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Attacca String Quartet and the composer/performer dynamic

February 19, 2018 by Lawrence Dillon

We had the Attacca String Quartet in residence here this past week.  Started things off with a 2-hour seminar on composer-performer collaborations, featuring performances of three Caroline Shaw quartets: Entr’acte, Valencia and Blueprint.  That evening, the quartet recorded three student compositions: Alicia Bachorik: Tango Tyson Davis: String Quartet No. 1 Nicholas Karr: The Flaw in … [Read more...]

Horn ensemble

February 5, 2018 by Lawrence Dillon

The French horn presents composers with an interesting challenge.  Inextricably tied to the heroic aspirations of the Romantic era, it often struggles to find a range of expression that lies outside of Wagnerian fantasies.  I tried taking it in a direction that overlapped with but diverged from that Romantic world in my horn concerto Revenant, a piece David Jolley premiered thirteen years ago.  I … [Read more...]

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Lawrence Dillon

Composer in Residence at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Lawrence Dillon creates works that connect past and present in attractive and unexpected ways. [Read More]

Infinite Curves

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. In a musical composition, there are always many ways to get from Point A to Point B, regardless of how little A and B seem to have in common. Similarly, … [Read More...]

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