Elliott Carter: no time for nostalgia.(American classical music composer)(Brief Article)
Economist (US), The, June, 1998
CONTEMPORARY classical music is being led into the 21st century by a man who was born at the beginning of the 20th. Elliott Carter, the American composer who celebrates his 90th birthday in December, is an insatiable explorer of the new at a time when most younger composers seem to favour simplistic nostalgia.
A protege of Charles Ives and a student of Nadia Boulanger, Mr Carter first emerged from the neoclassical mainstream of American music to speak with his own distinctive voice in the 1960s with such pieces as ''Double Concerto for Piano and Harpsichord'' and his ''Concerto for Orchestra''. Since then he has produced a continuous stream of works of dazzling intellectual and emotional complexity. Despite the technical difficulty for performers and the...
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