella
Publisher: Papagena Press
Last Invocation, Op. 30 (Whitman)
Year: 1984
Duration (in minutes): 4'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral
Lyric Trio Op. 27
Year: 1983
Duration (in minutes): 18'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument quartet, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: any string, any woodwind, cello, flute, viola, violin
Publisher: Papagena Press
Description: Commissioned by Huntington Trio, recorded Leonarda LE 325.
Andante & Allegro, Op. 28"
Year: 1983
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Description: Medium student level, teaching materials.
Songs Of Celebration, Op. 29
Year: 1983
Duration (in minutes): 13'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral
Publisher: Music 70
Description: Christmas.
Duo For Flutes Op. 23
Year: 1982
Duration (in minutes): 6'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, woodwind ensemble
Instruments: any woodwind, flute
Publisher: Boelke-Bomart
Description: Six simple duets.
Piano Book, Op. 19"
Year: 1982
Duration (in minutes): 1'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Description: 7 pieces.
Serenade, Op. 24
Year: 1982
Duration (in minutes): 10'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, mixed instrument ensemble, string quartet
Instruments: any string, any woodwind, cello, clarinet, viola, violin
Publisher: Papagena Press
Description: Moderate difficulty.
Reflections, Op. 25 "
Year: 1982
Duration (in minutes): 6'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo woodwind instrument
Instruments: any woodwind, flute
Publisher: Papagena Press
Description: Recorded Leonarda, Hoover, LPI 121.
From The Testament Of Francois Villon, Op. 26
Year: 1982
Duration (in minutes): 24'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble
Instruments: any low voice, any male voice, any medium voice, any string, any voice, any woodwind, baritone voice, bass voice, bassoon, cello, contrabass, viola, violin
Publisher: Papagena Press
Description: quartet Commissioned by L. Hindell. Premiered L. Hindell, bn, & John Cheek, bs/bar at Merkin, 1985.
Medieval Suite
Year: 1981
Duration (in minutes): 19'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo woodwind with piano
Instruments: any woodwind, flute, piano
Publisher: Theodore Presser
Description: Winner NFA Newly Published Music, 1987.
Images Op. 22
Year: 1981
Duration (in minutes): 12'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: any string, any woodwind, clarinet, piano, violin
Publisher: Papagena Press
Description: Written for and recorded by The Verdehr Trio, Leonarda LE 325.
Psalm 23, Op. 21a
Year: 1981
Duration (in minutes): 4'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Instruments: bassoon, clarinet, flute, oboe
Psalm 23, Op. 21
Year: 1981
Duration (in minutes): 4'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral
Publisher: Papagena Press
Description: Commissioned by Episcopal Diocese of NY. Premiere at Cathedral of St. John, NY, 1982.
Suite For Saxophones Op. 20
Year: 1980
Duration (in minutes): 12'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: alto, alto saxophone, any female voice, any high voice, any low voice, any male voice, any saxophone, any voice, any woodwind, soprano, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, tenor voice
Publisher: Papagena Press
Description: Comp for New York Saxophone Quartet.
Medieval Suite, Op. 18
Year: 1979
Duration (in minutes): 19'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: concertos
Description: 121. Premiered Reno Symphony: C. Smith fl, R. Daniels, cond., 11/89. THEODORE PRESSER
Selima, Op. 16
Year: 1979
Duration (in minutes): 7'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble
Instruments: any female voice, any high voice, any voice, any woodwind, clarinet, piano, soprano
Publisher: Papagena Press
Description: Commissioned by Ariel.
Trio Op. 14
Year: 1978
Duration (in minutes): 18'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano trio (vln, vc, pno), small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: cello, piano, violin
Publisher: Papagena Press
Description: Rec Rogeri Trio, Leonarda LPI 103.
