Time Will Pronounce
| Time Will Pronounce The 1992 Commissions |
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photo by John Bellars
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| Studio album by Michael Nyman | ||||
| Released | June 1, 1993 (UK) September 14, 1993 (United States) |
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| Recorded | June 12, 1992, St. Augustine's Church, Kilburn [1] October 19, 1992, Abbey Road Studio 1, London [2] November 19, 1992, St. Michael's Church, Highgate [3] November 21, 1992, Abbey Road Studio 1 [4] |
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| Genre | Contemporary classical music, chamber music, minimalist music, art song | |||
| Length | 64:21 | |||
| Language | English | |||
| Label | Argo | |||
| Producer | Michael Nyman, Michael J. Dutton | |||
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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, each on a separate track. 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.
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Inanna is the Queen of the Heavens in the Sumerian religion. Nyman found the text on February 12, 1992 in a translation by Samuel Noah Kramer in Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament edited by James B. Pritchard (3rd edition with supplement, Princeton University Press, 1969), in the personal library of an Armenian friend. In the hymn, Inanna speaks proudly of all that her father, Enlil, has given her, and it takes the form of a list. Its audacity, shamelessness, and repetitive structure appealed to him, and thought it would be suitable for James Bowman's voice. He became even more interested in setting the work when he learned that Inanna is well-known deity embraced by many 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 Indeed, she superseded all Sumerian deities, male or female, by the end of the Sumerian civilization. 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.
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