Question: Joseph Ward and Michael Tippett are both of what decent?
Context: The Midsummer Marriage is an opera in three acts, with music and libretto by Michael Tippett.  The work's first performance was at Covent Garden, 27 January 1955, conducted by John Pritchard.  The reception of the opera was controversial, over perceived confusion as to the libretto and Tippett's use of symbols and psychological references.  Nonetheless the opera has received at least ten more productions, including two further productions at the Royal Opera, in England, Wales, Scotland, Germany, Sweden and the United States. The Michael Tippett School is a special needs secondary school for students with severe learning difficulties located in south London.  It is named after the composer Michael Tippett. Michael Tippett (born February 23, 1970) is a Canadian entrepreneur, columnist and educator.  He was the founder of NowPublic which is in citizen journalism.  In 2009 the site was nominated for an Emmy in Advanced Technology.  In August 2009 NowPublic was acquired by billionaire, Phillip Anschutz for a reported 25 million dollars.  In 2009, Tippett was recognized by the British Columbia New Media Association with an award for visionary leadership. A Child of Our Time is a secular oratorio by the British composer Michael Tippett (190598), who also wrote the libretto.  Composed between 1939 and 1941, it was first performed at the Adelphi Theatre, London, on 19 March 1944.  The work was inspired by events that affected Tippett profoundly: the assassination in 1938 of a German diplomat by a young Jewish refugee, and the Nazi government's reaction in the form of a violent pogrom against its Jewish population—called Kristallnacht.  Tippett's oratorio deals with these incidents in the context of the experiences of oppressed people generally, and carries a strongly pacifist message of ultimate understanding and reconciliation.  The text's recurrent themes of shadow and light reflect the Jungian psychoanalysis which Tippett underwent in the years immediately before writing the work. Boyhood's End is a cantata for tenor and piano composed by Michael Tippett in 1943, based on text by William Henry Hudson.  Tippett wrote the piece for Peter Pears and Benjamin Britten, whose talent had impressed him during a rehearsal for "My Beloved Spake".  Pears and Britten performed "Boyhood's End" in June 1943 at Morley College; it was given its premiere, perhaps by someone else, on May 24 of that year. Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli, also known as the Corelli Fantasia, is a work for string orchestra by the British composer Michael Tippett.  It was commissioned by the 1953 Edinburgh Festival to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the birth of the Italian composer Arcangelo Corelli, and given its first performance on 29 August 1953, in the Usher Hall, by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Tippett. British composer Michael Tippett composed his Concerto for Piano and Orchestra between 1953 and 1955 on a commission from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.  The overall character of the work was influenced by the composer's hearing German pianist Walter Gieseking rehearse Ludwig van Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto in 1950.  Its musical content, while influenced by this concerto, was also shaped largely by Tippett's opera "The Midsummer Marriage", which he had completed in 1952.  While Tippett had conceived the work initially in the mid-1940s, he had been preoccupied in much of the intervening time with "The Midsummer Marriage". Morley College Choir was founded by Gustav Holst, during the period he was teaching music at Morley College.  The choir was led for many years by Michael Tippett, who conducted the ensemble for the first-ever recording of Thomas Tallis' Spem in Alium, and premiered a number of Tippett's works, including A Child of Our Time in March 1944. Joseph Ward OBE (born Preston, 1932) is an English tenor, formerly a baritone, who created roles in operas by Benjamin Britten and Michael Tippett.  He has also made a career as a singing teacher – his pupils include Jane Eaglen – and opera producer. Sir Michael Kemp Tippett {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (2 January 1905 – 8 January 1998) was an English composer who rose to prominence during and immediately after the Second World War.  In his lifetime he was sometimes ranked 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".
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