Friday night, members of the Beo String Quartet will perform Saturn Dreams of Mercury, a brief trio from 2012, at the Charlotte New Music Festival. It’s one of a set of responses I composed to Italo Calvino’s final work, Six Memos for the Next Millenium, in which he sets out his artistic principles. In the chapter on his second principle – quickness – he describes himself as a “Saturn who dreams … [Read more...]
Lawrence Dillon: Connecting the Dots
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