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 The Ke   Intro.   (3 Meg Quicktime Mo) The Ke,   Performance  by Nancy Williams, accompanied by Celius.   (3.5 Meg Quicktime Movie.)

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.