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Emerson Quartet Performs Lawrence Dillon’s String Quartet No. 5 on April 25
For Immediate Release
Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
516-586-3433 or jamesarts@att.net
Lawrence Dillon’s String Quartet No. 5: Through the Night, will be performed by the internationally renowned Emerson Quartet on Sunday, April 25 – 6:00 PM at Baird Auditorium of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History, 10th & Constitution Avenue, NW in Washington, DC. The program, presented by the Smithsonian Resident Associate Program, will also include works by Barber and Beethoven.
From the Invisible Cities String Quartet Cycle, String Quartet No. 5 combines elements of chaconne, passacaglia and theme-and-variations. The piece takes the Welsh tune All Through the Night through, as the composer writes, “a dizzying and dazzling journey from twilight to twilight.” The movements are Twilight – Variations; Dream – Chaconne; Dream – Passacaglia and Variations – Twilight. The piece was commissioned by the Emerson String Quartet and an anonymous donor in honor of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. More about the Invisible Cities Cycle at http://www.lawrencedillon.com/invisible.php. Future Emerson performances of Quartet No. 5 are scheduled for State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Tickets for the April 25 concert are $51 for members /$46 for senior members and $63 general admission. For more information, call 202-633-3030 or visit http://residentassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/reserve.aspx?performanceNumber=218093.
The Emerson String Quartet has an unparalleled list of international performances and achievements over three decades: thirty acclaimed recordings produced with Deutsche Grammophon since 1987, nine Grammy Awards (including two for Best Classical Album), three Gramophone Awards, the Avery Fisher Prize and cycles of the complete Beethoven, Bartók, Mendelssohn and Shostakovich string quartets. Visit them at http://www.emersonquartet.com/.
Lawrence Dillon is Composer in Residence at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and currently has commissions from the Mansfield Symphony, the Boise Philharmonic, the Salt Lake City Symphony, the Daedalus String Quartet, the University of Utah Philharmonia and the Idyllwild Symphony Orchestra. He has won awards from ASCAP, the Juilliard School, the Ravinia Festival, the International Horn Society, the American Music Center, CRS and many other organizations. His music is published by American Composers Editions. Read his latest Infinite Curves newsletter at http://www.jamesarts.com/releases/april10/LD_nws_040610.pdf and his Sequenza 21 blog An Infinite Number of Curves at http://www.sequenza21.com/dillon. Lawrence Dillon’s music is published by American Composers Alliance. His latest digital CD release is on the Naxos label - http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.559644. Visit his website at http://www.lawrencedillon.com/.
He is represented by Jeffrey James Arts Consulting - 516-586-3433 - to whom inquiries about his music can be directed.
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Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
516-586-3433 or jamesarts@att.net
Lawrence Dillon’s String Quartet No. 5: Through the Night, will be performed by the internationally renowned Emerson Quartet on Sunday, April 25 – 6:00 PM at Baird Auditorium of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History, 10th & Constitution Avenue, NW in Washington, DC. The program, presented by the Smithsonian Resident Associate Program, will also include works by Barber and Beethoven.
From the Invisible Cities String Quartet Cycle, String Quartet No. 5 combines elements of chaconne, passacaglia and theme-and-variations. The piece takes the Welsh tune All Through the Night through, as the composer writes, “a dizzying and dazzling journey from twilight to twilight.” The movements are Twilight – Variations; Dream – Chaconne; Dream – Passacaglia and Variations – Twilight. The piece was commissioned by the Emerson String Quartet and an anonymous donor in honor of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. More about the Invisible Cities Cycle at http://www.lawrencedillon.com/invisible.php. Future Emerson performances of Quartet No. 5 are scheduled for State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Tickets for the April 25 concert are $51 for members /$46 for senior members and $63 general admission. For more information, call 202-633-3030 or visit http://residentassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/reserve.aspx?performanceNumber=218093.
The Emerson String Quartet has an unparalleled list of international performances and achievements over three decades: thirty acclaimed recordings produced with Deutsche Grammophon since 1987, nine Grammy Awards (including two for Best Classical Album), three Gramophone Awards, the Avery Fisher Prize and cycles of the complete Beethoven, Bartók, Mendelssohn and Shostakovich string quartets. Visit them at http://www.emersonquartet.com/.
Lawrence Dillon is Composer in Residence at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and currently has commissions from the Mansfield Symphony, the Boise Philharmonic, the Salt Lake City Symphony, the Daedalus String Quartet, the University of Utah Philharmonia and the Idyllwild Symphony Orchestra. He has won awards from ASCAP, the Juilliard School, the Ravinia Festival, the International Horn Society, the American Music Center, CRS and many other organizations. His music is published by American Composers Editions. Read his latest Infinite Curves newsletter at http://www.jamesarts.com/releases/april10/LD_nws_040610.pdf and his Sequenza 21 blog An Infinite Number of Curves at http://www.sequenza21.com/dillon. Lawrence Dillon’s music is published by American Composers Alliance. His latest digital CD release is on the Naxos label - http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.559644. Visit his website at http://www.lawrencedillon.com/.
He is represented by Jeffrey James Arts Consulting - 516-586-3433 - to whom inquiries about his music can be directed.
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