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Andrew Norman's Try with the New World Symphony

Dec. 01, 2014

Andrew Norman's <em>Try</em> with the New World Symphony

John Adams leads the New World Symphony in a performance of Andrew Norman’s Try, for chamber orchestra, on December 6. The performance takes place at the New World Center in Miami, Florida in conjunction with Art Basel Miami Beach, an international show of the world’s leading art galleries.

Try, which the New World Symphony notes as possessing a 'fierce tenacity,' is influenced by Norman’s experience as a "trial-and-error composer, an incurable reviser." He writes:

[Try] 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.

Details on the performance can be found at nws.edu.

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

Andrew Norman
Try (2011)
for chamber orchestra
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14’

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