Le recherchiste masque
Trouvailles et autres cossins trop longs pour Twitter, par Mathieu Charlebois, AKA @OursAvecNous
28
2011
À 103 ans, Elliott Carter compose toujours
“When I heard The Rite of Spring played at Carnegie Hall — I would say that it was in the ’20s, the 1920s or so — half the audience walked out, and I was convinced it was a wonderful piece and I’d love to write music like that,” Carter told me recently in the living room of the Greenwich Village apartment where he’s lived for more than 65 years. “I was a kid in 1920,” he said. “I’m not that old, you know.”
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At the birthday concert organized by cellist Fred Sherry, several works were performed that even Carter hadn’t heard because they were so new. In the past five to ten years, as he approached and passed the century mark, the composer has experienced a creative spurt artists of any age would envy.
“I write and write and write,” Carter said. “I’m just like a fanatic, composing all the time. I’m not writing for the future. I’m writing for right now. When I wake up in the morning, I think about what I’m going to compose that day. If I didn’t have that I don’t think I’d be so happy. I’m writing because it interests me. It keeps me going.”
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