Carter, Elliott: Two Diversions (1999) 8'

for solo piano

World Premiere
3/2/2000
Carnegie Hall, New York, New York
Kirill Gerstein, pft


Composer's Notes  
These Two Diversions for piano deal with a growing contrast between simultaneous musical ideas. The first Diversion presents a line of paired notes, musical intervals, that maintain a single speed throughout, while the other very changeable material uses many different speeds and characters. The second Diversion contrasts two musical lines one of which, on the whole, grows slower and slower while the other grows faster and faster. With these musical ideas about diverging materials, I hope I have written diverting music.

Elliott Carter

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