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...
Subject: Re: [charlesives] Boulez conducts Ives? ... So he has conducted Ives before? I thought he dismissed him as you said and wouldn't touch those pieces...
Frank: Pierre B conducted 4th Symphony with NYPO ( years ago when he was
music director), also R.Browning Ov., 3rd Symph. - I also remember him doing
some...
... Questions are good ! They serve a purpose. Lots is written about Boulez that isn't accurate. The wiki entry, for example. But it gets repeated until...
On 24 May 2008 at 10:32, Frank Camiola wrote: I have sort of answered a lot of my questions upon finding this ... Thanks loads for this Frankie, it's great...
http://www.lafolia.com/archive/covell/covell200411concord.html Not sure if this has been brought up here before, but here is an interesting piece written about...
The New York City Ballet is doing a performance consisting of some Ives songs this month: Music Eighteen songs by Charles Ives (in order of performance The...
... From: Scott Date: 28/05/2008 20:43:58 To: charlesives@yahoogroups.com Subject: [charlesives] Re: Ives Songs Ballet The New York City Ballet is doing a...
That ballet should be interesting ! There are quite a lot of ballets to song. Either they leave out the singing (!) and dance the words instead or they have a...
... It was an encore, so just Songs my Mother Taught Me but she was so natural that I can imagine her doing others equally well. So what if she has a slight...
Hello group, I was recently looking through a volume of Ives's songs, and I noticed that many of them are written for medium voice. Are any of his songs...