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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 69. Chapters: Michael Tippett, Prunella Scales, Isaac Deutscher, Timothy West, Jack MacDonald, Peter Taaffe, China Mieville, C. L. R. James, Tariq Ali, Piers Corbyn, Ted Grant, Paul Foot, Tony Cliff, Dave Nellist, Saffron Burrows, Mark Steel, Brian Pearce, Corin Redgrave, Chris Harman, Jock Haston, Denzil Dean Harber, Derek Hatton, Alex Callinicos, Alan Woods, Pete Glatter, Terry Fields, Sean Matgamna, Lindsey German, Neil Faulkner, John Rees, Pat Wall, John Lawrence, Michael Kidron, Ken Coates, Alan McCombes, Jimmy Deane, Peter Fryer, Frances Curran, Colin Fox, Duncan Hallas, Cliff Slaughter, Keith Flett, Betty Hamilton, Al Richardson, David Widgery, Roger Protz, Peter Cadogan, Peter Sedgwick, Charlotte Raven, Lynn Walsh, Frank Ridley, John Macreadie, Alan Thornett, Colin Barker, Ian Birchall, Harry Wicks, Raymond Challinor, Jim Higgins, Ben Watson, Ernie Tate, Harry Selby, Mike Gonzalez, Lesley Mahmood, Chris Bambery, Bill Hunter, Hannah Sell, John Molyneux, Pat Jordan, John Rose, Sam Bornstein, Paul McGarr, Chris Nineham, Donny Gluckstein, Charlie van Gelderen, Dave Stocking. 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 ...
