Chamber Music of Lawrence Dillon in Italy on February 25 and 26 – and California on February 26
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The European Premiere performances of Lawrence Dillon’s Terranean Meditation will be given in Italy by the Quartetto Sassofoni di Accademia on Saturday, February 25 – 6:30 PM at Teatro Savoia in Campobasso and on Sunday, February 26 in Sulmona.
The February 25 and 26 programs will also include music by Jean-Baptiste Singelee, Luca Salvadori, Jean Francaix, Aldemaro Romero and George Gershwin.
The composer calls Terranean Meditation “a meditation on the nature of the earth — impervious, sensitive, perpetual, fragile,” and writes about working with the ensemble, “This group is to Italian sax quartets what Prism is to American sax quartets. The same four guys have been together for 26 years; watching them rehearse is a real joy.”
Also on February 26 at 3:00 PM, Dillon’s Multiplicity will be performed by renowned violinist Danielle Belen and five of her students at Zipper Hall of The Colburn School, 200 South Grand Avenue in Los Angeles, California. This is part of Ms. Belen’s Faculty Recital.
The composer writes about the piece, “Multiplicities abound in our daily lives, countless duplications, each of which we strive to personalize, to distinguish with our personal touch, our page, our device, our moment. The sheer number of individualities at times seems to swallow all distinctions into a burbling mass. But now and again a single voice emerges, is heard and can be celebrated. We are what each of us does; we are what all of us do.”
For more about the February 25 concert, visit http://www.amicidellamusicacb.it/concerto15.html. More about the February 26 event in Los Angeles at http://www.colburnschool.edu/.
Naxos has issued Lawrence Dillon Violin Music (Catalogue No: 8.559644 – http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.559644), featuring seven chamber works performed by violinist Danielle Belen, 2008 Grand Prize Winner of the Sphinx Competition. His other recent, critically-acclaimed 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/.
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