Editing Michael Tippett (section)

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In 1965 Tippett made the first of several visits to the United States, to serve as composer in residence at the [[Aspen Music Festival and School|Aspen Music Festival]] in Colorado. His American experiences had a significant effect on the music he composed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, with jazz and blues elements particularly evident in his third opera, ''[[The Knot Garden]]'' (1966–69), and in the Symphony No. 3 (1970–72).<ref name= odnb/><ref name= MacD>{{cite journal|last=MacDonald|first=Calum|author-link=Malcolm MacDonald (music critic)|title= Tippett's Third Symphony|journal=[[Tempo (journal)|Tempo]]|issue= 102|year= 1972|pages= 25–27|jstor= 942845|doi= 10.1017/S0040298200056680}} {{subscription}}</ref> At home in 1969, Tippett worked with the conductor [[Colin Davis]] to rescue the [[Bath International Music Festival]] from a financial crisis, and became the festival's artistic director for the next five seasons.<ref name= Reesxxix>Rees, p. xxix</ref><ref name="Bowen, p. 37">Bowen, p. 37</ref> In 1970, following the collapse of his relationship with Hawker, he left Corsham and moved to a secluded house on the [[North Wessex Downs|Marlborough Downs]].<ref name="Bowen, p. 37"/> Among the works he wrote in this period were ''In Memoriam Magistri'' (1971), a chamber piece commissioned by ''[[Tempo (journal)|Tempo]]'' magazine as a memorial to Stravinsky, who had died on 6 April 1971,<ref name= Reesxxix/> and the Piano Sonata No. 3 (1973).<ref name= Bowen122>Bowen, p. 122</ref>
[[File:Javanese Gamelan.jpg|thumb|A Javanese gamelan ensemble with two female singers]]

In February 1974 Tippett attended a "Michael Tippett Festival" arranged in his honour by [[Tufts University]], near [[Boston]], Massachusetts. He was also present at a performance of ''The Knot Garden'' at [[Northwestern University]] at [[Evanston, Illinois]]—the first Tippett opera to be performed in the US.<ref>Kemp, p. 57</ref> Two years later he was again in the country, engaged on a lecture tour that included the Doty Lectures in Fine Art at the [[University of Texas at Austin|University of Texas]].<ref name= Reesxxx/> Between these American journeys, Tippett travelled to [[Lusaka]] for the first African performance of ''A Child of Our Time'', at which the Zambian president, [[Kenneth Kaunda]], was present.<ref>Tippett (1991), p. 244</ref>

In 1976 Tippett was awarded the Gold Medal of the [[Royal Philharmonic Society]].<ref name= Bowen32/> The following few years saw journeys to Java and Bali—where he was much attracted by the sounds of [[gamelan]] ensembles—and to Australia, where he conducted a performance of his Fourth Symphony in [[Adelaide]].<ref name= Kemp58>Kemp, p. 58</ref>{{#tag:ref|Tippett had heard recordings of gamelan orchestras in his youth, and incorporated the sound briefly into the first movement of ''Piano Sonata No. 1'' of 1938.<ref name= Bowen93/>|group= n}} In 1979, with funds available from the sale of some of his original manuscripts to the [[British Library]], Tippett inaugurated the Michael Tippett Musical Foundation, which provided financial support to young musicians and music education initiatives.<ref>{{cite web|title= The Michael Tippett Musical Foundation: History|url= http://www.tippettfoundation.org.uk/html/history.htm|publisher= The Michael Tippett Musical Foundation|access-date= 8 September 2013|archive-date= 28 September 2013|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130928070716/http://www.tippettfoundation.org.uk/html/history.htm|url-status= dead}}</ref>

Tippett maintained his pacifist beliefs, while becoming generally less public in expressing them, and from 1959 served as president of the Peace Pledge Union. In 1977 he made a rare political statement when, opening a PPU exhibition at [[St Martin-in-the-Fields]], he attacked [[Jimmy Carter|President Carter]]'s plans to develop a [[neutron bomb]].<ref>Kemp, p. 49</ref>