Mario Nascimbene
b. Nov. 28, 1913, Milan, Italy, d. Jan. 6, 2002, Rome, Italy.
Nascimbene's career spans the 1950s through the 1990s. Curiously, while his name is not well known by the general public, millions have thrilled to his music while watching such films as The Vikings (Kirk Douglas starred), The Quiet American (John Wayne starred), A Farewell To Arms (Rock Hudson starred), and Alexander The Great (Richard Burton and Fredric March starred).

Among the films to which he contributed are:
  Blue Dolphin - L'avventura Continua (1990)
  Messia, Il (1978. aka Messiah, The)
  Anno Uno (1974. aka in USA: Year One)
  Agostino d'Ippona (1972. aka in USA: Augustine of Hippo)
  Prima Notte di Quiete, La (1972. aka: Le Professeur, -France, and The Professor -USA)
  Creatures the World Forgot (1971)
  Gradiva (1970)
  When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970)
  Mummia, al- (1969. aka Night of Counting the Years, The)
  Togli le Gambe del Parabrezza (1969)
  Commandos (1968 This film was aka:
  Himmelfahrtskommando El Alamein (1968)
  Mit Eichenlaub und Schwertern (1968)
  Sullivan's Marauders (1968)
  Vengeance of She, The (1968 This film was aka: Daughter of She (1968)
  Ayesha, the Return of She (1968)
  Dick Smart 2007 (1967)
  Doctor Faustus (1967)
  Pronto.. c'éuna certa Giuliana per te (1967)
  One Million Years B.C. (1966)
  Se tutte le donne del mondo (1966 aka England: If All the Women in the World.
  Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die -USA)
  Operazione paradiso (Italy: alternative title)
  Where the Spies Are (1965 also worked as the orchestrator)
  Jason and the Argonauts (1963. aka Jason and the Golden Fleece.
  Avanti la musica (1962 aka Italy: Cambio della guardia, Il)
  En avant la musique. -France)
  Banda Casaroli, La (1962)
  Disordine, Il (1962 This film was aka: Disorder. -USA, - Déordre, Le. -France)
  Spadaccino di Siena, Lo (1962 This film was aka:
  Congiura dei dieci, La)
  Mercenaire, Le. -France)
  Swordsman of Siena. -USA)
  Barabbas (1962. aka in Italy: Barabba)
  Costantino il Grande (1962 This film was aka: Constantine and the Cross. -USA)
  Constantine the Great)
  Axel Munthe - Der Arzt von San Michele (1962 This film was aka: Donne senza paradiso. -Italy)

  Livre de San Michele, Le. -France)
  Storia di San Michele, La. -Italy)
  Story of San Michele. -USA)
  Freccia d'oro, La (1962 This film was aka: Arciere delle mille e una notte, L')
  Golden Arrow, The. The 1964 USA version)
  Jessica (1962)
  Light in the Piazza (1962)
  Happy Thieves, The (1962)
  Baccanti, Le (1961. aka in USA: Bacchantes, The)
  Francis of Assisi (1961)
  Legge di guerra (1961. aka: Kriegsgesetz In West Germany; Loi de la guerre, La (France)
  Mongoli, I (1961. aka in France: Mongols, Les; aka in USA: Mongols, The)
  Romanoff and Juliet (1961 aka in USA: Dig That Juliet. He was also the musical director)
  Garçnnière, La (1960/I)
  Giuseppe Venduto di Fratelli (1960 This film was aka: Joseph Sold by His Brothers)
  Joseph and His Brethren)
  Sold Into Egypt. -UK)
  Story of Joseph and His Brethren, The. -USA)
  Ragazza con la Valigia, La (1960 This film was aka: Fille et la valise, La. -France)
  Girl with a Suitcase. -USA)
  Scent of Mystery (1960. aka in UK: Holiday in Spain)
  Cartagine in Fiamme (1960. aka in France: Carthage en Flammes; USA: Carthage in Flames)
  Sons and Lovers (1960)
  Estate Violenta, L' (1959. aka USA: Violent Summer; aka ��violent (France)
  Nel blu Dipinto di Blu (1959)
  Solomon and Sheba (1959)
  Room at the Top (1959)
  Vikings, The (1958)
  Quiet American, The (1958)
  Amore e Chiacchiere (1957)
  Hablemos de amor (Salvemos el paisaje). The 1958 Spainish version)
  Love and Chatter. The 1957 English title)
  Farewell to Arms, A (1957)
  That Night! (1957)
  Questo Nostro Mondo (1957)
  Child in the House (1956)
  Noi Siamo le Colonne (1956)
  Uomini e Lupi (1956 This film was aka: Hommes et loups. -France)
  Men and Wolves. -USA)
  Wolves, The)
  Alexander the Great (1956. aka in Spain: Alejandro Magno)
  Angela (1955)
  Racconti Romani (1955 This film was aka:
  Histoires Romaines. -France)
  Roman Tales. -English title)
  Cento Anni D'amore (1954)
  Giorni D'amore (1954. aka: Days of Love. He was also the Conductor)
  Operazione Notte (1954. aka: Night Operation)
  Vedova X, La (1954. aka France: Veuve, La; aka USA: Widow, The)
  Barefoot Contessa, The (1954. aka in Italy: Contessa scalza, La)
  Etàdell'Amore, L' (1953)
  Valigia dei Sogni, La (1953)
  Viale della Speranza, Il (1953)
  Villa Borghese (1953. aka France: Amants de Villa Borghese, Les; aka USA: It Happened in the Park)

