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Title: Elliott Carter, RIP
Post by: James Meckley on November 06, 2012, 03:19:43 AM

Composer Elliott Carter died today at his home in New York City. He was 103.

James

Title: Re: Elliott Carter, RIP
Post by: barry guerrero on November 08, 2012, 04:32:21 PM

Our local radio station, KDFC, played an earlier orchestral work of Carter that sounded an awful lot like Copland   .    .     .   

well, it turned out to be his First Symphony. Very Tonal. Here's a link to the disc (Naxos)

http://www.amazon.com/Elliott-Carter-Symphony-Piano-Concerto/dp/B00019P6PO/ref=sr_1_3?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1352443864&sr=1-3&keywords=elliott+carter+naxos

Title: Re: Elliott Carter, RIP
Post by: Roffe on November 09, 2012, 07:56:03 AM

There are some works avcailable on YouTube if you are interested to watch and/or hear something:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=elliott+carter&oq=elliot+c&gs_l=youtube.1.0.0i10i3j0l2j0i10j0l6.2202.22861.0.27555.8.7.0.1.1.0.191.910.0j6.6.0...0.0...1ac.1.Dml4mMiEUTA

Roffe