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In the conception of modern virtuosity, he was even more important than Chopin, whose achievement was more idiosyncratically personal. For the concertos of Tchaikovsky, Grieg, and Rachmaninov and the works of Balakirev and Ravel, it is the innovations...
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In the conception of modern virtuosity, he was even more important than Chopin, whose achievement was more idiosyncratically personal. For the concertos of Tchaikovsky, Grieg, and Rachmaninov and the works of Balakirev and Ravel, it is the innovations...
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Stockhausen was a formidable composer. Elliott Carter -- that's really good music. But you get out of school and you say, 'Do I have to do that?' None of my friends wanted to be second generation Stockhausens. We preferred to be first generation Steve Reichs, John Adamses and Louis Andriessens.
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But it’s no contradiction to say they’re also a mixed blessing. Contemporary classical music can be tough on both the ears and mind. At the mid-point of a previous “Total Immersion” day devoted to the jagged modernisms of Elliott Carter, a friend of...
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I was a huge fan of her 2009 debut, Aliento, and the new one looks equally tantalizing, with works by Kaija Saariaho, Franco Donatoni, Pierre Boulez, Elliott Carter, and Dai Fujikura (who wrote his piece, Glacier, specifically for Chase). Yet the...
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“One thing you have to remember is how talented those people were,” says Glass. “Stockhausen was a formidable composer. Elliott Carter — that’s really good music. But you get out of school and you say, ‘Do I have to do that?’ None of my friends wanted...
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"Kafka and his Precursors," Jorge Luis Borges explains that revolutionary writers such as Kafka can fundamentally alter the way we interpret everything that preceded them in the literary canon. This notion is well-suited to Elliott Carter, the...
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It is a bracing, yet dramatically compelling, ultra-modernist composition. More reflective, although still possessing considerable angularity and a wildly shifting demeanor, is Rechant (2008), a through-composed companion piece. This is Bieri’s second...
About Elliott Carter
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Elliott Cook Carter, Jr. (born December 11, 1908) is an American composer from New York City. He studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris in the 1930s, and then returned to the United States. After a neoclassical phase, he went on to write atonal, rhythmically complex music. His compositions, which have been performed all over the world, include... Full Article