  Amore in Città L' (1953. aka in USA: Love in the City)
  Roma Ore 11 (1952. aka Roma ore undici)
  Avventure di Mandrin, Le (1951 This film was aka:
  Adventures of Manderin, The. -USA)
  Affair of Madame Pompadour, The. -UK)
  Chevalier sans loi, Le. - France)
  O.K. Nerone (1951. aka in USA: O.K. Nero; aka Italy: l'amore che mi rovina)

   Caspar Nathan
Currently no information available.
1919 "Meet Me In Bubble Land", Isham Jones music, Nathan's lyric.

    Ed Nelson
Currently no information available.
Nelson, along with Al Goodheart; Milton Ager, and Al Hoffman wrote the Russ Columbo Hit song "Auf Wiedesehen". Hoffman is credited with the music (not Ager).

    Henry Nemo
b. July 8, 1907, New York, NY, USA, d. Nov. 26, 1999, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Overview
Henry wrote many songs, - both music and lyrics. Among these are:
  "Don't Take Your Love From Me"
  "Blame It On My Last Affair", recorded by Helen Humes and Count Basie
  "You're The Moment in My Life", sung by Mildred Bailey; Kirby band.
  "'Tis Autumn", one of Nat "King" Cole's big hit releases.
  "I Haven't Changed a Thing"
  "A Bee Gezindt", recorded by Cab Calloway.

    Alfred Newman
b. March 17, 1901, New Haven, CT, USA. d. Feb. 17, 1970, Hollywood, CA, USA. (Emphysema)
Overview
Over his career, "Pappy" Newman worked on over 250 films, on 88 of which he was the principle musical director or conductor. During this time, he also invented the "Newman system" for movie music scoring. He is the brother of composer Lionel Newman and the uncle of composer Randy Newman.

One of ten children, this very successful Hollywood composer, has an impeccable musical background. He started piano at age 5. He next studied with Edward A. Parsons. He continued his studies in New York's Von Ende School of Music, under Sigismond Stojowski, winning medals for his piano playing. At Von Ende, he also studied composition, counterpoint and harmony under George Wedge and Rubin Goldmark. Later, he spent three years studying under Arnold Schoenberg.

At age 13, Newman was already working to support himself, doing a 12 week engagement at New York's Strand Theater, as a piano recitalist. When he worked at the famous Reisenweber's Restaurant, the vaudevillian Grace LaRue hired him to be her accompanist on her tour of the Keith circuit. In 1916, La Rue was starred in the Broadway show 'Hitchy-Koo', and she got Newman into the pit orchestra. William Daly was the conductor, and he encouraged Newman to follow a career as director for Broadway musicals.

After conducting for several unsuccessful Broadway shows, he became, on George Gershwin's recommendation, musical director for the George White Scandals of 1920 and 1921. After this, he had several more successful show jobs, including:
      George Gershwin's 'Funny Face'
      Jerome Kern's 'Criss Cross'
      'Big Boy', starring Al Jolson.

