Perspective: A Child of His Time ; Michael Tippett's Centenary Year Will Give Us a Fresh Opportunity to Examine One of British Music's Most Perplexing Talents, Writes Terry Grimley
Birmingham Post › January 01, 2005
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Journalists quickly become blase about meeting famous people, particularly when they specialise in the arts and entertainment.
But after more than 30 years of interviewing household names in theatre, cinema, music and the visual arts there is no doubt in my mind about the interviewee I held most in awe: Michael Tippett.See the full content of this document
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Perspective: A Child of His Time ; Michael Tippett's Centenary Year Will Give Us a Fresh Opportunity to Examine One of British Music's Most Perplexing Talents, Writes Terry Grimley
Why so? Because this was a man who I believed to have written great music. How many opportunities are there to be in the same room with anyone of whom you could say that?
The occasion was in 1985, Tippett's 80th birthday year, at the Royal Academy of Music. Among the birthday celebrations was going to be a residency at the Malvern Festival where, in addition to performances of his music, he would judge a marmalademaking competition - marmalade apparently being one of his lesser-known enthusiasms.Around t...See the full content of this document
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