From: The Chicago Tribune - 1/11/1998
Michael Tippett, 93, whose distinctive and sometimes perplexing music made him the best-known British composer since Benjamin Britten; in an era when most composers refrained from making grand statements, he wrote large-scale works--operas, symphonies, oratorios--that grappled with music's past and expressed his philosophical views; Jan. 8, in London.
Michael Tippett, 93, whose distinctive and sometimes perplexing music made him the best-known British composer since Benjamin Britten; in an era when most composers refrained from making grand statements, he wrote large-scale works--operas, symphonies, oratorios--that grappled with music's past and expressed his philosophical views; Jan. 8, in London.
From: The Chicago Tribune - 1/11/1998
Michael Tippett, 93, whose distinctive and sometimes perplexing music made him the best-known British composer since Benjamin Britten; in an era when most composers refrained from making grand statements, he wrote large-scale works--operas, symphonies, oratorios--that grappled with music's past and expressed his philosophical views; Jan. 8, in London.
Michael Tippett, 93, whose distinctive and sometimes perplexing music made him the best-known British composer since Benjamin Britten; in an era when most composers refrained from making grand statements, he wrote large-scale works--operas, symphonies, oratorios--that grappled with music's past and expressed his philosophical views; Jan. 8, in London.
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