Which British composer wrote 'A Child Of Our Time' incorporating Negro spirituals, in 1941?
A Child of Our Time Our Time" was issued in 1958, and remained the only available version for 17 years. Sir Colin Davis made the first of his three recordings of the work in 1975. Tippett himself, at the age of 86, conducted a recording of the work with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in 1991. Notes Citations Bibliography A Child of Our Time A Child of Our Time is a secular oratorio by the British composer Michael Tippett (190598), who also wrote the libretto. Composed between 1939 and 1941, it was first performed at the Adelphi Theatre, London, on 19 March
A Child of Our Time summarises the work's continuing appeal: "[I]t deals with issues as timeless as civilization itself—man's inhumanity to man, the place of the individual who confronts ruthless power ... the need for learning the lessons of history and for compassion and understanding and honesty and equality in our dealings with each other, whatever our differences may be. Tippett's Child still speaks profoundly to us in our own deeply troubled time". Kemp describes Tippett's central problem in composing "A Child of Our Time" as integrating the language of the spirituals with his own musical style. Tippett was, in Kemp's view, entirely successful in