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...bold Tippett opera "What is the answer?... What is the question...
Others, like Sir Michael Tippett, provide more pointed questions. Tippett, 74, has emerged since the death of Benjamin Britten as England's pre-eminent composer...
...less individualistic than Tippett's style is his fidelity to the notion that composers should deal with big social and philosophical issues. From his anti-Nazi -oratorio, A Child of Our Time (1941), through such an instrumental-cwra-vocal work as his Symphony No. 3 (1972), he has charted the precarious survival of humanistic values in a violent, technological age. This concern has been central to his operas. The Midsummer Marriage (1952) plumbed myth and folklore in search of Jungian archetypes of spiritual wholeness...
...Tippett's newest opera, The Ice Break, has been given its first U.S. performances by the Opera Company of Boston (after a world premiere in 1977 at Covent Garden). Fittingly, the work is a masterly summation-not of conclusions, but of a continuing quest...
...English Christmas" sung by the Cecilia Society Chorus and Chamber Singers. Music of Tallis, Britten, Tippett. Sanders Theater...