But, 1930 was a seminal year for Alfred Newman. Irving Berlin had written the title song for the film 'Reaching For The Moon', and he asked Newman to go to Hollywood and take charge of the film's musical direction. Newman traveled to the coast on a three month contract, and decided to remain. He was first commissioned by Sam Goldwyn to write for the Eddie Cantor film, 'Whoopie', followed by writing background music for 'Street Scene'. While still with Goldwyn, he both adapted and conducted, Charlie Chaplin's music for the films, 'Modern Times' and 'City Lights'.

In 1935, Newman had written the Fanfare trademark for 'Twentieth Century' Pictures. (Later to become 'Twentieth Century - Fox Films'.) That fanfare has been their trademark ever since 1935. In 1939, Twentieth Century-Fox invited Newman to be their Musical Director, a post he was to hold for over 21 years.

A Brief Chronology reads like a 'Who's Who' and 'What's What' in Hollywood. Newman has adapted, scored, composed and conducted music for about 250 Motion Pictures. No other composer has come even close to that record.

Some of his work includes:
Irving Berlin's
  Call Me Madam (He got an Academy Award}
  Alexander's Ragtime Band (He got an Academy Award}
  There's No Business Like Show Business Jerome Kern's
  Centennial Summer
Cole Porter's
  Born To Dance
Rodgers and Hammerstein's
  The King and I (He got an Academy Award}
  South Pacific
  Carousel
  Flower Drum Song
  State Fair

Other films he worked on include:
  Tin Pan Alley (He got an Academy Award}
  Mother Wore Tights (He got an Academy Award}
  With A Song In My Heart (He got an Academy Award}
  The Song of Bernadette
  Love Is A Many Spendored Thing
  Wuthering Heights
  How Green Was My Valley
  The Robe
  The Diary of Anne Frank

Among the songs that Alfred Newman has written, we find:
  "Concentrate", lyric by Otto Harbach (1920)
  "Voodoo Man", lyric Otto Harbach (1920)
  "The Moon Of Manakoora", lyric by Frank Loesser. Sung by Dorothy
      Lamour, in the film 'Hurricane'.
  "Your Kiss", lyric Frank Loesser
  "Someday You'll Find Your Bluebird", lyric Mack Gordon.
  "Blue Tahaitian Moon", lyric Mack Gordon, film 'The Black Swan'.
  "Through A Long And Sleepless Night", lyric by Mack Gordon
  "Castle in the Sand", lyric by Ralph Blane, film 'Half Angel'.
  "Song From Desiree", lyric by Ken Darby
  "The Girl Next Door", lyric by Sammy Cahn, for the film 'The Seven Year Itch', starring Marilyn Monroe.
  "Anastasia", lyric Paul Francis Webster, Title song of film, starring Ingrid Bergman and Yul Brynner.
  "Lonely Lover", lyric by Sammy Cahn. film 'The Best of Everything'.
  "The Pleasure of his Company", lyric Sammy Cahn. Title song.

In addition to these songs, Newman has written much instrumental music for the various films on which he worked, including:
For the film, 'How Green Was My Valley', he wrote
     "How Green Was My Valley"
For the film, 'Wuthering Heights', he wrote
     "Cathy"
For the film, 'The Song of Bernadette', he wrote
     "The Vision"
For the film 'Street Scene', he wrote
     "Street Scene"
For the film, 'The Catain from Castile', he wrote
     "Conquest"
For the film, 'The Diary of Anne Frank', he wrote
     "The Diary"
     "Love Music"

    Charles Newman
b. Fer. 22, 1901 d.
Currently No Information Available.
Overview
During the 1930 to 1931 period, Newman wrote dozens of lyrics to bandleader composer Isham Jones' songs.
Among his lyrics are:
  "You've Got Me Crying Again", with composer Isham Jones.
  1932 "Let's Try Again", with Isham Jones. (A Bing Croby Hit record)
  1932 "I'll Never Have To Dream Again", with composer Isham Jones.
  "You're Just A Dream Come True", with Isham Jones.

    Lionel Newman
b. Jan. 4, 1916, New Haven, CT, d. Feb. 3, 1981 Los Angeles, CA (Cardiac Arrest)
Overview
One member of the 'famous' Newman Family that did so much work in the Hollywood studios. (Please see Alfred Newman, and also Charles Newman. Lionel is mainly recalled today as an active arranger who worked as the musical director for a great many Hollywood films, starting in the late thirties and continuing into the 1950's.

