Elliott Carter Discusses Two Controversies and a Conversation

"After the premiere of Conversations at the Aldeburgh Festival in June of 2011 Oliver Knussen suggested that I expand this piece. I decided to add two more movements, which became the two controversies. The first of the two controversies has the percussion in the leading role and the second features the piano which ends the movement in a flourish."

— Elliott Carter
December 22, 2011

Video provided courtesy of the New York Philharmonic.