Patria Productions: News & Reviews
Marjan Kiepura's CD - "Images of a Homeland"
Nov 25, 2011 BBC Radio 3 Program "Essential Classics" hosted by Rob Cowan following airplay of Mazurkas in F Minor Op 7, No 3 and G Minor Op 24, No 1:
"Marjan Kiepura is a highly gifted pianist...Here is Chopin played from the heart with a real feeling for the mazurka rhythm"
Review by Steven Turpin: Classical Music Coordinator/Morning Musicale Host, Indiana Public Radio
Images of a Homeland : The Music of Frederic Chopin
at 92nd Street Y's 60+ program
BBC Radio 3's weekly program CD Review with presenter and critic Andrew McGregor, reviewing mazurkas from Marjan Kiepura's Chopin CD, broadcast on January 30, 2010 "...(Marjan Kiepura)...played with impressive empathy and an energetic response to the character rhythms of Chopin's writing"... "It's a re-issue that I have enjoyed a lot".
"Update" to New York Times review by music critic Bernard Sherman
Pianist Magazine - London - by Jessica Duchen
The Conway Daily Sun - Jane Wilcox Hively
Classic FM Magazine - London - Jane Jones
BBC Music Magazine - Jeremy Siepmann
American Record Guide - by Jonathan Bellman
Musical Opinion - England - by Robert Matthew Walker
Piano Journal - London - by Alberto Portugheis
Wiener Zeitung - by Edwin Baumgartner
Entertainment Times - Keene, NH - by Frank Behrens
Amazon.com - Editorial Review - by Edith Eisler
Translations
"Nowy Dziennik" - Polish Daily Newspaper (New York)
by Jan Latus
New Yorker Staats-Zeitung "Culture"
(German American Newspaper New York) - by Egon Stadelman
Marta Eggerth's Upcoming Events
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media Contact: Debra Kinzler
457 West 57th Street Suite 1615
New York, NY 10019
917 493 4469 or dkinzler@msmnyc.edu
MARTA EGGERTH, Living Legend from Stage and Screen
To present two Cabaret Shows at Café Sabarsky in the Neue Galerie: Thursday, April 10 and Thursday, April 17, 2008; David Maiullo, Pianist
Thursday, April 17, Mme Eggerth will be Celebrating her 96th Birthday
Among 2008 accolades are Medal of Recognition from the Kosciuszko Foundation, April 26; Honored by the New Rochelle Opera Company, May 1
Guest on Bloomberg television program, "Night Talk" with Host, Mike Schneider
March 15, 2008 - Marta Eggerth, a living legend from the world of operetta, opera, lieder, as well as European and American fi lm, will be presenting two Thursday evening cabaret shows at the Neue Galerie's Café Sabarsky on April 10 and April 17. Mme Eggerth was asked back by popular demand following sold out performances in October 2007, and has been a favorite and regular performer on the Café Sabarsky cabaret scene since 2005. She will be accompanied by Pianist David Maiullo.
The April 17 performance will also mark Mme Eggerth's 96th birthday. Born in Budapest, Hungary on April 17, 1912, Marta Eggerth has been entertaining audiences for more than eighty years, remaining active today, singing and entertaining audiences.
The Neue Galerie is located at 86th Street and Fifth Avenue. For tickets and information, call 212.628.6200, ext. 485.
This spring, Marta Eggerth's accolades will also include:
- Will receive the Medal of Recognition from the Kosciuszko Foundation on Saturday, April 26. This award was initiated by the Kosciuszko Foundation in 1955 to honor individuals who have signifi cantly contributed to their mission of promoting cultural and intellectual exchanges between Poland and the United States. Among other musicians who have been given this award include Artur Rubinstein, Leopold Stowkowski, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, and Van Cliburn.
- Will be honored by the New Rochelle (NY) Opera Company on Thursday, May 1 for her contribution to the arts. That evening, Mme. Eggerth will be given a plaque and a Proclamation from the City of New Rochelle. Past recipients of the award have included Marilyn Horne, Anna Moffo and Licia Albanese.
- Marta Eggerth will be a guest on Bloomberg television's "Night Talk" a program that features heavy hitters in the fi elds of politics, business, sports, academia, and entertainment in conversation with Host Mike Schneider. The 1/2 hour interview took place in the Bloomberg studio on March 13. Marta discussed everything from her love of working with young people to singing with Jan Kiepura and to the art of making movies in Europe during the 1930s. "Night Talk" airs in the United States, Europe and Asia on Bloomberg Television and is simulcast on Bloomberg Radio as well. The airing date is to be announced, but scheduled for late March.
Marta Eggerth can be heard on a 2-CD compilation, My Life My Song, highlighting more
than 70 years of her recordings from the early 1930s to 2002, as well as more than 80 years
on the stage. Released in March 2005 by Patria Productions, the dual album spans her most
popular repertoire including selections of operetta luminaries who specifi cally composed
for her, including Franz Lehar, Robert Stolz and Paul Abraham. Her career is highlighted by
numerous operetta roles, most notably as Hanna Glawari in Lehar's The Merry Widow, a role
she performed more than 200 times in fi ve languages on Broadway and throughout the world.
Marta Eggerth, My Life My Song was a project spearheaded by Jane Knox Kiepura, executive
producer and co-founder of Patria Productions. Patria Productions was founded by Jane Knox
Kiepura, along with her husband, Marjan Kiepura, the son of Marta Eggerth and the late Polish
Tenor Jan Kiepura. The project involved compiling recordings spanning more than 70 years, as
well as searching and evaluating family collections, and dealing with collectors worldwide. The
CD is available on Amazon.com.
Marta Eggerth: My Life, My Song
Marta Eggerth, Legendary Soprano, Talks About Vienna, Career - Manuela Hoelterhoff, Bloomberg, Nov. 21 2005
Singing from Life - Brian Kellow salutes Marta Eggerth in Opera, September 2005
Heard for Eight Decades, Her Voice Doesn't Waver -- New York Times feature article by Anne Midgette August 10, 2005
Opera Now review May/June 2005 by George Hall
Opera News review June 2005 by F. Paul Driscoll
Amazon.com - Editorial Review - 2005 - by Edith Eisler
Concert Review May 21, 2006 Gorham, New Hampshire as reported in the The Courier newspaper of Littleton, NH
Pianist and Littleton resident Marjan Kiepura gives brilliant dynamic concert performance in Gorham
By Elizabeth Hill