I want to direct you to the lat­est install­ment of my Clas­si­calTV col­umn, because it’s about a great com­poser, who has a work pre­mier­ing at Miller The­ater this Sat­ur­day, with Louis Karchin con­duct­ing the League of Com­posers Orches­tra in the Con­certino for Bass Clar­inet and Cham­ber Orches­tra, as well as pre­mieres from Missy Maz­zoli, Arthur Krieger, David Rakowski and Shu­lamit Ran. I had the true honor and priv­i­lege of talk­ing with Carter this past Mon­day, and it was great fun. Carter’s art sounds eso­teric as hell, but it’s also full of the feel­ing of being com­pletely grounded in life, and that’s because he is totally engaged with civ­i­liza­tion and soci­ety — he cares. A Titan, just at the edge of our abil­ity to per­ceive his greatness.