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Charlotte McLaughlin

Composer Mark-Anthony Turnage: My classical music doesn’t get much air time

Mark-Anthony Turnage is on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs programme (BBC/PA) -

British composer Mark-Anthony Turnage says that his musical compositions do not get “played much” on classical music radio stations.

The 64-year-old, who has created music for ballets and operas, composed the music for the opera-version of Coraline, based on the novel of the same name by British author Neil Gaiman that was made into a film.

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