"There are no two points so distant from one another that they cannot be connected by a single straight line -- and an infinite number of curves."
Composer Lawrence Dillon has produced an extensive body of work, from brief solo pieces to a full-length opera. Partially deaf from birth, Dillon grew up in a bustling household with seven older siblings. He began composing as soon as he started piano lessons at the age of seven. In 1985, he became the youngest composer to earn a doctorate at The Juilliard School, and was shortly thereafter appointed to the Juilliard faculty. Dillon is now Composer in Residence at the North Carolina School of the Arts, where he has served as Music Director of the Contemporary Ensemble, Assistant Dean of Performance and Dean of the School of Music.
Dillon's music, in the words of American Record Guide, is "lovely...austere...vivid and impressive." His works are recorded by Albany Records, Channel Crossings and CRS, and published by American Composers Editions. He is represented by Jeffrey James Arts Consulting.
In Arlit where I am sitting in my hotel room writing this, I suddenly catch sight of a man carrying an empty picture frame...It frames his whole person as he carries it, only his head and ffeet outside it. It is strange to see the way the frame separates him, brings him out, yes even elevates him. When he stops for a moment to move it from one shoulder to another, he seems to step out of the frame. It looks as if that were the simplest thing in the world.
- Sven Lindqvist
posted by Lawrence Dillon
7:39 AM
In Arlit where I am sitting in my hotel room writing this, I suddenly catch sight of a man carrying an empty picture frame...It frames his whole person as he carries it, only his head and ffeet outside it. It is strange to see the way the frame separates him, brings him out, yes even elevates him. When he stops for a moment to move it from one shoulder to another, he seems to step out of the frame. It looks as if that were the simplest thing in the world.