Composer: Michael Tippett

A Child of Our Time
Oratorio Study Score
Publisher: Eulenburg London (Schott)
Category: Choral
Series: Study Score
Format: Paperback

This oratorio was Tippett's artistic and emotional response to the events that led to the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 1938. Tippett used as his formal and historical models the Bach Passions and Handel's Messiah. Tippett's use of the spiritual serves as equivalent for the Lutheran chorale of Bach's time. By 1941, when Tippett had completed the composition of his oratorio, the practicalities of staging a performance during wartime were difficult to say the least. However, through the direct agency of his lifelong friends and professional colleagues, Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears, the work was performed in 1944, with Pears himself as tenor soloist.

Inventory # : 49016790
UPC: 841886009837
ISBN: 379576727X
Width: 7.5"
Length: 10.5"
Height: 0.44"
Product Weight: 0.8 lbs.
Number of Pages: 176