In C minor

This track is from the album Scarlatti and Chopin and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/shirleyk2

Chopin Etude in C Min. Op. 10 Revolutionary

This is a "live" recording that took place in Waukegan Il.
Nov.5,2010 at Family Piano company at their Joplin Java
performance arena.
Boise often is available to perform there and it was a thank you "free public" performance to all of those that supported Boise's performances in the past:especially to Alice and Frank Alviani of Family Piano Co.
Boise was to undergo cancer treatment on Nov.9,2010 at the Univ. of Chicago Hospital for stage 4 head/neck cancer.

CHICAGO

Here's an original jazz work that was recorded during a home rehearsal session in 1999.
Savannah Winds.  It was composed in 1998 and appears on Boise Queen's earliest cd
album "Sun Voyage" The recording presented here is not in
mp3 format but the CD is however.   
The work features:
Boise Bernard Queen ....Piano and Synthesizer
Erol James... Drums/percussion
Larry Edwards congas
Shirley Hamilton ......Flute
This composition was a favorite during its time when it was performed
"Live.
copyrights: 1999

Savannah Winds (1999) vintage series

piano - asgore's theme

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Special Note: Boise Bernard Queen will be appearing in a solo piano recital Feb. 20,2015 at the Harold Washington Library ,Pritsker Auditorium at 12:00 noon 400 S. State St,
Chicago,IL.
Composers Note:
Here is a piano solo version of "Once I had a Secret Love" This piece was inspired by singing legend "Debbie Reynolds" when i first heard it back in the 1950's when I was just a kid and heard it on my mom's radio as she played it and other great mid 20th century pop songs when I'd bicycle home from school to lunch everyday.
Its great songs like these that are kept alive through cherished memories as well as occasional performance that many youth of today have missed out on as to the historic importance of positive memorabilia of the past as a worthwhile extention of ourselves.

Once I Had A Secret Love

Special Note: Boise Bernard Queen will be appearing in a solo piano recital Feb. 20,2015 at the Harold Washington Library ,Pritsker Auditorium at 12:00 noon  400 S. State St,
Chicago,IL.
A wish in a life and time. An original composition which is the soundtrack to Boise's original song "Once Upon A Child of Time" This track can also be found on Boise's latest CD: "Piano Rapture's".
We welcome your visit to Boise's website for a more complete audio and video sampling of his compositions @ www.BoiseQueen.com

Song Lyrics: "Once Upon A Child of Time"
Once upon a child of Time
A boy with a sweet and gentle smile..
Had his daddy’s looks and his mother’s 
eyes..that seemed to shine
Once upon this child of Time saw day’s
Giving happy joys of life..through   trees
And streams..his world was fields of 
Green ..blue sky and sea
(*)
Through years his shining heart grew cold
And bitter..a lifetime of troubles..deep 
Lost dreams had shed its glitter..he found
Himself no peace nor love to go on living
The world was wrong..except in a psalm

Once..he’d face his hardest time making up his mind at a five n’ dime..as he’d reminisce on that …first love’s kiss meant just for two
And memories yet…about that little pet..where love and trust …meant getting wet..and sleeping nights against a furry friend…that likes your nose

(repeat  from)  (*)
He found himself a sweet-glad-happy psalm..that  he could sing and play throughout the dawn..He found himself a sweet glad-happy-psalm that he could sing and play and undo all that wrong
Tho’ life has tapped your golden years as your heart has weathered many storms of tears..with a psalm that’s right ..to  set lost dreams in sight ..you  truly are free..

For if there were no such CHILD OF Time
Life would make us pay a most tragic price
For …to find his gentle smile is what we go through Life to see…IN ONE MOMENT OF

********PEACE********


A wish in a Life and Time

Special Note of Interest:
This work is scheduled to have limited access in 2016.
It will be available on Apple I-tunes. During the transition period streaming will only be available "privately" sometime in either February or March of 2016.
Please visit: 
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 Although the "download"option is welcomed you'll discover that the actual CD itself has much more "dynamics" inherent in the music that you'll enjoy even more. (just click the 'buy' option to view CD gift packaging and details)
His website features more contemporary including jazz compositions and video recordings of his works.
Composers Note:
This is Boise's most celebrated and recent qriginal work.  Rhapsody for Classic Film for Piano and Orchestra.  This work was originally conceived in 1973 as a short work for solo piano.
It was inspired by the 1954 romantic film classic : Rhapsody" starring the late great Elizabeth Taylor and Vittorio Gassman.  The work underwent numerous bouts of revisions since then and in 2001 after the untimely death of Boise's wife after a long illness ; the work was abandoned .
It wasn't until recently in late 2010 when Boise was undergoing treatment for cancer that a friend and colleague discovered an old and badly worn tape cassette of the "unfinished" piano and orchestra version of the work and urged Boise to finish it. 

