Today, tenor Mark Padmore and pianist Jonathan Biss perform a Gardner Museum recital that includes Michael Tippett’s cantata “Boyhood’s End.” It was composed for a pair of friends, tenor Peter Pears ...

He’s been called naive. His awkward operas have been parodied for being muddled Jungian parables. And worse, he has been accused of amateurism. What a price poor Sir Michael has had to pay for his ...

In 1955 Michael Tippett introduced his first opera The Midsummer Marriage to a grey, post-war society desperate for some joy and optimism. It has divided the critics, with detractors pointing to the ...

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The Musical Times is the oldest continuously-published music journal in the world, founded in 1844. For more information, including an extensive archive of obituaries of leading musicians from ...