King Priam, while his aforementioned oratorio was inspired by the assassination of Ernst vom Rath and the ensuing Kristallnacht and is called A Child of Our Time.
In one opera by this composer, the tune to "We Shall Overcome" is played when Denise meets the black writer Mel and Faber reconciles with his wife Thea during a staging of The Tempest. He called his one movement fourth symphony a "birth to death piece" and dedicated it to Sir Georg Solti. This composer of The Knot Garden included spirituals like "Deep river" and "Nobody knows the trouble I see" in a work for which he asked TS Eliot to write the libretto. He used Hyginus's Fabulae as a source for the birth and childhood of Paris in his opera (*) King Priam, while his aforementioned oratorio was inspired by the assassination of Ernst vom Rath and the ensuing Kristallnacht and is called A Child of Our Time. For 10 points, name this gay British composer.
In one opera by this composer, the tune to "We Shall Overcome" is played when Denise meets the black writer Mel and Faber reconciles with his wife Thea during a staging of The Tempest.
Michael Tippett