<p>More re the Carter/Oppens recording:</p>
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<p>[Best</a> Classical CDs - NYTimes.com](<a href=“Best Classical CDs - NYTimes.com”>Best Classical CDs - NYTimes.com)</p>
<p>Oh, all right, I’ll get the Oppens recording; you talked me into it! 
All the Carter I have is orchestral music, and not much of it at that: Symphonia; Clarinet Concerto; Variations for Orchestra.</p>
<p>I’m been soooo good, too, not buying more and more and more CDs (except as presents), as I have so much to listen to already, and all of H’s CDs to explore as well (one of the benefits of being an elderly bride – the elderly groom comes with his own recording library). But what’s one more recording?</p>
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<p>Well, I certainly hope this doesn’t mean that you failed to make an adequate investigation of his CD collection before tying the knot with your “elderly groom.” </p>
<p>(Alas, how many marriages–one can only wonder–have foundered on the rocks of irreconcilable musical differences?)</p>
<p>Heh! No worries there; our initial common bond was classical music (H is a composer and performer), and we both have fairly wide-ranging tastes (or at least, open ears). Of just as much concern is how the music collection is organized; we both organize the same way, so were compatible in that regard, too.</p>
<p>I checked his CDs when I got home (we have combined only the Beethoven works, which are filed in a separate unit simply to make more room on various shelves for other things) and see that he has much more Carter than I do. He also has Carter on LP, most of which he has recently digitized. Conversation bit over dinner: Owl - Do you have any Carter piano music? H - I have the piano sonata, which is about 1948. Carter was still using key signatures then, not that you could necessarily tell from the music.</p>
<p>Guess I’ll be moving some Carter to the iPod tonight; I have heard so little of his music, it’s sad!</p>
<p>I just happened to come across this often-fascinating conversation between Elliott Carter and the Grateful Dead’s Phil Lesh (who at one point refers to EC as one of his “main men” [along with Charles Ives and John Coltrane].)</p>
<p>[Special</a> Program Counterstream Radio](<a href=“Xoilac - Tận Hưởng Nền Tảng Bóng Đá Trực Tuyến Số 1 - XOILAC”>Xoilac - Tận Hưởng Nền Tảng Bóng Đá Trực Tuyến Số 1 - XOILAC)</p>
<p>Happy 101st Birthday to Elliott Carter!</p>
<p>Ursula Oppens’ *Oppens Plays Carter<a href=“mentioned%20above”>/i</a> was just nominated for a Grammy Award.</p>
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<p>Wonderful!!!</p>