March 13, 2008
For Immediate Release
Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
(516) 586-3433 or [log in to unmask]

Washington DC Premiere of Lullaby of War by Haskell Small on March 15

New York, NY - The Washington, D.C.  Premiere of composer Haskell Small's
Lullaby of War will be given by the composer on piano and narrators
Brigadier General W.  Leon Goodson, USAF (Retired) and Maryn Goodson on
Saturday, March 15 - 8 PM at Westmoreland Congregational UCC Church, 1
Westmoreland Circle in Bethesda, Maryland.

The composer has written of the new work, 'Lullaby of War is a setting
of 6 war poems for piano and narrator.  Its tone (the music and texts)
is sardonic, with 2 seemingly opposite meanings implied.  First, that
we are still lulled into war despite the supposed development of 'humanity'-
this is definitively a piece against war. And second, the piece offers
solace- a lullaby- in the form of the prayer sections that open the piece
and interconnect the texts.'

Mr.  Small will also perform Sonata in G Major, D.  894 by Franz Schubert.

This concert is free and open to the public.  Donations will be accepted
at the door.  For more about this concert, please visit
http://www.washingtonconservatory.org/.

Following in the tradition of 18th and 19th century pianist/composers,
Haskell Small is an accomplished composer as well as pianist.  He has
received commissions from such organizations as the Phillips Collection,
Washington Performing Arts Society, Three Rivers Piano Competition,
Washington Metropolitan Philharmonic, Georgetown Symphony and Paul Hill
Chorale, and he was the winner of the 1999 Marin Ballet Dance Score
Competition.  His music has been recorded for Museum Music, Orion,
Northeastern, Ongaku, Centaur, 4Tay, Albany and Klavier.  In recent
seasons, Mr.  Small has made several tours of Japan and performed piano
recitals in New York, Paris and London.  You can read Lisztian Sparkle,
a marvelous interview with the pianist/composer in England's Music &
Vision classical music webmagazine at
http://www.mvdaily.com/articles/2002/05/small1.htm.

For more information about Haskell Small, visit him at his website -
http://www.jamesarts.com/h-small/, or contact Jeffrey James Arts
Consulting at 516-586-3433 or [log in to unmask]

Jeffrey James Arts Consulting

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