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Michael Nyman

Index Michael Nyman

Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE (born 23 March 1944) is an English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist, known for numerous film scores (many written during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway), and his multi-platinum soundtrack album to Jane Campion's The Piano. [1]

202 relations: 'The Masterwork' Award Winning Fish-Knife, A Cock and Bull Story, A Handshake in the Dark, A Zed & Two Noughts, Abbey Road Studios, Across Indiana, Acts of Beauty/Exit no Exit, After Extra Time (album), Alan Bush, All You Need Is Love, Alto, Alva Noto, American Film Institute, And Do They Do/Zoo Caprices, Andrew Ford (composer), Anton Webern, Aria, Arthur Rimbaud, Barbara Benary, Baroque music, Barry Lyndon, BBC, Belladonna (band), British Academy Film Awards, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, British Council, Burlington, Vermont, Carlo Goldoni, Carrington (film), Case study, Chamber music, Chasing Sheep Is Best Left to Shepherds, Classical music, Cloning, Concerto, Concerto grosso, Concertos (Michael Nyman album), Contralto, Cornelius Cardew, Damon Albarn, David McAlmont, Decay Music, Don Giovanni, Down by the Greenwood Side (opera), Drowning by Numbers, Dziga Vertov, Early music, Eighteam, Enemy Zero, Everyday (film), ..., Facing Goya, Film director, French horn, Gattaca, George Brecht, George Frideric Handel, Golden Globe Award, Harpsichord, Harrison Birtwistle, Harry Escott, Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Henry Purcell, Imaginaerum, Iron Chef, Ivor Novello Awards, Jamal Jumá, James Marsh (director), Jane Campion, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jewish secularism, John Cage, John Dowland, John Harle, John Hunt Morgan, Jon Gibson (minimalist musician), Julian Lloyd Webber, Karlsruhe, Keep It Up Downstairs, King's College London, Kyoto, La Sept (album), La Traversée de Paris (album), Laurence Sterne, Letters, Riddles and Writs, Libretto, List of ambient music artists, Live Earth, Live Earth concert, Kyoto, Lloyds Bank, London Symphony Orchestra, Louvre, Love Counts, Love Is a Bourgeois Construct, Lucinda Childs, Madamina, il catalogo è questo, Man and Boy: Dada, Man on Wire, Man with a Movie Camera, Martin Lewis (humorist), Memorial (Nyman), MGV (composition), Michael Hastings (playwright), Michael Nyman (1981 album), Michael Nyman Band, Michael Nyman for Yohji Yamamoto, Michael Winterbottom, Minimal music, Minimalism, Molly Nyman, Movement (music), Music recording certification, Musicology, Naim Attallah, Ned Sublette, Nightwish, Noises, Sounds & Sweet Airs, Odesa International Film Festival, Ogg, Oliver Sacks, Orangery, Order of the British Empire, Out of the Ruins, Palace of Versailles, Pat Hutchins, Paul Celan, Paul McGrath (conductor), Pet Shop Boys, Peter Gordon (composer), Peter Greenaway, Peter Zummo, Philippe Petit, Piano quintet, Portsmouth Sinfonia, Potemkin Stairs, Prospero's Books, Queens Park Rangers F.C., Ravenous (1999 film), Rebec, Romania, Royal Academy of Music, Royal Opera of Versailles, Sangam: Michael Nyman Meets Indian Masters, Shawm, Sir George Monoux College, Song cycle, Soprano, Soundtrack, Stanley Kubrick, Stephen Foster, Stratford, London, String quartet, String Quartets 1–3, Strong on Oaks, Strong on the Causes of Oaks, Stuart Price, Taking a Line for a Second Walk, Tenor, The Beatles, The Commissar Vanishes, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (soundtrack), The Crow, the Owl and the Dove, The Draughtsman's Contract, The End of the Affair (1999 film), The Falls, The Flying Lizards, The Glare, The Hairdresser's Husband, The Kiss and Other Movements, The Kitchen, The Libertine (2004 film), The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (opera), The Michael Nyman Songbook, The Piano, The Piano (soundtrack), The Piano Concerto/MGV, The Road to Guantánamo, The Royal Ballet, The Spectator, The Suit and the Photograph, The Tempest, Thurston Dart, Time Will Pronounce, Titch (TV series), Tristram Shandy (opera), Trombone, Tuileries Garden, Types of trombone, Unchained Melody, University of Warwick, Ute Lemper, WFYI (TV), William Shakespeare, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Wonderland (soundtrack), World War I, Yoo Byung-eun, 20/20 (U.S. TV series), 2Graves, 8 Lust Songs: I Sonetti Lussuriosi, 9 Songs. Expand index (152 more) »

