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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That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces in the style of Brahms or Mendelssohn, which was distressing because in the end you realized how good Brahms is, and how bad you are.
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Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.
- Elliott Carter