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By LOU HATTER
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
The exploration of the creative muse continues this Sunday evening when the Ki Theatre presents the second in “The Exchange” series at Washington’s Town Hall.
Designed as an combination of performance and dialogue, “The Exchange” hopes to emphasize the interactive natilre of art, according to Ki Theatre’s Julie Portman. It began last month with a reading by blacksmith and writer Nol Putnam, and continues with three local composers.
Carl Coon, Lorraine Duisit and Richard Squires represent three “really distinct flavors” in their style and approach to music, Ms. Portman said.
Mr. Coon is a former career Foreign Service officer who returned to his early interest in music after his retirement. His first studies in classical music date to 1946. While posted in Germany with the U.S. Army, he studied with Albert Barkhausen.
After his discharge, he attended Harvard University, where he majored in music and studied with composer Irving Fine. “I found Fine’s sense of what music was all about to be less satisfying than Barkhausen’s, and anyway I decided to get married and embark on a diplomatic career,” Mr. Coon said. “So I turned my back on music, except for listening, and became a Foreign Service Officer, for the next 37 years.”
A self-described “virtuoso on the phonograph — I’ve been playing that all my life,” Mr. Coon credits the reemergence of his interest in music at least partly to the computer. The electronic synthesizer, he explained, allows him to play back his compositions without the aid of musicians. “It’s not the same as a
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