Peter Greenaway – Four American Composers (1983)
AMG plot
It makes sense that an offbeat director such as Peter Greenaway (The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, Prospero’s Books) would be attracted to a project such as 4 American Composers, a 1983 British television special profiling John Cage, Meredith Monk, Philip Glass, and Robert Ashley, four U.S. musical artists who haven’t been content simply to entertain, but feel compelled to “push the envelope” of music.
Meredith Monk episode chronicles the career of the award-winning artist, a composer and singer who also works in film and dance. Monk is the fourth generation in her family to become a singer, and pioneered “extended vocal technique.” Greenaway here provides viewers with performance sequences from Monk’s multimedia pieces “Dolman Music,” “Travelling,” “Ellis Island,” and others.
Robert Ashley episode chronicles the work and career of the distinguished composer , an innovator of opera who has worked to make it American in subject matter and idiom, writing opera for television. Greenaway here provides viewers with performances excerpted from Ashley’s seven-part television opera Perfect Lives. The opera was co-produced by Britain’s Channel Four television network in August of 1983.
Philip Glass episode chronicles the career of the award-winning artist , a composer trained in mathematics and philosophy, who in his twenties had a musical epiphany when he discovered the techniques of Indian music while transcribing Ravi Shankar’s music for a French filmmaker. Glass eventually applied techniques from India, North Africa, and the Himalayas to his seminal work. Greenaway here provides viewers with excerpts from performances of Glass’ compositions
John Cage episode centers on a concert performed in England on Cage’s 70th birthday. Featured are partial performances (sometimes overlapping) of a number of pieces, including “Roaratorio” (with Cage as narrator), “Forever and Sunsmell,” “Double Music,” and others. Highlights include a performance by Marcel Duchamp and interview commentary by Cage and others.
Four American Composers Meredith Monk 1983 PAL DVD DD2.0 x264-nosferato.mkv
General
Container: Matroska
Runtime: 52 min 9 s
Size: 1.58 GiB
Video
Codec: x264
Resolution: 700x576 ~> 994x576
Aspect ratio: 1.727
Frame rate: 25.000 fps
Bit rate: 3 948 kb/s
BPP: 0.392
Audio
#1: English 2.0ch AC-3 @ 384 kb/s
https://nitro.download/view/10AE6D89F3EB278/Four_American_Composers_John_Cage_1983_PAL_DVD_DD2.0_x264-nosferato.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/4294D722E9E783E/Four_American_Composers_Meredith_Monk_1983_PAL_DVD_DD2.0_x264-nosferato.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/15068E940B7261A/Four_American_Composers_Phillip_Glass_1983_PAL_DVD_DD2.0_x264-nosferato.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/0449690446F2CD7/Four_American_Composers_Robert_Ashley_1983_PAL_DVD_DD2.0_x264-nosferato.mkv
Language(s):English
Subtitles:French
