He is my favorite modern composer. After 20 years Ives and Schoenberg are the only modern composer that survived in my music collection because I can enjoy there music.
It's always fascinating listening to these "proto"-Concord Sonata pieces as someone who played the sonata before, as you can recognize all the passages that made it into the final work. Ives' material seems to allow for infinite expansion and recombination.
Charles Ives created a sound for the great period of growth of the American landscape and society in the Modern era...a bit chaotic, brawny and muscular, rough at times, expansive and beautiful in its spaciousness; free and experimental in its structure. When I listen to this I think of the photos of men walking on steel girders as they built the Manhatten skyline, the city street peddlers and trolleys. The open plains and endless prairies. Truly an American sound and acquired taste...as is often the crazy nature of living in America. ❤️🇺🇸😃
Ives is one of my favourites. He's fascinating in his fearless experimentation and his all-Americanness, and yet so underappreciated by the country he lived in in his lifetime and now.
3 years late, but this was performed in 1998. Bernard Holland wrote a pissy review of it in the _New York Times_ that spawned an excellent take-down of him in rec.music.classical.contemporary, so that's how I'm dating the performance.
He is my favorite modern composer. After 20 years Ives and Schoenberg are the only modern composer that survived in my music collection because I can enjoy there music.
can't expect much more from someone that writes like this
It's always fascinating listening to these "proto"-Concord Sonata pieces as someone who played the sonata before, as you can recognize all the passages that made it into the final work. Ives' material seems to allow for infinite expansion and recombination.
Charles Ives. One of the great ones.
Wonderful
Charles Ives created a sound for the great period of growth of the American landscape and society in the Modern era...a bit chaotic, brawny and muscular, rough at times, expansive and beautiful in its spaciousness; free and experimental in its structure. When I listen to this I think of the photos of men walking on steel girders as they built the Manhatten skyline, the city street peddlers and trolleys. The open plains and endless prairies.
Truly an American sound and acquired taste...as is often the crazy nature of living in America. ❤️🇺🇸😃
Ives is one of my favourites. He's fascinating in his fearless experimentation and his all-Americanness, and yet so underappreciated by the country he lived in in his lifetime and now.
wow! what year is this performance?
3 years late, but this was performed in 1998. Bernard Holland wrote a pissy review of it in the _New York Times_ that spawned an excellent take-down of him in rec.music.classical.contemporary, so that's how I'm dating the performance.