About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 71. Chapters: Frederick Sanger, Eric Gill, Arthur Eddington, Augustus John, Peter Pears, Michael Tippett, Christopher Isherwood, George Lansbury, Richard Wiggs, Keir Hardie, E. D. Morel, Arthur Creech Jones, Thomas Edmund Harvey, Mark Gertler, Alfred Salter, Kenneth E. Boulding, Norman Kember, Ben Greene, Vera Brittain, Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede, Sybil Thorndike, Max Plowman, Alex Comfort, Kathleen Lonsdale, Rose Hacker, Laurence Housman, George MacLeod, Herbert Dunnico, Eric Baker, Henry Richard, Hastings Russell, 12th Duke of Bedford, Donald Soper, Baron Soper, Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy, Randal Cremer, Ronald Duncan, Sybil Morrison, Hugh Richard Lawrie Sheppard, Hugh Brock, Myrtle Solomon, Muriel Lester, Dorothy Jewson, Rhys Davies, Esther Roper, Cecil Wilson, Jon Wynne-Tyson, Thomas Evan Nicholas, Philip Morrell, Charles E. Raven, Humphrey Moore, Laurence Pavitt, Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Ruth Fry, Roland Mathias, Victor Yates, Hodgson Pratt. Excerpt: Sir Michael Kemp Tippett OM CH CBE (2 January 1905 - 8 January 1998) was an English composer. Michael TippettIn his long career he produced a large body of work, including five operas, three large-scale choral works, four symphonies, five string quartets, four piano sonatas, concertos and concertante works, song cycles and incidental music. The works for which he is best known are the Concerto for Double String Orchestra, the oratorio A Child of our Time and the Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli. 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. An interest in many aspects of contemporary culture is reflected in his music and writings. Tippett was one of the first openly gay composers to explore issues of sexuality in his w...
