Tom Phillips
Tom Phillips (1937-2022) was an English artist born in Clapham, London, known for A Humument, his long reworking of W. H. Mallock's Victorian novel A Human Document, begun in 1966. He also composed, and his opera Irma, drawn from the same source, was recorded in 1978. Words and Music (Edition Hansjörg Mayer) pairs pieces including an excerpt from Irma with his own readings from A Humument.
