Composer Elliott Carter will be 100 years old next Thursday (Dec. 11) but age doesn’t seem to have slowed him down mentally. In two interviews he talks at length about his long life and career, including interactions with Charles Ives, who died in 1954, and other musicians of the past and present. How many other people can speak from personal knowledge about the great controversy surrounding the trials of the anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti, who were executed in 1927? Click here and here for the interviews.