Charles Ives

CHARLES IVES - CENTRAL PARK IN THE DARK

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Duration: 10:50
Updated: 03 Nov 2012

BBC Symphony Orchestra. Lawrence Foster (conductor)

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Charles Ives: Sonata No. 2 "Concord" - Thoreau

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Duration: 9:35
Updated: 04 Nov 2012

Sonata No. 2, "Concord, Mass., 1840-60" IV. Thoreau John Kirkpatrick, piano. ". . .And if there shall be a program let it follow his thought on an autumn day of Indian summer at Walden -- a shadow of a thought at first, colored by the mist and haze over the pond: Low anchored cloud, Fountain head and Source of rivers. . . . Dew cloth, dream drapery -- Drifting meadow of the air. . . . but this is momentary; the beauty of the day moves him to a certain restlessness -- to aspirations more specific -- an eagerness for outward action, but through it all he is conscious that it is not in keeping with the mood for this 'Day.' ... His meditations are interrupted only by the faint sound of the Concord bell -- 'tis prayer-meeting night in the village -- 'a melody as it were, imported into the wilderness. . . .' 'At a distance over the woods the sound acquires a certain vibratory hum as if the pine needles in the horizon were the strings of a harp which it swept. . . . A vibration of the universal lyre. . . . Just as the intervening atmosphere makes a distant ridge of earth interesting to the eyes by the azure tint it imparts.' . . . Part of the echo may be 'the voice of the wood; the same trivial words and notes sung by the wood nymph.' It is darker, the poet's flute is heard out over the pond and Walden hears the swan song of that 'Day' and faintly echoes. . . . Is it a transcendental tune of Concord? 'Tis an evening when the 'whole body is one sense,' . . . and before ending his ...

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The Unanswered Question

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Duration: 6:08
Updated: 02 Nov 2012

The Unanswered Question van Charles Ives (1874-1954). Uitgevoerd door de New York Philharmonic onder leiding van Leonard Bernstein.

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Charles Ives plays Charles Ives

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Duration: 4:59
Updated: 04 Nov 2012

UNIQUE historical recording of Charles Ives at the piano, playing the third movement "The Alcotts" from his Piano Sonata No.2 (Concord Sonata).

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Charles Ives: 3 Quarter-Tone Pieces (1924) - I. Largo

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Duration: 3:34
Updated: 04 Nov 2012

The piano on the left is tuned one-quarter tone down, providing notes in-between the notes of the normally tuned piano. Performed by the Paratore brothers.

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Ives: "The Unanswered Question"

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Duration: 7:15
Updated: 04 Nov 2012

Charles Ives: "The Unanswered Question" . This work was composed as a companion to "Central Park In The Dark" Both works were composed in 1906, and paired together by Ives as: I. "A Contemplation of a Serious Matter, or The Unanswered Question", II. "A Contemplation of Nothing Serious, or Central Park in the Dark in the Good Old Summertime". Prior to having The Unanswered Question professionally copied, sometime around 1930 - 1935, Ives revised the score, adding many details and changing the woodwind and trumpet parts. The revised version is presented here.

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Charles Ives (1874 - 1954): Three Places in New England

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Duration: 19:45
Updated: 27 Oct 2012

1. The 'Saint-Gaudens' In Boston Common 2. Putnams' Camp, Redding, Connecticut 3. The Housatonic at Stockbridge Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

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Charles Ives " Symphony No 1" (1. Mov.)

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Duration: 18:48
Updated: 16 Oct 2012

Symphony No 1 by Charles Ives 1. Movement "Allegro con moto" National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland James Sinclair, conductor Dublin, 25.IX.2002

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Charles Ives - Holidays Symphony - II. Decoration Day

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Duration: 9:25
Updated: 03 Oct 2012

Charles Ives (1874-1954) Holidays Symphony (or A Symphony: New England Holidays) I. Washingtons Birthday II. Decoration Day III. The Fourth of July IV. Thanksgiving and Forefathers' Day San Francisco Symphony/Michael Tilson Thomas Charles Ives got the idea to write a holiday symphony during the summer of 1905. He wanted to write each movement as if it were based on a grown mans memory of his childhood holidays. Here are melodies like icons, resonating with memory and history, with war, childhood, community, and nation. Ives constructed these movements based on personal memories from his past, including his father, George Ives, and the town of Danbury. His father had a huge impact on Ivess compositions, especially after he died in November 1894. Ives lived in Danbury throughout his childhood, a town which holds many of the life experiences that inspired him to compose a Holdiday Symphony. New England Holidays exemplies multi-tonality in the reharmonization of borrowed musicand [mixing of] several keys. This work is notorious for its quotations, in particularly, its complex overlapping of multiple sources. Without the plethora of quotation, Holiday Symphony would lose its ability to call forth memories and emotions. The first three movements of Holiday Symphony were performed in the United States and Europe in 1931 and 1932 under the direction of Nicolas Slonimsky. The concerts created great excitement: laughter, protest, enthusiasm. Ivess music never occupied more than a ...

