Carter: Applause at Tanglewood
(August 2008)
The Tanglewood Music Center (TMC) marked a number of “firsts” with composer Elliott Carter during their Festival of Contemporary Music this summer. The firsts included the first time a composer has been present for his own centenary and the first time the entire festival was dedicated to just one individual. Tanglewood featured a multi media array of all things Carter, performing fourty seven of his works over a five day period ranging from orchestral to chamber and choral, a film screening of TMC’s 2006 performance of Carter’s opera What Next? and discussions with performers and the composer. Two works, specially commissioned for the festival, received their world premieres–Soundfields, a work for orchestra, conducted under the baton of Stefan Asbury and Mad Regales, a work for chorus, under the direction of John Oliver. The celebration also hosted the US premiers of Réflexions for orchestra, under the baton of Sir Oliver Knussen, and Mosaic, for harp and chamber ensemble conducted by Ryan Wigglesworth.The event was a true celebration of Carter’s music by a great many of the musicians who championed his work such as groups from the Tanglewood Music Center, pianists Charles Rosen, Ursula Oppens and Nicolas Hodges, and conductors Oliver Knussen and Stefan Asbury. Moreover The Boston Symphony Orchestra performed its first complete programme at the Festival of Contemporary Music featuring the composer's Magnum Opus Symphonia: Sum Fluxae Pretium Spei.
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