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Yes, I get a report from BMI about the frequency of performances, and it is very surprising. They played one of my most advanced pieces, and one of my most unusual ones on the radio.
- Elliott Carter
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Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America.
- Elliott Carter
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I mean the public likes it more in Europe than they do here because the state supported organizations have felt that playing contemporary music was part of the education of the public.
- Elliott Carter
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Then, when the Depression came, all of this changed completely. Since that time, the entire public is of a very different sort and there was not so much support for contemporary music in a direct way.
- Elliott Carter
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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.
- Elliott Carter
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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.
- Elliott Carter
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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.
- Elliott Carter
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My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before the First World War and shortly after it. This music I've always known, and it is that music that's most important to me.
- Elliott Carter
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Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.
- Elliott Carter
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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.
- Elliott Carter
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Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he felt that new music should have the composer should show a personality in his music.
- Elliott Carter
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An auditory scenario for the players to act out with their instruments.
- Elliott Carter
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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.
- Elliott Carter
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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.
- Elliott Carter
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It was only later on that I became more interested in older music.
- Elliott Carter
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