A Child of Our Time
“More than 150 New York singers are about to offer an answer at Lincoln Center, with a work written nearly 90 years ago that still feels strikingly familiar. His answer isn't a work of despair. Tippett wove five African American spirituals into the score, including “Steal Away,” “”
What does resistance sound like? Nearly 90 years after it was written, Sir Michael Tippett’s A Child of Our Time continues to ask urgent questions about fear, injustice, division, and hope. Written in response to the rise of fascism in Europe and the violence of Kristallnacht in 1938, Tippett’s powerful oratorio for
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chorus and orchestra draws on African American spirituals. For Tippett, these songs expressed a universal truth: even in the face of injustice, the human spirit endures. For this one
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Manhattan — 10 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023
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