Carter: centenary video podcast and website
(February 2008)
Elliott Carter, the elder statesman of American music whose 100th birthday falls on 11 December 2008, is the focus of attention around the world this year with a series of festival features, concert profiles and new recordings.View or download our new video podcast interview with the composer.
Download our Carter centenary calendar (PDF) containing highlights of performances during the year.
Visit the special centenary website at www.carter100.com, containing programme notes on Carter's works and links to complete performance calendars.
Celebrations in the USA were launched with the Juilliard School’s Focus! Festival: All About Elliott last month, featuring more than 30 Carter works with the opening and closing concerts conducted by Pierre Boulez and James Levine. An extensive five-day retrospective is offered at the Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music (20-24 July), including world premieres of Sound Fields for string orchestra and Mad Regales for six solo voices, and culminating with the Boston Symphony Orchestra performing his magnum opus Symphonia: sum fluxae pretium spei.
In Europe centenary events began with major features in Madrid and Turin, and continue via concerts in Amsterdam, Paris, Berlin, Lucerne and Vienna to a birthday concert on 11 December in London by the Ensemble Intercontemporain conducted by Boulez. The birthday also brings the New York premiere at Carnegie Hall of Interventions for piano and orchestra, featuring Daniel Barenboim as soloist and the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Levine.
Carnegie Hall has just announced Carter as its featured composer for the 2008/09 season.
Photo: Jeff Herman
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