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Michael Tippett

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Nature has different times.


— Michael Tippett


#different times #nature #times

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.


— Michael Tippett


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Public notice does not necessarily accord with internal fulfilment.


— Michael Tippett


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Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.


— Michael Tippett


#ever #fascinated #hardly #his #imagination

Shiva danced the world into existence... that's a very nice thought.


— Michael Tippett


#existence #into #nice #thought #very

The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.


— Michael Tippett


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The Greek sculptor - I don't think he was very different from any of us.


— Michael Tippett


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The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare.


— Michael Tippett


#myself #nearest #shakespeare #would

This is something special. You can attempt to have a kind of non-living music.


— Michael Tippett


#kind #music #something #special #you

When we use terms we get confused, yet we have no other way.


— Michael Tippett


#get #other #terms #use #way






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His influence can be seen principally in the symphonies and chamber works. These eighteen months were probably the most formative in the composer's life. A less favourable reception was given to his last opera New Year.

His deeply held humanitarian and pacifist beliefs shaped both his life and his music: he served a prison sentence as a conscientious objector in the Second World War. The libretti of his operas which he wrote himself attracted criticism for their allusion-heavy complexity and sometimes awkward and not quite idiomatic use of contemporary slang but have also received praise from amongst others noted music critic Andrew Porter the director Peter Hall and conductor Colin Davis. Sir Michael Kemp Tippett OM CH CBE (2 January 1905 – 8 January 1998) was an English composer.

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