Annual American Composers Update
Elliott Carter
SAI National Arts Associate Elliott Carter spends the
winter in New York, NY and the summer in Southbury, CT.
Recent publications about him include the book
Elliott
Carter -- Collected Essays and Lectures (1937-95),
Jonathan Bernard, ed., from the University of Rochester
Press; and a listing in Debrell's
People of Today 2000
Millennium Edition.
Premieres
In Berlin, Germany, the premiere of Carter's opera
What
Next? (libretto by Paul Griffiths) was produced by
the Staatsoper, Daniel Barenboim, conductor, soprano CynCarola
Hohn, contralto Cynthia Lawrence, tenor Par Lindskkog,
and baritone Sten Byriel, Sept. 16-25, 1999, to be followed
by performances Dec. 31, 1999 and Mar. 25-31, 2000. Soprano
Victoria Schneider and the Pontino Players introduced
Tempo e Tempi (three Italian songs), July 6, 1999
in Sermonetta, Italy. Solo violin works heard first in
1999 were
Statement -- Remembering Aaron, with
Ole Bohn, in Bergen, Norway, June 17; and
Fantasy --
Remembering Roger, with Rolf Schulte, in Cambridge,
MA, Oct. 12. Ursula Oppens and the Arditti Quartet presented
Quintet for Piano and Strings at the Library of
Congress, Washington, DC, Nov. 12, 1999.
Performances
On May 29, 1999, Oliver Knusse and the BBC Orchestra played
Symphonia: Sum Fluzae Pretium Spei in Manchester.
Publications
Symphonia; Tempo e Tempi; Statement; Fantasy; Two Diversions;
Quintet for Piano and Strings; all by
Boosey
& Hawkes.
Recordings
Clarinet Concerto; Alain Damiens, clarinet, and
David Robertson, conductor;
Virgin
Classics.
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