prominence during the Second World War. He was considered to rank with
his contemporary Benjamin Britten as one of the leading British
composers of the 20th century. Among his best-known works are the
oratorio A Child of Our Time, the orchestral Fantasia Concertante on a
Theme of Corelli, and the opera The Midsummer Marriage. Tippett withdrew
or destroyed his earliest compositions, and was 30 before any of his
works were published. Initial difficulties in accepting his
homosexuality led him in 1939 to Jungian psychoanalysis. Until the mid-
1950s his music was broadly lyrical in character, before changing to a
more astringent and experimental style, open to new influences including
jazz and blues. He was much honoured in his lifetime, but uneven
critical judgement reserved praise generally for his earlier works.
Having briefly embraced communism in the 1930s, Tippett avoided
identifying with any political party. A pacifist after 1940, he was
imprisoned in 1943 for refusing to carry out war-related duties. He was
a strong advocate of music education, a radio broadcaster and a writer
on music.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Tippett>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1920:
Under the leadership of U.S. Attorney General A. Mitchell
Palmer (pictured), Department of Justice agents launched a series of
raids against radical leftists and anarchists across 30 cities in 23
states.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_Raids>
1944:
World War II: The United States and Australia successfully
landed 13,000 troops on Papua New Guinea in an attempt to cut off a
Japanese retreat.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landing_at_Saidor>
1971:
At Ibrox Park in Glasgow, Scotland, 66 people were killed in a
stampede during an Old Firm football match.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Ibrox_disaster>
1981:
English serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, the "Yorkshire Ripper",
was arrested in Sheffield, ending one of the largest police
investigations in British history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Sutcliffe>
2004:
The Stardust space probe flew by the comet Wild 2 and collected
particle samples from its coma, which were later returned to Earth.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/81P/Wild>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
Silent Sam:
(informal) A person who seldom or never speaks; a taciturn or
unresponsive individual.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Silent_Sam>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would
choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and
not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and
righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God,
and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.
--Isaac Asimov
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov>
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