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.
Holiday Overture
Thought:
“I don’t feel like I belong, and that’s without real pain, without pride. Pride happens. No, I’m just disconnected, from practically everything. I have a few anchors, and sometimes I let them go or they let me go, and I drift. That’s most of the time. Sometimes I hang on for a few days, minutes, seconds, then I let go again. I can hardly look. I can hardly hear. Semi-blind, semi-deaf, I float. Sometimes I sink. But not quite. Something, sometimes a detail, brings me back to the surface, and I start floating again…”
Chantal Akerman
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