As a confirmed anglophile, an admirer of Michael Tippett and a passionate devotee of A Child of Our Time, I have to think that this essay was a long time coming. In addition to those writers, living or passed, who are cited in the text, I’m infinitely grateful to Byron Adams for providing his notes for a lecture I was unable to attend, and for continual inspiration, above and beyond.
My sole previous Into the Music essay, on Ionisation by Edgard Varèse, is here. And my blog post about the Boston performance of A Child of Our Time cited in the new essay, one of the earliest posts on Night After Night, is here.
