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	Michael Nyman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Michael Nyman (born March 23, 1944) is a British minimalist composer, pianist, librettist and musicologist, perhaps best known for the many scores he wrote during his lengthy collaboration with the British filmmaker Peter Greenaway.
		Nyman studied composition at the Royal Academy of Music in London.
		Although Nyman's score was central to the movie he did not receive an Academy Award nomination despite being nominated for both a British Academy Award and a Golden Globe.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michael_Nyman (385 words)

	Naxos.com, Your World of Classical Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Michael Nyman was born in England in 1944, and followed a normal musical background, through music college and was set to become a pianist and composer.
		Nyman is the person we have to thank for the word, 'minimalism', a term he had used in one of his concert reviews, and it was in this musical style that he now started writing music for his 'band'.
		Nyman has drawn as many detractors as admirers, his style at times polarized to the excesses of the classical avant garde, at others he is composing in such an overtly romantic style that it is difficult to know whether his acute sense of fun is at work.
	www.naxos.com /mainsite?pn=Composers&char=N&ComposerID=755 (390 words)

	Michael Nyman
		On 17th May 2002 Michael Nyman and his band returned to the Royal Festival Hall performing in the UK for the first time the soundtrack to Dziga Vertov’s 1929 classic fl and white film Man With a Movie Camera.
		Nyman together with U.Shrinivas (electric mandolin) and the singers Rajan and Sajan Misra presented on the 24th July 2002 an evening of music.
		Nyman premieres include Beckham Crosses/Nyman Scores, originally commissioned by BBC Radio3 programme Between the Ears; and Acts of Beauty, commissioned and performed by Sentieri selvaggi, conducted by Carlo Boccadoro with singer Cristina Zavalloni at the Mantova International Literature Festival.
	www.otherminds.org /shtml/Nyman.shtml (1167 words)

	Wonderland - Michael Nyman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		With Greenaway, Nyman always reflects the quirky and slightly amoral side to the characters, but for Winterbottom he provides a warm, glowing backdrop that suggests the people in his film are fundamentally good, but life gets in the way of that sometimes.
		While the Michael Nyman Band could never be described as a symphony orchestra, it sounds more like a modern chamber orchestra than ever for Wonderland; as with his more romantic scores of late, the music is string led, but with a prominent saxophone part on occasion.
		Nyman himself performs the piano on several of the tracks on occasions when an even more intimate atmosphere is required.
	www.soundtrack-express.com /osts/wonderland.htm (411 words)

	Michael Nyman - film composer
		The music for these Peter Greenaway films was played by the Nyman Band, whose distinctive sound hinted at Jazz with its prominent Saxophones, but took short phrases and chord sequences mostly from the Baroque and Classical eras, and delivered these with gusto whilst repeating and varying sections using alterations in instrumentation and colour.
		Nyman's music has evolved while he has worked with a number of different directors and film styles, so that it is no longer as strictly minimalist as previously.
		Michael Nyman has been known to introduce himself to a French audience as "The English Yann Tiersen" so if you like Nyman's music you might wish to sample some by Tiersen (or vice versa).
	www.mfiles.co.uk /composers/Michael-Nyman.htm (1345 words)

