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Michael Nyman honoured with the Ivor Novello Classical Music Award
Award-winning composer Michael Nyman has been honoured with the annual Classical Music Award at the Ivor Novello awards at Grosvenor House. This award marks his distinguished career as one of Britain’s most successful composers.
Doing the Rounds to premiere at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music
Michael Nyman will unveil a world premiere work titled Doing the Rounds at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music as the Con’s International Marquee Composer 2011.
When: May 27 - 28, 2011
Web: http://sydney.edu.au/news/music/783.html?year=2011&month=5&day=27
Source: http://www.limelightmagazine.com.au/Event/257668,michael-nyman-world-premiere-sydney-conservatorium-of-music.aspx
NYMan With A Movie Camera respins a classic
NYMan With A Movie Camera at the MoMa, Sun May 8th
AS MANY EYES AS A MAN CAN HAVE
by Kenton Turk | The Art Resort
Dziga Vertov’s legendary and highly influential 1929 wordless documentary Man With A Camera receives a tribute and update at once with Michael Nyman’s attempt at “a truly international absolute language”, the original’s stated intention. Where Vertov’s camera captured life in Soviet cities only, Nyman is able to take the aim one step further, reflecting our modern world: here, the locales themselves give evidence of today’s accepted international interaction. 26 countries and territories are listed in the credits, and Nyman’s camera moves as freely between continents as it does between social classes, activities and cinematic devices. What appears at times to be haphazard collage shows abundant evidence of clever segues that imply plays-on-words or various views of a single subject.
MN Records releases the opera "Facing Goya"
Facing Goya is a taut thriller that follows one woman’s passionate search for the 18th Century Spanish artist Goya’s missing skull. Her journey takes us into the dangerous world of racial stereotyping, gene therapy, cloning and humankind’s follies as seen through Goya’s paintings, etchings and captions. The idea for the opera arose from Michael Nyman’s fascination with the insidious study of craniometry that developed in the 1870s.
Goya was regarded as one of the greatest painters of his time. Buried in Bordeaux, legend has it that he asked friends to ensure his head was removed prior to burial to prevent the early craniometrists and researchers of eugenics from getting hold of his brain.
Box Set includes Full Libretto and extensive booklet notes.
Contains FREE BONUS CD of highlights of Michael Nyman’s two previously released operas on MN Records.
Release date: 26 April 2011
Order: http://www.mnrecords.com/product3.html?cd=MNRCD121-122
Nyman to perform soundtrack music for İstanbul concertgoers
By HATICE AHSEN UTKU | Today’s Zaman
Michael Nyman is a living musical legend: a pioneer in minimalist music, famous for his operas, such as “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat” and “Facing Goya,” and for scoring many films, most notably for director Peter Greenaway and for Jane Campion’s “The Piano.” Now, the British composer-pianist-librettist-musicologist and his eponymously named band are taking to the Cemal Reşit Rey Concert Hall stage on Friday.