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Amadeus ex machina received its Minnesota premiere by the Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra on July 20th. On January 13, 2006, Musicians of the Four Seasons Chamber Festival - an ensemble comprised of string players from the Brentano, Mendelssohn and Miami String Quartets -- will premiere String Quartet No. 3: Air at East Carolina University, with a subsequent performance at the North Carolina School of the Arts.

On March 3rd, conductor Robert Baldwin will lead the University of Salt Lake City Symphony in the Utah premiere of Amadeus ex machina.

The Atlantic Ensemble will give the US premiere of What Happened in Michigan, Tennessee and North Carolina in May, and the Taos Chamber Music Group will perform Devotion, in its New Mexico premiere, on May 13th. Finally, Wright Flight will be a featured work on the illuminations festival in June and July on North Carolina's Outer Banks.

"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." - From "an infinite number of curves"

Sequenza21.com, a new music website based in New York City, has won the 2005 ASCAP Deems Taylor Internet Award for its unique combination of new music

information, conversation and sound samples. Prominently featured on Sequenza21 is Lawrence Dillon's blog, "an infinite number of curves," in which Dillon describes the compositional process, reviews concerts in Winston-Salem and around the world, and addresses philosophical issues facing the arts in contemporary society. Interested readers can visit his blog at Sequenza21.com.

His first entry in the blog, from January 2nd, 2005, began like this:

"Welcome to the launching pad of my Sequenza21 blog, a space where new music will serve as a catalyst for wide-ranging discussions of culture, politics, history, art, marketing, psychology and possibly even the weather. I have a few things to say on many of these topics, and I'm hoping your feedback will give me even more to say, and much to think about."

Here's another one of Dillon's wonderful contributions to the proceedings:

"Here's to the composers who engage in intelligent negotiation with their cultures, not for personal gain, but for cultural enhancement. There are a lot of problems in the world composers can't solve. The one skill we spend our lives honing, though, is the ability to convey ideas through sound. It's a form of communication -- not the same as language, but communication nonetheless. We can use that skill, if we choose (and I do), to foster enhanced communication among unlikeminded individuals."

And the last word of his first post in January 2005:

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