| dbp:quote
|
- "So God He made us outlaws (en)
- "I had never heard the work when I came across the Chrysander Edition [of Messiah]. It was a revelation. I was astounded by the power of the work's direct utterance. We gave a reasonably authentic performance and it taught me a tremendous amount. After that, Handel rather than Bach, became my bible. Those single lines—violin, soprano and figured bass—impressed me most." (en)
- "During his fifty or so years as a composer, Tippett has undoubtedly cultivated a distinctive language of his own. The prime emphasis in this language has been on a linear organisation of musical ideas, helped by a genuine flair for colour and texture." (en)
- By Robin's ten-year plan." (en)
- To beat the devil's man (en)
- To rob the rich, to help the poor (en)
- "Compared with the Concerto for Orchestra both Priam and the Piano Sonata No. 2 seem preliminary studies ... The occasional harshness of the orchestra in Priam has yielded to a new sweetness and brilliance, while the dissonances are less strident and percussive ... This Concerto triumphantly justifies Tippett's recent experiments" (en)
- Although [Tippett] is no imitator of archaic styles, he goes back to old music to find in it what he wants for the present day ... He feels that in the musical outlook of the 16th and 17th century lies the clue to what composers in this century should do in order to restore to their music a greater measure of contact with and intelligibility to the general public. (en)
- 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. (en)
- "If this is, perhaps, a music which claims a momentary exemption from modernist prohibitions and complex argument, it is also an intensely personal affirmation of a humanism that will not be extinguished". (en)
|
