Elegy for String Quartet: Elliott Carter

Written in 1943, this short piece, like Barber's Adagio for Strings, is of a tender and moving simplicity. Elliott Carter, now nearing 103 years of age and still composing, was born in NYC and has lived there in the same apartment for around 65 years. Aged 92, he actually witnessed the planes flying into WTC from a window in his apartment.

Alistair Hinton