Episodes
Series | Episode | First Broadcast | Repeated | Comments |
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2005 | 01 | 20050103 | 20050110 (R3) | Examining Tippett's musical beginnings and how his interest in opera began to blossom. |
2005 | 02 | 20050104 | 20050111 (R3) | Donald Macleod looks at Tippett's association with Morley College in London. |
2005 | 03 | 20050105 | 20050112 (R3) | 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. The connections between Tippett's convictions and his oratorio A Child of Our Time. |
2005 | 04 | 20050106 | 20050113 (R3) | Tippett's associations with Leicestershire Schools Orchestra and the Bath Festival. |