Dear All, I'd be really grateful if somebody could advise me a book or an article, where I could read about Ives's home library, particularly about the scores...
I think I have read somewhere that Vivian Perlis's students one year did an inventory of Ives's personal library. This might have been mentioned in her Ives...
The long OOP LP recording on MHS 1240 "Charles Ives: Vocal Music" with Alden Gilchrist conducting the Berkeley Chamber Singers is being offered in an auction...
For me, the best recording of the 'Holidays Symphony'is the one on Berlin Classics conducted by the subject conductor. I've tried to find out more about him...
I was browsing iTunes, and they have four volumes of Ives' songs by William Sharp et al. I know that Scott likes these a lot. I'm curious - is this the...
Kirk, For Ives' song texts, go here: http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/i/ives/ I'm not sure if every single song is collected on those Albany/Troy discs, but --...
... Thanks. ... If I'm not mistaken, they, at one point, said they were going to release everything Ives composed, but that seems a bit of bluster, since,...
and..............now we have Gerald II - for those of you who haven't yet
heard, G. Finley's second CD of Ives songs is now released (not heard by yrs
trly...
... "I'm curious - is this the complete songs (there are 153 of them altogether)?" There are 153 (all with texts) in the Albany/Troy release. In the excellent...
Johnny, If you're out there - or if someone else can answer - I just bought the Universe from iTunes. The track ordering differs from what's on this page: ...
Hi Kirk, The Stereo Society has the correct information and timings. The Amazon listing has the track names in the correct order but the timings are all...
Friday, February 22 Bernstein conducts Ives On today's date in 1951, Leonard Bernstein conducted the New York Philharmonic in the premiere performance of the...
For anyone who might be interested, I've decided to slowly start to try to auction off dozens of CDs via Ebay, most of which are unusual and experimental: ...
... Henry Cow ! Wow ! They actually took their name from Henry Cowell, so there's an Ives connection, for sure. No wonder so many of us seem to have the same...
Anne, since I had no first-hand knowledge of the Henry Cow rock ensemble, I was delighted by your explanation that they took their name in homage to Henry...
I recently joined the group, and have been enjoying reading the posts. I have been listening to the music of Ives since I was in high school in the early...
There is a very nice pipe organ performance of VOA by Dame Gillian Weir on Pipedreams this week. http://pipedreams.publicradio.org/listings/2008/0812/ It...
Hello New information by the Naxos web site, the Three Orchestral Sets in the new performance by James sinclair conducting the Malmo Symphony Orchestra with...
... Great news! I also found the following at the Naxos site as well. Looks like our man Sinclair has been busy, indeed. All of this news renews my interest in...
BTW, I've been enjoying the Naxos disc of President's Own Marine Band "Variations on America". A fantastic amalgamation of Ives many styles, with some truly...
Since things have been somewhat quiet on these Lists, I though I would speak about this Saturday's MicroFest concert in NYC, the first of 4. The tuning of the...
http://www.carnegiehall.org/article/box_office/events/evt_9730.html?selecteddate=03102009 March 2009. This is a concert I will not miss (I live near NYC, so...
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...
Umm...........not sure about changing his mind, he has always been
ambivalent about Ives - conducting his works (esp. Robert Browning Overture
3 Places and...
Thanks for this link, Scott - I too have read (and still own a copy of)
Music in a New-Found Land, and was also very fortunate to be working briefly
in York...
... Here's another which tells something about Meller's personality and goes a way to explaining why he was so open minded and unorthodox.: Coincidentally...
Anne, Thanks for sharing that obit. I had no idea about the details of Mellers' life. But his enjoyment of music comes through clearly in his writing. I'll...