Newman is also remembered as composer (with lyricist Dorcas Cochran) of the 1948 hit "Again", Ida Lupino sang the song in the 1948 film 'Road House'. The singer Vic Damone had his first million selling record with the song in 1949, and the tune was subsequently 'covered' by a couple of dozen vocal groups.

    Horatio Nicholls
Currently no information available.
Nicholls was the pseudonym of Lawrence Wright, an English Music publisher. His best known song is "Among My Souvenirs". See Edgar Leslie entry.

    Ray Noble
b. 1903, Brighton, England, d. 1978, London, England
For more extensive information on Ray Noble, please see our British Database link, as well as the band listing in the American Database.

In 1934, Ray Noble arrived in New York City as the musical director of that city's famed Radio City Music Hall. He was the first British bandleader to become successful working in the U.S. Glenn Miller was hired to organize the band and to write the charts.

From 1941 into the 1950s, he served as music director for several radio shows, notably the Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy show and also worked on some Hollywood films.

Among Noble's most famous compositions: 1931  "Goodnight, Sweetheart" 1932  "Love Is the Sweetest Thing" 1934  "The Very Thought of You" 1941  "By the Light of the Silvery Moon," with vocalist Roy Lanson was Ray's only million selling disk. A revival, the song was written in 1909 by the great vaudevillian-composer Gus Edwards, with the lyric by Edward Madden.

    Pierre Norman
Currrently no information on this lyricist.
Pierre was active in the late 1920's and 1930's. He often teamed with another lyricist, Irving Kahal, and they often worked with composer Sammy Fain. Among their works are:
  1930 "You Brought a New Kind of Love (to Me)", music by Sammy Fain. Maurice Chevalier sang it in film 'The Big Pond'. Co-lyricist was Irving Kahal.
  1931 "When I Take My Sugar to Tea", co-lyricist Irving Kahal. music Sammy Fain.

    Alex North
b. Dec. 4, 1910, Chester, Pennsylvania, USA, d. Sept. 8 1991, Los Angeles, California, USA.
After his studies at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, North relocated to New York city to study at the famed Juilliard School (where he was a protégé of Aaron Copland). Still later, he traveled to Russia and studied at the Moscow Conservatory. His work in Moscow led to him becoming music director of the Latvian State Theatre between 1932-1940. During his time in Eastern Europe, North composed many ballets.

During World War II, North served as a captain in the US Army, and wrote music for propaganda documentaries. In the late 1940s, he returned to the USA where his works for the stage and the concert hall included a "Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra", -commissioned by Benny Goodman, a symphony for the Guggenheim Institute, three Broadway musicals, and theatre productions of "Death of a Salesman" and "The Innocents".

In 1951, he went to Hollywood where his score for the film "A Streetcar Named Desire" earned him the first of fifteen Oscar nominations. Over the next 35 years, North worked with great directors including Stanley Kubrick and John Huston, and wrote such classic scores as "Viva Zapata!" (1952), "The Rose Tattoo" (1955), "Spartacus" (1960), "Cleopatra" (1963), "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (1966), "The Shoes of the Fisherman" (1968), "Bite the Bullet" (1975), and 1980s box-office hits such as "Prizzi's Honor" (1985) and "Good Morning Vietnam" (1988). In 1986, he received a special Academy Award for his lifetime achievement in film music- the only composer to be so honored.

There is a very interesting anomaly to his career. At age 16, his hit single, "Unchained Melody", was co-written with a 16 year old lyricist, Hy Zaret. (See the Zaret entry for the interesting details.) Some 19 years later, the tune was featured in a little-appreciated 1955 movie "Unchained", and became a huge world-wide hit. It has since been recorded over 500 times by artists as diverse as Elvis Presley, Sarah McLachlan, John Lennon, James Galway and, most famously, The Righteous Brothers. Some critics felt that when Maurice Jarre's score for "Ghost" was Oscar nominated in 1990, the citation should have been shared by North, whose haunting melody also permeated that film.

