Norman: Companion Guide to Rome
Hearne: Law of Mosaics
A rare opportunity to hear A Far Cry's acclaimed album in a full live concert performance! Law of Mosaics features two brilliant works by Ted Hearne and Andrew Norman. In Norman’s Companion Guide to Rome, a 2012 Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, A Far Cry explores the composer’s favorite churches in the Eternal City as nine separate string trios. In “Law of Mosaics”, Hearne creates a magnificent sonic patchwork, imaginatively spun by A Far Cry as a unified ensemble.
In the words of the Washington Post: [the] dense, idea-intensive “Law of Mosaics” for strings focused more on pure music, cutting and knitting together sections from other works, deliberately upending any sense of narrative to explore new paths to meaning. Hearne’s writing is virtuosic, complex and imaginative — almost to the point of brutality — and A Far Cry played it with fierce dedication.
