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for chamber orchestra
Ich verstehe Dinge niemals im ersten Anlauf, also warum sollte es bei meiner Musik anders sein? Dies ist ein Stück, das Dinge wieder und wieder probiert, bis sie schlussendlich (im besten Falle) funktionieren. Andrew Norman
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I never get things right on the first try. I am a trial-and-error composer, an incurable reviser. And this is a problem when it comes to high profile commissions from world-class ensembles in spectacular concert halls, because in these rare cases I get exactly one try to get it right, and I really, really want to get it right. Disney Hall and the LA Philharmonic have meant so much to me over the years that the overwhelming desire to write for them the perfect piece was enough to stop me dead in my creative tracks. It took me many months to realize the obvious: my piece was never going to be perfect no matter how hard I tried, and perfection was not even the right target on which to set my sights. The best thing I could do to honor the adventurous spirit of the Philharmonic and Disney Hall was to try as many new things as I could, to embrace the risk and failure and serendipitous discovery implicit in the word 'try'.
The piece I ended up writing 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. Andrew Norman, May, 2011
The piece I ended up writing 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. Andrew Norman, May, 2011
Orchestral Cast
1.1.1.1-1.1.1.0-2perc(vib, tri, 3splash cym, 4opera gongs, tam-t, h.h, 4small tom-t, 2bng, kick drum, break drum, 4log drums, 5tempbl, guiro, spring coil)-pno-2vn.va.vc.db
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Title:
Try
for chamber orchestra
Edition:
Performance material
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music
Year of composition:
2011
Duration:
14 ′0 ′′
World Premiere:
May 24, 2011 · Los Angeles, CA (USA)
Walt Disney Concert Hall
Conductor: John Adams · Los Angeles Philharmonic
Walt Disney Concert Hall
Conductor: John Adams · Los Angeles Philharmonic
Commissioned work :
Commissioned by Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, Gustavo Dudamel, Music Director and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic
Technical Details
Media Type:
Hire/performance material
Product number:
LSMC 50315
Delivery rights:
Worldwide
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