These 'Two Diversions' for piano deal with a growing contrast between simultaneous musical ideas. The first 'Diversion' presents a line of paired notes, musical intervals, that maintain a single speed throughout, while the other very changeable material uses many different speeds and characters. The second 'Diversion' contrasts two musical lines one of which, on the whole, grows slower and slower while the other grows faster and faster. With these musical ideas about diverging materials, I hope I have written diverting music. Elliot Carter