"This Will Not Be Televised" Music

Posted by Sarah Canice Funke Jun 14, 2008

The International Rostrum of Composers, a forum composed of radio broadcasters, released the results of this year's deliberation on Friday, June 13 in Dublin. The group shifts through more than 60 new works each year in order to narrow the decision down to the final Top Ten.

Pieces are submitted to the forum by national radio networks, in order to publicize the new music composed within the last five years.

Nicole Lizée, born in Winnepeg and currently living in Montreal, finished "This Will Not Be Televised" in 2005. The CBC commissioned the piece, which is written for seven turntables and a chamber orchestra.

The work combines a sine wave, a chorus of nuns from The Sound of Music and the vocals of rock artists such as Van Halen's David Lee Roth, the Wu-Tang Clan and Duran Duran.

Accompanying the electronic sounds are two violins, a viola, violoncello, bass and percussion section.

"This Will Not Be Televised" is not Lizée's first composition with turntables. She also included them in works such as RPM and King Kong and Fay Wray.

For more information, please read the CBC News article.