Set For Clarinet, Op. 15"
Year: 1978
Duration (in minutes): 5'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo instrument other than piano, woodwind ensemble
Instruments: any woodwind, clarinet
Suite For Two Flutes Op. 17
Year: 1977
Duration (in minutes): 9'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, woodwind ensemble
Instruments: any woodwind, flute
Description: other performances. BOELKE BOMART
Nocturne, Op. 13
Year: 1977
Duration (in minutes): 6'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: concertos
To Many A Well, Op. 12
Year: 1977
Duration (in minutes): 5'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Sinfonia Op. 10
Year: 1976
Duration (in minutes): 11'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, woodwind ensemble, woodwind quartet
Instruments: any woodwind, bassoon
Publisher: Papagena Press
Description: Rec New York Bassoon Quartet.
Four English Songs, Op. 9
Year: 1976
Duration (in minutes): 12'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral
Description: PAPAGENA
Divertimento, Op. 7
Year: 1975
Duration (in minutes): 12'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument quartet, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: any string, any woodwind, cello, flute, viola, violin
Publisher: Papagena Press
Description: Rec Leonarda LPI 105, D. Gold & Alard Trio.
Three Movements For Brass Sextet
Year: 1975
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: brass ensemble, brass sextet, larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players
Instruments: any brass
Publisher: Seesaw Music Corp.
Description: 2 hn, 2 tpt, tbn, tu.
Homage To Bartok, Op. 8
Year: 1975
Duration (in minutes): 14'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, woodwind ensemble, woodwind quintet
Instruments: any brass, any woodwind, bassoon, clarinet, flute, horn, oboe
Publisher: Papagena Press
Description: Performances: Dorian, Sylvan, others.
Trio For Flutes Op. 6
Year: 1974
Duration (in minutes): 8'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, woodwind ensemble
Instruments: any woodwind, flute
Songs Of Joy, Op. 5
Year: 1974
Duration (in minutes): 11'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral
Publisher: Carl Fischer, Inc.
Description: quartet, tpt, Ehn, tu Christmas.
Wings, Op. 4
Year: 1974
Duration (in minutes): 9'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble
Instruments: any female voice, any high voice, any string, any voice, any woodwind, clarinet, flute, piano, soprano, violin
Seven Haiku, Op. 3
Year: 1973
Duration (in minutes): 8'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble, solo voice(s) with solo instruments
Instruments: any female voice, any high voice, any voice, any woodwind, flute, soprano
Publisher: Papagena Press
Three Carols, Op.1a
Year: 1972
Duration (in minutes): 9'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral
Publisher: Carl Fischer, Inc.
Description: Christmas.
Four Carols, Op. 1
Year: 1970
Duration (in minutes): 9'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble, solo voice(s) with solo instruments
Instruments: any female voice, any high voice, any voice, any woodwind, flute, soprano
Native American Stories in Classical Flute Music
Laurel Zucker with CSU Faculty: Richard Savino and Jack Foote.
Music by Katherine Hoover, James Demars, John Thow, Victor Frost.
Composers: Katherine Hoover, and others
Night Skies: Orchestral Music of Katherine Hoover
Orchestral Music of Katherine Hoover.
Performers: David Perry, Suzanne Beia
Conductors: Joel Eric Suben, Manoogian,
Orchestra/Ensemble: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Wisconsin Philomusica
Composers: Katherine Hoover
Product ID: PACD96019
Buy URL: http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/Drilldown?name_id1=5543&name_role1=1&bcorder=1&comp_id=73320
New York Times Obituary for Katherine Hoover By Neil Genzlinger
Sept. 26, 2018
Katherine Hoover, a composer and flutist who wrote not only for her instrument but also for strings, piano, woodwinds, full orchestra and voice, died on Friday in Manhattan. She was 80.
Her son, Norman Schwab, said the cause was a stroke.
