Katherine Hoover

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Katherine Hoover (December 2, 1937 – September 21, 2018) was an American composer and flutist. She held a performer's certificate in flute and a Bachelor of Music in music theory from the Eastman School of Music, and a Masters in Music from the Manhattan School of Music. She was a faculty member of the Manhattan School of Music for fifteen years and taught flute at the Juilliard Preparatory School. Hoover won numerous awards for her compositions, and her music was hailed as "fresh and individual... dazzlingly crafted." Born in Elkins, West Virginia, Hoover was raised in a "non-musical family." Her mother was a painter and her father was a scientist, and they discouraged her from pursuing music as a career. However, music was the most important part of Hoover's life. She recalls being able to read music as early as four years old, before she could read words.[5] After her family moved to Philadelphia, she began playing the flute. At age fifteen, she began playing the piano. She received "mediocre music instruction" in high school. Because her parents discouraged her from pursuing a music major, she began her academic studies at the University of Rochester in 1955. Two years later she transferred to the Eastman School of Music, where she studied with flutist Joseph Mariano, began studying composition, and graduated in 1959 with a Bachelor of Music in Music Theory and a Performer's Certificate in Flute. Unfortunately, her composition classes left a bad impression. Hoover comm

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Kokopeli: Katherine Hoover Plays

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Kokopeli for Solo Flute

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Keeping Time

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Native American Stories In Classical Flute Music

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Katherine Hoover Piano Works

Night Skies: Orchestral Music Of Katherine Hoover

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Odyssey

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Flute Recital: Zukerman, Eugenia - Drattell, D. / Debussy, C. / Hoover, K. / Larsen, L. / Escher, R. / Bennett, R.R. / Bozza, E. / Honegger, A.

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Flute Recital: Bailey, Don - Muczynski, R. / Boulanger, L. / Ravel, M. / Poulenc, F. / Martinu, B. / Hoover, K. / Gieseking, W.

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Song of the Wind

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Celebration of the New

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