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Produced by Mount Holyoke College and Smith College. -- Composer Elliott Carter includes a commentary on the poem, to help the singer, and to describe what the 18-line poem meant to the composer. -- Inside rear cover has publisher's list, and one item has editor pasted over. -- Softcover, sheet music format, 7 pages, 9x12 inches. Condition: very good (corners bumped).
Published by Mount Holyoke College / Smith College, Northampton, Mass. / South Hadley, Mass, 1945
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Folio. Printed wrappers. 7, [1]pp. With an introduction titled: "A Commentary on The Poem by The Composer." Slight age-toning to the wrappers, else fine. Sheet music. A Crane poem set to music by Carter. For voice and piano. When Elliott Carter was a teenager he wrote a letter to the composer Charles Ives who would become his mentor. Carter went on to study music at Harvard and in Paris at the École Normale de Musique de Paris, later winning two Pultizer Prizes, first in 1960 for his *String Quartet No. 2* and again in 1973 for his *String Quartet No. 3*.