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Elliott Carter

"Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore."

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"I've known those pieces ever since I was about 16 or 17; I also at that time was taken to meet Charles Ives whom I got to know fairly well. He was the one who wrote a recommendation for me to get into college."

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"Well when I was young, when I was very young, when I was a little boy I don't remember the music I heard, but there was an article in the Brooklyn Daily written by my Aunt about how I could choose phonograph records."

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"In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer."

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"These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to other people."

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"When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time."

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"That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces in the style of Brahms or Mendelssohn, which was distressing because in the end you realized how good Brahms is, and how bad you are."

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"Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America."

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"Right at the end of the war I wrote a piano sonata, which was written at a time when Sam Barber used to come down here and we used to have lunch together in a very nice old hotel that's now not there."

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"Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris."

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"Since I'm allergic to various things, the army wouldn't accept me during the war, and I got into the Office of War Information, which sent music to Europe."

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