Elliott Carter and Charles Rosen in conversation

[hotplate85]

Such complex music from an unpretentious man. Unlike the bitter "uncle milty" who is so articulate in damning the future of music.

[flammesombres]

@hotplate85 I love Babbitt as well...I'd be bitter if I'd spent as long in academia as he has done, having to deal with the countless misunderstandings and what have you... Carter quit teaching a long time ago but he was definitely just as bitter, I think.

[lovesGenet]

Wow !!! It doesn't get any better than this.So down to earth.The pre-baroque is the real clincher & Boulanger on Chopin .And the last sentence.What a mastewr wht a man!!!

[posquint]

You know, the 'melodic contour' of that first passage Rosen plays *makes sense* to me. It's lyrically comprehensible, and would have a distinctly different, emotionally different, character if some pitches were different. **

[stanchinsky]

Thank you flammesombres!