Michaelnyman.com Website Review

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 Winterbottom’s Wonderland and The Departure, please see below for their forthcoming events. Michael Nyman is undoubtedly one of the UK’s most innovative and celebrated composers. His reputation is built upon a substantial body of work written for a wide variety of ensembles, not only for his own band, but also for symphony orchestra, choir and string quartet. In addition to his prolific output as a composer, Nyman is also a conductor, pianist, writer, musicologist, photographer and film-maker- his restless creativity and multi-faceted career making him one of the most dynamic and influential figures in contemporary Born in Stratford, East London on 23 March 1944, he was educated at the Sir George Monoux Grammar School, Walthamstow and studied at the Royal Academy of Music from 1961-64 with Dr Peter Fletcher, Alan Bush and Geraint Jones. Between 1964-67 Nyman was a Ph.D student at King’s College, London under Thurston Dart, studying English baroque music and the principles of scholarly editing, producing the first modern edition of Purcell’s CATCHES (Stainer and Bell, 1967) and a new edition of Handel’s CONCERTI GROSSI, OP.6 (Eulenberg, 1973). He In 1968, whilst working as music critic for THE SPECTATOR he coined the term ‘minimal music’ and in the following decade he both reflected and influenced a certain school of thought in contemporary music. Most of his important reviews, articles and interviews from The Spectator, New Statesman, The Listener and Studio International have since been published in MICHAEL NYMAN: COLLECTED WRITINGS, (Ashgate, 2013). In 1974, as a development of his journalistic work, Nyman published the still-clas*ic book on new music, EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC: