Czech composer Miroslav Srnka at the Phillips Collection
If you want people to listen, don't shout; whisper. That might be the thinking behind the music of Miroslav Srnka, a young Czech composer who appeared at the Phillips Collection with the Fama Quartet on Thursday night to open the gallery's Leading European Composers series.
Srnka presented three of his recent chamber works for strings, intriguing pieces that explored a sound world of spare, often rough textures and fragile sonorities — and rarely rose above a delicate pianissimo. The evening opened with "Tree of Heaven," a single-movement string trio from 2010. Named after the tenacious Chinese plant, it opened with a sudden, brutal chord but quickly quieted into a landscape of scratches, insistent tremolos, microtonal slides and other evocative sounds, often at the edge of audibility.
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