Ms. Hoover began writing music in earnest in the early 1970s, a time when few women were having success in the male-dominated world of classical composing, and she was still creating new works into this decade.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/obituaries/katherine-hoover-dead.html
She wrote pieces for a solo instrument and piano, like “Ritual” (1989), for clarinet. She wrote a bassoon quartet (1976) and a saxophone quartet (1980). She wrote “Medieval Suite” (1984), a five-movement orchestral work that she said was inspired by “A Distant Mirror,” Barbara W. Tuchman’s book about the 14th century.
Her best-known work, though, was probably “Kokopeli” (1990), a piece for flute that was inspired, as were a number of her other compositions, by American Indian music and culture.
“Kokopeli, the flute player, was a great mahu, or legendary hero of the Hopi, and of other Native Americans living in the Southwestern area of the United States,” she wrote in a program note. “He is said to have led the migrations through the mountains and deserts, the sound of his flute echoing through the great canyons and cliffs. In this piece I have tried to capture some of this sense of spaciousness and of the Hopi’s deep kinship with this land.”
Ms. Hoover, who also played professionally, won the National Flute Association’s lifetime achievement award in 2016.
The flutist Nina Perlove once wrote of the alluring power of Ms. Hoover’s works:
“Katherine is a storyteller, and the stories she recounts are ancient whisperings that resonate with a primal sense of mythological archetypes.”
The flutist Zara Lawler, in an email interview, spoke of the pleasures of playing Ms. Hoover’s compositions.
“Katherine was a rare composer in that her music is challenging and satisfying for musicians to play, and yet at the same time beautiful and meaningful for audiences to hear,” Ms. Lawler wrote. “Her music leaves you lots of room to express yourself, and yet any performance of her music is indelibly hers.”
Katherine Lacy Hoover was born on Dec. 2, 1937, in Elkin, W.Va. Her father, Samuel, was a chemist, and her mother, Katherine (Lacy) Hoover, was an artist and editor.
Ms. Hoover grew up in the Philadelphia area and received a bachelor’s degree in music theory and a performance certificate in flute in 1959 from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester. She was already encountering the obstacles that at the time faced any woman who aspired to be a composer.
“For boys, and even more so for girls, in music school there was a sense of ‘What are you doing, writing? Who do you think you are, Beethoven?’ ” she said in an interview with Ms. Lawler for a 2013 issue of the New York Flute Club’s newsletter. “It was really not a good attitude. ‘All the good music has been written’ was basically it.
“And I was the only female in class, with six guys, all grad students,” she continued. “I was an undergrad, and I just sat there, and they never bothered to look at my work, and that’s the way it was.”
In the 1960s Ms. Hoover focused on performing and taught flute in the pre-college division at the Juilliard School and elsewhere. In 1969she began teaching at the Manhattan School of Music, while also resuming her studies and earning a master’s degree in music theory there in 1974.
It was during this time that she began composing in a serious way — though finding time to do so was difficult.
“When I started to write, I had a young child,” she said in the interview with Ms. Lawler. “And the only time I had to write, once I decided I really, really wanted to do this, was in the morning after I took him to preschool. I had a couple of hours and that was it.”
The dozens of works she eventually produced have been performed by some 60 groups, among them the Santa Fe Symphony, the ColoradoQuartet, the New Jersey Chamber Music Society, the Sylvan Wind Quintet and the New York Virtuoso Singers. In 1994 she conducted the Harrisburg Symphony in the premiere of her orchestral tone poem “Night Skies.” Prominent flutists like Carol Wincenc, Julius Baker and Eugenia Zukerman have also performed her pieces.
“She wasn’t one to talk of her legacy, but she was certainly proud of all that she had accomplished,” her son said by email. In addition to her composing and performances, he noted another accomplishment: She started her own publishing company, Papagena Press, to disseminate her work.
“It meant she didn’t have to go hat in hand to the big houses to get a new work in front of people,” he said.
Ms. Hoover’s first marriage, to John Schwab, ended in divorce in the 1970s. In addition to her son, she is survived by her husband, Richard Goodwin, whom she married in 1985, and three grandchildren.
