Elliott Carter's What Next? : Communication, Cooperation, and Separation

The first book about Elliott Carter's only opera—or indeed about any single work by this still-productive modern master.

In 1997, the eminent American composer Elliott Carter teamed with British music critic/librettist Paul Griffiths to create the one-act opera What Next? Hailed by the New York Times as "theatrically dynamic" and "poignant," the opera explores how six people work together to emerge from the wreckage of an accident. Today, What Next? enjoys a prominent position in Carter's ce...