Carter

ISBN-13: 9780190259150 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 296 str.

David Schiff

Recenzje

David Schiff has written a book that combines extensive research with thoughtful speculation, sure to increase every reader's understanding of Elliott Carter's remarkable life in music. Elliott's continuity and consistency are revealed even though the musical challenges were forever changing. In reading about his early life (he was a chain-smoking stutterer), I was struck by the challenges he faced in gaining professional acceptance (and performances). In the detailed description of his compositions we learn however that challenges were also very often self-imposed. I like Schiff's suggestion that Elliott's "life-long impulse was to shape musical stories out of the life in each note", thus giving us tales galore to ponder and delight in.

O autorze

David Schiff is a composer, conductor, and writer. He was educated at Columbia and Cambridge Universities, at the Manhattan School of Music and at the Juilliard School where he studied with Elliott Carter for three years. In addition to the two editions of his Music of Elliott Carter, he has written books about the music of George Gershwin and Duke Ellington, and numerous articles about music for The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, the Times Literary Supplement, and The Nation.