The New York Times
By Joshua Barone
May 5, 2017
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ANDREW NORMAN, MAY 1
Stuttering Bow, Crumbling Fresco
If only Andrew Norman could always introduce his own music. The young composer shared his dynamic trio “The Companion Guide to Rome” (2010) with us in a Facebook Live interview and concert featuring the violinist Jennifer Koh’s Variation Trio. “Susanna,” the third movement, depicts a crumbling fresco through a viola’s shakes and stutters — rendered as barcode-like illustrations in the sheet music. The music is evocative in its own right, but listen to it with Mr. Norman’s words in mind: “You can almost not pick out what the details are. It’s just a few little bits of image that are caught in space.”
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