{"product_id":"16740-turnage-mark-anthony-collection-of-autograph-music-sketchbooks","title":"Turnage, Mark-Anthony. (b. 1960) Collection of Autograph Music Sketchbooks","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eA highly interesting and significant group of six autograph musical sketchbooks from the English composer who has gained particular recognition for his operas and as Composer-in-Residence with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Chicago Symphony Orchestra. All six notebooks are identical 9 x 12.5 inch (21.5 x 31.5 cm) black leather manuscript composition books, 121 pp. Each is signed by Turnage on the title page. Written in pencil with occasional smudges, overall very legible and clean. \u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e1. Sketchbook for\u003ci\u003e Remembering, \u003c\/i\u003eTurnage's orchestral piece for the LSO, and \u003ci\u003eStrapless\u003c\/i\u003e, his 2015 commission for the Royal Ballet. Title page dated February 25, 2015 (struck through) and April 9, 2015. Contains approx. 5 pp. of rough thematic sketches for \u003ci\u003eRemembering\u003c\/i\u003e, including Turnage's working-out of a theme on the letters of the name Evan Scofield, the son of jazz guitarist John Scofield who died in his 20's and for whom the piece was written; a musical scheme around John Donne's poem \"Death be not proud\"; and approx. 110 pp. of sketches and drafts for \u003ci\u003eStrapless.\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e2. Sketchbook for \u003ci\u003eStrapless\u003c\/i\u003e, continued. 57 pp. of sketches and notes, including notes on the timing and cues of each scene. \u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e3. Sketchbook for Act One of \u003ci\u003eCoraline\u003c\/i\u003e, Turnage's children's opera commissioned by the Royal Opera House and premiered in 2018. First page dated January 2015. 117 pp. of sketches, with and without texts.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e4. Sketchbook for Act Two of \u003ci\u003eCoraline \u003c\/i\u003eand for a quintet written for the International Musicians' Seminar in Prussia Cove. 72 pp. of sketches for \u003ci\u003eCoraline\u003c\/i\u003e, with and without text. 2 pp. of a rough sketch of \u003ci\u003ePrussia Cove\u003c\/i\u003e. With two pages of printed music of scene 2 from \u003ci\u003eStrapless\u003c\/i\u003e, with Turnage's corrections in pencil.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e5. Sketchbook for \u003ci\u003eTowards Alba \u003c\/i\u003e(first movement titled \u003ci\u003eAubade\u003c\/i\u003e), a horn concerto commissioned for Richard Watkins and the Philharmonia Orchestra to be performed in 2019. Title page dated June 26, 2017. 31 pp. of sketches, including a draft of \u003ci\u003eAubade \u003c\/i\u003ewith the text of Philip Larkin's poem \"Aubade\" overlaid over the horn part.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e6. Sketchbook for \u003ci\u003eRefugee\u003c\/i\u003e, a song cycle for tenor and orchestra to be performed by Allan Clayton and the Britten Sinfonia in September 2019. Title page dated February 3, 2017. At the head of the title page, struck through: \"Echoes Return Slow \/ R. S. Thomas Song Cycle for Ian Shaw \/ Britten Sinfonia.\" 44 pp. of sketches, including drafts of settings of R. S. Thomas' poems \"Here\" and \"Evening,\" W. H. Auden's poem \"Refugee Blues,\" Benjamin Zephaniah's \"We Refugees,\" Brian Bilston's \"Refugees,\" Emily Dickinson's \"These strangers, in a foreign world.\"\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003eMark-Anthony Turnage (b. 1960) is an English composer whose works include six operas, as well as orchestral, choral and chamber music. He is perhaps best-known for his 2011 opera \u003ci\u003eAnna Nicole, \u003c\/i\u003ebased on the life of TV personality Anna Nicole Smith. The works represented in this group of sketchbooks include his 2016 ballet score for Covent Garden, \u003ci\u003eStrapless \u003c\/i\u003e(inspired by John Singer Sargent's \u003ci\u003ePortrait of Madame X\u003c\/i\u003e), his opera \u003ci\u003eCoraline \u003c\/i\u003e(based on the dark children's novella by Neil Gaiman), a quintet written for the International Musicians Seminar, Prussia Cove, in 2017, and an as-yet unpublished horn concerto and song cycle.\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003eTurnage was the first Radcliffe Composer in Association with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra from 1989 until 1993 and between 2000 and 2003 was the BBC Symphony Orchestra's first Associate Composer. He was Composer in Residence with the London Philharmonic Orchestra from 2005 until 2010. Between 2006 and 2010, Turnage was a co-composer-in-residence of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, a position he held alongside Argentinian composer Osvaldo Golijov.\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093627392159,"sku":"16740","price":10000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Turnage_Sketchbooks_16740_1.jpg?v=1722189296","url":"https:\/\/www.schubertiademusic.com\/products\/16740-turnage-mark-anthony-collection-of-autograph-music-sketchbooks","provider":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}