Thank you very, very much for posting these. Dillon has perhaps been overshadowed by his colleagues; this concentrated presentation of his work as he intends it reveals a truly astonishing and freakishly idiosyncratic figure, an archetype of the truly great autodidact – an Ives, or a murky and problematic Wagner to Ferneyhough’s urbane and witty Liszt, perhaps? The string writing in this piece, specifically, is categorically different from anything I’ve seen – it is not merely “complex” (“original”, “experimental”, whatever), it is flabbergasting and preposterous (independent double-stopped glissandi in cross-rhythms?) in the very way that would make all but the most enlightened dismiss his work entirely. Extraodinarily committed performers, and an extraordinarily committed composer. (All, of course, meant as compliments of a very, very high order.)
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Thank you very, very much for posting these. Dillon has perhaps been overshadowed by his colleagues; this concentrated presentation of his work as he intends it reveals a truly astonishing and freakishly idiosyncratic figure, an archetype of the truly great autodidact – an Ives, or a murky and problematic Wagner to Ferneyhough’s urbane and witty Liszt, perhaps? The string writing in this piece, specifically, is categorically different from anything I’ve seen – it is not merely “complex” (“original”, “experimental”, whatever), it is flabbergasting and preposterous (independent double-stopped glissandi in cross-rhythms?) in the very way that would make all but the most enlightened dismiss his work entirely. Extraodinarily committed performers, and an extraordinarily committed composer.
(All, of course, meant as compliments of a very, very high order.)
CJS
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