Out & About …

… on the North York Moors, or wherever I happen to be.

Day: 2 January 2019

  • Sir Michael Tippett

    Sir Michael Tippett

    Today, Sir Michael Tippett, perhaps the leading British composer of the 20th-century, would have been 114 years old. He is most famous for his oratorio ‘A Child of Our Time’, which was inspired by the murder in Paris of a German diplomat in 1938 by a Jewish refugee teenager. The murder led to the attacks…