Getting better with age… at 95: “A handful of major composers have had Indian summers – Verdi and Haydn wrote masterpieces in their 70s and 80s – but (Elliott) Carter’s tenth decade of creativity is unprecedented in the history of music…

Carter has lived in America nearly all his life, and in the same apartment since the mid-1940s. But his dogged refusal to bend to the whims of the culture around him makes him a strangely isolated figure in Manhattan. His music is performed much more often in Europe than in America – his only opera, composed in 1998, has never been staged in the US – and he finds himself at odds with the compositional trends that have come and gone in New York.” — Guardian.UK