Encyclopedia > Mark-Anthony Turnage

Article Content

Mark-Anthony Turnage

Mark-Anthony Turnage (born June 10, 1960), English composer, is an author of music in the classical tradition. He has also been strongly influenced by jazz, and by Miles Davis in particular.

He is the author of numerous orchestral and chamber works, and of two widely-performed operas. Greek, first performed in 1988, is based on Steven Berkoff[?]'s adaptation of Oedipus the King to a modern setting. The Silver Tassie, first performed in 2000, is based on the play by Sean O'Casey[?]. Other works include Three Screaming Popes (after the paintings by Francis Bacon) and Your Rockaby, a concerto for saxophone and orchestra.

All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!

Featured Article

Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

... adopted by the British Parliament in 1982 (though as part of the Canada Act (UK) 1982 it only became law in Canada, not the United Kingdom). It is no accident that the ...