Powerful stuff. I’m not saying that there’s any stylistic influence – Turnage is too much his own composer for that – but I wonder if he’s aware of this, which deals with nuclear calamity of a different kind (and, unlike a certain notorious piece bearing the same subtitle, was actually written by the person who purported to have written it)? No reason why he should – the piece was widely known and respected east of the Iron Curtain, but hasn’t made many inroads into the public consciousness west of it since it fell.
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Turnage on top form.
Powerful stuff. I’m not saying that there’s any stylistic influence – Turnage is too much his own composer for that – but I wonder if he’s aware of this, which deals with nuclear calamity of a different kind (and, unlike a certain notorious piece bearing the same subtitle, was actually written by the person who purported to have written it)? No reason why he should – the piece was widely known and respected east of the Iron Curtain, but hasn’t made many inroads into the public consciousness west of it since it fell.
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