A New York ce soir et demain "Mark-Anthony Turnage Frieze (U.S. Premiere–New York Philharmonic Co-Commission with the Royal Philharmonic Society BBC Radio 3): Here is the response to Mark-Anthony Turnage’s composition Scherzoid, jointly commissioned by the New York Philharmonic and the London Philharmonic Orchestra: “…18 minutes of relentlessly propulsive, high-octane rhythm, bubbling with scherzoid jokes, and bristling with schizoid dislocations of time and metre…pizzicato strings and gong-beats dapple the darkness, the bare brush of a cymbal temporarily calms the music into woodwind blues… Scherzoid is both aurally and visually exciting.” (The Times, following the London premiere in January 2005) It was Turnage’s first co-commission for our Orchestra. At these concerts, New York audiences will have an opportunity to hear another of this widely performed composer’s works: Frieze, jointly commissioned by the New York Philharmonic, BBC Radio 3, and the Royal Philharmonic Society. Mark-Anthony Turnage has lent his unique, imaginative voice to creating for the orchestral, operatic, concerto, and chamber music repertoire. His high standing among today’s composers was firmly established in 1988 with his first opera Greek, which launched him internationally. He was a student of Oliver Knussen, John Lambert, and Gunther Schuller, and from 1989 to 1993 was Composer in Association with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle. The new century also brought Turnage’s appointment as the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s first Associate Composer culminating in a major Turnage weekend at the Barbican in January 2003. Since then he has had many other composer-in-residence appointments, including with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. A recent success was the opera Anna Nicole, based on the life story of American model, actress, television personality, and Playboy centerfold Anna Nicole Smith, who died in 2007; Anna Nicole was premiered at The Royal Opera in London in spring 2011 with six sold-out houses, subsequent broadcasts on television and radio, and a DVD recording of the work." nyphil.org/ConcertsTickets/EventDetails?event=%7B49474C23-2428-4EA9-810F-7D6A300633B9%7D youtube/watch?v=bMPRdN-FqqE
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