Weekly radio documentary which explores the merging of music and technology. Nyman composes chamber operas such as "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat," as well as film soundtracks. He also leads a minimalist classical rock group. He discusses cross-pollination among classical, rock and jazz elements in his music. Mantler, a jazz trumpeter and composer, discusses his unusual chamber settings of texts by Samuel Beckett, Edward Gory and Harold Pinter.|MICHAEL MANTLER AND MICHAEL NYMAN : CLASSICAL WORD JAZZ / produced by Diliberto and Kimberly Haas. SERIES: Totally wired IV| no. 9 Weekly radio documentary which explores the merging of music and technology. Nyman composes chamber operas such as "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat," as well as film soundtrack. He also leads a minimalist classical roch group. He discusses cross-pollination among classical, rock and jazz elements in his music. Mantler, a jazz trumpeter and composer, discusses his unusual chamber settings of texts by Samuel Beckett, Edward Gory and Harold Pinter. Funded by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. BROADCAST: Fall, 1989.
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