American composer, director, filmmaker, and choreographer
Meredith Monk
Monk in 2014
Background information
Birth name
Meredith Jane Monk
Born
(1942-11-20) November 20, 1942 (age 81) New York City, New York, US
Genres
Avant-garde
Years active
1968–present
Musical artist
Meredith Jane Monk (born November 20, 1942)[1] is an American composer, performer, director, vocalist, filmmaker, and choreographer. From the 1960s onwards, Monk has created multi-disciplinary works which combine music, theatre, and dance, recording extensively for ECM Records.[1] In 1991, Monk composed Atlas, an opera, commissioned and produced by the Houston Opera and the American Music Theater Festival. Her music has been used in films by the Coen Brothers (The Big Lebowski, 1998) and Jean-Luc Godard (Nouvelle Vague, 1990 and Notre musique, 2004). Trip hop musician DJ Shadow sampled Monk's "Dolmen Music" on the song "Midnight in a Perfect World". In 2015, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts by Barack Obama.
^ ab"Meredith Monk Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio & More". AllMusic. Retrieved 29 September 2021.
Meredith Jane Monk (born November 20, 1942) is an American composer, performer, director, vocalist, filmmaker, and choreographer. From the 1960s onwards...
including Elvis Costello,[failed verification] the B-52's, Sonic Youth and MeredithMonk. As Lennon's widow, Ono works to preserve his legacy. She funded the...
Thomas Demenga, Heinz Reber Cellorganics ECM New Series ECM 1197 1981 MeredithMonk Dolmen Music ECM New Series ECM 1198 1981 Steve Eliovson Dawn Dance...
Turtle Dreams is an album by American composer and vocalist MeredithMonk recorded in 1983 and released on the ECM New Series later that year. A choreographed...
1979–1983 The Keys, a Welsh band successor to Murry the Hump Key (MeredithMonk album), 1971 Key (Son, Ambulance album), 2004 The Key (Joan Armatrading...
Dolmen Music is a 1981 studio album by American composer and vocalist MeredithMonk recorded over two sessions in March 1980 and January 1981 and released...
Maxwell Davies, Hans Werner Henze, György Ligeti, Demetrio Stratos, MeredithMonk, Giacinto Scelsi, Arnold Schoenberg, Salvatore Sciarrino, Karlheinz...
Mickey Newbury Kenny Rogers & The First Edition 3:21 9. "Walking Song" MeredithMonkMonk 2:55 10. "Glück das mir verblieb" (from Die tote Stadt ) Erich Wolfgang...
Daron Hagen. He has collaborated with MeredithMonk. In 2012, Brubaker, together with Ursula Oppens, recorded Monk's piano music. His album Codex includes...
Of Flamenco". NPR.org. 3 January 2011. Retrieved 23 February 2015. "MeredithMonk: A Voice For All Time". NPR.org. 11 January 2011. Retrieved 23 February...
Heiner Goebbels. Some music theatre artists, such as Laurie Anderson, MeredithMonk and Robert Ashley, also perform their own work. Other directors of music...
performing music composed by MeredithMonk, released on March 24, 2014 by ECM New Series. All music is composed by MeredithMonk Adapted from the Piano Songs...
Year Title Venue Role Notes 1976 MeredithMonk Dance Company's Paris Royce Hall Man with a clipboard 1982 Beth Henley's The Wake of Jamie Foster Eugene...
Psychedelic Furs album), 1989 Book of Days (Nektar album), 2008 Book of Days (MeredithMonk album), 1990 Book of Days, a 2003 album by Susan Crowe Book of Days...
mother, Isabella Agnes Meredith, was a daughter of William Rice Meredith of Dublin, the brother of John Walsingham Cooke Meredith. Monk was a nephew of The...
Spalding Gray (of The Wooster Group) to act in True Stories, while MeredithMonk provided a portion of the film's soundtrack. Byrne also provided a soundtrack...
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