'She's talking to that mirror again, farther?' says Misst Craddock. Father Cradock turns round slowly from the book he is eating and explains that it is just a face she is going through and they're all the same at that age.
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Centuries
It's the season for them. Manoel de Oliveira. Elliot Carter. Claude Levi-Strauss.
From a Guardian article this year on "very late work": "[Elliott] Carter is still composing at an age when most people are doing the opposite." (A similar joke is attributed to W S Gilbert and Richard Wagner.)
As the article says, works that are generally regarded as "late masterpieces", like Beethoven's "Grosse fuge" or Shakespeare's "The Tempest", were written by people half Carter's age. Impressive.
From a Guardian article this year on "very late work": "[Elliott] Carter is still composing at an age when most people are doing the opposite." (A similar joke is attributed to W S Gilbert and Richard Wagner.)
ReplyDeleteAs the article says, works that are generally regarded as "late masterpieces", like Beethoven's "Grosse fuge" or Shakespeare's "The Tempest", were written by people half Carter's age. Impressive.
What, Claude Levi-Strauss is still alive??
ReplyDeleteAnd Edward Upward turned 105 this year. Excelsior!
Isn't Dev Anand like 116?
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