Tag: Guggenheim Museum

New Work by a Speedy Elliott Carter

Post author By Mike
Post date October 7, 2009

NYTimes.com discusses a recent interview with Elliott Carter about his new compositions.

Now that hardly a month goes by without a new work by Elliott Carter, a listener could easily forget that in former times Mr. Carter spent years writing each piece. If he had been this prolific four decades ago, when he was 60, his catalog would probably rival that of Liszt or Villa-Lobos.

With his 101st birthday approaching in December, Mr. Carter still has projects in mind. In a freewheeling interview with the cellist Fred Sherry during a Works & Process concert at the Guggenheim Museum on Monday evening, he discussed his current one: a woodwind quintet in which all the parts are written with instrumental doublings, so that the five musicians will play 10 instruments.

Music Review | Works & Process: Fast, Forward: New Work by a Speeding Centenarian (nytimes.com)

Tags Cello, Elliott Carter, Franz Liszt, Fred Sherry, Guggenheim Museum, New York Times, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Writing

Performances Reviews

Henry Brant at the Guggenheim

Post author By Mike
Post date June 23, 2009

From NYTimes.com:

Frank Lloyd Wright might never have anticipated this. But the rotunda of his late masterpiece the Guggenheim Museum — which opened in 1959, six months after his death — is an ideal place to perform one of the most mesmerizing and eclectic musical works ever written: “Orbits” for 80 trombones, soprano and organ by the Montreal-born American composer Henry Brant.

Tags Art, Composer, Frank Lloyd Wright, Guggenheim Museum, Henry Brant, Montreal, Music, The New York Times Company

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