Museum Music has just released a new CD (MM141) featuring Haskell Small as both composer and performer.

Commissioned by The Phillips Collection of Washington, D.C., this one-of-a-kind CD features Renoir's Feast - Haskell's musical celebration of Renoir's Luncheon of the Boating Party. This wonderful new work is being premiered by the composer on April 16 at The Phillips Collection (http://www.phillipscollection.org/). Drawing inspiration from the Renoir masterpiece, he has crafted a series of beautiful and moving piano sketches that flow from a river theme. The CD also contains his dramatic new recording of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition for solo piano. Visit Museum Music online at http://www.museummusic.com/.

This will join 4Tay Records release of Haskell's superb performance of J.S. Bach's The Goldberg Variations and his own 25 Preludes (which is, in part, structurally modeled after The Goldberg Variations) in the discography. The catalog number is 4Tay CD4028.

Previous 4Tay issues include Haskell's critically acclaimed CD The Twisted Pine Branch. For more information about these 4Tay disks, please visit http://www.classicalcds.net.

February 27 - A very special preview performance of sections of Renoir's Feast at the home of the American Ambassador in Paris. This trip also included several recitals at the Paris Conservatoire, including the Gabriel Faure and Jean Phillipe Rameau branches.

Oh, and Haskell also reports eating a lot of good food.

April 16 - Of course, this is the aforementioned World Premiere of his complete Renoir's Feast at The Phillips Collection of Washington, D.C.

April 30 - Haskell Small in concert at Westmoreland Church in Bethesda/Chevy Chase Maryland, again performing Renoir's Feast and Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition.

November 13 - Renowned young pianist Soheil Nasseri will perform Renoir's Feast and other works at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall in New York. Visit Mr. Nasseri online at (http://www.soheilnasseri.com/).

Schedule permitting, Haskell will be traveling with a group of American soloists for concerts this coming November in Wroclaw and Poznan, Poland.

You can read Lisztian Sparkle, a marvelous interview with the composer in England's Music & Vision daily classical music webmagazine.

For more information about Haskell Small, including a bio, list of compositions, piano performances and more, visit http://www.jamesarts.com/h-small/. You can also contact Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at 516-586-3433 or jamesarts@worldnet.att.net.