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The Piano Palooza! is just four days away. It's a fun not-to-be-missed night of music and merriment - music for four, six or eight hands on ONE piano, and terrific silent auction items, too! RSVP now to ensure your seat. 

Musically Yours,
Kathy Judd
Artistic & Executive Director

 

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Piano Palooza!
An Evening of Music and Merriment
8 faculty of Washington Conservatory play music for 4, 6 and 8 hands - on ONE piano. 

Saturday, May 9, 2015  
    

Reception and Silent Auction* at 7 pm

Performance at 8 pm

 

Performances by 

Michael Adcock, Bradford Gowen, Maribeth Gowen, Anastasia Ivanova, Dionne Laufman, 

Sana Lebedev, Jaewon Lee, Jeffery Watson

 

 

Program

 

*Silent Auction Items Include

Private Wine tasting for 20 - 8 Course Southern Italian Dinner for 6 with wine pairings - prepared by the personal chef to the Cardinal of DC, served at the home of the WCM Board Chair ~ 4 tickets to a Washington Nationals Game, in section 129 ~ Spring House Cleaning ~ Concert in your home by pianist, Edvinas Minkstimas ~ South African whiskey ~ one of a kind jewelry ~ Original art and photography ~ Mother's Day and gift baskets ~ gift certificates to gourmet market, area restaurants, children's theaters, bookstore, lessons, classes, plus concert tickets, books, and much, much more
 

 

Rothenberg Hall at PianoCraft 

(Exit 10 from Route 270)

211 Perry Parkway, 

Gaithersburg Maryland 20877

         
Suggested Donation $35.00

All proceeds benefit the Washington Conservatory.

LIMITED SEATING. RSVP REQUIRED. 
301.840.5462
 

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Haskell Small, piano

 Robert Aubry Davis, Narrator

Haskell Small

Saturday 
May 16, 2015 
8:00 PM
Free (donations welcome)


Westmoreland Church
1 Westmoreland Circle 
Bethesda, MD 20816
 



 

Haskell Small, a pianist and composer well-known for his innovative programming, will present the world premiere of his most recent composition, A Journey In Silence: Reflections on The Book of Hours, coupled with Partita No. 6 in E minor by J. S. Bach.


 

A Journey in Silence: Reflections on The Book of Hours is the third composition in a series of contemplative works by Haskell Small that encapsulate his fascination with music that is primarily quiet, spacious and of a mystical nature. Small explains "I am drawn to the idea of playing as quietly as I can - as quiet as humanly possible on the piano -  to seek the edge of sound as it borders on silence, while searching for the silence within."  This composition is inspired by The Book of Hours, a devotional book of the Middle Ages. Performed in one continuous movement, the sections are titled: Introduction, Vigils, Lauds-Prime, Terce, Sext, None, Vespers, Compline and The Great Silence.  Interspersed between the sections of the music will be reflective writings and poetry read by television and radio personality Robert Aubry Davis, producer and host of Millennium of Music, heard on public radio stations nationwide, and a frequent lecturer and arts commentator.

Following in the tradition of 18th- and 19th-century pianist/composers, Small often performs his own works. Hailed by England's Musical Times for his "dazzlingly prodigious technique" and praised for his "rich imagination" 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." 

Small has received notable commissions as a composer including a request from The Phillips Collection to compose a work to celebrate the return of their beloved Renoir painting, Luncheon of the Boating Party, in 2005.   His The Rothko Room: Journeys in Silence received its world premiere at the Phillips Collection in 2011.  Formerly Composer in Residence with the Mount Vernon Orchestra he produced three orchestral works.  The noted pianist Soheil Nasseri commissioned Small to compose Lullaby of War, a setting of six war poems, which has since been performed in New York, Washington, cities in Germany and Poland, and was released on Naxos Records.

Small has recorded a number of CDs, among them Mompou's Musica Callada (declared "A Golden Silence" by the Washington Post), a Gershwin disc, a children's CD with narrator Robert Aubry Davis, and Bach's Goldberg Variations.

Small received his musical training at the San Francisco Conservatory and Carnegie-Mellon University, and has studied piano with Leon Fleisher, William Masselos, Harry Franklin, and Jeanne Behrend, and composition with Roland Leich and Vincent Persichetti.  A Washington DC native, he is Chair of the Piano Department at the Washington Conservatory of Music.

More information:

301-320-2770 or online


 

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Piano, Plus!  

FREE (donations welcome)
Westmoreland Congregational Church
1 Westmoreland Circle, Bethesda, MD 20816
                                                    

 
Michael Adcock, piano
Friday June 5 at 7:30 pm
Orchestra in a Piano: The Art of Transcription  

Michael Adcock

  

Program subject to change.
  
For more information:
301-320-2770 or www.washingtonconservatory.org  
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2014/15 ISSUE 89

The Week @ WCM

 

Piano Palooza! 

Music for 4, 6 & 8 Hands!

Sat., May 9

WCM @ PianoCraft

Gaithersburg, MD

$35 Suggested Donation


Open Rehearsals with QuinTango

Wed., May 13

WCM @ Glen Echo Park

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