Lawrence Dillon’s bagatelle on social media, Poke will be performed by Low and Lower, cellist
Brooks Whitehouse and bassist Paul Sharpe, on Friday, November 9 – 7:00
PM at Studio Theatre in Thompson Hall on the campus of North Carolina
State University in Raleigh. This will be part of the University’s Arts
Now, in cooperation with Music@NC State and the PMC Lecture series.
The composer comments on his work--named for one of the early Facebook applications involving an electronic 'hello' --that “Poke, a 'bagatelle on
anti-social media' is scored for cello and double bass, with a running
(spoken) dialogue between the two musicians as they play, an argument
taking place across various social media. Over the course of the piece,
the two "text", "friend" and "like" one another with increasing fury, as
their virtual exchanges complete obliterate their real lives in a comic
turn on the dark underbelly of our online politesse.”
Tickets for the November 9 performance are $10 general public | $5 for
NC State students | $8 for senior citizens; faculty/staff. For more
information, call 919-515-2981 or visit this link.
Lawrence Dillon is Composer in Residence at the University of North
Carolina School of the Arts and has had recent commissions and
performances by the Emerson String Quartet, the Mansfield (OH) Symphony,
the Boise Philharmonic, the Salt Lake City Symphony, the Daedalus String
Quartet, the University of Utah Philharmonia and the Idyllwild (CA)
Symphony Orchestra. He has won awards from ASCAP, the Juilliard School,
the Ravinia Festival, the International Horn Society, the American Music
Center, CRS and many other organizations.
