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Elliott Carter has died... finally

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The American composer Elliott Carter has died in New York, at the age of 103.

His Symphony of Three Orchestras (1976):



RIP
 
Damn.

I think one of his really peak pieces is the Variations for Orchestra.

A great balance between complex and accessible. (Levine does a really clear version on CD.)

I guess I thought he'd never die -- it makes me sad.

Time, the great conveyer-belt toward death, no matter what you do or who you are. I guess I'm at the age where I feel that more keenly now.
 
Elliot CarterWP -- Remarkable statistic: More than 40 works published between age 90 to 100, and 14 more after 100! We should all age that gracefully.

calebprime said:
- Time, the great conveyer-belt toward death, no matter what you do or who you are. I guess I'm at the age where I feel that more keenly now.
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Do you know his "Enchanted Preludes" (composed age 79, when he was just getting rolling)? It's based on a Wallace Stevens poem, "The Pure Good of Theory", about Time and Mind and Mortality; appropriately a dialogue, between flute and cello, given the poem's platonic allusions. To my ears, it is a mating dance; or the idea of a mating dance, maybe, the suggestion of suggestion (of eternal good, Felicity, as in the poem)? Whatever, it's a lively duet; a lovely piece; (a sort of immortality; sort of).
 
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