Still another interesting facet to his career is that North wrote and recorded a full symphonic score for Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film masterpiece, "2001: A Space Odyssey". However, Kubrick rejected that score and replaced it with classical cuts by Strauss, Khactaturian and Holst. Fortunately, North's good friend, Jerry Goldsmith, later recorded the score for the 'Varése Sarabande' label. North retired from scoring in 1990, and died just 3 years later, one of the most respected composers ever to work in film.

    George Norton
b. April 16, 1880, d. Sept. 1923
Currently no information available.
In 1911, George wrote a melody named "Melancholy". The lyric was written by Ernie Burnett. Later the title was changed to "My Melancholy Baby".

    Ivor Novello
né: David Ivor Davies
b. Jan. 15, 1893, Cardiff, Wales, U.K. d. March 6, 1951
Perhaps best known on the London U.K. musical stages, this Welsh actor, composer, songwriter and dramatist was born in Cardiff and educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford, where in addition to his studies, he also served as a chorister. By 1921, he was appearing on stage in London and enjoying great popularity. He is best remembered today for writing one of the most popular of WW1 songs, "Keep the Home Fires Burning". Many other songs followed, including "Dreamboat" and "We'll Gather Lilacs", and in the process, Novell became one of the most successful songwriters of his time.

In 1924, in collaboration with Constance Collier, Novello wrote his first play - "The Rat". His other works include 'Symphony in Two Flats" in 1930 followed by 1934's 'The Truth Game' and 'Proscenieum'. 1935 saw 'Glamorous Nights' and he had two in 1936 'Full House' and 'Careless Rapture'. 'Comedienne' was staged in 1938 and 'The Dancing Years' in 1939. Novello had three others plays staged during the WW2 years: 'Perchance To Dream' in 1945 and 'Arc de Triomphe' and 'Gay's the Word'. After which came 'We Proudly Present' in 1947 and 'King's Rhapsody' in 1949. In these musical melodramas, monumentally banal and lushly sentimental, Novello often played the romantic, non-singing lead. Curiously, while he thus built a large feminine audience, in private life he was openly homosexual.

    Jack Norworth
b. 1879, d. 1959
Currently no information available on this American Vaudeville Star.
Here's a photo of Jack Norworth and Nora Bayes. (Nora Bayes, né: Eleanor Goldberg. b: 1880?, d: March 19, 1928, Brooklyn, NY, USA. Singer/Actress.) Jack Norworth was Nora's third husband.
The hit song "Shine On, Harvest Moon", was ostensibly written in collaboration with his wife Nora Bayes, also a vaudeville star, and sung by her in the first Ziegfeld Follies in which she appeared (1909). Here's a historical photo of Ruth Etting, (by Alfred Cheney Johnston, the official photographer of the Ziegfeld Follies) who sang it in the last Ziegfeld Follies produced (1931). Still, many musicologists now feel that the tune was composed solely by Norworth, with credit also given to his wife.

Among the other tunes Norworth composed for Nora are such hits as "Take Me Out To The Ball Game", and for her 1910 show The Jolly Bachelor, he composed "Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly".

On America's entrance into World War I, George M. Cohan chose Nora Bayes to introduce his song "Over There", which became virtually America's national anthem during that conflict. Cohan also cast her in some of his other musical plays. One of her post-WWI recording hits was "How Ya Gonna Keep Them Down On The Farm (After They've Seen Paree?)" In 1916, Norworth tired of Nora's frequent tantrums, and the couple divorced. Nora continued performing until, at age 48, she died of Cancer.

    Laura Nyro
b. Oct. 18, 1948, Bronx, NY, d. April 8, 1997, Danbury, CT
né: Laura Nigro
Overview
A singer-songwriter who had a string of pop-40 hits in the 1960s Born in the Bronx, NY, her father was a jazz trumpeter. She attended the High School of Music and Art in Manhattan. A child prodigy, she was attempting to write songs when she was just 8 years old. As a teenager, she experimented with psychodelic drugs and was absorbing musical influences from such diverse sources as John Coltrane, Bob Dylan and Debussy. At age 18, she had an extended appearance at San Francisco's 'Hungry i' coffee house.

Laura was raised in the city's melting pot of Black and Spanish immigrants, and she always felt very close to these people. She was already touring and singing folk songs, by age 17. Peter, Paul and Mary recorded her original song "And When I Die".

In 1966, Verve/Folkways released her first album "More Than A New Discovery". This was later purchased by Columbia, and re-released as "First Songs".

