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Michael Nyman has been making films since 1968 when he took a film camera to Hyde Park and recorded a “Free Pot” demonstration. Since then he has made over 80 films - some over one hour in length. Those films have been shown in museums, galleries and as special installations throughout the world: most recently in London, Edinburgh, Miami ...
In 1969 Nyman was commissioned to write the libretto for Sir Harrison Birtwistle's opera Down By The Greenwood Side.A subsequent commission from Birtwistle in 1976 to write music for Carlo Goldoni’s Il Campiello, the opening production at the National Theatre, led to the formation of the Campiello Band, (subsequently renamed the Michael Nyman Band) which for over four decades has been the laboratory for much of his inventive and experimental compositional work.
Michael Nyman has been making films since 1968 when he took a film camera to Hyde Park and recorded a “Free Pot” demonstration. Since then he has made over 80 films - some over one hour in length. Those films have been shown in museums, galleries and as special installations throughout the world: most recently in London, Edinburgh, Miami ...
Six Celan Songs is Michael Nyman's most profound song cycle, composed in 1990 for Ute Lemper and, together with The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi couples two of Michael Nyman's major vocal pieces and two favoured singers of the composer, Hilary Summers and Sarah Leonard. 8 Lust Songs is a song cycle in which Nyman’s music is set to the erotic poems of the 16th century poet Pietro Aretino.
The Michael Nyman Band celebrate their 40th birthday throughout 2017; performing at many events and festivals.. Programmes will includes music from The Draughtsman’s Contract, Drowning By Numbers, Prospero’s Books and Memorial (the stunning climax to The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover), as well as Bird List Song from Peter Greenaway’s early experimental film The Falls, and, extracts from the Six Celan Songs, War Work, NYman with a Movie Camera and music from scores including ...
Michael Nyman (born 1944) is one of the most famous and successful film music composers of our time. His music, although inextricably connected with the visu...
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Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE is an English composer, pianist, librettist, musicologist, and filmmaker. He is known for numerous film scores, and his multi-platinum soundtrack album to Jane Campion's The Piano. He has written a number of operas, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat; Letters, Riddles and Writs; Noises, Sounds & Sweet Airs; Facing Goya; Man and Boy: Dada; Love Counts; and Sparkie: Cage and Beyond. He has written six concerti, five string quartets, and many other ...
