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The Amphion Foundation, Inc., is pleased to announce the publication of Elliott Carter Studies Online, volume 5. The new issue features papers by Peter Smucker on Carter pedagogy and by John Link on Carter’s last composition Epigrams (2012), both presented at the special session “Elliott Carter: 10 Years On,” at the 2022 Joint Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, the …

https://www.elliottcarter.com/news/phil-lesh-1940-2024/ 2024-10-30T00:00:00-04:00

The Amphion Foundation is sad to learn of Phil Lesh’s passing. Lesh may have been best known as the bassist for the Grateful Dead, but he was also a friend and admirer of Elliott Carter’s music. Conversation was always lively and full of laughter between the two, as evidenced by their interviews and radio discussions. Lesh was also known to attend high-profile performances of Carter’s …

https://www.elliottcarter.com/news/elliott-carter-speaks-review-in-mto/ 2023-04-18T00:00:00-04:00

Published in August 2022 by the University of Illinois Press, Elliott Carter Speaks: Unpublished Lectures presents previously unpublished material from lectures given by Elliott Carter in the summer of 1967, edited and with an introduction by Laura Emmery. The new book, along with a monograph published in 2020 on Carter’s String Quartets, represents a culmination of nearly a decade of …

https://www.elliottcarter.com/news/amphion-foundation-relaunches-carter-special-grant-program/ 2023-02-15T00:00:00-05:00

First launched in 2019, the Amphion Foundation’s Elliott Carter Special Grant Program is open for applications for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic. The program, which will now accept applications on an ongoing basis with two annual review periods, provides support for special projects involving the music of Elliott Carter. Eligible organizations include professional performing …

https://www.elliottcarter.com/news/remembering-elliott-carter-after-10-years/ 2022-11-01T00:00:00-04:00

This weekend marks the 10th anniversary of Elliott Carter’s death. In honor of this, we look back at some of the beautiful and touching tributes from his closest friends, colleagues, and collaborators. A complete list of tributes published through our website can be found here. “What a remarkable composer he was and an equally remarkable human being. What a privilege it was for me to …

https://www.elliottcarter.com/news/elliott-carters-late-music-now-available/ 2022-04-14T00:00:00-04:00

After much anticipation, composer and author John Link’s latest book, Elliott Carter’s Late Music, is now available from Cambridge University Press as part of their Music from 1900 series. Following the success of Elliott Carter: A Guide to Research, this exciting volume has been identified as the first comprehensive study of Carter’s music from 1995 to 2012 and covers a wide range of …

https://www.elliottcarter.com/news/elliott-carter-studies-online-volume-4/ 2021-06-30T00:00:00-04:00

The Amphion Foundation is pleased to announce the publication of volume 4 of Elliott Carter Studies Online. This issue features articles by Dan Guberman, Andrew Mead, and Mark Sallmen, and three previously unpublished interviews with Elliott Carter, from 1960, 1964, and 1996, conducted by Glenn Glasow, Mario Di Bonaventura, and Guy Capuzzo, respectively. With this issue, we are pleased to …

https://www.elliottcarter.com/news/john-link-interviewed-on-the-bridge-podcast-w-john-lamberton/ 2021-03-31T00:00:00-04:00 https://www.elliottcarter.com/news/new-ballet-recordings-on-bmop-sound/ 2021-03-17T00:00:00-04:00

Elliott Carter only ever wrote two ballets: Pocahontas in 1939, and The Minotaur in 1947. Neither enjoyed particular lasting success, and the former was never recorded–until now. Gil Rose and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project’s latest offering on their in-house label, BMOP/sound, features fresh, new recordings of both ballets that offer contemporary listeners a chance to get to know …

https://www.elliottcarter.com/news/jack-quartet-digital-residency-at-library-of-congress/ 2020-10-16T00:00:00-04:00

This season, the Library of Congress will feature the JACK Quartet in a digital residency. Consisting of performances, meet-the-artist events, conversations, manuscript explorations and more, the opening program of this series is scheduled for December 3, 2020 and showcases an interesting lineage of string writing centered around Elliott Carter’s String Quartet No. 3 and Duo for violin and …