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Like many trends, it started as a subversive joke.
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14 Years in 40 Minutes: Nick Chapman’s ‘Symphony No. 1 in L Major’
“You know some people buy a sports car, I wrote a symphony,” Nick Chapman laughed, as he sipped a coffee at Le Pain Quotidien. Certainly he’s not old enough to have a midlife crisis: aged 36, married, with a career in business education, and a four month old baby. But the sometimes-composer created a forty minute symphony – his first ever – compiled from fourteen years of work because he felt like it was the right time. “Writer’s always have that great American novel that they want to write. This was my great American novel.”
