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 Carnegie Hall Sound Insights - Elliott Carter: Photo Gallery
Elliot Carter

Photo Gallery

Elliott Carter, 1940. Photographer unknown. Courtesy Elliott Carter.
Elliott Carter and his wife Helen Frost-Jones at their home in Waccabuc, New York, ca. 1962. Photographer unknown. Courtesy Elliott Carter.
Formal portrait of Elliott Carter as a child, ca. 1912. Photograph by Manceau. Courtesy Elliott Carter.
Elliott Carter at The Juilliard School, 1978. Carter was Professor of Composition at The Juilliard School from 1964 to 1984. Photographer unknown. Courtesy Elliott Carter.
Elliott Carter at his piano, 1979. Photographer unknown. Courtesy Elliott Carter.
Elliott Carter at his piano, 1940s. Rudolph Burckhardt, photographer. Courtesy Elliott Carter.
Aaron Copland, Elliott Carter and Leonard Bernstein listening to a recording of Carter’s Concerto for Orchestra, ca. 1970. Photographer unknown. Courtesy Elliott Carter.
Elliott Carter at his piano, 1983. Photographer unknown. Courtesy Elliott Carter.
Elliott Carter at age ten, 1918. Photographer unknown. Courtesy Elliott Carter.
Elliott Carter outside Avery Fisher Hall, 1973. Nancy Crampton, photographer. Courtesy Elliott Carter.
Daniel Barenboim, Elliott Carter, and Pierre Boulez at Carnegie Hall, 2005. This reception preceded the New York premiere of Carter’s Soundings, given at Carnegie Hall by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Barenboim on November 4, 2005.
Elliott Carter and Leonard Bernstein, Tucson, Arizona, 1950. Sedley-Hopkins, photographer. Courtesy Elliott Carter.
John Cage and Elliott Carter, Amsterdam, 1987. Geek Zwetsloot, photographer. Courtesy Elliott Carter.
Elliott Carter and Pierre Boulez, 1970s. Photographer unknown. Courtesy Elliott Carter.
Nadia Boulanger and Elliott Carter, 1957. Carter studied composition with Boulanger in Paris from 1932 to 1935, after receiving a Master of Arts in music from Harvard University. Photographer unknown. Courtesy Elliott Carter Collection, Paul Sacher Foundation, Basel.
Elliott Carter, James Sommerville (French horn), and James Levine acknowledging applause following the world premiere of Carter’s Horn Concerto at Symphony Hall in Boston, November 15, 2007. Michael Lutch, photographer. Courtesy Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Incidental music for Sophocles’ Philoctetes (1931), second movement. This incidental music, in which Carter used Sophocles’ original Greek for the lyrics, was one of his earliest compositions. The Harvard Classical Club performed Philoctetes on March 15 and 17, 1933. Courtesy Elliott Carter Collection, Paul Sacher Foundation, Basel.
Double Concerto for Harpsichord and Piano with Two Chamber Orchestras (1959-1961), introduction. This excerpt from Carter’s Double Concerto shows the complex tempo relationships among the various instrumental lines. Courtesy Elliott Carter Collection, Paul Sacher Foundation, Basel.
Concerto for Orchestra (1966-1969), sketches for rhythmic scheme. This work was Carter’s first commission from a major orchestra. Courtesy Elliott Carter Collection, Paul Sacher Foundation, Basel.