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There are also Sacksian spin-offs: Harold Pinter's 1982 play A Kind of Alaska was inspired by Awakenings. Both a Michael Nyman opera and Peter Brook's The Man Who are theatrical versions of Sacks' 1985 best seller The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat; the Brook play opens at the Brooklyn Academy of Music this week...
Music: For Michael Nyman, success is sweet revenge...
...Nyman spends half the year developing his attitude in the solitude of an 18th century farmhouse in the French Pyrenees, where he lives with his Estonian wife Aet. A couple of months a year at his other home in north London enables him to indulge his passion for the Queen's Park Rangers soccer team; the rest of the time he's on the road with the band...
...growing popularity, Nyman yearns for greater respectability in his homeland, where his film-music origins are still dismissed by practitioners of an academic avant-garde who are even more provincial, unlistenable and irrelevant than their counterparts in the U.S. "England has always been far less culturally democratic than America, and I was looked down on," he observes with some asperity. "They didn't listen to whether what I was producing was conventional pap or contemporary music in its own right -- which I think...
...write music to grab a large audience, though I'm pleased that I do," the composer says. "But success doesn't exactly help you confront that terrible blank page. When I sit down to write a piece of music, it's still the same old Michael Nyman, excited and terrified at the same time." His listeners are happy to go along for the ride...