"Then, when the Depression came, all of this……" — Elliott Carter
"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."
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Elliott Carter
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23 Quotes by Elliott Carter
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When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad…
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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…
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Why write for the orchestra? For one thing it's a very challenging problem.
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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…
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My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to…
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Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.
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Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America.
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Yes, I get a report from BMI about the frequency of performances, and it is very surprising. They played one…
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Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris.
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That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces…
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Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was…
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Right at the end of the war I wrote a piano sonata, which was written at a time when Sam…
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