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The Washington International Piano Arts Council will present the second Washington, D.C. performance of composer Haskell Small’s Lullaby of War on Saturday, April 5, 2008 – 1:30 PM at The Anderson House, 2118 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. in Washington, D.C.

The performance, part of The Anderson House 2008 Spring Piano Concert Series, will be given by the composer on piano and narrator/Embassy Series Director Jerome Barry. Mr. Small will also perform Sonata in G Major, D. 894 by Franz Schubert.

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.”

This concert is free and open to the public. For more about this concert, please visit Washington International Piano Arts Council at http://www.wipac.org/.

For more information about Haskell Small, visit him at his website, http://www.jamesarts.com/h-small/.

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