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Michael Tippett began writing A Child of Our Time the very day Britain declared war in 1939 – it expresses the composer’s pacifism and horror at the war.

He felt the whole world had turned to the dark side.

The oratorio includes spirituals – songs of the oppressed – to underscore the universal spirituality of Tippett’s music and draw attention to the plight of war and society’s victims.