What A Life: The Day I Met Elliott Carter

NPR | Nov. 10, 2012 8:29 a.m.

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Tom Cole

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In 2008, NPR's Tom Cole was assigned to profile Elliott Carter for the composer's centennial. Cole was terrified. He needn't have been. To mark Carter's passing this past Monday at the age of 103, Cole has a remembrance of what it was like to meet the storied composer.