Elliott Carterâs Early Flops Reveal a Budding Musical Master
A composer of famously thorny music had two failed forays into ballet, given fresh reconsideration on a new album.
Elliott Carterâs score for âThe Minotaur,â above, premiered in 1947 by the company that would become New York City Ballet, was written in a style that he would soon abandon.Credit.Larry Colwell
Published March 17, 2021Updated March 19, 2021
The composer Elliott Carter, looking back on his early ballet âPocahontas,â wrote that it was âfull of suggestions of things that were to remain important to me, as well as others which were later rejected or completely transformed.â