Ives in San Francisco On today's date in 1931, this notice appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle: "Music never before heard in San Francisco will make up the...
Where's the best place to purchase the CD and at what price? The marches are exactly what I've wanted. Thanks for the info. Russ ... Thanks Patrick. I'm...
Anne, Please forgive my ignorance, but what are The Proms? The first I had heard of it was on a recent Pipedreams broadcast called Pipes at The Proms. It...
Proms = Promenade Concerts - started 110 years ago by conductor Sir Henry
Wood and taken over by the BBC 80 years ago. Summer series of concerts held
mainly...
Just heard the Levine reading of the 3rd - amazing balance at the end -- never heard it played so coherently -- the cadence and the church bells were perfect...
For those who can access it, the BBC Radio 3's composer of the week - this week - is Charley.........Programmes start at 12 noon BST each day from today...
I have not posted in a while but I have an opinion to express that I feel is important to express. It counters a previous opinion but I now strongly feel I...
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Actually, the premiere of the Ives First Symphony was in April 1953 in Washington, DC with the National Gallery Orchestra conducted by Richard Bales. Ives was...
... Ives at times expressed respect and admiration for Parker's work, in the Memos, I believe. IIRC, it was in the context of other composers of the time, that...
Hello! Does anyone know where those "Soft, far-away sounding clusters in the high register, during a slow, hymn-like passage" come from? Alexei Ljubimov plays...
Hello, Something occured to me. Mahler may not have known about Ives. But what about Arnold Schoenberg? I remember a quote from Schoenberg about Ives on a...
Hello (first time posting!), The quotation you're referring to from Schoenberg came from a page found by his wife after his death (which she sent to Ives)....
Hello, (First of all, thank you Professor Thurmaier, for answer my Schoenberg-Ives question. And, although it hardly seems worth mentioning, for the record...
Hello, I have a somewhat similar question. Cowell states in the Bio, that Mrs. Ives confirmed to Kirkpatrick in 1968 that Ives had never met nor heard a note...
Did anybody ever get this book by Philip Lambert? Frankie ... "It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be...
Why, yes, I have a personal copy. Johnny ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com [Non-text portions of this message have...
Seems like the years are starting to fly by - but happy Thanksgiving to those on this list for which it pertains. Remember to dust off the Holidays today and...
Just done exactly the same, Frank! - I chose the MTT/Chicago 1986 recording
this year...............Tony ... From: Frank Camiola Date: 11/22/07 19:55:35 To:...
Which of Ives' works depicts two different marching bands playing different pieces at the same time? With it, Ives creates a metaphor for our times. Thank you....
No one seems to have replied to this, so I'll belatedly do so. There is more than one such passage in Ives, but the quintessential example is the second...
Hello everyone, Well, I thought it was George Ives who organized it, climbing at the top of the church tower, and listening to his town band, divided in 4 ...
Hi Folks, I believe that Pzdlre is quite correct about George Ives and the town bands. It's a notion that has had influence on my own thoughts about the appeal...
To me the quintessential Ives piece depicting the two bands etc is Decoration Day" ..........by the way, this was apparently Stravinsky's
favourite among the...
Thank you all, very much, for your thoughtful replies. The George Ives story provides fascinating background, and I will look forward to listening to both...
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