RIP to new music's gentle, smiley radical
In 2000 I was despatched to interview Norgard for a magazine and found a man as gentle and thoughtful as his music suggested he would be, with eyes that gleamed just like his woodwind writing. He had been in London to hear a performance of one his works – I forget which – but under discussion that afternoon was a new recording: the violin concerto he'd written in 1987, Helle Nacht. I'm listening to it again as I write this, and its luminous textures and the filigree of his violin writing could really be by nobody else.
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