Volume 45, Number 20 · December 17, 1998
Happy Birthday, Elliott Carter!
By John Russell
Elliott Carter: Collected Essays and Lectures, 1937-1995
edited by Jonathan W. Bernard
University of Rochester Press, 369 pp., $24.95 (paper)
The Music of Elliott Carter, second edition
by David Schiff, foreword by Elliott Carter
Cornell University Press, 372 pp., $35.00
We have in our midst an American composer, Elliott Carter, who has reinvented the string quartet, perfected the microdrama for a single voice and a handful of instrumentalists, introduced a new sense of civility into the performance of very difficult pieces for large orchestra, and speculated about the nature of time and memory as persistently as anyone since Marcel Proust and Edmund Husserl.
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