Alan Baker Interviews Elliott Carter

Alan Baker Interviews Elliott Carter

In a wide-ranging interview with Alan Baker of American Public Media, Elliott Carter reflects on his childhood in New York City, musical life in the U.S. and Europe, studying music at Harvard in the 1920s and with Nadia Boulanger in Paris, his relationship with Aaron Copland and other leading figures in American music, writing for the orchestra, and being a “maverick composer.” The interview took place in July 2002.

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