As part of his daily "regimen of personal therapy" in keeping his mind and body in shape that was slowly deteriorating to the side effects of the cancer treatment;  Boise undertook the final revisions of the rhapsody which is credited to having played a significant role in saving his life.
Throughout the pain,the weight loss,the sickness and the mental impairment Boise went to work from Jan.27 to March 30,2011 feverishly working on the piano and orchestration needed to finish a work that was started some thirty eight years ago.
Upon Boise's successful recovery and return home in April,2011; Rhapsody for Classic Film was completed and with Boise at the piano; its debut performance given that following July 10,2011 at Steiner Pavilion
in Waukegan, IL.  This was a tribute concert to Mark McCloud ,co-owner of Family Piano Co. who had recently passed away.
The CD recording was done on August 28,2011 at  Family Piano performance arena in Waukegan, involving members of the "Green Town" Orchestra and AFS Digital Media Services.
The recording was done using a blend of both acoustic and digital instrumentation .
The piano used by Boise Queen was a newly purchased $ 100,000 "Sauter" Concert Grand piano.

This work presented in memory to the children at "Newtown Conn" and also most recently to the victims and the families of the "Boston Marathon" tradgedy.




Rhapsody for Classic Film for piano and Orchestra

I'm composing and producing an album titled "Clairvoyant: Music inspired by video games". For me, video games are the most inspiring medium of my generation. This album will be my own musical interpretation of a number of games and franchises that inspired me. 

Each track will be titled based on the game that inspired it. This one in particular is a homage to SciFi action games, which will be named once the full list of tracks is available.

This is a preview of things to come for this album, enjoy!


Composed and produced by Sami Matar
Performed by the Birdman Shepard Orchestra

Sami Matar - ClairVoyant (Orchestral Live)

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Next "live"piano performance at Univ.of Chicago 5700 S. Maryland ave.
Chicago,IL. Center for Cancer Discovery bldg. 7th flr. Skylobby
Date:  (January 2nd & January 9th 2020), 1:00pm-2:00pm 
As a cancer survivor; Mr Queen is often heard "live" in solo piano performance as a "volunteer"
at the University of Chicago Medicine's "Healing Arts "program on the first two thursdays monthly at 1:00pm. The performance is used as a "therapeutic tool", designed to benefit cancer patients and their families.
The complete address is: University of Chicago hosp. Center for Care and Discovery bldg. 5700 S. Maryland ave. Chicago,IL. 7th flr. Skylobby.

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ABOUT THE PIANIST/COMPOSER:
Mr. Boise Bernard Queen is almost 100% self-taught as a composer/pianist.
Having studied privately in his early years on piano; he was a 2nd year student at what was formerly the Chicago School of Music from 1962-1964.
He attended for a short time; the Chicago Conservatory of Music but then embarked mostly on his own from 1965- 1978. It was during this period of time that he began to focus his attention
more to studying contemporary and classical composers primarily in the'post-romantic' period through to present day.
Boise took a very strong interest in "film music" thus composing several short works for both solo piano and small orchestra.
One of his most popular was his " Seven Day's in May" (1973); which later became the principle theme to his Concerto for Piano and Orch in
C-sharp minor. Having received very little else in formal training in either orchestration or piano pedagogy; Boise studied the creative works of master composers
of both European and American decent.Along with that he studied many of the compositions of both European and American born Afro-Americans from folk songs to
some of the most pensively beautiful works for both the piano and orchestra involving symphonies,concerto's and choral works dating as back as the 16th century.
Boise has developed a remarkable improvisation ability ,not  only with familiar jazz and pop standards but also with
contemporary and classically themed film scores.

Once I Had A Secret Love

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