'The Masterwork' Award Winning Fish-Knife

'The Masterwork' Award Winning Fish-Knife is a 1979 performance sculpture by Paul Richards and Bruce McLean with music by Michael Nyman.

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A Cock and Bull Story

A Cock and Bull Story (marketed in Australia, New Zealand and the United States as Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story) is a 2005 British comedy film directed by Michael Winterbottom.

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A Handshake in the Dark

A Handshake in the Dark is an anti-war choral piece by Michael Nyman, based on texts by the Iraqi poet Jamal Jumá, an exiled poet living in Denmark, and constitutes a series of imaginary letters to his younger brother, a conscript captured by the Americans and whose whereabouts were long unknown.

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A Zed & Two Noughts

A Zed & Two Noughts is a 1985 film written and directed by Peter Greenaway.

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Abbey Road Studios

Abbey Road Studios (formerly known as EMI Recording Studios) is a recording studio at 3 Abbey Road, St John's Wood, City of Westminster, London, England.

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Across Indiana

Across Indiana is a weekly 30-minute-long television program which covers places, people, history and culture across Indiana.

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Acts of Beauty/Exit no Exit

Acts of Beauty • Exit no Exit is the 55th album by Michael Nyman, the eighth on his own label, and the third of these to consist entirely of previously unrecorded work.

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After Extra Time (album)

After Extra Time is a 1996 album by Michael Nyman with the Michael Nyman Band containing three tributes to Nyman's fandom of Association football: After Extra Time, the soundtrack to The Final Score, and Memorial.

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Alan Bush

Alan Dudley Bush (22 December 1900 – 31 October 1995) was a British composer, pianist, conductor, teacher and political activist.

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All You Need Is Love

"All You Need Is Love" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles that was released as a non-album single in July 1967.

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Alto

The musical term alto, meaning "high" in Italian (Latin: altus), refers to the second highest part of a contrapuntal musical texture and is also applied to its associated vocal range, especially in choral music.

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Alva Noto

Carsten Nicolai (September 18, 1965), known as Alva Noto, is a German musician.

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American Film Institute

The American Film Institute (AFI) is an American film organization that educates filmmakers and honors the heritage of the motion picture arts in the United States.

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And Do They Do/Zoo Caprices

And Do They Do/Zoo Caprices is the eighth album released by Michael Nyman and the fifth featuring the Michael Nyman Band.

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Andrew Ford (composer)

Andrew Ford (born 18 March 1957 in Liverpool) is an English-born Australian composer, writer and radio presenter.

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Anton Webern

Anton Friedrich Wilhelm (von) Webern (3 December 188315 September 1945) was an Austrian composer and conductor.

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Aria

An aria (air; plural: arie, or arias in common usage, diminutive form arietta or ariette) in music was originally any expressive melody, usually, but not always, performed by a singer.

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Arthur Rimbaud

Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (20 October 1854 – 10 November 1891) was a French poet who is known for his influence on modern literature and arts, which prefigured surrealism.

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Barbara Benary

Barbara Benary (born April 6, 1946) is an American composer and ethnomusicologist specializing in Indonesian and Indian music.

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Baroque music

Baroque music is a style of Western art music composed from approximately 1600 to 1750.

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Barry Lyndon

Barry Lyndon is a 1975 British-American period drama film by Stanley Kubrick, based on the 1844 novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Belladonna (band)

Belladonna is an Italian Rock noir band.

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British Academy Film Awards

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts or BAFTA Film Awards are presented in an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to honour the best British and international contributions to film.

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British Academy of Film and Television Arts

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is an independent charity that supports, develops and promotes the art forms of the moving image – film, television and game in the United Kingdom.

