Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.
Elliott CarterRight at the end of the war I wrote a piano sonata, which was written at a time when Sam Barber used to come down here and we used to have lunch together in a very nice old hotel that's now not there.
Elliott CarterTalking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America.
Elliott Carter