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Boosey & Hawkes (Hendon Music)
The third movement of a triptych of miniatures for the Boston Symphony and its newly appointed music director James Levine, Carter’s work is clangorous with doubt and horror at More’s regimented vision of Utopia.
- Programme note by Paul Griffiths
Thomas More invented the word Utopia ( Ou Topos – no place ), the name for his imagined completely happy society with no central government, which followed draconian laws that governed almost all human activities. For example: every able bodied person had to spend 2 years living and working on a farm, and was allowed to occupy the same house for only a period of 10 years before being forced to move.
Sir Thomas More, a devout Catholic, who was Lord Chancellor to Henry VIII and opposed the King’s marriage to Anne Boleyn, was beheaded.
- Programme note from Three Illusions by Elliott Carter
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