Artist in Residence at Southbank Centre I have always loved Michael Tippett's music, and when a former tutor at Birmingham University recommended me to write a book on the composer, I was able to ...

The operatic medium seemed to suit Tippett and Eliot's seeming confidence in the composer's libretto technique led him to compose the words for each of his operas. Opera allowed Tippett to explore ...

In the midst of the gathering storm clouds of World War Two, English composer Sir Michael Tippett wrote his best-known piece — a searing antiwar oratorio called "A Child of Our Time." ...

When the curtain goes up on the Chicago premiere of Sir Michael Tippett’s “The ... and spirituality that’s unique to Tippett.” The composer originally conceived “Midsummer” as a ...

Charles Hazlewood focuses on Tippett's Fantasia Concertante. Duration: 38:25 Tippett: A Child Of Our Time In this Proms Music Guide, Tom Service talks about Tippett's A Child Of Our Time.

The latest in John Bridcut’s collection of award-winning films about British composers features the life and music of Sir Michael Tippett, who died in 1998. For many years, Tippett dominated the ...

The composer keenly felt his place in society ... m 'The Selected Letters of Michael Tippett', ed Thomas Schuttenhelm, will be published by Faber in September (£25). 'The Midsummer Marriage ...

When the audience at Glyndebourne filed out of the first UK production of Michael Tippett ... performance in Glasgow. Even composing in his eighties, Tippett was keen to keep up with the latest ...

Michael Tippett's musical output was prodigious ... Despite such flaws, what marks Tippett as a composer whose music has a fair chance of standing the test of time are his vision and his weaving of ...

Award-winning filmmaker John Bridcut turns his attention to British composer Michael Tippett in a portrait of a political and musical activist whose life spanned nearly the whole of the 20th century.