[Monthly Sportlight 4]
ANDREW NORMAN’s Gran Turismo scored for violin octet
VIOLIN
Brian Hong | Elizabeth Fayette | Amelia Dietrich | Stephanie Zyzak | Rannveig Sarc | Christine Wu | Emma Frucht | Siwoo Kim
OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO
[PROGRAM NOTE]
Rewind my life a bit and you might find a particular week in 2003 when I was researching the art of Italian Futurist Giacomo Balla for a term paper, watching my roommates play a car racing video game called Gran Turismo, and thinking about the legacy of Baroque string virtuosity as a point of departure for my next project. It didn’t take long before I felt the resonances between these different activities, and it was out of their unexpected convergence that this piece was born.
- Andrew Norman