Ms. Lawler remembered Ms. Hoover as a woman who was both creative and practical.
“She gives you inspiration, and also a screwdriver to fix your flute,” she said. “I keep a tiny screwdriver from her in my flute case!”
From the time she was a teenager, Ms. Hoover enjoyed writing poetry, but she mostly kept it to herself until late in life. In 2015, with the encouragement of friends and family members, she published a book of her poems, “This Way About.”
One poem in the collection is called “Music, My Love.” It concludes this way:
Music, my love,
you have taken my hand
in sorrow and led me
from darkness.
You have taught me grace
and forgiveness.
Music, my love,
you whisper to me
of paradise.
A version of this article appears in print on, Section B, Page 16 of the New York edition with the headline: Katherine Hoover, 80, Flutist and Composer Whose ‘Kokopeli’Is Often Performed.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/obituaries/katherine-hoover-dead.html
Night Skies
Year: 1992
Duration (in minutes): 25'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Instruments: harp, percussion, timpani
Description: Premiere Harrisburg Symphony 1/94.
Sonata
Year: 1991
Duration (in minutes): 16'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo woodwind with piano
Instruments: any woodwind, oboe, piano
Publisher: Papagena Press
Description: Commissioned by Vinland Duo. Premiered at Weill Hall, 4/90.
Canyon Echos
Year: 1991
Duration (in minutes): 18'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: any string, any woodwind, flute, guitar
Publisher: Papagena Press
Description: Commissioned by and Premiered by Duologue, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, 11/91.
Sound Bytes Op. 43
Year: 1990
Duration (in minutes): 10'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, woodwind ensemble
Instruments: any woodwind, flute
Two Sketches, Op. 42
Year: 1990
Duration (in minutes): 12'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Instruments: celesta, harp, percussion, timpani
Description: Commissioned by and Premiered by Bay Area Women's Philarmonic, Faletta, cond., 4/20/90.
Kokopeli
Year: 1990
Duration (in minutes): 4'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo woodwind instrument
Instruments: any woodwind, flute
Publisher: Papagena Press
Description: Winner, NFA Newly Published Music, 1991.
Ritual
Year: 1989
Duration (in minutes): 8'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo woodwind with piano
Instruments: any woodwind, clarinet, piano
Description: Commissioned by N.Y.S. Music Teacher's Assoc. Premiered October 1989. Papagena Press
Double Concerto
Year: 1989
Duration (in minutes): 14'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: concertos
Publisher: Papagena Press
Description: Commissioned by Eastern Kansas Orchestra.
Quintet "Da Pacem"
Year: 1988
Duration (in minutes): 25'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, mixed instrument ensemble, string quartet
Instruments: any string, cello, piano, viola, violin
Description: Premiered N.J. Chamber Music Society, Alice Tully Hall, NYC, 5/20/89. Papagena Press
Qwindtet
Year: 1987
Duration (in minutes): 16'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, woodwind ensemble, woodwind quintet
Instruments: any brass, any woodwind, bassoon, clarinet, flute, horn, oboe
Publisher: Papagena Press
Description: Commissioned by Hudson Valley Quintet & Peter Alexander.
Clarinet Concerto, Op.38
Year: 1987
Duration (in minutes): 19'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: concertos
Publisher: Theodore Presser
Description: perc, sax, strs Premiered Eddie Daniels, Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra.
Eleni: A Greek Tragedy, Op. 36
Year: 1986
Duration (in minutes): 15'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Instruments: percussion, timpani
Publisher: Theodore Presser
Description: guit, al, 3+3+3+3+, strs Premiered Harrisburg Symphony, Newland, many others performed.
