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Go Spotting: Haskell Small's "The Rothko Room"

Go is referenced prominently in the liner notes for Haskell Small's new CD, The Rothko Room: Journeys In Silence, beginning with a quote from Iwamoto Kaoru: "Go uses the most elemental materials and concepts — line and circle, wood and stone, black and white — combining them with simple rules to generate subtle strategies and complex tactics that stagger the imagination." "Meditations on silence and space are as structurally important to the creative life of Haskell Small as are the grids on his beloved Go board," the liner notes continue. "And, just as with that ancient and revered “game” (using that word advisedly), vast complexity arises." An accomplished pianist and composer, Small is a longtime go player and organizer in Washington DC.