I am sure some of you have already have learned this, but list member Bob Zeidler passed away this weekend. I was informed via an e-mail from a reviewer at...
OH, Frankie, This is awful news, what happened ? I noticed he had not been active for a while and was planning to write. Please tell me all you know, and...
... Wow, that is very sad... I've corresponded with Bob both about Ives and Mahler, and his exuberance was always something I looked forward to. I'm putting on...
Bob was the first member to communicate with me when I joined this group -- we've both spent time in western Connecticut (he was an engineer for years with...
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American Public Media Tuesday, April 5 Play today's show | How to listen Lou Harrison conducts an Ives premiere On today's date in 1946, the American composer...
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I just found out yesterday the sad news of Bob's death. I think that he was about my age (67, soon to be 68 in 2 more days) and we had several musical ...
Did *anybody* buy/hear the new Ives CD on Naxos with Joel Sachs/Continuum? Haven't heard a peep yet. Scott? Anybody? It's great getting back to listening to...
... The release on Naxos carries the number 8.559194, but all of the material in it appeared earlier As a Musical Heritage Society release #MHS 512292Y, which...
Speaking of somehwat new Ives, what about that last CRI release with the jazz treatments? Jim S. burned me a copy. He hated it, and everyone else hated it it...
Frankie, I haven't heard it yet. But I intend to get it soon! Scott ************************************ "The fabric of existence weaves itself whole..." --...
David, Gotta say that I didn't dig it. But not because it wasn't a "straight" interpretation. In fact, I LOVE the idea of someone taking CEI's ideas & music...
I was just reading Scott's reviews of some Ives recordings at his site and noticed that he mentioned that he doesn't particularly care for this recording (RCA...
This is on my site, but I'll say it here again anyway... My first exposure to Ives was "Putnam's Camp" from "3 Places in NE." [Ormandy and the Philadelphia...
I read in an interview some time ago that Slatkin doesn't like Ives, which explains why his reocording sounds the way it does. I first heard the Slatkin via a...
Interesting how different generations react to a name, isn't it? - my greying locks betoken that generation which thinks "Felix" when hearing/reading the name...
I think it was about 1961-61 -- there was a disk put out by Howard Hanson of the 3PINE -- there was a pictures of a mill stream on the front which was actually...
... Why not sheet music? I took piano lessons from a prof. at Hope College in Holland MI near where we lived. Early on in my high school years he assigned ...
... possession of a ... which he ... he had ... probably ... Ives did have a large number of copies of Concord printed up, and he sent many of them out, first...
in 1988, freshman year of college, my roommate had a series of cassettes to accompany his 'music history 101' class. I borrowed the 20th century cassette, and...
Testing out new additions to my stereo last night (adding an old subwoofer back into the system), I played the tape of this disk that Jim Sinclair sent me. I...
... Not that early, since the Agay collection (four volumes: Baroque, Classical, Romantic, 20th Cent.) dates from ca. 1970, judging from the date on his ...
... Comedy ... I think I agree with you. They just tear through the finale at breakneck pace, and the very ending: drastically abrupt. It's not like it's...
... The Fugue was originally the 2nd, not 3rd, movement, and it seems to me now a much more natural progession. Also, in my experience, people turn to ritual...
There is probably a good reason why Ives changed it to the 3rd movement -- it has a dramatic flow to it and it seems very much like his temperment that he...