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String Quartet No 1 (1985) String Quartet No.1 is dedicated to the memory of Thurston Dart, my professor at King’s College, London, between 1961 and 1965, in one of my earlier incarnations as would-be Ph.D student and musicologist. Dart gave me, as a 21st birthday present, his Musica Britannica edition of the complete keyboard works of the ...
Michael Nyman on Quartet No.5 & No.4. String Quartet No. 5 (2011) is the first of my quartets not only to have a subtitle but, more importantly, not to be based on pre-existing musical material. The subtitle ‘Let’s not make a song and dance out of this’ refers to the fact that the piece is made up of movements that could either be ...
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Key Works. 1. The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat (1986) 1hr 20'. Michael Nyman’s first opera, which unfolds in a series of diagnostic events, places music as the central hero of the story. We delve into the world of a man (Dr P) with visual agnosia (or ‘mental blindness’). Such patients ‘see but do not see’.
Michael Nyman combines Western classical music with the high-octane energy and propulsion of rock and pulse-based minimalism. As we look ahead to the composer's 80th birthday in 2024, discover the variety of Michael Nyman's music with a new profile by musicologist and composer Pwyll ap Siôn.
Apr 30, 2014 · Michael Nyman's 70th birthday year is an excuse to enjoy some of the many highlights of his compositions out there on YouTube.Nyman is one of the most misunderstood composers working today, whose ...
Feb 24, 2005 · San Francisco's Del Sol String Quartet performs the San Francisco Premiere of Michael Nyman's String Quartet No. 3 (1989) at Other Minds 11 at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Nyman's intensely moving String Quartet No. 3, composed in Armenia and redolent of sadness of the music of that oppressed people, is performed by Del Sol.
Mar 6, 2014 · Resident musician Chase Spruill writes about the North American premiere of the Michael Nyman's Quartet No. 5: In the early 1980s, Michael Nyman attended a performance by Arditti Quartet whose program housed a performance of the mighty Opus 133 Grand Fugue by Ludwig van Beethoven. Their performance and interpretation of the music left quite an ...
