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not speak to Hecuba or Andromache. He sends Paris to his death, but speaks gently to Helen. Greek soldiers burst in and Achilles’ son kills him. Personalities | Michael Tippett | Modern Era | Opera ...

Source: Definitive Opera Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

dancers celebrate ‘carnal love transfigured as divine consuming love’. Mark, Jenifer and the Ancients disappear in fire. Mark and Jenifer reappear as themselves for their wedding. Personalities | Michael Tippett | Modern Era | Opera ...

Source: Definitive Opera Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

of Our Time (1939–41) and The Mask of Time (1980–82) and the operas all explore Tippett’s social and human preoccupations. In a famous definition of what composers are for, Tippett said that their function was ‘to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form... for it is only through images that the inner world ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

1905–98, English Tippett began his musical studies at the age of 18, wrote his first significant work aged 30, and was 41 when he embarked on his first opera, The Midsummer Marriage (composed 1946–52, premiered 1955). Despite his relatively late development in the operatic genre, he soon became a composer of international recognition. Referencing Mozart’s ...

Source: Definitive Opera Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

of the inspiration for a wonderful, though difficult, long poem by the American Wallace Stevens, The Blue Guitar. The title was adopted for a piece by Michael Tippett (1905–98), of which the first performance was given in 1983 by Julian Bream (b. 1938), who did more than anyone else to establish the guitar as a classical instrument in ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

continues to grow. The guitar repertoire has been enlarged by works from some of the composing heavyweights of the twentieth century, including Francis Poulenc (1899–1963), Benjamin Britten (1913–76), Michael Tippett (1905–98), Hans Werner Henze (b. 1926), William Walton (1902–83) and Rodney Bennett (b. 1936). Segovia’s zeal for encouraging new work has been taken up by a number of guitarists, ...

Source: The Illustrated Complete Musical Instruments Handbook, general editor Lucien Jenkins

1926–2010 Australian soprano Sutherland studied in Sydney and sang in public there before travelling to London for further study at the Royal College of Music. She joined the Covent Garden company in 1952 and sang many roles, including Jenifer in the premiere of Tippett’s The Midsummer Marriage. Her performance as Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor under Serafin in 1959 launched her ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

1927–2013 English conductor Davis came to public notice as the conductor of early performances by the Chelsea Opera Group. He made his debut at Sadler’s Wells Opera in 1958, and was music director 1961–65. He was principal conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra 1967–71, music director of the Royal Opera 1971–86 and of the Bavarian State Radio Orchestra 1983–92 ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

, Sufi and Hindu texts. Recommended Recording: The Protecting Veil, Thrinos, Steven Isserlis, LSO (cond) Gennady Rozhdestvensky (Virgin/Erato) Introduction | Contemporary | Classical Personalities | (Sir) Michael Tippett | Contemporary | Classical ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

of his dramatic and enduring symphonies, provided models for such composers as Robert Schumann (1810–56) and Johannes Brahms (1833–97) and for twentieth-century composers such as Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951), Michael Tippett (1905–98) and Brian Ferneyhough (b. 1943). There can be no doubt that without Beethoven, the history of music in the last two centuries would have been very different. Recommended ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

at the Juilliard Opera Center in 1972. Introduction | Modern Era | Opera Major Operas | Four Saints in Three Acts by Virgil Thomson | Modern Era Personalities | Michael Tippett | Modern Era | Opera Houses & Companies | The Birth of the Metropolitan Opera | Turn of the Century | Opera ...

Source: Definitive Opera Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

Free jazz developed throughout the early 1960s and 1970s as a growing number of new players such as the Art Ensemble Of Chicago and David Murray in the US; Keith Tippett, Steve Beresford, Elton Dean, Trevor Watts, Ian Coxhill and Maggie Nichols amongst others in the UK; Peter Brötzmann and Peter Kowald in Germany; and in the ...

Source: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music, general editor Paul Du Noyer

Leading Exponents Claude Debussy Charles Ives Maurice Ravel Béla Bartók Igor Stravinsky Arnold Schoenberg Anton Webern Alban Berg Edgard Varèse Aaron Copland George Gershwin Dmitri Shostakovich Ralph Vaughan Williams Michael Tippett Benjamin Britten Twentieth Century Style Pentatonic scales are indicative of the simple and effective modes that are utilized to create vivid impressions of a subject. Introduction | Classical Music Styles ...

Source: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music, general editor Paul Du Noyer

both Arthur Bliss (1891–1975) and Vaughan Williams had operas given in the immediate post-war period (respectively, The Olympians, 1949, and The Pilgrim’s Progress, 1951), it was Tippett who came closest to matching Britten’s success. Tippett always provided his own librettos, and their oddities of language and plot, their exploration of abstract myths and archetypes, ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

last half of the twentieth century was the countertenor (or ‘male alto’) welcomed into the opera house. After hearing the alto Alfred Deller singing in Canterbury Cathedral in 1944, Tippett remarked that the ‘centuries rolled back’. Tippett encouraged Deller to extend his repertory, which coincided with the beginning of the Baroque opera revival. Many roles in that repertory, ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie
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