CarterObituary
RosenObituary
Here are two obituaries I’ve paired together for a couple of reasons. First, Carter and Rosen both died within several weeks of each other. And Rosen’s watershed book The Classical Style (a book about the music of Haydn and his two pupils Mozart and Beethoven) was dedicated to Carter and his wife. My assumption is that Rosen and Carter respected each other’s abilities.
Rosen is lauded as a pianist/philosopher. Reading between the lines of the Carter eulogy reminds me of a line in the first Men in Black; K is recruiting J who asks him if it’s worth it. K’s response (“If you’re strong enough”) could well pertain to Carter, who–in my estimation–was strong enough.
About Chris Meister
Christopher Meister holds a Bachelor’s of Music in Piano Performance as well as a Masters and Ph.D. in Music Composition.
In 1984 he orchestrated the "Brescia" version of Madame Butterfly for the Opera Theatre of St. Louis and in 1986 was a nominee for the Lili Boulanger Memorial Award in Music Composition. He read an original paper “Towards a Correlation of Tonal Structure and Figural Behavior in the ‘Introduction’ to The Rite of Spring” at the New Hampshire Composers’ Conference (NHCC) in 1987; two years later his string quartet was chosen to be read through at the NHCC, and it was subsequently performed by the Apollo Quartet when they toured Ohio, Illinois and Missouri in 1991. His piano sonata was performed at the national convention of the Society of Composers International in 1992; and his paper “Convergence as a Mode of Musical Organization: Comparing Varése’s Hyperprism with Penderecki’s Polymorphia” appears online in the music theory journal ex tempore, volume VII/1 (1995).
Currently, Mr. Meister teaches class piano, music theory, and music appreciation at CPCC. He lives in Union county with his wife and daughter, both of whom have performed at Carnegie Hall. He is itching for his turn.
