GRA (1993)
for clarinet
By Elliot Carter
American
American
GRA, dedicated to Witold Lutoslawski (1913-94), is both an embodiment of its title (‘gra’ means play in Polish), and a portrait of the great Polish composer, on the occasion of his 80th birthday.
Other works by Elliot Carter:
“There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.”
--Francis Bacon, The Essays