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Emerson Quartet Performs Lawrence Dillon String Quartet No. 5
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 Thursday, October 21 – 8:00 PM at the Staller Center for the Arts of State University of New York at Stony Brook, and on Friday, October 22 – 8:00 PM at the Perelman Theater of the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, 260 South Broad Street on the Avenue of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The October 22 concert is presented by the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society. Both concerts will also include works by Haydn and Schubert.
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.
For more about the October 21 Staller Center performance, call 631-632-2787 or visit http://www.staller.sunysb.edu/.
For more about the October 22 Kimmel Center performance, call 215-893-1999 or visit http://www.kimmelcenter.org/events/index.php?id=3843.
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 Sequenza 21 blog An Infinite Number of Curves at http://www.sequenza21.com/dillon. His latest CD release, Insects and Paper Airplanes, is on the Bridge label – http://www.bridgerecords.com/catpage.php?call=9332. Visit his website at http://www.lawrencedillon.com/.
He is represented by Jeffrey James Arts Consulting - 516-586-3433 or jamesarts@att.net, 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 Thursday, October 21 – 8:00 PM at the Staller Center for the Arts of State University of New York at Stony Brook, and on Friday, October 22 – 8:00 PM at the Perelman Theater of the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, 260 South Broad Street on the Avenue of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The October 22 concert is presented by the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society. Both concerts will also include works by Haydn and Schubert.
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.
For more about the October 21 Staller Center performance, call 631-632-2787 or visit http://www.staller.sunysb.edu/.
For more about the October 22 Kimmel Center performance, call 215-893-1999 or visit http://www.kimmelcenter.org/events/index.php?id=3843.
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 Sequenza 21 blog An Infinite Number of Curves at http://www.sequenza21.com/dillon. His latest CD release, Insects and Paper Airplanes, is on the Bridge label – http://www.bridgerecords.com/catpage.php?call=9332. Visit his website at http://www.lawrencedillon.com/.
He is represented by Jeffrey James Arts Consulting - 516-586-3433 or jamesarts@att.net, to whom inquiries about his music can be directed.
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