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b. 1960 English composer Turnage studied with Knussen at the Royal College of Music and later at the Tanglewood Music Center with Henze, who secured for him his first operatic commission for Greek, a setting of Steven Berkoff’s modern retelling of the Oedipus myth in London’s East End. Like his first major orchestral work, Night Dances (1980–81), much ...

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b. 1960, English One of the most important talents on the contemporary British opera scene, Turnage produces work that expertly captures the times and culture within which he lives. A jazz enthusiast who has served as Composer in Association with both the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and English National Opera, he often attempts to combine numerous genres in his ...

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du monde and Strauss’s Symphonia domestica. The late-twentieth century saw a resurgence in the orchestral saxophone’s popularity; it has been used by composers such as Harrison Birtwistle (b. 1934), Mark-Anthony Turnage (b. 1960) and John Adams (b. 1947) to great effect. A Versatile Instrument The saxophone is perhaps one of the most flexible of instruments in terms of its variety of ...

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Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis have taken the trumpet to new expressive levels. Their influence is now finding its way back to the orchestral arena with composers such as Mark-Anthony Turnage (b. 1960) finding a new melodic character in the trumpet. Introduction | Brass Instruments Instruments | Trombone | Brass ...

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completed 20 years earlier. Recommended Recording: The Rose Lake, The Vision of St Augustine, LSO (cond) Sir Colin Davis (Conifer) Introduction | Contemporary | Classical Personalities | Mark-Anthony Turnage | Contemporary | Classical ...

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Modern Era | Opera Major Operas | The Midsummer Marriage by Michael Tippett | Modern Era Major Operas | King Priam by Michael Tippett | Modern Era Personalities | Mark-Anthony Turnage | Modern Era | Opera ...

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his plotting conspire to create a dreamlike atmosphere, as in Thomas (1985), about a thirteenth-century bishop who was one of the first to propose the idea of Finnish nationhood. Turnage and Weir A generation younger than Sallinen and Rautavaara, the British composer Mark-Anthony Turnage (b. 1960) sought an altogether more abrasive style in Greek (1988), which relocated the Oedipus ...