No, not Lennie! Pierre may not so much have dissed Ives as treated Ives as an amusing case. Of course, it might come out sounding like disrepect. He often...
... dissed Ives; I always thought he championed him, and certainly he chose to record and perform his works many times--and beautifully.--Annie in NYC ...
Bob, Thank you for pointing this out. Here is a collateral report: David Schiff,The Atlantic,January 1997,The Many Faces of Ives (see paragraph 3) ---> ...
The NY Phil website has a pretty cool Ives page in anticipation of the upcoming shows in May. Check it out, it's pretty cool stuff. I'll be seeing three (3) of...
Anybody here (Scott?) own the Ives 4th CD performed by the Ensemble Modern/John Adams? I still cannot find it available anywhere except the EM site and they...
Have a great time, Frankie! Quart Thanks Quart. I was more than impressed with Juilliard's performance of Ives 4 in January - so I am curious to see what the...
I don't have a copy of the EM / Adams Ives Fourth. But I've heard that it's very good. Scott Mortensen ************************************ "The fabric of...
Frankie, Alban Berg's 3 Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 6, was a big favorite of mine in the past. I also like Edgard Varèse's Arcana. I think I shall listen to...
... one more link about the Reinhard realisation of the 'universe symphony', from volume 3 number 2 of the British Harry Partch Society Newsletter. very...
Frankie, Alban Berg's 3 Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 6, was a big favorite of mine in the past. I also like Edgard Varèse's Arcana. I think I shall listen to...
According to Merrick's review in the British Harry Partch Society Newsletter (http://partch.edition.net/Lnbkv3n2.html), Johnny Reinhard's version of the...
... lots of repetition! which is perfectly valid as the life pulse is ostensibly to go on forever. I don't know of any other instructions beyond what's in...
... interesting to compare them with contemporary recordings of the same works. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Well, at long last, Scott, Amazon has a product page for...
Is anyone attending Jim Sinclair's O.N.E. concert at the Battell Chapel at Yale tomorrow evening? Details here: http://www.orchestranewengland.org/ I'll be...
Keep your eyes open for the June issue of BBC Music Magazine. Apparently, Ives is going to be the "Composer of the Month." I haven't seen the issue yet. But...
... Thanks for the advance tip, Scott. I found a site offering sale of single issues of U.K. mags at: http://www.magsnmore.com/current_british_magazines.htm ...
No, cover CD is going to be of the Ives antithesis: Richard Strauss! And anyway, about time CEI featured as c-o-t-m after the BBc mag. has been going for more...
Bob (and others), I remember you mentioning something about ordering Gielen's Mahler 1 disc coupled with "Central Park in the Dark" and "The Unanswered...
Nice to know you enjoyed it, Scott ! :) You should also mention it's a LIVE performance, which means no edits, no splices of different takes, etc, etc. So far,...
... Gielen's Mahler 1 disc coupled with "Central Park in the Dark" and "The Unanswered Question"? Did you get the disc? Any thoughts on the performances? ...
... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If you use this link: http://snipurl.com/65iw you'll see the comments I left (in 2 or 3 successive posts) regarding the concert. I...
Haven't seen anything of Gielen/Ives lately in the UK either........However, what I heard of his in the 80's was pretty pretty mediocre and not at all...
... the woolly homespun Yankee jingoistic version of yore... It's interesting to me how perceptions of Ives and his music have changed over time. I didn't...
Makes complete sense to me, Scott, and I think this was how Ives' music came to be appreciated over on this side of the millpond even from the early 60's when...
Do we need to look closely at those spiritual models that formed Ives philosophically? George Ives, RW Emerson, HD Thoreau, Harmony. He began to learn to look...
... Good thinking Quart. We can also look at Ives' very own writings--especially the "Essays Before a Sonata." Here's one of my favorite passages from the...
Here's another recently-released disc that I just stumbled across tonight. CATALOGUE NR: 8559127 RECORD LABEL: Naxos RELEASE DATE: 03-May-2004 COMPOSER:...
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