Elliott Carter: Steep Steps

Now in his one-hundredth year; Elliott Carter is "One of America's most distinguished creative artists in any field" (Aaron Copland). Carter was initially encouraged to become a composer by Charles Ives who had sold insurance to his parents, later going on to study at Harvard with Walter Piston and in Paris with Nadia Boulanger. With his explorations into tempo relationships and texture, Carter's consistently innovative and dynamic output of works is unmistakably American

Steep Steps was written for the greatly admired clarinetist and friend, Virgil Blackwell, during the summer of 2001. Its title comes from the fact that, unlike the other woodwind instruments, the clarinet overblows at the twelfth, a large
interval that forms the basis of much of this composition.

-Elliott Carter

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