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Music Matters: Mark Anthony Turnage at 60

06/06/2020

Mark Anthony Turnage at 60

BBC Radio 3 - Music Matters, Mark Anthony Turnage at 60

An interview with Mark-Anthony Turnage who turns 60. A new book on Copland's film scores.

Mark-Anthony Turnage as he turns 60. Musical discourses of solidarity and the death of George Floyd in America. The book Aaron Copland's Hollywood Film Scores by Paula Musegades.

As composer Mark-Anthony Turnage turns 60, Kate Molleson talks to him about the influences he received from Oliver Knussen, Gunther Schuller and Hans-Werner Henze. He speaks candidly about continuing to want to compose pieces that challenge, and shares his thoughts about how Covid-19 might change the music scene over the coming years. In light of the recent death of George Floyd at the hands of the police in the USA, Kate reflects on the discourses of solidarity we’ve heard from within the music world and the wider issue of racism in classical music with composer Eleanor Alberga. Kate also asks Heather Wiebe from King's College London to review a new book, 'Aaron Copland's Hollywood Film Scores', by the musicologist Paula Musegades who argues that the composer used movies to try out his new 'American sound'. And we talk to Maggie Rodford, managing director of one of UK's busiest recording studios, about the impact of Covid-19 on the film and TV music recording industry.

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