Only Connect - Sir Michael Tippett <> Priaulx Rainier
How are these sitters connected?
Sir Michael Kemp Tippett
by Martin Rose
1989
NPG 6043
Priaulx Rainier
by George Newson
18 October 1984
NPG x33552
The connection
In 1953 Tippett and Rainier put on a failed St Ives Festival, for which Tippett wrote a fanfare to be played from the church tower of St la.
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