Composer biography movies on marilyn monroe
Arts Preview: ‘Marilyn Forever’ opera reveals composer Gavin Bryars’ collaborative spirit
Since the late s, when he came to the United States to work with John Cage as an assistant and performer, Gavin Bryars has collaborated with some of the biggest stars of the post-World War II avant-garde.
Choreographer Merce Cunningham and opera director Robert Wilson commissioned music from the British composer and bassist, and Wilson directed his first opera. Brian Eno played experimental music with Bryars before becoming a glam-rock star, then launched his first record label with an LP of Bryars’ minimalist classical music.
Tom Waits sang on a recording of an expanded version of “Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet,” a piece that had been a hit of sorts when it first appeared on that album issued by Eno on his Obscure Records label.
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Now Bryars has written an opera about a very different kind of star, Marilyn Monroe. Long Beach Opera will stage its U.S. premiere March 21 at the Warner Grand Theatre in San Pedro.
Working with Canadian poet and novelist Marilyn Bowering, Bryars combines languid jazz trio passages with somber, primarily low-register woodwinds, horns and strings to weave a broodingly emotional portrait that probes Monroe’s troub
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The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe
American television drama miniseries
The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe is a American biographicaldramaminiseries on Marilyn Monroe. It stars Kelli Garner, Susan Sarandon, Emily Watson, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and Eva Amurri Martino and was first aired on Lifetime on May 30 and 31, The (two-hour forty-seven minute) miniseries is based on The New York Times bestseller of the same name by J. Randy Taraborrelli. It was nominated for three Creative Arts Emmy Awards.[1]
Plot
[edit]A chronicle of Marilyn Monroe's family life, her relationship with her mother, Gladys Pearl Baker, and how she succeeded in hiding her most intimate secrets from the press and an invasive world.
Cast
[edit]Main characters
[edit]- Kelli Garner as Marilyn Monroe
- Susan Sarandon as Gladys Pearl Baker, Marilyn's mother
- Emily Watson as Grace McKee, Marilyn's foster mother, later called "aunt"
- Jack Noseworthy as Alan DeShields, Marilyn's therapist
- Giacomo Gianniotti as Jimmy Dougherty, Marilyn's first husband
- Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Joe DiMaggio, Marilyn's second husband
- Stephen Bogaert as Arthur Miller, Marilyn's third husband
- Matthew Bennett as Whitey, Marilyn's makeup artist
- Embeth Davidtz as Natasha Lytess, Marilyn's acting coach
- Peter Mac