While in Rome, Andrew Norman will compose an orchestral piece that was commissioned by the Oakland East Bay Symphony, as well as a chamber piece that uses the architecture of Andrea Palladio as a point of departure. His project title, Melting Architecture, refers to his method of composition that reverses Goethe’s dictum that architecture is frozen music. For Norman, his pieces are attempts to thaw the forms of certain architectural structures—from the Farnsworth House to Chartres Cathedral—exploring the spatial possibilities of musical form.