On June 8 Mr. Carter, still astonishingly productive at 103, was present for the premiere of his latest work, "Two Controversies and a Conversation," in Contact!, the New York Philharmonic's new-music series.
That means Clinton still has time to work around controversies like her use of private email, questions about foundation donations, and the malingering hangover of Benghazi to win 2016.
Despite this burgeoning body of work many controversies remain.
The idea of Falstaff as a Wagnerian work caused controversy for the octogenarian Verdi.
Songs like the opener, "Compassion," use the same stiff handclaps that dominated early work like "Controversy" and "1999".
But he was reticent about publishing his work, fearing controversy and criticism (his fight with Leibniz over calculus had made him extra-sensitive).
The work attracted controversy almost immediately, which culminated in an obscenity trial brought against its publisher, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and that history is virtually inseparable from the poem, and the poet.
While the group had already been discussing a narrowing of its work, the controversy generated by the Martin shooting "may have sped up the process," Chip Rogers, a Georgia state senator who is the group's treasurer, said in a telephone interview.
But the delays over the start of the inquiry's work, the controversy over the choice of chair and statements made in the media by some panel members raising doubt over the inquiry's future have all put huge pressure on vulnerable survivors of child abuse, according to groups who represent them.
But the work sparked controversy among scientists, and some criticism of the journal that published it. .
