Mark-Anthony Turnage News

At last September's In All Seriousness show at Kings Place this duo raised hopes that have been resoundingly met a ' and then some a ' on a set of a dozen originals by saxist Jason Yarde and A composer Andrew McCormack, plus Mark-Anthony Turnage's Tune for Toru.

Chicago Opera Vanguard - which is quickly carving a niche for itself with productions of edgy music theater works like Andy Vores's No Exit , Mark-Anthony Turnage's Greek , and Ricky Ian Gordon's Orpheus and Euridice - will present the world premiere of The Chicago AIDS Quilt Songbook 2009 on World AIDS Day, Monday December 1. The concert will take ...

Hard to believe, but the tenor Philip Langridge reaches 70 next month. He gave advance notice of the event with a birthday recital, accompanied by David Owen Norris and the Doric Quartet, that attempted the almost impossible: to sum up in two hours a career that has perhaps been more varied than that of any other British singer of our time.

Greek * St. Paul Arts Center, 2215 W. North, in Wicker Park. * Performances are scheduled for Friday, June 12 at 8 p.m. and Saturday, June 13, also starting at 8 p.m. * Tickets are $10-$40 * Visit www.chicagovanguard.org/www/season/greek.htm for more information.

Barry and I both love Mark-Anthony Turnage 's work, and we love our fifteen-year-old CD of his 1988 opera, "Greek", in which he reinvents the Oedipus myth in London's East End during the plague years of 1980's Thatcherian England , using a 1984 play by Steven Berkoff as a base.