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Andrew Norman (Composer)

Unstuck

for orchestra
The title is inspired by, among other things, the famous sentence ‘Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time’ from Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five. Unstuck makes for a very attractive concert opener, characterized by an extraordinarily energetic compositional style, similar in some ways to Andrew Norman’s brilliant work for eight violins Gran Turismo.
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Series: Unstuck
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I have never been more stuck than I was in the winter of 2008. My writing came to a grinding halt in January and for a long time this piece languished on my desk, a mess of musical fragments that refused to cohere. The following May, I saw a copy of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five and remembered one of its iconic sentences, then I had a breakthrough realization. The sentence was this: ’Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time’, and the realization was that the lack of coherence in my ideas was to be embraced and explored, not overcome. Musical fragments become unstuck in that sections from the beginning, middle and end crop up in the wrong places like the flashbacks and flash-forwards that define the narrative structure of Vonnegut’s novel. Andrew Norman

Orchestral Cast

3(pic).2.ca.3(bcl, Ebcl).3-4.3.3.1-timp.3perc(tom-t, s.d, cym, crot, b.d, tempbl, bng, ratchet)-pno-str

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Title:
Unstuck
for orchestra
Edition:
Performance material
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music
Year of composition:
2008
Duration:
10 ′0 ′′
World Premiere:
September 9, 2008 · Zürich (CH)
Tonhalle
Conductor: Michael Sanderling · Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich

Series:
Unstuck

Technical Details

Media Type:
Hire/performance material
Product number:
LSMC 20254
Delivery rights:
Worldwide
Manufacturer:
Schott Music GmbH & Co. KG
55116 Mainz
Germany

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