Transcript Andrew Ford: It's time to talk Tippett. Michael Tippett, the English composer, was born 100 years ago, his centenary fell in January of this year. He didn't die until 1998 and so he saw ...

Jailed for being a conscientious objector, Tippett came up with his opera The Midsummer Marriage, an expression of hope and reconciliation that resonates louder than ever You have to love Michael ...

For over thirty years Keith Tippett has been at the forefront of contemporary European jazz and new music. In the late 1960s, Tippett led a sextet featuring Elton Dean on saxophone, Mark Charig on ...

Exclusive: Pacifist composer’s intimate 1943 jail letter ‘best Tippett discovery for 50 years’ He was one of the greatest British composers of the 20th century and a staunch pacifist who spent two ...

Michael Tippett's music is notoriously difficult to assess fairly. Teetering as it always does between extremes of fearless eloquence and squishy naivete, much of the music provides ammunition both ...

From the age of 15, Michael Tippett's music was a source of profound inspiration for Andrew Davis “T’other Davis” was Michael Tippett’s nickname for him, which is to say Sir Andrew, and not Sir Colin.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When the audience at Glyndebourne filed out of the first UK production of Michael Tippett’s New Year in 1990, ...