Andrew Norman: Better Living Through Architecture
b"Andrew Norman\\xa0was a well-feted kid composer, a precocious pre-adolescent who wrote works with grand, filmic gestures for his middle school orchestra and had the local newspapers filling their style sections with profiles invoking Mozart. Then he went to college.\\nAll of a sudden, Norman's musical world exponentially widened; he was exposed to styles and practices so far outside of his previous experience that he stopped composing altogether. How could he write what he had been writing in a world rich with Lachenmanns, Xenakises and Carters, who were manipulating, torquing and stifling sound to create a whole different world of music? Norman almost left music entirely for architecture, but in flirting with this other career, he actually found his way back to composition, ultimately birthing a style that stunningly weds texture and drama in a unique and wonderful way.\\n---\\nAbout the podcast:\\nMeet the Composer is a Peabody Award-winning podcast that takes listeners into the minds and creative processes of the composers making some of the most innovative, compelling, and breathtakingly beautiful music today.\\nFollow Meet the Composer\\xa0on Twitter:\\xa0@MeettheComposerLike Meet the Composer\\xa0on Facebook:\\xa0www.facebook.com/meetthecomposer\\n---\\nQ2 Music is WQXR, New York's multi-platform home for dynamic modern\\xa0music. Discover countless new artists via our 24/7 music stream \\u2013 hand-crafted daily to reward your curiosity \\u2013 and surprise your imagination with a world of exhilarating new music.\\nProduced by Q2 Music.\\xa0www.q2music.orgFollow Q2 Music on Twitter:\\xa0@Q2MusicLike Q2 Music on Facebook:\\xa0www.facebook.com/q2music"