| Rick Kuethe* Peace and Quiet Music * pronounced KEETH-ee |
| Music for Meditation and Relaxation by Emmy-Nominated Composer & Pianist Rick Kuethe |
| his legs too short to reach the pedals, when he started playing the piano. Seven years later, he was performing in international competitions. |
After graduating from Grinnell College and Berklee College of Music, Rick began a career that has taken him all over the world, composing for film and television and recording eight CDs of his own music. (High-school classmate Mary Campbell wrote the lyrics for "A Place Called Hope" on the album Faces of Hope.) Rick is equally at ease in almost any genre, from classical to jazz to Americana and the affirming universality of his own compositions. What delights his audiences are the soaring, poignant melodies that seem natural and familiar the first time you hear them. As one critic wrote: “Once you’ve heard a ‘Kuethe’ melody, you won’t forget it!” Rick and his wife, Florrie Aversa, live in Dorcester, Massachusetts. |
| Nebraska Suite |
| Faces of Hope |
| Heartland |
| Dance of the Cranes |
| The Child Within |
| Christmas in Nebraska |
| My New England Town |
| The Basset Hound and the Butterfly |
| Banner row: native wildflowers yellow coneflower, black chokeberry; above left, from top: Eureka thickspike gayfeather, a Nebraska cornfield, prairie penstemon, alfalfa field; above right: the Sandhills, north central Nebraska |
| Above, l to r: goldenrod, the state flower; a north- central Nebraska grain elevator; butterfly milkweed. Right: Smith Falls on the Niobrara River. Below: The Missouri River bridge at Brownville |
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| The legendary Henry Fonda, in one of his last interviews, mused on how his Nebraska, roots had made him more authentic as an actor: "You never get over Omaha," he said. |
| Omaha native Rick Kuethe left his home town in 1965, but his heart is in Nebraska; and his music — whether reflective or whimsical — is borne along by the strong, steady pulse of the Great Plains. His first album, Nebraska Suite,echoes the serenity of a prairie sunrise and the liveliness of a harvest celebration. Rick was just five years old, |
| You Can Take the Boy Out of Nebraska... |
| Mongolian skies skull cap |
| Bald eagle; purple cone flower |
| Native cottonwoods cluster along streams and line roadways in Nebraska |
| Summer storm; a windmill spins at sunset |
of Nebraska Cornhuskers; international picnic at the University of Nebraska–Kearney |
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Leahy Mall near the Missouri River |
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lighten up...
| why walk when you can fly? |
| Lake McCon- Nebraska |
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