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Andrew Norman's Play in West Coast Premiere at Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music

Jul. 09, 2014

Andrew Norman's <em>Play</em> in West Coast Premiere at Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music

Conducted by Marin Alsop, Andrew Norman’s Play receives its West Coast premiere as part of the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music in Santa Cruz, California. The performance takes place on August 1 at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium.

Play, which was commissioned by Gil Rose and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, received its premiere at Boston’s Jordan Hall in 2013. The work was inspired by the dynamic interactions inherent within the orchestra between the instruments, the players and the conductor. Norman treats the orchestra as a sort-of “meta-instrument,” inciting a dramatic world of orchestral timbres and textures.

Norman elaborates:

While the word “play” certainly connotes fun and whimsy and a child-like exuberance, it can also hint at a darker side of interpersonal relationships, at manipulation, control, deceit and the many forms of master-puppet dynamics one could possibly extrapolate from the composer-conductor-orchestra-audience chain of communication.

Lookng ahead, Andrew is currently writing a new string quartet for the Calder Quartet, set for premiere in March 2015 at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Orange County, CA and his recent work Release, for piano and orchestra, which was commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and premiered by them with pianist Emanuel Ax in May 2014, receives its French premiere with pianist Inon Barnatan and the Orchestre National de France conducted by James Gaffigan on February 12, 2015 in Paris.

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

Details on the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music can be found at cabrillomusic.org.

Andrew Norman
Play (2013)
for orchestra
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