	ArtandCulture Artist: Michael Nyman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Nyman finally came into his element when he was hired in 1982 to score Peter Greenaway’s film "The Draughtman’s Contract." This led to more and varied film work, though he is well known for his collaborations with Greenaway.
		Nyman's work is characterized by his Baroque-influenced use of repetitive tones, including thumping keyboards, bass clarinets, baritone saxophones, and extreme high and low octave doublings.
		The past few years have seen Nyman increase his output, as he composed soundtracks for "The Ogre," "The Diary of Anne Frank," "Carrington," "Gattaca" (nominated for a Golden Globe), "Practical Magic," "Wonderland," the cannibalistic fl comedy "Ravenous," and most recently "The End of the Affair," which was also nominated for a Golden Globe.
	www.artandculture.com /cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/artist?wosid=NO&id=505 (614 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Arts \| Arts features \| Michael Nyman and Shobana Jeyasingh's new collaboration
		Even though she had wanted Nyman to compose the music for Configurations in his own idiom, she had, perhaps naively, expected him to pin his score on to the exact mathematical sequences of her choreography.
		Nyman, for instance, had ended the final section with a strictly written chorale; in the meantime, Jeyasingh had structured her choreography so that it would end on a note of irresolution ("I wanted the feeling that the piece would carry on if only people were staying to watch it," she explains).
		Nyman agreed to make the necessary change but there were other elements of the music's voice over which Jeyasingh could have less control.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /features/story/0,11710,1402105,00.html (1397 words)

	EMI Classics \| Biographies \| MICHAEL NYMAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		That acute sensitivity to occasion and context is enriched by a talent, shared with baroque composers, for refiguration; the 1995 Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings develops ideas previously encountered in The Convertibility of Lute Strings and Tango for Tim; the Third String Quartet lies behind the score for Christopher Hampton's 1996 movie Carrington.
		Michael Nyman's first recording on EMI Classics, entitled Three Concertos, was released in October 1997.
		These three concertos reveal the state of Michael Nyman's art: astonishingly wide in their frame of reference; juxtaposing passion and irony, seriousness and wit, populism and sophistication.
	www.emiclassics.com /artists/biogs/nymb.html (594 words)

	SoundtrackNet : Michael Nyman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Michael Nyman's music and his band seemed to have burst onto the scene in the early eighties with the composer's vision fully rounded and formed.
		Nyman was born in London in 1944 and studied at the Royal College of Music and King's College.
		On graduation, Nyman felt alienated from the then current compositional orthodoxy (heavily influenced by Stockhausen and Boulez) and embarked upon a career as a music writer and critic for The Listener, The Spectator and The New Statesman, covering everything from The Beatles, to The Fugs and Cornelius Cardew.
	www.soundtrack.net /composers/database?id=156 (819 words)

	MICHAEL NYMAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Nyman intends to extend this event throughout the year, performing similar concerts in various international territories.
		This was the first ever commercially released work by Nyman and originally intended for a Peter Greenaway film back in 1976 (but never used).
		Nyman's compositions for the above four Greenaway films (particularly 'The Cook, The Thief') brought recognition to both Director and Composer.
	www.spincds.com /old/michaelnyman.html (309 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Music \| Nyman says UK composers 'ignored'
		Musician Michael Nyman says British composers are being ignored at home in favour of their US counterparts.
		Nyman, whose work includes The Piano soundtrack, believes there is a "huge disparity" in the treatment received.
		Nyman also said it was "scandalous" that he was not nominated for an Oscar for his soundtrack to The Piano - which sold three million copies.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/music/3519796.stm (229 words)

	Michael Nyman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Born in London, award-winning composer Michael Nyman studied at the Royal Academy of Music (1961-1965) and later at King's College, London.
		Since 1977, Nyman has composed for his permanent performing ensemble The Michael Nyman Band, created works for performance artists and for the Paris exhibition "La Traversee de Paris," and written music scores for a wide range of international film and television projects.
		In 1993 Nyman received wide acclaim for his work on Jane Campion's Academy Award-winning film The Piano, for which he established a repertoire of music not only for the film but for its central character Ada.
	www.flp.com /films/mesmer/bios/bio_mn.html (187 words)

	classical music - andante - noisy sounds and sweet magic airs
		Perhaps this is mainly due to the psychologically intoxicating effect of his simple, reiterated progressions in asymmetrical rhythm, the frantic activity of his percussive melodic patterns (it's no mere chance that Nyman coined the word "minimalism"), or to the anachronistic - almost timeless - color of his brass timbres.
		Unfortunately, the acoustic did not help the ensemble: the brass frequently overpowered the strings, while the naturally vigorous voices of the three singers were often amplified to a deafening level.
		But the Ravenna Festival's idea was basically good, inasmuch as hearing the Michael Nyman Band live is an absolutely worthwhile experience (the unannounced cuts in the program notwithstanding).
	www.andante.com /magazine/article.cfm?id=13689 (348 words)

