Holiday Overture

Happy birthday to Elliott Carter, who would have turned 116 today!

Here he is pictured in one of the most adorable photos ever taken, the cover for Music of Elliott Carter, Volume Eight, looking every bit like Gary Oldman in Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

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Thought:

“That is the tune but there are no words
The words are only speculation
(From the Latin speculum, mirror):
They seek and cannot find the meaning of the music.“

John Ashbery | “Self-Portrait in Convex Mirror”

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