Quotes by Elliott Carter - Page 1

The Quartets have been a major part of my work.
Elliott Carter / Composer
Major Part
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An auditory scenario for the players to act out with their instruments.
Elliott Carter / Composer
Instruments
Scenario
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Why write for the orchestra? For one thing it's a very challenging problem.
Elliott Carter / Composer
Orchestra
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Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.
Elliott Carter / Composer
Employed
Opposing
Duo
Fore
Movements
Silences
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When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time.
Elliott Carter / Composer
Sad
Flow
German
Began
Refugees
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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 / Composer
Zero
Bigs
London
Paris
Birthdays
Concert
Numbered
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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 / Composer
Materialistic
Royalties
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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 / Composer
Composer
Time Music Me
Encouraged
Hard Time
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These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to other people.
Elliott Carter / Composer
Contemporary
Contemporary Music
Wealthy
Music People Help
Interested
Diffuse
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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 / Composer
Allergic
Army
Europe
Information
Office
Accept
Sent
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Yes, I get a report from BMI about the frequency of performances, and it is very surprising. They played one of my most advanced pieces, and one of my most unusual ones on the radio.
Elliott Carter / Composer
Frequency
Radio
Surprising
Unusual
Advanced
Report
Performance
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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 / Composer
Contemporary
Contemporary Music
Likes
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The Third Quartet I made the instruments in pairs - Two different pairs - Violin and viola, and violin and cello. They played very different things from each other all through the whole piece.
Elliott Carter / Composer
Different Things
Instruments
Pairs
Viola
Cello
Piece
Quartet
Third
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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 / Composer
New Music
Point Of View
Aaron
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Then, when the Depression came, all of this changed completely. Since that time, the entire public is of a very different sort and there was not so much support for contemporary music in a direct way.
Elliott Carter / Composer
Contemporary
Contemporary Music
Direct
Time Music Way
Direct Way
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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 / Composer
Hotel
Lunch
Barber
Sam
Sonata
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Well I tried to, but I could never write anything that I liked or was worthwhile. I threw it all out and realized that I had to make a serious study- that my tastes were far more advanced than my abilities.
Elliott Carter / Composer
Study
Worthwhile
Anything Never More
Advanced
Tastes
Realized
Threw
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I've known those pieces ever since I was about 16 or 17; I also at that time was taken to meet Charles Ives whom I got to know fairly well. He was the one who wrote a recommendation for me to get into college.
Elliott Carter / Composer
Time Me Know
Fairly
Charles
Recommendation
Whom
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Well when I was young, when I was very young, when I was a little boy I don't remember the music I heard, but there was an article in the Brooklyn Daily written by my Aunt about how I could choose phonograph records.
Elliott Carter / Composer
Aunt
Brooklyn
Phonograph
Records
Article
Daily
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That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces in the style of Brahms or Mendelssohn, which was distressing because in the end you realized how good Brahms is, and how bad you are.
Elliott Carter / Composer
Big Problems
Distressing
Harvard
Good Music Bad
In The End
Realized
Studying
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My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before the First World War and shortly after it. This music I've always known, and it is that music that's most important to me.
Elliott Carter / Composer
First World War
Life War Time
Entire Life
First World
World War
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