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Haskell Small's Fantasy of the Red-Eyed Creature Performed by The Mousai and Friends on April 19 in Portland, Oregon
For Immediate Release
Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
516-586-3433 or jamesarts@att.net
New York, NY - Haskell Small's Fantasy of the Red-Eyed Creature will be performed by The Mousai and Friends on Sunday, April 19 - 2:00 PM at First Presbyterian Church, 1200 SW Alder in Portland, Oregon. The concert is sponsored by Celebration Works.
This will be the premiere of the composer's chamber arrangement of the piece. Fantasy of the Red- eyed Creature is a musical short story for piano and narrator about the summer adventures of three children on a family camping trip along the shores of the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia, which has the highest, most powerful tides in the world. Originally created by a third grade classroom collaborating with Haskell Small and performed by the Mount Vernon Orchestra as part of an American Composers' Forum grant, the piece has also been transcribed by Mr. Small for solo piano, with further story development by his wife, Betsy Small. Mr. Small is The Mousai's featured composer for 2015. More about the piece at http://www.haskellsmall.com/compositions/2001/fantasy-of-the-red-eyed-creature.
The Mousai and Friends performers will be flutist Janet Bebb, oboist Ann van Bever, clarinetist Chris Cox, and pianist Maria Choban, along with Florian Conzetti, percussion, Mike Curtis, bassoon, Betsy Goy, cello, Leander Star, horn, John Vergin, narrator and Jennifer Woodall, bass clarinet.
Other works on the Tell Me A Story program include Mladi, Leos Janacek's musical story of growing up in Moravia and King Lear, Vincent Persichetti's setting of the Shakespeare tragedy, as well as Mexican Fantasies by Mike Curtis. Visit The Mousai at http://themousai.net/The_Muses/classical_trio.html.
Tickets are adults $15 and seniors/students $10. For more information, call 503-228-7331 or visit http://www.allclassical.org/event/celebration-works-the-mousai-tell-me-a-story/.
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 Marin Ballet Dance Score Competition. He has recorded for Naxos, MSR Classics, Museum Music, Orion, Northeastern, Ongaku, Centaur, 4Tay, Albany and Klavier. In recent seasons, Mr. Small has made several tours of Japan and Germany and performed piano recitals in New York, Paris and London. Recently, Mr. Small presented his Journeys in Silence tour, featuring music that is primarily quiet, spacious, and of a mystical nature with a series of concerts in cities across the U.S., Washington, New York, San Francisco, Seattle and at Houston's Rothko Chapel, as well as throughout Spain and Germany. You can see his videos on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/user/haskellsmall.
For more information about Haskell Small, visit http://www.haskellsmall.com/ or contact Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at 516-586-3433 or jamesarts@att.net.
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Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
516-586-3433 or jamesarts@att.net
New York, NY - Haskell Small's Fantasy of the Red-Eyed Creature will be performed by The Mousai and Friends on Sunday, April 19 - 2:00 PM at First Presbyterian Church, 1200 SW Alder in Portland, Oregon. The concert is sponsored by Celebration Works.
This will be the premiere of the composer's chamber arrangement of the piece. Fantasy of the Red- eyed Creature is a musical short story for piano and narrator about the summer adventures of three children on a family camping trip along the shores of the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia, which has the highest, most powerful tides in the world. Originally created by a third grade classroom collaborating with Haskell Small and performed by the Mount Vernon Orchestra as part of an American Composers' Forum grant, the piece has also been transcribed by Mr. Small for solo piano, with further story development by his wife, Betsy Small. Mr. Small is The Mousai's featured composer for 2015. More about the piece at http://www.haskellsmall.com/compositions/2001/fantasy-of-the-red-eyed-creature.
The Mousai and Friends performers will be flutist Janet Bebb, oboist Ann van Bever, clarinetist Chris Cox, and pianist Maria Choban, along with Florian Conzetti, percussion, Mike Curtis, bassoon, Betsy Goy, cello, Leander Star, horn, John Vergin, narrator and Jennifer Woodall, bass clarinet.
Other works on the Tell Me A Story program include Mladi, Leos Janacek's musical story of growing up in Moravia and King Lear, Vincent Persichetti's setting of the Shakespeare tragedy, as well as Mexican Fantasies by Mike Curtis. Visit The Mousai at http://themousai.net/The_Muses/classical_trio.html.
Tickets are adults $15 and seniors/students $10. For more information, call 503-228-7331 or visit http://www.allclassical.org/event/celebration-works-the-mousai-tell-me-a-story/.
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 Marin Ballet Dance Score Competition. He has recorded for Naxos, MSR Classics, Museum Music, Orion, Northeastern, Ongaku, Centaur, 4Tay, Albany and Klavier. In recent seasons, Mr. Small has made several tours of Japan and Germany and performed piano recitals in New York, Paris and London. Recently, Mr. Small presented his Journeys in Silence tour, featuring music that is primarily quiet, spacious, and of a mystical nature with a series of concerts in cities across the U.S., Washington, New York, San Francisco, Seattle and at Houston's Rothko Chapel, as well as throughout Spain and Germany. You can see his videos on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/user/haskellsmall.
For more information about Haskell Small, visit http://www.haskellsmall.com/ or contact Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at 516-586-3433 or jamesarts@att.net.
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