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Carter, Elliott Cook, Jr., 1908–, American composer, b. New York City. Carter is considered by many to be the most important contemporary American composer. He studied with Walter Piston Piston, Walter, 1894–1976, American composer and teacher, b. Rockland, Maine. Piston studied at Harvard and with Nadia Boulanger in Paris; he joined the faculty of Harvard in 1926. He became a Guggenheim Fellow in 1934.
..... Click the link for more information. , E. B. Hill, and Gustav Holst Holst, Gustav (hŏlst), 1874–1934, English composer, studied at the Royal College of Music.
..... Click the link for more information. at Harvard and with Nadia Boulanger Boulanger, Nadia (nädyä` b
..... Click the link for more information. in Paris (1932–35). Carter's complex mature music is organized into highly intellectualized contrapuntal patterns to which sympathetic listeners attribute great emotional power. He characteristically uses tempo as an element of form, notably in his technique of "metric modulation," his most famous musical innovation. Highlights from an unusually long and prolific musical career include the ballet Pocahontas (1939), a cello and piano sonata (1948), five string quartets (1951, 1958–59, 1973, 1986, 1995), Variations (1953–55) for orchestra, a piano concerto (1966), a concerto for orchestra (1969), A Mirror on Which to Dwell (1976) for soprano and nine players to poems by Elizabeth Bishop Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911–79, American poet, b. Worcester, Mass., grad. Vassar, 1934. During the 1950s and 60s she lived in Brazil, eventually returning to her native New England, where she taught at Harvard (1970–77).
..... Click the link for more information. , Night Fantasies (1980) for piano, Changes (1983) for guitar, Adagio Tenebroso (1995) for orchestra, the opera What's Next? (1999), and a cello concerto (2001) composed for Yo-Yo Ma Ma, Yo-Yo (mä), 1955–, American cellist, b. Paris.
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