He employed glossolalia to convey the sense of eternity in The Vision of St. Augustine, while the title location "sings itself to sleep" after its song "leaves the sky" in The Rose Lake .
In one opera by this man, Mangus tries to stage The Tempest, and Schubert's "Die Larbe Farce" is sung by Flora, the ward of Faber. He employed glossolalia to convey the sense of eternity in The Vision of St. Augustine, while the title location "sings itself to sleep" after its song "leaves the sky" in The Rose Lake . He described his fourth symphony, which is in one movement, as a "birth-to-death" piece, and besides The Knot Garden, he also composed a Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli for string orchestra. T.S. Eliot declined to write the libretto for a choral work which utilizes African American spirituals in its description of the killing of a Nazi official, and in one of his operas, two characters are transfigured into gods while King Fisher dies before he can fire his pistol, allowing Mark and Jenifer to perform the title ceremony. For 10 points, name this composer of the oratorio A Child of Our Time and the opera The Midsummer Marriage.
In one opera by this man, Mangus tries to stage The Tempest, and Schubert's "Die Larbe Farce" is sung by Flora, the ward of Faber.
Sir Michael {Tippett}