Interweaving photographs, concert programs, scores, and drawings with the texts of more than fifty interviews with family, friends, neighbors, and colleagues, Charles Ives Remembered is a vivid memory portrait of an enigmatic American composer, told in the voices of the people who knew him best.
Charles Ives (1874-1954) was publicly an insurance executive but privately a composer whose eccentric works and paradoxical life would intrigue, perplex, and inspire generations to come after him. Moving from Ives's childhood and years at Yale to his business and musical careers, the memories and...
Interweaving photographs, concert programs, scores, and drawings with the texts of more than fifty interviews with family, friends, neighbors, and col...
"An extremely important and gracefully written book on a significant and controversial topic. It is the most thoroughgoing study of Ives's compositional procedures that has yet been attempted."-Larry Starr, author of A Union of Diversities: Style in the Music of Charles Ives "A unique in-depth study of Ives's works, the most panoramic view of the music ever written, based on a new and convincing perspective."-H. Wiley Hitchcock, City University of New York "A unique, pathbreaking, and utterly convincing study of Ives's music."-David Nicholls, BBC Music Magazine "A well-balanced view of Ives's...
"An extremely important and gracefully written book on a significant and controversial topic. It is the most thoroughgoing study of Ives's composition...
Although Charles Ives has long been viewed as the quintessential American composer, he was also closely linked to the European classical tradition, say the Ives scholars in this book. Contributors explore the influences on Ives of his musical predecessors and the parallels between Ives and his European contemporaries, revealing him as culturally unique and yet reliant on the classical tradition for aesthetic philosophy and musical techniques. "A stimulating and important contribution to Ives scholarship and to the understanding of twentieth-century music."-Larry Starr, University of...
Although Charles Ives has long been viewed as the quintessential American composer, he was also closely linked to the European classical tradition, sa...
This volume shows Charles Ives in the context of his world in a number of revealing ways. Five new essays examine Ives's relationships to European music and to American music, politics, business, and landscape. J. Peter Burkholder shows Ives as a composer well versed in four distinctive musical traditions who blended them in his mature music. Leon Botstein explores the paradox of how, in the works of Ives and Mahler, musical modernism emerges from profoundly antimodern sensibilities. David Michael Hertz reveals unsuspected parallels between one of Ives's most famous pieces, the Concord...
This volume shows Charles Ives in the context of his world in a number of revealing ways. Five new essays examine Ives's relationships to European ...
- Early music ensembles, such as Chapelle Royale, Lionheart, Sequentia, and the Tallis Scholar - Singers Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Renee Fleming, and Joan Sutherlan - Cellist Yo-Yo M - Pianists Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Malcolm Bilson, and Artur Rubenstei - The Berlin Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and the London Symphony Orchestr - Conductors Pierre Boulez, John Eliot Gardiner, James Levine, and Michael Tilson Thoma - String quartets, such as the Concord String Quartet and the Tokyo String Quarte - Jazz artists Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Dizzy Gillespi
- Early music ensembles, such as Chapelle Royale, Lionheart, Sequentia, and the Tallis Scholar - Singers Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Renee Fleming, and ...
- Early music ensembles, such as Chapelle Royale, Lionheart, Sequentia, and the Tallis Scholar - Singers Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Renee Fleming, and Joan Sutherlan - Cellist Yo-Yo M - Pianists Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Malcolm Bilson, and Artur Rubenstei - The Berlin Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and the London Symphony Orchestr - Conductors Pierre Boulez, John Eliot Gardiner, James Levine, and Michael Tilson Thoma - String quartets, such as the Concord String Quartet and the Tokyo String Quarte - Jazz artists Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Dizzy Gillespi
- Early music ensembles, such as Chapelle Royale, Lionheart, Sequentia, and the Tallis Scholar - Singers Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Renee Fleming, and ...
- Early music ensembles, such as Chapelle Royale, Lionheart, Sequentia, and the Tallis Scholar - Singers Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Renee Fleming, and Joan Sutherlan - Cellist Yo-Yo M - Pianists Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Malcolm Bilson, and Artur Rubenstei - The Berlin Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and the London Symphony Orchestr - Conductors Pierre Boulez, John Eliot Gardiner, James Levine, and Michael Tilson Thoma - String quartets, such as the Concord String Quartet and the Tokyo String Quarte - Jazz artists Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Dizzy Gillespi
- Early music ensembles, such as Chapelle Royale, Lionheart, Sequentia, and the Tallis Scholar - Singers Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Renee Fleming, and ...
