Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Michael Tippett

Michael Tippett

 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page. 

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/January 2, 2015 by Brianboulton (talk) 21:18, 16 December 2014 (UTC)



Sir Michael Tippett (1905–1998) was an English composer who rose to 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. Much honoured in his lifetime, 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 writer on music.
 * Most recent similar article(s): 30 Oct Peter Warlock (but different), now also 2 December John Barbirolli, conductor
 * Main editors: Brianboulton
 * Promoted: 2013
 * Reasons for nomination: 110th anniversary of birth
 * Support as nominator. Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:11, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Support. And personally I don't care about the recent similar articles. This one would be one month after John Barbirolli, I think that's plenty of time. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 23:42, 18 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Perhaps we could get some sort of free-use image to use for the blurb? &mdash; Cirt (talk) 14:21, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I don't know. The portrait in the article is not free. Perhaps ask Brian? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:33, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
 * There are no free images of Tippett that I'm aware of, and I don't think that other pictures, e.g. of buildings etc, would be suitable to use here. Better left as it is, I feel. Brianboulton (talk) 15:55, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Okay, no worries. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 03:21, 8 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Support as principal author (who shed much blood, sweat and toil over this). Brianboulton (talk) 15:55, 3 December 2014 (UTC)