Boyhood's End

Boyhood's End is a cantata for tenor and piano composed by Michael Tippett in 1943, based on text by William Henry Hudson.[1] Tippett wrote the piece for Peter Pears and Benjamin Britten, whose talent had impressed him during a rehearsal for My Beloved Spake.[2] Pears and Britten performed Boyhood's End in June 1943 at Morley College;[2] it was given its premiere, perhaps by someone else, on May 24 of that year.[3]

References
  1. "Boyhood's End." The Oxford Dictionary of Music, 2nd ed. rev. Ed. Michael Kennedy. Oxford Music Online
  2. White, Eric Walter (1970). Benjamin Britten: His Life and Operas. University of California Press. p. 40.
  3. Schuttenhelm, Thomas (2014). The orchestral music of Michael Tippett : creative development and the compositional process, p. 76, at Google Books. Cambridge University Press. OCLC 864788386.


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