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World Premiere of Part One of Lawrence Dillon’s Schumann Trilogy
For Immediate Release
Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
516-586-3433 or jamesarts@att.net
Figments and Fragments, Part One of Lawrence Dillon’s Schumann Trilogy will be given its World Premiere performances by the Idyllwild Arts Academy Orchestra, Peter Askim, Music Director on Saturday, May 8 – 7:30 PM at the IAF Theater of the Idyllwild Arts Academy, 52500 Temecula Drive in Idyllwid and Sunday, May 9 – 5 PM at REDCAT, Disney Concert Hall, 631 West 2nd Street in Los Angeles, California. Other composers on these Richard P. Wilson New Music Concerts are Vijay Iyer, Pierre Jalbert, Peter Askim (who is also composer in residence) and Aaron Jay Kernis.
Commissioned by the Idyllwild Arts Academy Orchestra, the Boise Philharmonic, the Salt Lake Symphony, the Mansfield (OH) Symphony, and the University of Utah, Part One of Lawrence Dillon’s Schumann Trilogy is an orchestral fantasy on the enigmatic figure of Robert Schumann – a brilliantly gifted composer and writer who ascended to the pinnacle of the music world, only to end his days in an insane asylum. The work starts with a favorite form of Schumann’s – a set of linked character pieces –gradually allowing the cracks between the pieces to expand and overwhelm the narrative. The piece ends with an evocation of the composer’s final paralysis. More about the Trilogy at http://www.lawrencedillon.com/schumann-trilogy.php.
The May 8 Idyllwild concert is free and open to the public. For more about this concert, visit http://www.idyllwildarts.org/newmusic.html. For more about Idyllwild Arts, visit http://www.idyllwildarts.org/.
Tickets for the May 9 REDCAT concert are Adults $25, Students/Seniors $10 and are available at 213-237-2800 or http://www.redcat.org/ticket-information.
Lawrence Dillon is Composer in Residence at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and currently has commissions from the Emerson String Quartet, 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 (where he was the youngest composer to earn a doctorate, subsequently joining the faculty), 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 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. 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
Figments and Fragments, Part One of Lawrence Dillon’s Schumann Trilogy will be given its World Premiere performances by the Idyllwild Arts Academy Orchestra, Peter Askim, Music Director on Saturday, May 8 – 7:30 PM at the IAF Theater of the Idyllwild Arts Academy, 52500 Temecula Drive in Idyllwid and Sunday, May 9 – 5 PM at REDCAT, Disney Concert Hall, 631 West 2nd Street in Los Angeles, California. Other composers on these Richard P. Wilson New Music Concerts are Vijay Iyer, Pierre Jalbert, Peter Askim (who is also composer in residence) and Aaron Jay Kernis.
Commissioned by the Idyllwild Arts Academy Orchestra, the Boise Philharmonic, the Salt Lake Symphony, the Mansfield (OH) Symphony, and the University of Utah, Part One of Lawrence Dillon’s Schumann Trilogy is an orchestral fantasy on the enigmatic figure of Robert Schumann – a brilliantly gifted composer and writer who ascended to the pinnacle of the music world, only to end his days in an insane asylum. The work starts with a favorite form of Schumann’s – a set of linked character pieces –gradually allowing the cracks between the pieces to expand and overwhelm the narrative. The piece ends with an evocation of the composer’s final paralysis. More about the Trilogy at http://www.lawrencedillon.com/schumann-trilogy.php.
The May 8 Idyllwild concert is free and open to the public. For more about this concert, visit http://www.idyllwildarts.org/newmusic.html. For more about Idyllwild Arts, visit http://www.idyllwildarts.org/.
Tickets for the May 9 REDCAT concert are Adults $25, Students/Seniors $10 and are available at 213-237-2800 or http://www.redcat.org/ticket-information.
Lawrence Dillon is Composer in Residence at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and currently has commissions from the Emerson String Quartet, 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 (where he was the youngest composer to earn a doctorate, subsequently joining the faculty), 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 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. 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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