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.
Thought:
“I must make sure my book does not lack the language gouged from the mouth and heaped on the subject, tongue sprung and magnificent. Mine — my book — can hold torrents.”
Samuel R. Delany
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