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British Council

The British Council is a British organisation specialising in international cultural and educational opportunities.

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Burlington, Vermont

Burlington is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Vermont and the seat of Chittenden County.

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Carlo Goldoni

Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni (25 February 1707 – 6 February 1793) was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice.

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Carrington (film)

Carrington is a 1995 British biographical film written and directed by Christopher Hampton about the life of the English painter Dora Carrington (1893–1932), who was known simply as "Carrington".

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Case study

In the social sciences and life sciences, a case study is a research method involving an up-close, in-depth, and detailed examination of a subject of study (the case), as well as its related contextual conditions.

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Chamber music

Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or a large room.

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Chasing Sheep Is Best Left to Shepherds

Chasing Sheep is Best Left to Shepherds is a piece of minimalist music from the soundtrack for The Draughtsman's Contract, written by Michael Nyman.

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Classical music

Classical music is art music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western culture, including both liturgical (religious) and secular music.

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Cloning

Cloning is the process of producing genetically identical individuals of an organism either naturally or artificially.

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Concerto

A concerto (plural concertos, or concerti from the Italian plural) is a musical composition usually composed in three movements, in which, usually, one solo instrument (for instance, a piano, violin, cello or flute) is accompanied by an orchestra or concert band.

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Concerto grosso

The concerto grosso (Italian for big concert(o), plural concerti grossi) is a form of baroque music in which the musical material is passed between a small group of soloists (the concertino) and full orchestra (the ripieno or concerto grosso).

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Concertos (Michael Nyman album)

Concertos is the 31st album by Michael Nyman, released in 1997.

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Contralto

A contralto is a type of classical female singing voice whose vocal range is the lowest female voice type.

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Cornelius Cardew

Cornelius Cardew (7 May 193613 December 1981) was an English experimental music composer, and founder (with Howard Skempton and Michael Parsons) of the Scratch Orchestra, an experimental performing ensemble.

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Damon Albarn

Damon Albarn (born 23 March 1968) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, composer and record producer.

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David McAlmont

David Irving McAlmont (born 2 May 1967 in Croydon, Surrey) is an English vocalist and songwriter.

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Decay Music

Decay Music is the 1976 debut album by Michael Nyman, released on Brian Eno's Obscure Records music label.

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Don Giovanni

Don Giovanni (K. 527; complete title: Il dissoluto punito, ossia il Don Giovanni, literally The Rake Punished, namely Don Giovanni or The Libertine Punished) is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte.

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Down by the Greenwood Side (opera)

Down by the Greenwood Side is a "dramatic pastoral" composed by Harrison Birtwistle to a text by Michael Nyman.

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Drowning by Numbers

Drowning by Numbers is a 1988 British-Dutch film directed by Peter Greenaway.

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Dziga Vertov

Dziga Vertov (Дзига Вертов; born David Abelevich Kaufman, Дави́д А́белевич Ка́уфман., and also known as Denis Kaufman; 2 January 1896 – 12 February 1954) was a Soviet pioneer documentary film and newsreel director, as well as a cinema theorist.

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Early music

Early music generally comprises Medieval music (500–1400) and Renaissance music (1400–1600), but can also include Baroque music (1600–1760).

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Eighteam

Eighteam is a 2015 Spanish/Zambian documentary film written and directed by Juan Rodriguez-Briso.

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Enemy Zero

is a 1996 survival horror adventure video game for the Sega Saturn, developed by WARP and directed by Kenji Eno.

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Everyday (film)

Everyday is a 2012 British drama film directed by Michael Winterbottom.

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Facing Goya

Facing Goya (2000) is an opera in four acts by Michael Nyman on a libretto by Victoria Hardie.

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Film director

A film director is a person who directs the making of a film.

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French horn

The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the "horn" in some professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell.

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Gattaca

Gattaca is a 1997 American science fiction film written and directed by Andrew Niccol.

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George Brecht

George Brecht (August 27, 1926 – December 5, 2008), born George Ellis MacDiarmid, was an American conceptual artist and avant-garde composer, as well as a professional chemist who worked as a consultant for companies including Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, and Mobil Oil.

