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TRAINED: Christopher was an organ scholar at Magdalene College, Cambridge. THEATRE INCLUDES: Ghost The Musical (Musical Supervisor/Orchestrations. West End and
Aug 22, 2019 · We're delighted to share a brand new arrangement of "When I Grow Up", orchestrated by the incredible Chris Nightingale! #MatildaTheMusical
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- Matilda The Musical
Early November 2010, just before the first preview to the public, the RSC made this video showing footage of the kids in rehearsals. The audio is the demo of “When I Grow Up”, the first song that Tim finished and showed Dennis Kelly, Matthew Warchus and Chris Nightingale in May 2009.
- The Bells Ring Out too….
- How Long Did The Cast Have to Learn The Bells?
- How Did You Start out?
- So How Did You Start Writing Music For Victorian London?
- Do You Ever Panic When You’Re Composing to A Deadline?
- Then You Send It Off and Wait to Hear What The Director Thinks…
- Mistakes, You’Ve Made A Few?
- What Tip Would You Give Anyone Who Wants to Write Music For Film Or Theatre?
It’s amazing seeing hand bells on stage because they’re full of peril for the people who are performing them. The poor old cast looked ashen when they were given a bell in each hand and told ‘Let’s learn Silent Night.’ When they’re playing Ding Dong Merrily on High, there’s no running away, and if you mess it up, you’re standing on stage looking re...
They rehearsed for five weeks, doing a bit of bells every other day, so it was really daunting and they get a bit pale to start with. But after a few goes, it becomes a cool challenge to do, it — it’s a bit like doing Strictly, when you’ve never danced before.
I had a piano at home and I just couldn’t stop playing it. I went to Cambridge as an organ scholar, was musical director of the Cambridge Footlights for four years and then had my break with the Royal Shakespeare Company because a guy called Richard Brown, who was head of music, took me under his wing and let me play in the orchestra pit. Without h...
You start off with nothing but a completely empty head and an empty sheet of paper — much like the composers of the time would have done. I try and put myself back into that time. Not by donning fingerless gloves but to write nostalgic music, it’s often a good start to have lots of suitable Victorian adjectives in your head to inspire you and lead ...
Yes, I’m working on the film version of Matilda and it’s genuinely absolutely terrifying. So tied in with my normal imposter syndrome — that feeling that I’m not worthy — is an absolute terror which is in fact a great motivator.
I was too thin-skinned when I started out. Music is really personal and defines you. It’s not like an accountant being told his spreadsheet isn’t up to scratch. If someone rejects your music, it’s crippling — and at the start of my career I had some awful moments. I wrote music for TV adverts back in the 1990s and some were really fun. But I rememb...
I was listening to auditions for the musical Bombay Dreams with Andrew Lloyd Webber and the director Steven Pimlott, and I was desperately trying to impress. We’d just seen someone audition and in my rush to say something intelligent I said, ‘They seem to have a lot of ‘shootspah’, instead of ‘chutzpah’. I remember them both looking at me and Andre...
When I was starting out, at around the age of 23, I was given a brilliant piece of advice by Howard Goodall. He was one of the composers for a stage adaptation of The Ten Commandments. He wrote the most effortlessly beautiful songs and he told me that, whatever else, keep your ideas clear. Don’t overcomplicate. When starting out there’s a temptatio...
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The Netflix adaptation features 12 of the 16 Tim Minchin songs from the West End hit newly-recorded by the film’s spectacular cast, as well as 10 instrumental score pieces by Christopher...
Christopher Nightingale is known for Black Panther (2018), Doctor Strange (2016) and The Nice Guys (2016).
