Elliott Carter 2008 interview

[french frank]

This Saturday's programme (10 Nov) features a rebroadcast of the interview with Elliott Carter which celebrated his 100th birthday.

Also, 'in this week's Hear and Now Fifty, author and journalist Rob Young nominates French composer Eliane Radigue's Songs of Milarepa, which combines drone-like electronics with the voices of Lama Kunga Rinpoche and Robert Ashley singing and reading the words of the 11th-century Tibetan Buddhist poet Milarepa. With commentary from Richard Whitelaw, Head of Programmes at Sound and Music.'

[MrGongGong]

Thanks for this
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[Serial_Apologist]

Thanks for the alert, FF.

[ahinton]

Thanks for this
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Indeed it is - which is more, however, than can be said for Carter himself; I hardly knew him and there are still quite a few of his works that I have yet to hear, but I miss him already - very much so, in fact; the prospect that there will be no more new works for him is a hard one to have to accept, especially given his undeniable stature as a giant of 20th/21st century music who seems to have been around forever - he was almost five year Britten's senior and a near contemporary of Shostakovich and Tippett, for goodness' sake! (and I've never, for example, quite managed to forget the wry comment that someone made in response to Carter's statement that he didn't feel that he'd ever been especially influenced by anyone except Mozart, namely that he was almost one of Mozart's contemporaries anyway!)...

[Serial_Apologist]

Indeed it is - which is more, however, than can be said for Carter himself; I hardly knew him and there are still quite a few of his works that I have yet to hear, but I miss him already - very much so, in fact; the prospect that there will be no more new works for him is a hard one to have to accept, especially given his undeniable stature as a giant of 20th/21st century music who seems to have been around forever - he was almost five year Britten's senior and a near contemporary of Shostakovich and Tippett, for goodness' sake! (and I've never, for example, quite managed to forget the wry comment that someone made in response to Carter's statement that he didn't feel that he'd ever been especially influenced by anyone except Mozart, namely that he was almost one of Mozart's contemporaries anyway!)...