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Violin and Clarinet

Haskell Small, piano

Musica Callada

 

Saturday, October 5, 2013

8:00 PM 

 

Haskell Small

 

 Free

(donations welcome)

 

Westmoreland Congregational

UCC Church

1 Westmoreland Cir.

Bethesda, MD 20816

Directions

 

  

Program

Musica Callada (Voices of Silence)...Federico Mompou

 

Brief readings and commentary on 16th century

Spanish mystic San Juan de la Cruz

Rev. Timothy B. Tutt, Senior Minister

Westmoreland Congregational United Church of Christ

 

 This concert is a unique experience in quietude, performed without intermission: approximately 1 hour, 22 minutes.  

 

Listen to an excerpt of Small's recording of Musica Callada 

 

Post-concert wine and conversation

 

Haskell Small will perform the complete Musica Callada, by Catalan Spanish composer Federico Mompou. This delicate set of 28 miniatures was composed between 1959 and 1967. Rarely performed, the work carries the listener through a serene musical journey in quietude peppered with moments of explosive contrast. The title of this set of pieces refers to a poem by the Spanish mystic St. John of the Cross, who expressed the idea of music as the voice of silence. While touring the US, Small will perform this work in diverse venues including monasteries, churches and other sites conducive to a contemplative experience.

 

Hailed by England's Musical Times for his "dazzlingly prodigious technique," Small has concertized with great success in major European capitals, South America, Japan and China, and has been enthusiastically received by American audiences in such venues as Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, and the Spoleto Festival. He recently participated in an American Music Festival in Iceland. A prize winner in the Johann Sebastian Bach International Piano Competition, Small has received numerous awards and has been featured in the nationally broadcast PBS special, "A Celebration of the Piano."  A Washington DC native, he is Chair of the Piano Department at the Washington Conservatory of Music.

 

  
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