13th FESTIVAL MIL.LENI in February
Michael Nyman – Vertov Sounds. Michael Laurence Nyman is a British composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist, known for the many film scores he wrote during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway, and his multi-platinum soundtrack album to Jane Campion‘s The Piano. His operas include The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Letters, Riddles and Writs, Noises, Sounds & Sweet Airs, Facing Goya, Man and Boy: Dada, Love Counts, and Sparkie: Cage and Beyond, and he has written six concerti, four string quartets, and many other chamber works, many for his Michael Nyman Band, with and without whom he tours as a performing pianist. – Concert on 23rd of February 2012 at 21:00h.
Goran Bregovic – Champagne for Gypsies. Goran Bregović is one of the most internationally known modern 
musicians and composers of the Balkans. He currently splits his time between Paris and Belgrade, where he settled down during the Yugoslav Wars. Bregović has composed for such varied artists as Iggy Pop and Cesária Évora. He rose to fame playing guitar with his rock band Bijelo dugme. Among his better known scores are Emir Kusturica’s films (Time of the Gypsies, Arizona Dream, Underground). Bregović’s compositions, extending Balkan musical inspirations to innovative extremes, draw upon European classicism and Balkan rhythms. Bregović’s music carries Serbian, Greek and Romani themes and is a fusion of popular music with traditional polyphonic music from the Balkans, tango and brass bands. – Concert on 24th of February 2012 at 21:00h.
Place: Palau de la Música Catalana (carrer del Palau de la Música, 2, Barcelona)
Price: 20 – 54 €
Where to buy tickets: Box office of Palau (carrer del Palau de la Música, 4-6) Tel.entrades 902 10 12 12, www.telentrada.com
More info: www.festivalmilleni.com
