"Which composer wrote the 1944 oratorio ""A Child of our Time""?"
A Child of Our Time 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 1944. The work was inspired by events that affected Tippett profoundly: the assassination in 1938 of a German diplomat by a young Jewish refugee, and the Nazi government's reaction in the form of a violent pogrom against its Jewish population—called Kristallnacht. Tippett's oratorio deals with these incidents in the context of the experiences of oppressed people generally,
A Child of Our Time the music will, I think, have an immediate effect on both audience and performers". Later writers would state that "A Child of Our Time" placed Tippett in the first rank of the composers of his generation, and most of the early reviews were favourable. Among these, "The Times"s critic called the work "strikingly original in conception and execution", and wrote that Tippett had succeeded quite remarkably in writing an effective tract for the times. A second "Times" review, written a few days after the premiere, suggested that the oratorio had articulated a key contemporary question: "How is the conflict of