Inspired by a love of the merging of two worlds, the Buddhists of millennia ago and the quantum physicists of today, this piece is about the spontaneous and simultaneous annihilation-creation of subatomic particles, the S-MATRIX being a table of probabilities concerned more with the dance than the dancers in this inner-world scattering.

But more than just a graphic representation of events, the piece asks, "WHAT is colliding? WHAT is created?... and what is being destroyed?"

Each note, phrase and section is about the dance, the intermediate states of existence... the Storm of Being.

"His S-MATRIX Symphony was fabulous, full of childlike wonderment as the composer intended and marvelous sounds. And they worked to maximum effect - a brilliant, original use of orchestral resources for a sophisticated, sensational, beautiful and satisfying experience." Nancy R. Ping-Robbins, Music Critic

"He could become the Leonard Bernstein of this age... Everything he creates has many layers, ranging from synchronicity to the significance of numbers, from visceral emotions to the brotherhood of mankind." John S. Sweeney, Music Critic

"...a new voice in the direction of music, his sound ? a bridge between the serious and the immediately visceral." Maestro Gerhardt Zimmerman, Conductor

"... his ability to create a mood, find precisely the right touch of drama and create the needed effect was manifest... the sustained chords in the choir, the timpani's roar, the harp's glissandos. Melillo used them all with a sense of absolute rightness and the result was fresh, joyful and exciting... each measure scored with an unerring ear for drama and emotion." John S. Sweeney, Music Critic

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