The News in Music (Tabloid Lament)
March 1, 2018 6:05 AM   Subscribe

The News in Music (Tabloid Lament), is what Berlin-based Australian composer Thomas Meadowcroft calls a 'package' of imaginary television news music for symphony orchestra, presented live in the concert hall and accompanied by prerecorded text, spoken by professional newsreaders and played back through a central mono loudspeaker in the auditorium. Thomas writes about the piece in Resonate Magazine, and is interviewed on Australian radio. The piece celebrating the pervasion of orchestral music in popular culture via news broadcasts was met with boos and heckles upon it's premiere at the prestigious 100 year old Donaueschingen Festival, an event founded by Richard Strauss and contemporaries.
posted by adept256 (4 comments total) 9 users marked this as a favorite
 
I liked it, but I tend to like such things.

And met with boos and heckles on the premiere? Psh, half of our most beloved operas fell flat on the premiere, so that's probably just a good sign.
posted by Harald74 at 7:11 AM on March 1, 2018 [1 favorite]


I'm not finished yet, but I'm really enjoying this. I often find myself quite enjoying the orchestral stings in news, tv and radio and a lot of the themes resonate with me. "Fabrication of civic space" is a nice term.
posted by AnhydrousLove at 7:15 AM on March 1, 2018


When you consider how revered today is the work of many historical commercial artists, maybe we need to value the work of commercial composers too.
posted by The Seeds of Autumn at 7:04 PM on March 1, 2018 [1 favorite]


This is the first piece of new symphonic music I’ve liked in years.
posted by spitbull at 5:44 AM on March 3, 2018


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