I'm not sure how many of you have read "Music in a New Found Land." I
did many years ago, when I was first discovering Ives' music. The book
was first published in the mid-Sixties, and his commentary on Ives was
both prescient (in the sense that it preceded the "Ives Boom" of the
Seventies) and insightful.

Like Ives, Mellers didn't limit his musical interests to the so-
called "high" arts. He wrote about jazz, rock and other genres too. I
like that about his writing and his approach to musicology.

Sad to hear of his passing.

Here's a link to Mellers' NY Times obit:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/23/arts/music/23mellers.html?
_r=1&ref=music&oref=slogin