Turnage, Mark-Anthony (b.1960)

[Master Jacques]

Thanks for drawing attention to Turnage on DID, which I would certainly otherwise have missed. In many ways Turnage has turned out musically to be a latter day Malcolm Arnold equivalent, I think.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0026n3x

An interesting idea. But don't you think, perhaps, that Turnage lacks that genuinely "popular touch" which made Arnold's film scores and "light" orchestral works (for example Tam O'Shanter) so very memorable? It's closer to that straining after popular appeal which I tried to describe (not very cogently) earlier.

[Serial_Apologist]

An interesting idea. But don't you think, perhaps, that Turnage lacks that genuinely "popular touch" which made Arnold's film scores and "light" orchestral works (for example Tam O'Shanter) so very memorable? It's closer to that straining after popular appeal which I tried to describe (not very cogently) earlier.

Yes, I think you're right.