December 2008

Delightful events as composer turns 100 San Francisco Performances finished its two-day Elliott Carter centennial celebration last Sunday, Dec. 7, with a concert of his piano works by Ursula Oppens, a mainstay of contemporary piano literature. She was in the Bay Area last year when Cal Performances held a Fredric Rzewski festival, where she played punishing piano duets with the composer. Carter’s life and piano compositions were explicated beforehand by Robert...

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