Lawrence Dillon@Sequenza21.com

"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. Three disks of his music are due out in 2010 on the Bridge, Albany and Naxos labels. In the past year, he has had commissions from the Emerson String Quartet, the Cassatt String Quartet, the Mansfield Symphony, the Boise Philharmonic, the Salt Lake City Symphony, the Ravinia Festival, the Daedalus String Quartet, the Kenan Institute for the Arts, the University of Utah and the Idyllwild Symphony Orchestra.

Although he lost 50% of his hearing in a childhood illness, Dillon 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 University of North Carolina School of the Arts, where he has served as Music Director of the Contemporary Ensemble, Assistant Dean of Performance, and Interim Dean of the School of Music. He was the Featured American Composer in the February 2006 issue of Chamber Music magazine.


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Wednesday, February 14, 2007
innovative marketing

As I mentioned in my last post, Wright Flight was performed on Saturday in Ohio. I came across this unusual marketing for the performance on the net:




UPDATE: Okay, I have to come clean. These aren't ads, I found them posted on the Myspace page of Drew Traxel, the actor who played Wilbur. I've never met Drew, but he seems to be an amusing guy. He shaved his head into what he calls a New Jersey Wraparound in order to look more like the character he was playing:


Here's Drew before his new do:



And that, ladies and gentlemen, is dedication.