Tippett: A Child of Our Time Piano Reduction Type of strings_Gut – the different sizes making Version:Version 3, soundboard installed, reverse keyboard, 2 x 8´ or 8´+4´ – the different sizes making up the viol family allows the child to grow up having the experience of a superb ensemble repertory Please note this instrument is supplied in kit form for home assembly For his oratorio Tippett used as his formal and historical models the Bach Passions and Handel's Messiah which share with this contemporary morality the subject of the death of an individual set against the universal background of human suffering The oratorio 'A Child of Our Time' was Tippett's artistic and emotional response to the events that led to the 'Kristallnacht' pogrom of November 1938