Carter
By: David Schiff
Series: The master musicians; Master musicians series
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780190259150
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Composers; Criticism and interpretation; Biography
Description: This text surveys the life and work of the great American composer Elliott Carter (1908-2012). It examines his formative, and often ambivalent, engagements with Charles Ives and other 'ultra-modernists', with the classicist ideas he encountered at Harvard and in his three years of study with Nadia Boulanger in Paris; and with the populism developed by his friends Aaron Copland and Marc Blitzstein in Depression-era New York, and the unique synthesis of modernist idioms that he began to develop in the late 1940s.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Elliott Carter now; title: Remembering Mr. Carter (a double portrait); title: A brief life of a very long life; title: A modernistic education (1924-1935); title: Musician, wrestling (1935-1946); title: Turning points (1946-1948); title: Back to modernism. Back to futurism. Back to New York (1948-1975); title: Carter vs. poets (round 1); title: Macro Carter/Micro Carter (1983-1999); title: Multi-vehicle accidents; title: Bagatelles; title: Carter vs. poets (round 2); title: Farewell symphonies; title: Epilogue: "Every note has life in it."