Gertrud Roberts Vinyl 1979 HO'OKANI ENTERPRISES

AUTOGRAPHED

To Nancy Anne Turner 

with my fond aloha

Gertrud Roberts

10/12/ 1983

GERTRUD ROBERTS 

COMPOSER HARSICHORDIST PIANIST 

Label: HO'OKANI ENTERPRISES 

Format: 33 rpm 12" LP stereo

Country: United States 

Vinyl Condition: New (1 time played)

Cover Condition: Perfect

Year Released: 1979

LP Quantity: 1 

Catalog #: 781219 

Side 1

Chaconne

Charlot Suite

Triptych

Side 2

Rondo: Homage To Couperin

Twelve Time Gardens

Garden Of The Sand

Garden Of The Stone God

City Squares

Temple Garden

Glass Garden

Garden Of The Sea

Garden Of Petals

Garden Of Bois De Boulogne

Swaying Dancers

Maypole Dancers

Winter Garden

Kauai Garden Of John Allerton

Notes by Ben Hyams

The rare coincidence that brought three artist families

together in Hawaii out of diverse origins in the early years

after the end of World War II was responsible for two of the

works on this recording: the Charlot Suite and Twelve Time

Gardens.

Gertrud Roberts arrived in 1946 when her husband, Joyce,

was appointed to an executive position in the pineapple

industry. Three years later the French-born artist, Jean

Charlot, a world-renowned muralist, joined the art faculty of

the University of Hawaii. In 1950 the engagement of George

Barati as conductor of the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra

brought him and the poet, Ruth, his wife, to the islands. All

struck up close friendships and a strong bond founded in

music, poetry and the visual arts grew up among them.

The other compositions recorded show Mrs. Roberts' wide

range of styles, the basic one rooted in the gloried age of harp-

sichord music in the 18th century, another clearly influenced

by the East-West cultural mixture of Hawaii.

CHACONNE

Johann Christian Bach celebrated the arrival of a new

piano by writing a piece for "mein Silbermannische klavier."

In like fashion, when Gertrud Roberts' new John Challis

harpsichord was delivered to her home in Hawaii in 1951 she

welcomed it with her Chaconne, a ceremonial set of seven

variations in the stately manner of Handel.

The harpsichord was dedicated, and the Chaconne received 

its "premiere", in the presence of the Roberts family

and three beaming Hawaiians who delivered the instrument

and would not leave without hearing an audition.

to be continued