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Nyman, Michael: A Child's View Of Colour (Vocal Score)
(Children's Voices, Piano)
choral sheets
Setting: Choral Music
Length: 16 pages
Weight: 0.06 kg
Published: 2003
Publisher: Chester Music
Item number: CH66561
Other reference: MUSCH66561
ISMN: 9781844490189
This work, composed for Children's Voices and String Quartet, was commissioned by the Young People's Chorus of New York City. Conductor's score and String Parts are available from the Publishers.
My text is extractedfromRodney Livingstone's translation of a short essay by the German cultural historian Walter Benjamin (1892-1940). It was written between 1914-15 during a metaphysical phase before Benjamin embraced Marxism. This text emphasisestheyoung person's, as opposed to the adult's, approach to colour: 'for the person who sees with a child's eyes, it marks boundaries, it is not a layer of something superimposed on matter, as it is with adults'. This work continuesmyinterest in art-based texts - from 'The Kiss' (1985) to my opera 'Facing Goya' (2000/02)┌ Michael Nyman 2003
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