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George Frideric Handel

George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (born italic; 23 February 1685 (O.S.) – 14 April 1759) was a German, later British, Baroque composer who spent the bulk of his career in London, becoming well-known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, and organ concertos.

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Golden Globe Award

Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association beginning in January 1944, recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign.

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Harpsichord

A harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard which activates a row of levers that in turn trigger a mechanism that plucks one or more strings with a small plectrum.

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Harrison Birtwistle

Sir Harrison Paul Birtwistle, (born 15 July 1934) is a British composer.

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Harry Escott

Harry Escott (born 9 September 1976) is a British composer living in London.

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Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber

Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (12 August 1644 (baptised) – 3 May 1704) was a Bohemian-Austrian composer and violinist.

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Henry Purcell

Henry Purcell (or; c. 10 September 1659According to Holman and Thompson (Grove Music Online, see References) there is uncertainty regarding the year and day of birth. No record of baptism has been found. The year 1659 is based on Purcell's memorial tablet in Westminster Abbey and the frontispiece of his Sonnata's of III. Parts (London, 1683). The day 10 September is based on vague inscriptions in the manuscript GB-Cfm 88. It may also be relevant that he was appointed to his first salaried post on 10 September 1677, which would have been his eighteenth birthday. – 21 November 1695) was an English composer.

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Imaginaerum

Imaginaerum is the seventh studio album by Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish.

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Iron Chef

is a Japanese television cooking show produced by Fuji Television.

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Ivor Novello Awards

The Ivor Novello Awards, named after the entertainer Ivor Novello, are awards for songwriting and composing.

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Jamal Jumá

Jamal Jumá, born in Baghdad, is an Iraqi poet and writer.

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James Marsh (director)

James Marsh (born 30 April 1963) is a British film and documentary director best known for his work on Man on Wire, which won the 2008 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, and The Theory of Everything, the multi-award winning biopic of physicist Stephen Hawking released in 2014.

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Jane Campion

Dame Elizabeth Jane Campion (born 30 April 1954) is a New Zealand screenwriter, producer, and director.

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Jerry Lee Lewis

Jerry Lee Lewis (born September 29, 1935) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and pianist, often known by his nickname, The Killer.

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Jewish secularism

Jewish secularism comprises the non-religious Jewish people and the body of work produced by them.

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John Cage

John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer and music theorist.

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John Dowland

John Dowland (1563 – buried 20 February 1626) was an English Renaissance composer, lutenist, and singer.

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John Harle

John Harle (born 20 September 1956, Newcastle upon Tyne, England) is an English saxophonist, composer, educator and record producer.

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John Hunt Morgan

John Hunt Morgan (June 1, 1825 – September 4, 1864) was a Confederate general in the American Civil War.

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Jon Gibson (minimalist musician)

Jon Gibson (born March 11, 1940) is a flautist, saxophonist, composer and visual artist, known as one of the founding members of the Philip Glass Ensemble and as a key player on several seminal minimalist music compositions.

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Julian Lloyd Webber

Julian Lloyd Webber (born 14 April 1951) is a British cellist, conductor and the principal of the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.

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Karlsruhe

Karlsruhe (formerly Carlsruhe) is the second-largest city in the state of Baden-Württemberg, in southwest Germany, near the French-German border.

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Keep It Up Downstairs

Keep It Up Downstairs is a 1976 British sex comedy film directed by Robert Young and starring Diana Dors, Jack Wild and William Rushton.

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King's College London

King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom, and a founding constituent college of the federal University of London.

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Kyoto

, officially, is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture, located in the Kansai region of Japan.

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La Sept (album)

La Sept is a 1989 promotional album of music for La Sept written by Michael Nyman and performed by the Michael Nyman Band.

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La Traversée de Paris (album)

La Traversée de Paris (The Crossing of Paris) is an album by the Michael Nyman Band featuring music composed by Michael Nyman for an audio-visual exhibition of the same name which took place at the Grande Arche de la Défense from July to December 1989 to celebrate the bicentennial of the French Revolution.

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Laurence Sterne

Laurence Sterne (24 November 1713 – 18 March 1768) was an Irish novelist and an Anglican clergyman.

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Letters, Riddles and Writs

Letters, Riddles and Writs is a one act opera for television by Michael Nyman.

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Libretto

A libretto is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or musical.

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List of ambient music artists

This is a list of ambient music artists.

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Live Earth

Live Earth is an event developed to increase environmental awareness through entertainment.

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Live Earth concert, Kyoto

One of the Live Earth concerts in Japan was held at Tō-ji, Kyoto on 7 July 2007.

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Lloyds Bank

Lloyds Bank plc is a British retail and commercial bank with branches across England and Wales.

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London Symphony Orchestra

The London Symphony Orchestra (LSO), founded in 1904, is the oldest of London's symphony orchestras.

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Louvre

The Louvre, or the Louvre Museum, is the world's largest art museum and a historic monument in Paris, France.

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Love Counts

Love Counts is a 2005 opera in two acts by Michael Nyman to a libretto by Michael Hastings.

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Love Is a Bourgeois Construct

"Love Is a Bourgeois Construct" is the third single from the Pet Shop Boys album Electric, released on 1 September 2013 as a digital download and on 30 September on CD.

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Lucinda Childs

Lucinda Childs (born June 26, 1940) is an American postmodern dancer/choreographer and actress.

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Madamina, il catalogo è questo

"" (also known as the Catalogue Aria) is a bass catalogue aria from Mozart's opera Don Giovanni to an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte, and is one of Mozart's most famous and popular arias.

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Man and Boy: Dada

Man and Boy: Dada is a 2003 opera by Michael Nyman on a libretto by Michael Hastings.

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Man on Wire

Man on Wire is a 2008 British-American biographical documentary film directed by James Marsh.

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Man with a Movie Camera

Man with a Movie Camera (Человек с кино-аппаратом (Chelovek s kinoapparatom), Людина з кіноапаратом (Liudyna z Kinoaparatom) – sometimes called A Man with a Movie Camera, The Man with the Movie Camera, The Man with a Camera, The Man with the Kinocamera, or Living Russia) – is an experimental 1929 Soviet silent documentary film, directed by Dziga Vertov and edited by his wife Elizaveta Svilova.

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Martin Lewis (humorist)

Martin Neil Lewis (born 24 July 1952) is a US-based English humorist, writer, radio/TV host, producer, and marketing strategist.

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Memorial (Nyman)

Memorial is an epic funeral march-like piece, composed by Michael Nyman around 1984-1985.

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MGV (composition)

MGV, or Musique à Grande Vitesse (High-Speed Music) is a 1993 musical composition by English composer Michael Nyman.

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Michael Hastings (playwright)

Michael Gerald Hastings (2 September 1938 – 19 November 2011) was a British playwright, screenwriter, and occasional novelist and poet.

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Michael Nyman (1981 album)

Michael Nyman is the third album release by Michael Nyman and the second with the Michael Nyman Band, having previously contributed tracks to new music compilations.

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Michael Nyman Band

The Michael Nyman Band, formerly known as the Campiello Band, is a group formed as a street band for a 1976 production of Carlo Goldoni's 1756 play, Il Campiello directed by Bill Bryden at the Old Vic.

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Michael Nyman for Yohji Yamamoto

Michael Nyman for Yohji Yamamoto is volume 2 of Yohji Yamamoto's series of albums, The Show.

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Michael Winterbottom

Michael Winterbottom (born 29 March 1961) is an English filmmaker.

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Minimal music

Minimal music is a form of art music that employs limited or minimal musical materials.

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Minimalism

In visual arts, music, and other mediums, minimalism is an art movement that began in post–World War II Western art, most strongly with American visual arts in the 1960s and early 1970s.

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Molly Nyman

Molly Nyman has composed numerous film scores, mostly in collaboration with Harry Escott.

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Movement (music)

A movement is a self-contained part of a musical composition or musical form.

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Music recording certification

Music recording certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped, sold, or streamed a certain number of units.

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Musicology

Musicology is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music.

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Naim Attallah

Naim Ibrahim Attallah CBE (نعيم إبراهيم عطالله, born 1 May 1931) is a businessman and writer.

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Ned Sublette

Ned Sublette (born 1951 in Lubbock, Texas) is an American composer, musician, record producer, musicologist, and author.

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Nightwish

Nightwish are a symphonic metal band from Kitee, Finland.

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Noises, Sounds & Sweet Airs

Noises, Sounds & Sweet Airs is a 1991 opera by Michael Nyman that began as an opera-ballet titled La Princesse de Milan choreographed by Karine Saporta.

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Odesa International Film Festival

Odesa International Film Festival (Одéський міжнарóдний кінофестивáль) is an annual film festival held in the middle of the July in Odesa, Ukraine.

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Ogg

Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation.

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Oliver Sacks

Oliver Wolf Sacks, (9 July 1933 – 30 August 2015) was a British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and author.

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Orangery

An orangery or orangerie was a room or a dedicated building on the grounds of fashionable residences from the 17th to the 19th centuries where orange and other fruit trees were protected during the winter, similar to a greenhouse or conservatory.

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Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the Civil service.

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Out of the Ruins

Out of the Ruins is a choral work by Michael Nyman for an eponymous BBC documentary by Agnieszka Piotrowska in commemorating the first anniversary of the 1988 Spitak earthquake in Armenia 7 December 1988, which aired on the BBC's 40 Minutes.

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Palace of Versailles

The Palace of Versailles (Château de Versailles;, or) was the principal residence of the Kings of France from Louis XIV in 1682 until the beginning of the French Revolution in 1789.

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Pat Hutchins

Patricia Evelyn Hutchins (18 June 1942 – 8 November 2017) was an English illustrator, writer of children's books and broadcaster.

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Paul Celan

Paul Celan (23 November 1920 – c. 20 April 1970) was a Romanian-born German language poet and translator.

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Paul McGrath (conductor)

Paul McGrath (born 14 May 1964) is a British conductor and television personality best known for his involvement with prominent contemporary composers such as Jonathan Dove, Julian Grant, Michael Nyman and Judith Weir and for his role as a mentor in the BBC series A Maestro at the Opera.

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Pet Shop Boys

The Pet Shop Boys are an English synthpop duo, formed in London in 1981 and consisting of Neil Tennant (lead vocals, keyboards, occasional guitar) and Chris Lowe (keyboards, vocals).

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Peter Gordon (composer)

Peter Gordon (born June 20, 1951, New York City) is an American experimental composer and musician, whose music has influences as diverse as jazz, opera, rock and world music.

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Peter Greenaway

Peter Greenaway, CBE (born 5 April 1942 in Newport, Wales) is a British film director, screenwriter, and artist.

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Peter Zummo

Peter Zummo (born 1948) is an American composer and trombonist.

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Philippe Petit

Philippe Petit (born 13 August 1949) is a French high-wire artist who gained fame for his high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, on the morning of August 7, 1974 as well as his high wire walk between the towers of Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, 1971.

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Piano quintet

In classical music, a piano quintet is a work of chamber music written for piano and four other instruments.

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Portsmouth Sinfonia

The Portsmouth Sinfonia was an orchestra founded by a group of students at the Portsmouth School of Art in England, in 1970.

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Potemkin Stairs

The Potemkin Stairs, or Potemkin Steps (Потьомкінські сходи, Potj'omkins'ky Skhody, Потёмкинская лестница, Potyomkinskaya Lestnitsa), is a giant stairway in Odessa, Ukraine.

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Prospero's Books

Prospero's Books is a 1991 British avant-garde film adaptation of William Shakespeare's The Tempest, written and directed by Peter Greenaway.

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Queens Park Rangers F.C.

Queens Park Rangers Football Club, commonly abbreviated to QPR, is a professional association football club based in White City, London.

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Ravenous (1999 film)

Ravenous is a 1999 Western black comedy horror-suspense film directed by Antonia Bird and starring Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle, Jeffrey Jones and David Arquette.

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Rebec

The rebec (sometimes rebecha, rebeckha, and other spellings, pronounced or) is a bowed stringed instrument of the Medieval era and the early Renaissance era.

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Romania

Romania (România) is a sovereign state located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe.

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Royal Academy of Music

The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is the oldest conservatoire in the UK, founded in 1822 by John Fane and Nicolas Bochsa.

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Royal Opera of Versailles

The Royal Opera of Versailles is the main theatre and opera house of the Palace of Versailles.

