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Andrew Norman’s Try on Two Continents

Dec. 03, 2012

Andrew Norman’s <em>Try</em> on Two Continents

Andrew Norman’s brilliant work for chamber orchestra, Try, receives city premieres on two continents this month with performances in London and New York. The London Sinfonietta presented the London premiere of Try on December 2 as part of their New Music Show series. The event, described as a “festival-in-a-day,” included performances, installations and talks scheduled throughout the afternoon and evening in the Southbank Centre. Try was performed in the Queen Elizabeth Hall under the direction of conductor Martyn Brabbins alongside works by David Fennessy and Gerald Barry.

Later this month, the New York Philharmonic presents the New York premiere of Try on the orchestra’s CONTACT! Series, which presents new and innovative works in more intimate concert settings. The Philharmonic performs Try on December 21 in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium and again on the 22nd at the Peter Norton Symphony Space conducted by Jayce Ogren. Both performances are hosted by WNYC's John Schaefer.

Try was commissioned and premiered by the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in 2011.

Norman writes:

This piece is a lot like me. It’s messy, and fragmented, and it certainly doesn’t get things right on the first try. It does things over and over, trying them out in as many different ways as it can. It circles back on itself again and again in search of any idea that will stick, that will lead it forward to something new. And, at long last, after ten minutes of increasingly frantic trying, it finds one small, unlikely bit of musical material it likes enough to repeat and polish and hone until it finally (fingers crossed) gets it right.

For more information on Andrew Norman, please visit www.schott-music.com.

Find out more about the London Sinfonietta’s New Music Show by visiting www.londonsinfonietta.org.uk.

To learn more about the New York Philharmonic’s CONTACT! Series, please visit www.nyphil.org.

Andrew Norman
Try (2011)
for chamber orchestra
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