Summer Night Op. 34
Year: 1985
Duration (in minutes): 8'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: any brass, any woodwind, flute, horn, piano
Publisher: Theodore Presser
Aria, Op. 31
Year: 1985
Duration (in minutes): 4'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo string with piano, solo woodwind with piano
Instruments: any string, any woodwind, bassoon, cello, piano
Publisher: Papagena Press
Allegro Giocoso Op. 32
Year: 1985
Duration (in minutes): 2'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo string with piano
Instruments: any string, cello, piano
Publisher: Papagena Press
Summer Night, Op. 34
Year: 1985
Duration (in minutes): 8'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: concertos
Publisher: Theodore Presser
Description: Premiered 1985 Bournemouth Sinfonietta; recorded Leonarda CD.
Sweet Thievery, Op. 35
Year: 1985
Duration (in minutes): 4'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) a cappella
Publisher: Papagena Press
Last Invocation, Op. 30 (Whitman)
Year: 1984
Duration (in minutes): 4'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral
Lyric Trio Op. 27
Year: 1983
Duration (in minutes): 18'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument quartet, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: any string, any woodwind, cello, flute, viola, violin
Publisher: Papagena Press
Description: Commissioned by Huntington Trio, recorded Leonarda LE 325.
Andante & Allegro, Op. 28"
Year: 1983
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Description: Medium student level, teaching materials.
Songs Of Celebration, Op. 29
Year: 1983
Duration (in minutes): 13'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral
Publisher: Music 70
Description: Christmas.
Duo For Flutes Op. 23
Year: 1982
Duration (in minutes): 6'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, woodwind ensemble
Instruments: any woodwind, flute
Publisher: Boelke-Bomart
Description: Six simple duets.
Piano Book, Op. 19"
Year: 1982
Duration (in minutes): 1'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Description: 7 pieces.
Serenade, Op. 24
Year: 1982
Duration (in minutes): 10'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, mixed instrument ensemble, string quartet
Instruments: any string, any woodwind, cello, clarinet, viola, violin
Publisher: Papagena Press
Description: Moderate difficulty.
Reflections, Op. 25 "
Year: 1982
Duration (in minutes): 6'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo woodwind instrument
Instruments: any woodwind, flute
Publisher: Papagena Press
Description: Recorded Leonarda, Hoover, LPI 121.
From The Testament Of Francois Villon, Op. 26
Year: 1982
Duration (in minutes): 24'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble
Instruments: any low voice, any male voice, any medium voice, any string, any voice, any woodwind, baritone voice, bass voice, bassoon, cello, contrabass, viola, violin
Publisher: Papagena Press
Description: quartet Commissioned by L. Hindell. Premiered L. Hindell, bn, & John Cheek, bs/bar at Merkin, 1985.
Medieval Suite
Year: 1981
Duration (in minutes): 19'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo woodwind with piano
Instruments: any woodwind, flute, piano
Publisher: Theodore Presser
Description: Winner NFA Newly Published Music, 1987.
Images Op. 22
Year: 1981
Duration (in minutes): 12'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: any string, any woodwind, clarinet, piano, violin
Publisher: Papagena Press
Description: Written for and recorded by The Verdehr Trio, Leonarda LE 325.
Psalm 23, Op. 21a
Year: 1981
Duration (in minutes): 4'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Instruments: bassoon, clarinet, flute, oboe
Psalm 23, Op. 21
Year: 1981
Duration (in minutes): 4'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral
Publisher: Papagena Press
Description: Commissioned by Episcopal Diocese of NY. Premiere at Cathedral of St. John, NY, 1982.
Suite For Saxophones Op. 20
Year: 1980
Duration (in minutes): 12'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: alto, alto saxophone, any female voice, any high voice, any low voice, any male voice, any saxophone, any voice, any woodwind, soprano, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, tenor voice
Publisher: Papagena Press
Description: Comp for New York Saxophone Quartet.
Medieval Suite, Op. 18
Year: 1979
Duration (in minutes): 19'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: concertos
Description: 121. Premiered Reno Symphony: C. Smith fl, R. Daniels, cond., 11/89. THEODORE PRESSER
Selima, Op. 16
Year: 1979
Duration (in minutes): 7'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble
Instruments: any female voice, any high voice, any voice, any woodwind, clarinet, piano, soprano
Publisher: Papagena Press
Description: Commissioned by Ariel.
Trio Op. 14
Year: 1978
Duration (in minutes): 18'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano trio (vln, vc, pno), small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: cello, piano, violin
Publisher: Papagena Press
Description: Rec Rogeri Trio, Leonarda LPI 103.
Set For Clarinet, Op. 15"
Year: 1978
Duration (in minutes): 5'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo instrument other than piano, woodwind ensemble
Instruments: any woodwind, clarinet
Suite For Two Flutes Op. 17
Year: 1977
Duration (in minutes): 9'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, woodwind ensemble
Instruments: any woodwind, flute
Description: other performances. BOELKE BOMART
Nocturne, Op. 13
Year: 1977
Duration (in minutes): 6'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: concertos
To Many A Well, Op. 12
Year: 1977
Duration (in minutes): 5'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Sinfonia Op. 10
Year: 1976
Duration (in minutes): 11'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, woodwind ensemble, woodwind quartet
Instruments: any woodwind, bassoon
Publisher: Papagena Press
Description: Rec New York Bassoon Quartet.
Four English Songs, Op. 9
Year: 1976
Duration (in minutes): 12'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral
Description: PAPAGENA
Divertimento, Op. 7
Year: 1975
Duration (in minutes): 12'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument quartet, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: any string, any woodwind, cello, flute, viola, violin
Publisher: Papagena Press
Description: Rec Leonarda LPI 105, D. Gold & Alard Trio.
Three Movements For Brass Sextet
Year: 1975
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: brass ensemble, brass sextet, larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players
Instruments: any brass
Publisher: Seesaw Music Corp.
Description: 2 hn, 2 tpt, tbn, tu.
Homage To Bartok, Op. 8
Year: 1975
Duration (in minutes): 14'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, woodwind ensemble, woodwind quintet
Instruments: any brass, any woodwind, bassoon, clarinet, flute, horn, oboe
Publisher: Papagena Press
Description: Performances: Dorian, Sylvan, others.
Trio For Flutes Op. 6
Year: 1974
Duration (in minutes): 8'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, woodwind ensemble
Instruments: any woodwind, flute
Songs Of Joy, Op. 5
Year: 1974
Duration (in minutes): 11'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral
Publisher: Carl Fischer, Inc.
Description: quartet, tpt, Ehn, tu Christmas.
Wings, Op. 4
Year: 1974
Duration (in minutes): 9'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble
Instruments: any female voice, any high voice, any string, any voice, any woodwind, clarinet, flute, piano, soprano, violin
Seven Haiku, Op. 3
Year: 1973
Duration (in minutes): 8'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble, solo voice(s) with solo instruments
Instruments: any female voice, any high voice, any voice, any woodwind, flute, soprano
Publisher: Papagena Press
Three Carols, Op.1a
Year: 1972
Duration (in minutes): 9'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral
Publisher: Carl Fischer, Inc.
Description: Christmas.
Four Carols, Op. 1
Year: 1970
Duration (in minutes): 9'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble, solo voice(s) with solo instruments
Instruments: any female voice, any high voice, any voice, any woodwind, flute, soprano
Native American Stories in Classical Flute Music
Laurel Zucker with CSU Faculty: Richard Savino and Jack Foote.
Music by Katherine Hoover, James Demars, John Thow, Victor Frost.
Composers: Katherine Hoover, and others
Night Skies: Orchestral Music of Katherine Hoover
Orchestral Music of Katherine Hoover.
Performers: David Perry, Suzanne Beia
Conductors: Joel Eric Suben, Manoogian,
Orchestra/Ensemble: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Wisconsin Philomusica
Composers: Katherine Hoover
Product ID: PACD96019