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Sangam: Michael Nyman Meets Indian Masters

Sangam: Michael Nyman Meets Indian Masters is the 46th album by Michael Nyman.

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Shawm

The shawm (/ʃɔːm/) is a conical bore, double-reed woodwind instrument made in Europe from the 12th century to the present day.

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Sir George Monoux College

Sir George Monoux College is a sixth form college located in Walthamstow, East London.

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Song cycle

A song cycle (Liederkreis or Liederzyklus) is a group, or cycle, of individually complete songs designed to be performed in a sequence as a unit.

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Soprano

A soprano is a type of classical female singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types.

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Soundtrack

A soundtrack, also written sound track, can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film, video or television presentation; or the physical area of a film that contains the synchronized recorded sound.

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Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.

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Stephen Foster

Stephen Collins Foster (July 4, 1826January 13, 1864), known as "the father of American music", was an American songwriter known primarily for his parlor and minstrel music.

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Stratford, London

Stratford is a town and parish in London, in the London Borough of Newham.

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String quartet

A string quartet is a musical ensemble of four string players – two violin players, a viola player and a cellist – or a piece written to be performed by such a group.

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String Quartets 1–3

String Quartets 1–3 is a 1991 album by the Balanescu Quartet (Alexander Balanescu, Jonathan Carney, Kate Musker, and Tony Hinnigan) and the fifteenth release by Michael Nyman.

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Strong on Oaks, Strong on the Causes of Oaks

Strong on Oaks, Strong on the Causes of Oaks is a 1998 album by the English Sinfonia conducted by Bramwell Tovey.

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Stuart Price

Stuart Price (born 9 September 1977) is a three-time Grammy-winning English electronic musician, DJ, songwriter, and record producer known for his work with artists including Madonna, The Killers, New Order, Kylie Minogue, Example, Take That, Missy Elliott, Scissor Sisters, Pet Shop Boys, Brandon Flowers, Gwen Stefani, Seal, Keane, Frankmusik, Hard-Fi, Hurts and Everything Everything.

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Taking a Line for a Second Walk

Taking a Line for a Second Walk is the name of piano duo reduction of a dance work for orchestra by Michael Nyman, Basic Black, written in 1986 for the Houston Ballet.

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Tenor

Tenor is a type of classical male singing voice, whose vocal range is normally the highest male voice type, which lies between the baritone and countertenor voice types.

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The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960.

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The Commissar Vanishes

The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin's Russia is a 1997 book by David King about the censoring of photographs and fraudulent creation of "photographs" in Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union through silent alteration via airbrushing and other techniques.

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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover is a 1989 crime drama film written and directed by Peter Greenaway, starring Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren, and Alan Howard in the titular roles.

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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (soundtrack)

The Cook The Thief His Wife & Her Lover is the twelfth album release by Michael Nyman and the ninth to feature the Michael Nyman Band.

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The Crow, the Owl and the Dove

"The Crow, the Owl and the Dove" is the second single from the Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish's seventh studio album Imaginaerum and was released on March 2, 2012.

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The Draughtsman's Contract

The Draughtsman's Contract is a 1982 British film written and directed by Peter Greenaway – his first conventional feature film (following the feature-length mockumentary The Falls).

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The End of the Affair (1999 film)

The End of the Affair is a 1999 drama film directed by Neil Jordan and starring Ralph Fiennes, Julianne Moore and Stephen Rea.

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The Falls

The Falls is a 1980 film directed by Peter Greenaway.

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The Flying Lizards

The Flying Lizards were an experimental English new wave band, formed in 1976.

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The Glare

The Glare is a 2009 album pairing Michael Nyman with David McAlmont.

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The Hairdresser's Husband

The Hairdresser's Husband (Le Mari de la coiffeuse), a 1990 French film written by Patrice Leconte and Claude Klotz, and directed by Leconte.

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The Kiss and Other Movements

The Kiss and Other Movements is the sixth album release by Michael Nyman, and the fifth recording (fourth full album) with the Michael Nyman Band.

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The Kitchen

The Kitchen is a non-profit, multi-disciplinary art and performance space located at 512 West 19th Street, between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.

