Carter's New Classicism

01 October 1989 1984). 10Culler, Barthes, 30. 11Italo Calvino, Six Memos for the Next Millenium (Cambridge, Mass., 1988), 12. authors: David Schiff author_ids: 1200 authors: David Schiff author_ids: 1200

A Web of Words: Elliott Carter’s End of a Chapter

17 June 2016 event. Over the past few decades a great deal of scholarship on Carter’s music has emerged. Book length studies by David Schiff and James Wierzbicki are both extremely valuable general surveys of Carter’s life and work, and serve as invaluable general...

Bernstein's Senior Thesis At Harvard: The Roots of a Lifelong Search to Discover an American Identity

01 October 2008 Sometime in March 1939 Leonard Bernstein, then a Harvard University senior, wrote a letter to his former piano teacher and future secretarial assistant Helen Coates on Stillman Infirmary letterhead.2 After a day which found him prostrate as a "victime...

The Music of Elliott Carter

01 October 1982 Writings, pp. 357-363. 9For more detail see Moevs' review (footnote 3), pp. 159-160. 10This decade has been surveyed by David Schiff, "Carter in the Seventies," Tempo 30 (1979), 2-10. 11A superb discussion of the relationships between music and poem is...