Fanfare, May 1st, 2008
TIPPETT A Child of our Time * Colin Davis, cond; Ute Selbig (sop); Nora Gubisch (mez); Jerry Hadley (ten); Robert Holl (bs); Berlin PO; Staatskapelle Dresden; Dresden S Ch * PROFIL 7052 (65:19) Live: Dresden 2003 In the early 1930s, Michael Tippett worked for a time where I grew up, (and where I'm writing this), in the ex-industrial rural northeast of England. Local unemployment was over 90 percent, back then. Those villages, where men are men and drink is king, are still as scary as any one-horsetown in the Wild West. A gay composer must have felt just as much at home as the sheriff did in B...
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