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The Infinite Sphere by Lawrence Dillon Performed by Daedalus String Quartet
For Immediate Release
Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
516-586-3433 or jamesarts@att.net
Lawrence Dillon’s The Infinite Sphere will be performed by the Daedalus Quartet on Sunday, May 16 – 4 PM at the Howland Cultural Center, 477 Main Street in Beacon, New York.
Commissioned by the Daedalus Quartet in conjunction with the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts, Dillon’s fourth quartet takes Pascal’s reference to “an infinite sphere, whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere” as the inspiration for a virtuosic wheels-within-wheels journey. The fourth quartet in Dillon’s Invisible Cities String Quartet Cycle -- a set of six quartets that explore connections between Classical forms and contemporary experience -- The Infinite Sphere not only takes the form of a Classical rondo, it also adopts the rondo spirit, using popular dance music as material.
The piece was given its World Premiere performance by the Daedalus Quartet on January 15 at The Barns at Wolf Trap in Vienna, Virginia, They have also performed it at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem and the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Read a Washington Post review of the work at http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-classical-beat/2010/01/in_performance_daedalus_quarte.html.
Other works on the program are Mozart’s String Quartet No. 22 in B-flat major, K. 589 and Brahms’ Quintet for Piano & Strings in F minor, Op. 34, the latter with guest pianist Benjamin Hochman.
For tickets and more information about the May 16 concert, call 845-297-9243 or visit http://www.howlandmusic.org/.
Winner of the 2007 Guarneri String Quartet Award from Chamber Music America, the Daedalus String Quartet is the resident quartet for the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University. Visit them at http://daedalusquartet.com/.
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 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 latest Infinite Curves newsletter at http://www.jamesarts.com/releases/april10/LD_nws_040610.pdf and read 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. 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 The Infinite Sphere will be performed by the Daedalus Quartet on Sunday, May 16 – 4 PM at the Howland Cultural Center, 477 Main Street in Beacon, New York.
Commissioned by the Daedalus Quartet in conjunction with the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts, Dillon’s fourth quartet takes Pascal’s reference to “an infinite sphere, whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere” as the inspiration for a virtuosic wheels-within-wheels journey. The fourth quartet in Dillon’s Invisible Cities String Quartet Cycle -- a set of six quartets that explore connections between Classical forms and contemporary experience -- The Infinite Sphere not only takes the form of a Classical rondo, it also adopts the rondo spirit, using popular dance music as material.
The piece was given its World Premiere performance by the Daedalus Quartet on January 15 at The Barns at Wolf Trap in Vienna, Virginia, They have also performed it at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem and the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Read a Washington Post review of the work at http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-classical-beat/2010/01/in_performance_daedalus_quarte.html.
Other works on the program are Mozart’s String Quartet No. 22 in B-flat major, K. 589 and Brahms’ Quintet for Piano & Strings in F minor, Op. 34, the latter with guest pianist Benjamin Hochman.
For tickets and more information about the May 16 concert, call 845-297-9243 or visit http://www.howlandmusic.org/.
Winner of the 2007 Guarneri String Quartet Award from Chamber Music America, the Daedalus String Quartet is the resident quartet for the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University. Visit them at http://daedalusquartet.com/.
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 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 latest Infinite Curves newsletter at http://www.jamesarts.com/releases/april10/LD_nws_040610.pdf and read 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. 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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