Time Will Pronounce

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Time Will Pronounce
The 1992 Commissions
minimalist music, art song
Length64:21
LanguageEnglish
LabelArgo
ProducerMichael Nyman, Michael J. Dutton
Michael Nyman chronology
The Essential Michael Nyman Band
(1992) 		Time Will Pronounce
The 1992 Commissions
(1993) 		The Piano
(1993)
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Time Will Pronounce: The 1992 Commissions is a 1993 album by Michael Nyman, his eighteenth release. Nyman does not perform on the album, but he composed all the music, produced it, and wrote the liner notes. The album contains four compositions. The album is dedicated to the memory of Tony Simons, "friend, manager, and generous and courageous survivor." The album is named for the second and longest of the four works, the only one featuring a former member of the Michael Nyman Band, Elisabeth Perry.

Self-laudatory hymn of Inanna and her omnipotence

13:55

James Bowman, countertenor

Fretwork

feminists, and not obscure, as he had initially thought. Indeed, she superseded all Sumerian deities, male or female, by the end of the Sumerian civilization.[2]
In spite of the last stanza of the piece being the most repetitive, Nyman chose to use cadential diversity rather than repetition.

The work was first performed June 11, 1992, at Christ Church, Spitalfields in London. The recording was made the following day at St. Augustine's Church.

Time will pronounce

20:35

Trio of London

The title of Time will pronounce is derived from the closing lines of Joseph Brodsky's "Bosnia Tune." Nyman uses the word "generally" five times in describing the nature of the work—violin and cello independent of piano, alternating tempi without motivation, use of harmonics, and so on. The piece premiered July 14 at the Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham.

The convertibility of lute strings

15:06

Virginia Black, harpsichord

Commissioned by

moneylenders when money was not available, but Nyman states that this is completely irrelevant to the piece, and that his only musical reference in it is to the closing section of his own opera, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
, because the piece was commissioned by a neurologist.

This work was first performed November 19 at the Purcell Room in London, and was recorded at St. Michael's Church in Highgate two days later.

For John Cage

14:23

London Brass

Mark Bennett was a guest performer on

Ástor Piazzolla. The working title for the piece has been "Canons, chorales and waltzes," but Nyman rejected this because there was only one canon, one waltz, and no chorales. The work features a non-simultaneous multiplicity of the group operating more like ensembles that constantly change.[3]

This piece was first performed November 16 at

Norton Knatchbull School in Ashford, Kent, and was recorded five days later at Abbey Road Studios
.

Album credits

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ Michael Nyman. Time Will Pronounce liner notes. 1993. p. 10.
  3. ^ Michael Nyman. Time Will Pronounce. Liner notes. p. 11
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