His Own Sort of Outsider
Philip Clark: Tippett’s Knack, 16 July 2020
Michael Tippett: The Biography
by Oliver Soden.
Weidenfeld, 750 pp., £25, April 2019,978 1 4746 0602 8 Show More
by Oliver Soden.
Weidenfeld, 750 pp., £25, April 2019,
“... By the time his first opera, The Midsummer Marriage, had its premiere at Covent Garden in 1955, Michael Tippett was considered, alongside Benjamin Britten, the most significant and original British composer of his generation. Yet he was also the natural outsider in a scene that as well as Britten (born 1913), included William Walton (1902) and Lennox Berkeley (1903), with the reassuring presence of Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872) hovering over them all ... ”