Donald Macleod explores the connection between Tippett's convictions and his oratorio A Child of Our Time, and we hear from the composer himself.
Sir Michael Tippett started composing the music for his oratorio A Child of Our Time on the fourth of September 1939, the day after war was declared. He was to go to prison for failing to observe the conditions of exemption imposed on him as a Conscientious Objector. Donald Macleod explores the connection between Tippett's convictions and his oratorio and we hear from the composer himself.
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