L'ultra-bref

The UK’s Brexit vote on June 23, 2016 provided the most dramatic proof that the era of political and economic globalization has ended. Populism, nationalism, and xenophobia surging...

This book surveys the life and work of the great American composer Elliott Carter (1908–2012). It examines his formative, and often ambivalent, engagements with Charles Ives and ot...

Until the appearance of his Piano Sonata in 1946, and Sonata for Violoncello and Piano in 1948 Carter seemed to lack a distinctive voice. Aaron Copland, a close friend, taunted Car...

Abstract Heavy electrons are found among a number of lanthanide and actinide compounds, and are characterized by a large effective mass which becomes comparable to t...