A Child's View Of Colour
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Soprano Voice and Piano

SKU: BT.MUSCH66561

Composed by Michael Nyman. Part. Composed 2003. 16 pages. Chester Music #MUSCH66561. Published by Chester Music (BT.MUSCH66561).

ISBN 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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