Previous posts for January 2nd are here: Mily Balakirev; Michael Tippet; Gardner Read (2020), Eric Whitacre (2021), Roger Miller (2022), and Mily Balakirev (2023)
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Michael Tippett (2 January 1905 – 8 January 1998) was an important British composer.
Knot Gardening
I saw a stage picture ... of a wooded hilltop with a temple, where a warm and soft young man was being rebuffed by a cold and hard young woman ... to such a degree that the collective, magical archetypes take charge—Jung's anima and animus. -- Michael Tippett on The Midsummer Marriage
Perhaps it’s pretentious and petty
To judge Michael Tippett’s libretti,
But he ties up his plots
In such Jungian knots
That it makes a big mess — like spaghetti.
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