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New Chamber Music of Haskell Small Featured in Boston-Area Performances of Musica Aperta’s The Interior Castle on May 29, 30 and 31
For Immediate Release
Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
516-586-3433 or jamesarts@att.net
New York, NY – Two new works by composer Haskell Small, The Golden Spear and Silent Prayer, both for 2 violins, 2 cellos and clarinet, will be included in The Interior Castle, a mixed-media theater production by Musica Aperta to be presented on Friday, May 29 at St. Ignatius Church of Boston College, 28 Commonwealth Avenue in Chestnut Hill, Saturday, May 30 at the Carmelite Monastery of Boston, 61 Mt. Pleasant Avenue in Roxbury and Sunday May 31, St. Theresa of Avila Parish, 2078 Centre Street in West Roxbury, Massachusetts.
The composer writes about The Golden Spear and Silent Prayer, “When (Music and Artistic Director) Ignacio Alcover first mentioned to me his upcoming production of the "Interior Castle", a theater piece celebrating the 500th anniversary of the birth of St. Teresa of Avila, my ears perked up. I had only recently returned from Spain where I performed Mompou's Musica Callada, a work inspired by writings of St. John of the Cross, in several churches and monasteries…The two works I wrote, The Golden Spear and Silent Prayer, are thematically and spiritually related. Taking its name from the angel carrying a fire-tipped spear depicted in the incandescent sculpture by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, The Ecstasy of St. Teresa, my first piece attempts to musically portray the dynamic energy alongside the sublime spirit of Teresa, the reformer and mystic. The music features sections of structured improvisation, a mode of music-making that both Nacho and I value for its immediacy. Silent Prayer recalls the lyric ideas of The Golden Spear, punctuated by its energetic motif, but both now much slower and more searching. With this music I seek to express the awe that can be felt in the "Prayer of Quiet", a prayer infused with a supernatural origin as described by Teresa and first introduced in the fourth mansions of her treatise, as the soul becomes increasingly closer to the center of the castle.”
Performers will be violinists Sonya Chung and Chaerim Smith, cellists Ignacio Alcover and Tobias Wernern and clarinetist Bobby Read. The production also includes music by Tomas Luis de Victoria, Brahms, Federico Mompou, Messiaen, Fred Karns and Patrick Defossez. Read more about it at http://www.musicaaperta.org/the-interior-castle.html.
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 – Two new works by composer Haskell Small, The Golden Spear and Silent Prayer, both for 2 violins, 2 cellos and clarinet, will be included in The Interior Castle, a mixed-media theater production by Musica Aperta to be presented on Friday, May 29 at St. Ignatius Church of Boston College, 28 Commonwealth Avenue in Chestnut Hill, Saturday, May 30 at the Carmelite Monastery of Boston, 61 Mt. Pleasant Avenue in Roxbury and Sunday May 31, St. Theresa of Avila Parish, 2078 Centre Street in West Roxbury, Massachusetts.
The composer writes about The Golden Spear and Silent Prayer, “When (Music and Artistic Director) Ignacio Alcover first mentioned to me his upcoming production of the "Interior Castle", a theater piece celebrating the 500th anniversary of the birth of St. Teresa of Avila, my ears perked up. I had only recently returned from Spain where I performed Mompou's Musica Callada, a work inspired by writings of St. John of the Cross, in several churches and monasteries…The two works I wrote, The Golden Spear and Silent Prayer, are thematically and spiritually related. Taking its name from the angel carrying a fire-tipped spear depicted in the incandescent sculpture by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, The Ecstasy of St. Teresa, my first piece attempts to musically portray the dynamic energy alongside the sublime spirit of Teresa, the reformer and mystic. The music features sections of structured improvisation, a mode of music-making that both Nacho and I value for its immediacy. Silent Prayer recalls the lyric ideas of The Golden Spear, punctuated by its energetic motif, but both now much slower and more searching. With this music I seek to express the awe that can be felt in the "Prayer of Quiet", a prayer infused with a supernatural origin as described by Teresa and first introduced in the fourth mansions of her treatise, as the soul becomes increasingly closer to the center of the castle.”
Performers will be violinists Sonya Chung and Chaerim Smith, cellists Ignacio Alcover and Tobias Wernern and clarinetist Bobby Read. The production also includes music by Tomas Luis de Victoria, Brahms, Federico Mompou, Messiaen, Fred Karns and Patrick Defossez. Read more about it at http://www.musicaaperta.org/the-interior-castle.html.
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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