Star Wars: The Force Awakens has been released to great success. As expected, John Williams’ score is marvelous. Many folks are writing articles, so I’ve been reading quite a lot. Including this bit, from Alex Ross’ New Yorker piece:

Williams’s wider influence on musical culture can’t be quantified, but it’s surely vast. The brilliant young composer Andrew Norman took up writing music after watching “Star Wars” on video…

Which sent me, of course, on an investigation of Norman, of whom I had not yet heard. I listened to this. Then my heart wept.

If you need a refresher from seven years ago.