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Very Quotes by Elliott Carter
- When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time.
- Why write for the orchestra? For one thing it's a very challenging problem.
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- The Third Quartet I made the instruments in pairs - Two different pairs - Violin and viola, and violin and cello. They played very different…
- These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to other people.
- 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…
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