Mark anthony turnage biography of barack
Mark-Anthony Turnage shares the soundtrack of his life..
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Turnage, Mark-Anthony
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One of Europe’s leading operatic and orchestral composers since garnering acclaim for the 1988 opera Greek and the 1989 orchestral piece Three Screaming Popes, Mark-Anthony Turnage has earned a reputation as the “hard man of classical music” for his penchant for grimness.
His themes are often violent— prison life, urban alienation, drug addiction, and murder have been represented in the composer’s work. “I’m interested in art that’s quite extreme and bleak, “he told Los Angeles Times writer Justin Davidson in an interview about 1996’s jazz-tinged Blood on the Floor, inspired in part by the suicide of Turnage’s drug-addicted brother.
Always testing the notions of how classical music should sound, Turnage is not one to adhere to symphonic conventions.
He likes electric guitars, trumpets, and the saxophone, ins
