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Oliver Soden, Michael Tippett: The Biography (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2019), ISBN 978-1-474-60602-8 (hb). - Roger Savage, The Pre-History of ‘The Midsummer Marriage’, RMA Monographs 34 (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2020), ISBN 978-0-367-24316-6 (hb).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2020

Thomas Hyde
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Twentieth-Century Music , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , June 2020 , pp. 269 - 276
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1 Tippett, quoted in Schuttenhelm, Thomas, ‘Tippett's “Between image and the imagination: Tippett's creative process”’, in The Cambridge Companion to Michael Tippett, ed. Gloag, Kenneth and Jones, Nicholas (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), 113Google Scholar.

2 Michael Tippett, Songs of Experience, dir. Mischa Scorer, BBC, 21 September 1991.

3 Hugh Wood, ‘Not So Full’, The Times Literary Supplement, 10 March 2006.

4 Aware Deshmukh, The Chicago Maroon, 1 June 2029, www.chicagomaroon.com/article/2019/6/1/dont-go-uchorus-ucso-motet-choir-concert-weekend/ (accessed 30 January 2020).

5 Lindsay Wright, The Chicago Maroon, 9 July 2019, www.chicagomaroon.com/article/2019/7/9/uchorus-uso-motet-choir-concert-worth-attending/ (accessed 30 January 2020).

6 Schuttenhelm, Thomas, ed., Selected Letters of Michael Tippett (London: Faber & Faber, 2005), 127Google Scholar.

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8 See James, Clive, The Crystal Bucket: TV Criticism from the Observer 1976–79 (London: Picador, 1982) 59–61Google Scholar. James gave a negative review of a BBC TV performance of A Child of Our Time in 1977, poking fun at Tippett's word setting and use of melisma.

9 Robin Holloway, ‘Splendid but silly’, The Times Literary Supplement, 27 September 1991. Quoted by Soden on page 556.

10 Puffett, Derrick, ‘Tippett and the Retreat from Mythology’, The Musical Times, 136 (1995) 6–14CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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12 Tippett, Michael, ‘The Birth of an Opera’, Moving into Aquarius (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1959) 53Google Scholar.