	The Ensemble Sospeso - Michael Nyman
		Sospeso performs Michael Nyman's music to Léger's 1924 film Ballet Mechanique in the spring 2003 multimedia concert.
		Nyman, together with U. Shrinivas (electric mandolin) and the singers Rajan and Sajan Misra, presented on 24th July an evening of music - a joint project that subtly combines the talents of the assembled artists.
		Nyman is now at work on a variety of projects: he is revising his opera Facing Goya for the Badisches Stadtstheater, Karlsruhe when 10 performances will be given from 19th October 2002.
	www.sospeso.com /contents/composers_artists/nyman.html (799 words)

	Michael Nyman MP3 Downloads - Michael Nyman Music Downloads - Michael Nyman Music Videos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		For this, his seventh soundtrack for director Peter Greenaway, Nyman deftly orchestrates a mix of strings, horns, and voices to produce another of his fetching and romantic minimalist backdrops.
		Nyman utilized a death march in his earlier Greenaway collaboration, Drowning by Numbers, and revives the scheme to great effect here for what would become the main theme of The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover.
		Nyman is again aided by his crack band, which includes such standouts as violinist Alexander Balanescu and tenor saxophonist John Harle.
	www.mp3.com /albums/100686/summary.html (443 words)

	Michael Nyman News
		I Was a Total Virgin is the title of a new collaboration between Michael Nyman and Hanif Kureishi but, when it comes to the pop-classical fusion explored in the genre-bending festival fuseleeds, everyone was a...
		A prolific composer, Michael Nyman has created unique soundtracks for such features as "The Draughtsman's Contract", "The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover" and Jane Campion's "The Piano".
		This is the second collaboration between the composer Michael Nyman and the choreographer Shobana Jeyasingh.
	www.topix.net /who/michael-nyman (365 words)

	Michael Nyman Biography :: Hollywood.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		A prolific composer, Michael Nyman has created unique soundtracks for such features as "The Draughtsman's Contract" (1982), "The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover" (1991) and Jane Campion's "The Piano" (1993).
		Nyman used popular Scottish songs as the basis for his compositions which were tailored to Hunter's performing abilities and to the repertoire of the 19th Century.
		Because the actress played the work in a softer style than Nyman's, he has claimed that Hunter "discovered all the life and passion beneath the surface of the music." Although the film's music was integral to its success, its score was overlooked for Oscar consideration.
	www.hollywood.com /celebs/fulldetail/id/189160 (746 words)

	Michael Nyman - The Piano
		Jane Campion's choice of Michael Nyman to produce the soundtrack for "The piano" was truly inspired for this unusual film.
		Nyman realised this immediately and sought first of all to create the right sound for Ada's music.
		He decided that she was from Scotland and, as a self-taught musician, would compose music layering Scottish folk, dance and popular songs from the era (Victorian 1850s) onto a classical foundation.
	www.mfiles.co.uk /reviews/nyman-the-piano.htm (421 words)

	BBC - Classical Review - Michael Nyman, Nyman at 60
		Michael Nyman, composer, musicologist and critic, asserts his place in musical history with the re-release of six of his classic recordings, five of which are soundtracks.
		Apart from 'The Piano'; Nyman is best known for his loud and wonderful piece 'Memorial' from 'The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover'.
		Despite the fact that Michael Nyman has been somewhat dismissed by the contemporary music milieu there is no doubt that he has carved his place in music history.
	www.bbc.co.uk /music/classical/reviews/nyman60_nymanat60.shtml (1238 words)

