DILLON
The Acrobat for Accordion, Electric Organ (or Keyboard) and Percussion (1 Player)
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JAMES DILLON
The Acrobat
for Accordion, Electric Organ (or Keyboard) and Percussion (1 Player)
2021–22
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The Future and the Past are idle shadows Of thought’s eternal flight – they have no being: Nought is but that which feels itself to be.
Percy Bysse Shelley [Hellas]
Instrumentation
Accordion
Electric Organ or Keyboard (organ samples) + Volume Pedal
Percussion (1 player) :
Crotales [ 1 octave ] Vibraphone
1 Tubular Bell (B=)
2 Gongs (G=, F+)
3 Triangles (high, medium, low)
3 Tamtams (20cm, 27.5cm, 90cm)
Wind/Glass Chimes (tied together as cluster)
1 Temple Block (small medium)
Music stand lights (6 ) – to be performed in a darkened space, with only the percussion instruments illuminated.
Duration: 10 minutes
acrobat (n.):
1845, from French acrobate ‘tightrope-walker’ (14c.) and directly from a Latinized form of Greek akrobates ‘rope dancer, gymnastic performer,’ which is related to akrobatos ‘going on tip-toe, climbing up high’, from akros ‘topmost, at the point end’ (from PIE root, ‘be sharp, rise (out) to a point, pierce’) + Greek agential element -bates ‘one that goes, one that treads (in some manner), one that is based,’ from -batos, verbal adjective from stem of bainein ‘to go, walk, step’.
Commissioned with the support of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation for project ‘33,7’ presented by United Instruments of Lucilin for Esch2022 – European Capital of Culture
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The Acrobat
James Dillon
Crotales
Tubular Bells
Vibraphone
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James Dillon
James Dillon (b. 1950) has been published by Edition Peters since 1982. In that year, Parjanya-Vata for solo cello won the Kranichsteiner Musikpreis at the Darmstadt Summer Course for New Music. His String Quartet No. 1 was premiered by the Arditti Quartet the following year at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival – one of many festivals regularly featuring Dillon’s music. Other works include his ‘German Triptych’ (Überschreiten, 1985; helle Nacht, 1987; Blitzschlag, 1996) and the opera Philomela (2004). In 2003 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Huddersfield and in 2007 took up the position of Professor of Composition at the University of Minnesota.
James Dillon (*1950) wird seit 1982 von der Edition Peters verlegt. Im gleichen Jahr wurde Parjanya-Vata für Violoncello solo bei den Darmstädter Ferienkursen für Neue Musik mit dem Kranichsteiner Musikpreis ausgezeichnet. Das Arditti- Quartett brachte im Folgejahr Dillons Streichquartett Nr. 1 beim Huddersfield-Festival für Zeitgenössische Musik zur Uraufführung – nur eines von vielen Festivals, bei denen seine Musik regelmäßig erklingt. Zu weiteren Werken gehören das „German Triptych“ (Überschreiten, 1985; helle Nacht, 1987; Blitzschlag, 1996) sowie die Oper Philomela (2004). Im Jahr 2003 erhielt er die Ehrendoktorwürde der Universität Huddersfield, und 2007 übernahm er eine Professur für Komposition an der University of Minnesota.