Saturday, 12/17/11

by musicclipoftheday

Happy (Belated) 103rd Birthday, Elliott!

Elliott Carter, composer, December 11, 1908-

The other night I put this on, thinking I’d do something else while it played; but, as it turned out, “something else” had to wait.

String Quartet No. 2 (1959), Composers Quartet

More? Here. And here.

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lagniappe

Juilliard String Quartet with Elliott Carter, 2008
Rehearsing String Quartet No. 5

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musical thoughts

Mr. Carter has written 15 new works since his 100th birthday.

—Allan Kozinn, New York Times, 12/13/11

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Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Webern, Bartok, Shostakovich, Carter, et al.: you could spend the rest of your life listening to nothing but string quartets without ever feeling deprived.