	Michael NYMAN The End of the Affair : Film Music on the Web CD Reviews Feb 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		It is with "The End of the Affair," performed by the Michael Nyman Orchestra, that I realize I ought to place my views firmly, diplomatically in the middle.
		Nyman has an unconventional way with counterpoint (and lack thereof) that is lush and thoroughly amazing, and the themes are memorable and inhabit the soundscape aggressively well.
		Nyman reprises the attractive, but sometimes wearying string-laden intensity familiar from Carrington and Wonderland.
	www.musicweb-international.com /film/2000/feb00/nyman.htm (583 words)

	BBC - World Review - Michael Nyman, Sangam
		Sangam is Michael Nyman's latest and boldest attempt to fuse two diametrically opposed musical worlds, the improvisatory world of Indian classical music and the pre-composed world of Nyman.
		Nyman's harmonic cushion (in D major predominantly) is woven out of a chord progression set at random against the vocals of the Indian singers.
		Although my love affair with Nyman has dwindled over the past five years, this record is fusion in the best sense.
	www.bbc.co.uk /music/world/reviews/michaelnyman_sangam.shtml (599 words)

	Amazon.ca: Experimental Music : Cage and Beyond: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		My dream is that Michael Nyman will someday return to update this book and offer some insights on the new, strange paths, experimental music has taken in the age of the personal computer, robotics and the Internet.
		Nyman contrasts Wolff to Stockhausen, then a leading serialist: "Stockhausen is speaking of an unwanted situation needing to be remedied by his intervention, Wolff of a situation he is quite happy to accept, leaving sounds to go their own way." (27) As Cage says in his "Silence,"
		When Michael Nyman first published this work in the 70s, it was the only book of its kind to discuss some of the most cutting-edge stuff going around.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0521653835 (1057 words)

	The Draughtsman's Contract - Michael Nyman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Although Nyman appears to have taken Purcell as the basis for much of the music, notably in using some of Purcell's own ground basses, one could never confuse this with real music of the period.
		Nyman notes that he is actively trying to avoid the music being pastiche, but this kind of neo-renaissance style of writing is pastiche of a sort.
		It's certainly a different and interesting approach to the period score and given that Nyman started writing a thesis on music of that period, it is clearly written with an air of authority.
	www.soundtrack-express.com /osts/draughtsmanscontract.htm (432 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Noises, Sounds & Sweet Airs - Michael Nyman at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Michael Nyman’s Noises, Sounds & Sweet Airs is a modified version of Nyman’s score for Karine Saporta’s opera-ballet, La Princesse de Milan, written during and after the period in 1990-91 when Nyman was also working on the score for Peter Greenaway’s film Prospero’s Books; both works have their source in Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
		Nyman makes full use of the dramatic tension in Shakespeare’s text, and the various sections move along quite fluently.
		Add to that the “poetics” (Nyman’s word) behind the assignment of voices to various passages, and Nyman comes up with several opportunities for wonderful duets and trios, such as section 11, between Stephano and Caliban, sung by Summers and Bostridge, which is very dramatic and in parts, downright evil.
	www.epinions.com /content_94953442948 (663 words)

	Michael Nyman : Prospero's Books - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		Michael Nyman has written many fine soundtracks for Peter Greenaway films, but his music for the British director's cinematic version of Shakespeare's The Tempest ranks as one of his best.
		A third of the program consists of elegiac vocal pieces, which feature Sarah Leonard's beautifully soaring, "boy soprano" voice (the inclusion of vocals was accidental, as Nyman textually mistook the play's locale to be island of voices instead of an "isle of noises" -- a fortuitous oversight considering the charm of these pieces).
		Nyman enlists the talents of the Balenescu Quartet (who have also recorded Nyman's first three string quartets) and tenor saxophonist John Harle to form the core of his excellent 22-piece band.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,194735,00.html (275 words)

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