Michael Nyman News

The American Contemporary Music Ensemble - or, as it happens "ACME,'' with a classical slant - performs tomorrow, the first day of the Boston Conservatory Music Division's New Music Festival .

The Ahn Trio, consisting of three sisters who bring a new energy and excitement to the chamber music world, will perform at 4 p.m. Sunday at the James Lumber Center for the Performing Arts at the College of Lake County, 19351 W. Washington St.

A preview of Shobana Jeyasingh's Bruise Blood In short Trained in a classical Indian dance tradition, Shobana Jeyasingh remade it in her own image: cosmopolitan and urbane.

How is it that, at the grand old age of 76, Karl Lagerfeld is the one designer who can bring an audience of cynical, hard-bitten, show-fatigued fashionistas to their feet, cheering, as he delivers for Chanel not just a fabulous catwalk set, not just a beautiful collection, not just Prince in the audience, but also a live performance by a ...

The Vale of Glamorgan Festival celebrates its 40th anniversary next week. Gavin Allen talks to its artistic director John Metcalf FOR the last 40 years, John Metcalf has been curating the Vale of Glamorgan Festival, which started out as a regular classical music festival in 1969 when such events were not commonplace.

Even for a man often credited with being the first to talk of minimalism in music, more than 40 years ago, a Proms debut couldna TMt help but be a high-pressure enterprise.

Michael Nyman's band, superb musicians, were beautiful in their own way, but his art is a limited one for the Proms Geoff Brown If the Proms are a record of Britain's musical life, then who can deny a late-night place to the Michael Nyman Band? For more than 30 years Nyman's propulsive music has been filling concert venues and soundtracks.

MICHAEL Nyman is a media phenomenon. Best-known for his film scores - in particular those created for Peter Greenaway's films - the repertoire for this concert is drawn from these soundtracks, commencing with three tracks from The Draughtsman's Contract.

WHEN composer Michael Nyman was working on the soundtrack to the 1991 Peter Greenaway film Prospero's Books he needed three singers to play the parts of three Greek goddess.