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Donald Macleod looks at how Tippett got started on a musical career and how his interest in opera began to blossom.

Next Donald Macleod looks at Tippett's association with Morley College in London, of which he was musical director during the war years, and his relationship with Francesca Allinson, the one woman with whom Tippett contemplated marriage.

Sir Michael Tippett started composing the music for his oratorio A Child of Our Time on the fourth of September 1939, the day after war was declared. He was to go to prison for failing to observe the conditions of exemption imposed on him as a Conscientious Objector. Donald Macleod explores the connection between Tippett's convictions and his oratorio.

Tippett's associations with Leicestershire Schools Orchestra and the Bath Festival are explored.

And finally, Donald Macleod looks at the influence of his travels on his music. Michael Tippett first went to the United States when he was sixty and fell in love with it. He caught the bug for travelling and continued to do so until the end of his life when he was 93.

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