Yes, Nicholas Slonimsky told a wonderful story. The New York Philarmonic had two rehearsals with Ionization before Mr. Slonimsky realized this group of...
There is only one work of Charles Ives's, that even when I am saturated on listening to his pieces, I can still always listen to. General William Booth Enters...
For the past month or so I have been enjoying repeated playings of the Pitch CD of chamber works. I bought it mainly for the Ives quartet, but the other...
A recent interview : http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1676887,00.html It is amazing that Carter is a direct link to Ives, Stravinsky,...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/schedule/2006/01/13/week/ The BBC will be broadcasting most of the Elliot Carter weekend concerts live on Friday, Saturday and...
It is so interesting to me how there can be such a swing in opinion on things. Truth to tell, I love he Pythagorean tuning done by the Flux Quartet. As chance...
... Flux Quartet. ... the Second ... performance and the ... me, not contest. ... easy ;), ... the distinctions ... Romantic, ... We have to retune our ears....
To me ,the use of quarter tone in Ives' music is not only another way to tuning ,or a musical experimentation, but also a kind of tribute to the memory of his...
Patrick, from my understanding George Ives had what is called perfect pitch (Charles did not). George would compile an encyclopeadic knowledge of tuning by...
... perfect pitch ... of tuning ... his main ... machine" ... taut ... is a sustained ... machines, it would ... could only ... proof of the ... scale ... ...
Looking at Sinclair's site, I note that the 1911 copyist's full score of Ives's Third Symphony has been lost. As this would have been the score Mahler...
In a message dated 1/12/2006 9:51:56 PM Eastern Standard Time, mhberest@... writes: I know as you move up the harmonics, eventually you would get to...
But the substance of Quarter-Tones,the substance! For example in "Like a Sick Eagle" Ives use Quarter-Tones glissandi to express the sickness and the weakness,...
Apparently, it's not there. Most Mahler scholars seem to discount the fact that this ever happened. But I have no reason to doubt Ives' assertion that Mahler...
I thought there was some story where the Vienna (?) did a read-thru of the 3rd cause one of the players remembered there being bells at the end -- maybe the...
... I've read the story about the bells, although I remember the musician remember it because the bells were in a different key than the other instruments. I...
... happened. But ... sadly, ... archive ... BTW, do they have any idea of what Mahler discussed with Freud in their four-hour session? I heard Freud, as any...
Hello See the interesting precision in the Mark Zobel page <http://www.markzobel.com/diss.htm:> ... Hypertext Edition Mark Alan Zobel M.Mus. University of...
re: the Zobel link -- please make sure the colon ( : ) is removed at the end of the link before clicking -- otherwise it will send u to a file not found page...
Hello I wonder, what is the best orchestra for play Ives ? The Boston S.O ? The Cleveland ? The San Francisco ..... Or a non-american orchestra ? Patrick...
depends on conductor surely..............Tony ... From: Patrick Petit To: charlesives@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 12:35 AM Subject:...
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