Carter's In Sleep, In Thunder



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Throughout his career, Elliott Carter has turned to the works of American poets. This excerpt is from the chamber song cycle for tenor voice, In Sleep, In Thunder (1982), the text for which is six poems by Robert Lowell. The cycle illustrates what Carter has called “continuous but coherent change”, reflecting the shifting emotions expressed in the poems themselves. This excerpt is from the third song, “Harriet”.

"In Sleep, in Thunder" by Elliot Carter, performed by Speculum Musicae, from Elliott Carter: The Vocal Works (1975-1981) (Cat.# Bridge BCD 9014) (c) Boosey and Hawkes (c)and(p)1989 Bridge Records, Inc. Box 1864, New York, NY 10116 1-800-321-4066. All rights reserved.

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Twentieth-Century Music; Carter, Elliott Cook, Jr.

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