Its leading lights include Sir MichaelTippett, a composer, Yehudi Menuhin, a virtuoso violinist, and Kathleen Raine, a poet and scholar.
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The work that brought Sir MichaelTippett to prominence was his oratorio, 'A Child of our Time' which he composed as a response to the rise of fascism in Europe in the 1930s.