Upcoming Performances & Anniversaries
Sir Michael Tippett
Born: January 2nd, 1905
Died: January 8th, 1998
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Upcoming:
King Priam
Conductor: Sian Edwards
May 27th, 2012 | Concert Hall, Brighton Dome - Brighton - United Kingdom
Dance, Clarion Air
Conductor: Peter Broadbent
June 2nd, 2012 | Dorchester Abbey - Oxford - United Kingdom
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News
08/25/2011
John Casken Awarded Honorary Doctorate Degree
One of the UK’s leading composers, John Casken, was recently awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music from Birmingham University. Casken was invited to accept this award in honour of his contribution to the music world as well as his strong connection with the University itself. Casken attended ...
07/25/2011
Dartington International Summer Schoool
The 2011 Dartington International Summer School began this week and will continue for the next five weeks with numerous concerts and events. Sir Michael Tippett and Huw Watkins' music will be featured prominently throughout the summer school and other works by Ligeti, Hindemith, Grainger and ...
03/18/2011
Chantage and the Swingle Singers - Tippett's Five Spirituals
On 18th March 2011 at Union Chaple in Islington, London, the world renowned Swingle Singers will join the award-winning London choir Chantage for the premiere of a new work honouring Sir Michael Tippett's Five Spiritual, a set of spiritual interludes composed by gospel choir director Ken Burton. ...
12/23/2010
schott aktuell - the journal 1/2011 online
CHORSINFONIK p 3: Editorial · Contents pp 4-6: World Premières: Krzysztof Penderecki: "Powiało na mnie morze snów..." · Robert Beaser: Ground "O" · Rodion Shchedrin: Double Concerto · Gavin Bryars: New full length ballet · Chaya Czernowin: The Quiet ...
02/01/2010
Work of the Week - Michael Tippett: Divertimento on "Sellinger´s Round"
The Divertimento on "Sellinger´s Round" for chamber orchestra is one of Sir Michael Tippett’s most popular concert works. Commissioned by Paul Sacher and written between 1953 and 1954, around the same time as Tippett’s celebrated Piano Concerto , Divertimento has been performed ...
09/21/2009
The 2009/10 season is upon us! Below is just a sampling of the featured Schott/EAM events happening this season. Throughout the year, you can always check on our upcoming performances by going to our performance calendar on www.eamdllc.com . Julian Anderson The Cleveland Orchestra and Music ...
03/16/2009
Work of the Week - Michael Tippett: A Child of Our Time
Sir Michael Tippett’s internationally successful oratorio A Child of Our Time will be performed during the final concert of the North American National High School Choral Festival which will take place at New York’s Carnegie Hall on Friday 20th March. A 185 strong chorus joined ...
10/28/2008
Complete Tippett String Quartets released on Naxos
The complete string quartets of Sir Michael Tippett will be available on CD and as downloads from the Naxos record label. Recorded by the Tippett Quartet and collected into two volumes, volume 1, which includes the 1st, 2nd and 4th quartet, is available now whilst volume two has a planned released ...
11/21/2007
Tippett - The Complete Piano Music
Celebrated pianist, Steven Osborn, has recently recorded the complete piano music of Sir Michael Tippett. The double CD release by Hyperion records, recorded with both Osborn and the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Martyn Brabbins, has been labelled a “monumental achievement” by the Sunday Times ...
09/21/2005
Selected Letters of Michael Tippett Thomas Schuttenhelm Throughout his life, which spanned the greater part of the twentieth century (1905-1998), ...
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