{"id":1602,"date":"2025-07-21T08:25:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T08:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomasmeadowcroft.com\/?page_id=1602"},"modified":"2025-07-22T07:43:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T07:43:24","slug":"forever-turnarounds","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thomasmeadowcroft.com\/index.php\/forever-turnarounds\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left has-contrast-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-411c640e2bff9c79e7cd772589fb4d32\" style=\"font-size:clamp(1.25rem, 1.25rem + ((1vw - 0.2rem) * 1.364), 2rem);font-style:normal;font-weight:200;text-transform:none\"><em>Forever Turnarounds<\/em><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\" style=\"margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;margin-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"711\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomasmeadowcroft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/foreverturanrounds_chart2-3-1024x711.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-845\" style=\"width:812px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomasmeadowcroft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/foreverturanrounds_chart2-3-1024x711.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thomasmeadowcroft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/foreverturanrounds_chart2-3-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thomasmeadowcroft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/foreverturanrounds_chart2-3-768x533.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thomasmeadowcroft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/foreverturanrounds_chart2-3-1536x1066.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thomasmeadowcroft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/foreverturanrounds_chart2-3.jpg 1732w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color has-system-font-font-family has-small-font-size wp-elements-6cbde6531a5d8c89b38eb1ef9652054c wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300\">first performance: members of South West German Radio Big Band Symphony Orchestra (cond. Pascal Roph<em>\u00e9<\/em>); &#8216;Donaueschinger Musiktage&#8217;, Donaueschingen GER October 2022 &#8212; commissioned by South West German Radio &#8212; instrumentation: studio orchestra (alto sax 1 (doubling cl in Bb and flute) \/ alto sax 2 (doubling cl in Bb and flute) \/ tenor sax 1 (doubling cl in Bb and flute)\/ tenor sax 2 (doubling cl in Bb and flute) \/ baritone sax (doubling bass clarinet) &#8211; 1.4.4.1 &#8211; drumset \/ aux perc. \/ bass \/ harp \/ piano \/ organ &#8211; strings ) &#8212; duration 13&#8242; \/ 2022<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300\">Forever Turnarounds <em>is an experiment in &#8220;deep easy listening&#8221;. For music theorists, twelve, added-tone, major chords in twelve keys modulate three times in minor thirds via tritone substitutions with tertiary chord structures. For casual listeners, the sound image and tagline should feel like this:<\/em> the avant-garde society dance band plays the late nite eternal return for lovers. (TM)<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-f56f613f wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lJyEsk_5GM4?\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"100%\n\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"1\"><\/iframe>\n<br>\n<br>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-right has-contrast-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-680684cb088bc6c469f6fc4e26f69470\" style=\"text-transform:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomasmeadowcroft.com\/index.php\/music\/#music-news-in-music\">back<\/a><br><br><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forever Turnarounds first performance: members of South West German Radio Big Band Symphony Orchestra (cond. Pascal Roph\u00e9); &#8216;Donaueschinger Musiktage&#8217;, Donaueschingen GER October 2022 &#8212; commissioned by South West German Radio &#8212; instrumentation: studio orchestra (alto sax 1 (doubling cl in Bb and flute) \/ alto sax 2 (doubling cl in Bb and flute) \/ tenor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1602","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomasmeadowcroft.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomasmeadowcroft.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomasmeadowcroft.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomasmeadowcroft.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomasmeadowcroft.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1602"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomasmeadowcroft.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1801,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomasmeadowcroft.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1602\/revisions\/1801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomasmeadowcroft.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}