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The Libertine (2004 film)

The Libertine is a 2004 British-Australian drama film, the first film directed by Laurence Dunmore.

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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (or Tristram Shandy) is a novel by Laurence Sterne.

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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales is a 1985 book by neurologist Oliver Sacks describing the case histories of some of his patients.

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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (opera)

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat is a one-act chamber opera by Michael Nyman to an English-language libretto by Christopher Rawlence, adapted from the case study of the same name by Oliver Sacks by Nyman, Rawlence, and Michael Morris.

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The Michael Nyman Songbook

The Michael Nyman Songbook is a collection of art songs by Michael Nyman based on texts by Paul Celan, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, William Shakespeare and Arthur Rimbaud.

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The Piano

The Piano is a 1993 New Zealand drama film about a mute piano player and her daughter, set during the mid-19th century in a rainy, muddy frontier backwater town on the west coast of New Zealand.

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The Piano (soundtrack)

The Piano is the original soundtrack, on the Virgin Records label, of the 1993 Academy Award-winning film The Piano.

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The Piano Concerto/MGV

The Piano Concerto/MGV is the 23rd album by Michael Nyman, released in 1994.

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The Road to Guantánamo

The Road to Guantánamo, alternatively The Road to Guantanamo, is a British 2006 docudrama film written and directed by Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross about the incarceration of three British citizens (the 'Tipton Three'), who were captured in 2001 in Afghanistan and detained by the United States there and for more than two years at the detainment camp in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba.

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The Royal Ballet

The Royal Ballet is an internationally renowned classical ballet company, based at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London, England.

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The Spectator

The Spectator is a weekly British magazine on politics, culture, and current affairs.

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The Suit and the Photograph

The Suit and the Photograph is a 1998 album by Michael Nyman with the Michael Nyman Band, recorded in 1995.

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The Tempest

The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1610–1611, and thought by many critics to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone.

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Thurston Dart

Robert Thurston ("Bob") Dart (3 September 1921 – 6 March 1971), was an English musicologist, conductor and keyboard player.

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Time Will Pronounce

Time Will Pronounce: The 1992 Commissions is a 1993 album by Michael Nyman, his eighteenth release.

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Titch (TV series)

Titch was a stop-motion children's television programme that originally aired on Children's ITV from 1997 to 2000, then from 2001 to 2006 on Tiny Living, before appearing on Milkshake! in 2006 as Tiny Living went off-air.

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Tristram Shandy (opera)

Tristram Shandy is an unfinished opera project by Michael Nyman based on his favorite novel, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, by Laurence Sterne, begun in 1981.

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Trombone

The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family.

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Tuileries Garden

The Tuileries Garden (Jardin des Tuileries) is a public garden located between the Louvre and the Place de la Concorde in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France.

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Types of trombone

There are many different types of trombone.

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Unchained Melody

"Unchained Melody" is a 1955 song with music by Alex North and lyrics by Hy Zaret.

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University of Warwick

The University of Warwick is a plate glass research university in Coventry, England.

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Ute Lemper

Ute Lemper (born 4 July 1963) is a German singer and actress renowned for her interpretation of the work of Kurt Weill.

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WFYI (TV)

WFYI, virtual channel 20 (UHF digital channel 21), is a PBS member television station licensed to Indianapolis, Indiana, United States.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the classical era.

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Wonderland (soundtrack)

Wonderland is the 38th album release by British composer Michael Nyman and the soundtrack to the 1999 film Wonderland.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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Yoo Byung-eun

Yoo Byung-eun was a South Korean businessman, and inventor, who as a photographer was known under the art name Ahae.

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20/20 (U.S. TV series)

20/20 is an American television newsmagazine that has been broadcast on ABC since June 6, 1978.

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2Graves

2Graves is a short one-man play by the British playwright Paul Sellar.

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8 Lust Songs: I Sonetti Lussuriosi

8 Lust Songs: I Sonetti Lussuriosi is a setting by Michael Nyman of 8 pieces of a collection of erotic poetry from Pietro Aretino’s I Sonetti Lussuriosi.

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9 Songs

9 Songs is a 2004 British art romantic drama film produced, written and directed by Michael Winterbottom.

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References

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