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Blues for Elliot Carter

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Blues for Elliott Carter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Carter This quartet is one of my obsessions with certain small chamber ensemble groupings - I think Carter would dig it! I remember once opening a facsimile of Carter's notebooks - they reminded me so deeply of my own notebooks that it was like opening a holy manuscript with flames shooting towards my brain - I closed the Carter notebook immediately! But not with some satisfaction of the universal collective unconscious. I saw many of his world premieres at the end of his life - incredible small group pieces. I do indeed think Carter had the blues, cheers to the long life! Can someone play this? Love....