Nyro had a disastrous reception at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival. Her introspective music could not compete against the high powered rock of Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, and the crowd booed her off the stage. Nevertheless, within the year, several of her songs had become hits for other performers. Columbia records signed her in March 1968 and released her first album "Eli and the Thirteenth Confession", one of the most influential of the late 1960s. It was an autobiographical album about a young woman's spiritual journey from childhood to maturity. This album was quite unlike anything that had been heard before. With it's fierce emotion, tempo changes, and style, it set the groundwork for a genre of quirky, female-dominated, reflective songwriting.

She stayed off the stage for the next two years but began performing again from 1969 to 1972, Her next albums were:
1969 "New York Tendaberry"
1970 "Christmas and the Beads of Sweat"
Her style now was still eclectic, but showing roots in the Philadelphia pop-soul sound of songwriters like Thom Bell, Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff, and Todd Rundgren.
1971 "Gonna Take a Miracle". This album, a collaboration with the Rhythm and Blues group 'LaBelle', featured jubilant remakes of old 'doo-wop' and 'Motown' favorites.

In 1972, Nyro dropped out again for 3 years to get married and to have a son. She was divorced in 1975. In 1978, she gave a concert in New York's Central Park, and resumed her albums.
1976 "Smile", her first album in four years.
1978 "Nested"
1984 "Mother's Spiritual"
1993 "Walk the Dog and Light the Light"
She now became an advocate for environmental and women's causes, and her songs exalted pacifism; motherhood, and animal rights. Still, the old emotional turmoil of her life was never far from the surface. It became a tradition for her to play New York's 'The Bottom Line' cabaret every Christmas Eve (as she had once done for the 'Filmore East').

Among Laura Nyro's hit songs are:
The 'Fifth Dimension' recorded her songs including:
"Stoned Soul Picnic"
"Sweet Blindness"
"Wedding Bell Blues"

'Blood, Sweat and Tears', and 'Peter, Paul and Mary' recorded:
"And When I Die"

Barbra Streisand recorded her song:
"Stoney End"

'Three Dog Night' recorded:
"Eli's Coming"

Melissa Manchester recorded:
"Midnight Blue" (Nyro's last song)

When Nyro died in her Connecticut home of Ovarian Cancer, she was just 49 years old. She was survived by her son, Gil Bianchini, and her companion, Maria Desiderio.

Gideon Nxomalo
Currently no information
Scored the 1962 film, ' A World of Strangers' (aka: Dilemma)

Anita Leonard Nye
b. New York, NY, Aug 26, 1922.
Anita matriculated from New York University with a BSA degree. She studied with Wallingford Rieger, Otto Cesana, Modena Lane, Bruno Eisner, Herman Wasserman; She took some courses at New School for Social Research. She has written for Varsity shows, as well as scores for 4 ballets; She was a staff composer at summer stock for 2 seasons. Among the songs she has written are:
"A Sunday Kind of Love"
"The Bee Song"
"William Didn't Tell"
"Chitterlingswitch"
Among the songs she has composed for children are
"The Fox and the Grapes"
"The Amazing Adventures of Johnny."

Among Anita's album credits, is:
'THE TIME HAS COME! The Songs of MARSHALL BARER'
Painted Smiles Records, PS CD-123
includes these songs with
music by Anita Nye and lyrics, Marshall Barer:
"St. Augustine", sung by Melissa Converse, acc: Stan Freeman
"What Is My Name?", sung by Anita Nye, acc: herself
"Forthebirds", sung by Cynthia Crane, acc: Bob Goldstone
The BigBands Database wishes to thank Mr Reg Fulton who graciously submitted the information for the Anita Nye entry.

    Michael Nyman
This English composer frequently collaborates with Peter Greenaway. Nyman's film and concert music seem to be intertwined at times, and he has done much to bring the two closer together. Among the films to which he contributed are: Brief Encounter (with music from Rachmaninov's 2nd Piano Concerto), and Elvira Madigan (with music from Mozart). His music for "The Bee Dances" (for Saxophone and Orch.) is rather interesting. Nyman has also appeared in some films as an actor. For example, he portrayed himself in the films Pelon Maantiede (2000. aka Int'l English title: Geography of Fear, The), and "Uutisvuoto" (1998 TV Series. The host)