[ANPPOM-Lista] Elliot Carter 1908-2012

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Elliott Carter: the obituaries

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Yesterday, Elliott Carter’s publisher, Boosey and Hawkes, announced the
news that one of America’s greatest composers had passed away at 103.
Carter’s centurion career was so enduring, his output so age-defying, that
new terms – ‘late maturity’, ‘post-maturity’ – had to be invented to
capture the work of his ninth, tenth and eleventh decades. Some of us even
began to wonder whether we would ever hear this news, sad though it is.
When I received the email from Boosey’s this morning the headline seemed so
improbable I passed over it at first.

Here are links to some of the best obituaries that are coming out:

Boosey and Hawkes<http://www.boosey.com/cr/news/Composer-Elliott-Carter-dies-at-age-103/100092>
:

The great range and diversity of his music has, and will continue to have,
influence on countless composers and performers worldwide. He will be
missed by us all but remembered for his brilliance, his wit and his great
canon of work.

Ivan Hewett, *Guardian*<http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/nov/06/elliott-carter>
:

Urban and “machine-age” sounds and gestures did not interest him; they were
too much of the moment. He wanted a modernism beyond fashion, rooted in a
new kind of syntax, and to achieve that some European sophistication would
be necessary. All the things he had absorbed would eventually find a place
his modernist idiom: the idea of dramatic personages found in Mozart
operas, the independent layers of English madrigals, the syntactic rigour
of Arnold Schoenberg – and the combination of strict and free rhythm in
jazz pianists he admired, such as Art Tatum.

Hewett has also written an appreciation for the
*Telegraph*<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/classicalmusic/9657979/Elliott-Carter-appreciation.html>
:

One felt more sure of things in his presence, as if his own amazing
single-mindedness created its own aura. He was able to be so genially
tolerant of music we all knew he must despise, like minimalism, because he
was so sure of his own path.

Mark Swed, *Los Angeles
Times*<http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/music/la-me-elliott-carter-20121106,0,4929132.story>
:

The third of “the three Cs” of American music, Carter, like his
contemporaries Aaron Copland andJohn
Cage<http://www.latimes.com/topic/entertainment/music/john-cage-PECLB000796.topic>,
did much to define the American sound in the 20th century. Restless,
inquiring and perpetually up to date, his music tended to be
ever-changeable, and his most important contribution was rhythmic
invention. He resisted a constricting regular pulse, seeking instead a more
organic way of thinking about time. [...]

Carter’s sense of rhythm and meter had its mathematical component as well.
He experimented with the effects of playing different melodies at different
speeds at the same time. But this technique, rather than making everything
sound at cross purposes, rewarded anyone willing to concentrate hard enough
with the experience of relativity without the bother of space flight.

Allan Kozinn, *New York
Times*<http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/06/arts/music/elliott-carter-avant-garde-composer-dies-at-103.html?pagewanted=all>
:

“As a young man, I harbored the populist idea of writing for the public,”
he once explained to an interviewer who asked him why he had chosen to
write such difficult music. “I learned that the public didn’t care. So I
decided to write for myself. Since then, people have gotten interested.”

Anne Midgette, *Washington
Post*<http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/elliott-carter-dies-pulitzer-prize-winning-american-composer-was-103/2012/11/05/7a9c4e8c-c5da-11df-94e1-c5afa35a9e59_story.html>
:

Mr. Carter’s career was like some of the towering cathedrals of Europe: so
long in the making that it reflected the dramatic shifts in artistic style
that take place over a century.
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