This Friday's Guardian has a nice article on the American composer Elliot Carter, who is still going strong at 95(!), some say stronger than ever. I'm not too familiar with his music (I've got & like the DG20/21 Symphonia & Clarinet Concerto that came out a few years back), but it's really inspiring to read about somebody at 95 who still seems to have it together. Even though I don't exactly agree with him, I thought his quote on John Cage is pretty funny too, "I think his non-music wears thin very fast. Cage said that all noise is music - well, we've known that from the beginning, except we didn't want to hear it much." 9:53 PM >>> 0 comments

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