Elliott Carter

Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he felt that new music should have the composer should show a personality in his music. ↗

— Elliott Carter

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Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris. ↗

— Elliott Carter

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An auditory scenario for the players to act out with their instruments. ↗

— Elliott Carter

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I mean the public likes it more in Europe than they do here because the state supported organizations have felt that playing contemporary music was part of the education of the public. ↗

— Elliott Carter

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In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer. ↗

— Elliott Carter

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It was only later on that I became more interested in older music. ↗

— Elliott Carter

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Right at the end of the war I wrote a piano sonata, which was written at a time when Sam Barber used to come down here and we used to have lunch together in a very nice old hotel that's now not there. ↗

— Elliott Carter

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Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore. ↗

— Elliott Carter

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Since I'm allergic to various things, the army wouldn't accept me during the war, and I got into the Office of War Information, which sent music to Europe. ↗

— Elliott Carter

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Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America. ↗

— Elliott Carter

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