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Charles Ives: Sonata No. 2 "Concord" - The Alcotts

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Duration: 4:37
Updated: 04 Nov 2012

Sonata No. 2, "Concord, Mass., 1840-60" III. The Alcotts John Kirkpatrick, piano. "There is a commonplace beauty about 'Orchard House' -- a kind of spiritual sturdiness underlying its quaint picturesqueness -- a kind of common triad of the New England homestead, whose overtones tell us that there must have been something aesthetic fibered in the Puritan severity -- the self-sacrificing part of the ideal -- a value that seems to stir a deeper feeling, a stronger sense of being nearer some perfect trust than a Gothic cathedral or an Etruscan villa. All around you, under the Concord sky, there still floats the influence of that human faith melody, transcendent and sentimental enough for the enthusiast or the cynic respectively, reflecting on an innate hope -- a common interest in common things and common men -- a tune the Concord bards are ever playing, while they pound away at the immensities with a Beethovenlike sublimity, and with, may we say, a vehemence and perseverance -- for that part of greatness is not so difficult to emulate. We dare not attempt to follow the philosophic raptures of Bronson Alcott -- unless you will assume that his apotheosis will show how "practical" his vision in this world would be in the next. And so we won't try to reconcile the music sketch of the Alcotts with much besides the memory of that home under the elms -- the Scotch songs and the family hymns that were sung at the end of each day -- though there may be an attempt to catch something ...

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Charles Ives - Songs - Serenity (1919)

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Duration: 2:32
Updated: 03 Nov 2012

Charles Ives (1874-1954) Serenity (1919) Veronica Lenz-Kuhn, soprano Tan Crone, piano

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Charles Ives - Piano Sonata No. 2, 3rd Mvt.

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Duration: 7:21
Updated: 04 Nov 2012

"The Alcotts" pf: Marc Peloquin

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Charles Ives: Piano Sonata No. 1 (1909-16), I

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Duration: 8:08
Updated: 02 Oct 2012

I. Adagio con moto Ives' massive first sonata for piano, whose existence is largely due to the editorial efforts of composer Lou Harrison and pianist William Masselos, who premiered the piece. Joanna MacGregor, piano.

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Variations on America by Charles Ives - Aaron Robinson, organist

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Duration: 8:17
Updated: 25 Sep 2012

Charles Ives was an eighteen-year-old organ virtuoso when he composed his celebrated variations for organ on the patriotic hymn "America." He first performed the Variations on February 17, 1892, at the Methodist church in Brewster, New York. It has since become one of the nation's leading works for organ. American composer and orchestral organist, Aaron Robinson, performs this challenging work on the "Mighty Immanuel Organ" at Immanuel Baptist Church in Portland, Maine. The accompanying video is an impressive compilation of images that celebrate the history of America. Charles Ives was once quoted to say: "... playing the pedal passages (in the final variation) is almost as much fun as playing baseball."

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Charles Ives: Universe Symphony {1/4}

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Duration: 10:06
Updated: 04 Nov 2012

Ives' remarkable and sadly unfinished universe symphony, realized by Michael Stern and performed by the Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken under his direction. The Universe Symphony is an unfinished work by American classical music composer Charles Ives. The date of composition is unknown, but he probably worked on it periodically between 1911 and 1928. Intended to be a "spatial" composition for two or more orchestras, it is in three sections: Part 1, "Past: Formation of the waters and mountains" Part 2, "Present: Earth, evolution in nature and humanity" Part 3, "Future: Heaven, the rise of all to the Spiritual". He conceived the idea during the autumn of 1915 while he was staying in the Adirondacks of New York State. He left it alone until 1923, when he returned to working on it. Although he spent many years on it, many of the sketches are missing. During the 1990s there were three separate performing versions assembled, including a version by David Gray Porter (1993, Section A plus the Coda and part of a first Prelude only), Larry Austin (1994), and J. Reinhard (1996). It is a complex work, using 20 independent musical lines; each moves in a separate meter, only coinciding on downbeats eight seconds apart. According to his notes on a sketch of the Universe Symphony, Ives was "striving to . paint the creation, the mysterious beginnings of all things known through God and man, to trace with tonal imprints the vastness, the evolution of all life, in nature, of humanity ...

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Putnam's Camp by Charles Ives 1978

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Duration: 6:10
Updated: 10 Oct 2012

Putnam's Camp from Three Places in New England by Charles Ives. Performed by the Leicestershire Schools Symphony Orchestra conducted by Peter Fletcher. St. John's, Smith Square, London in June 1978.

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Songs My Mother Taught Me (Charles Ives) KNEEBODY/THEO BLECKMANN

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Duration: 8:20
Updated: 12 Oct 2012

Songs My Mother Taught Me (Charles Ives) - arrangement Ben Wendel Kneebody with Theo Bleckmann live at Joe's Pub, NYC Kneebody is: Adam Benjamin (keys), Shane Endsley (tpt), Kavah Rastegar (e.bass), Ben Wendel (sax, bassoon), Nate Wood (drums) Taped for Mezzo TV, France at Joe's Pub, NYC, 11/2308 from "12 songs by Charles Ives" on Winter and Winter

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Charles Ives - 'The Unanswered Question'

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Duration: 6:05
Updated: 31 Oct 2012

Charles Ives - "The Unanswered Question" CCM Concert Orchestra Olivier Ochanine, conductor Nov. 24, 2009 College-Conservatory of Music, Cincinnati (pardon the sound, taken from camera behind orchestra)

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Charles Ives - 4th of July

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Duration: 6:05
Updated: 03 Nov 2012

A parade of Americana with thematic nods to such popular tunes as Columbia the Gem of the Ocean, Battle Hymn of the Republic, Battle Cry of Freedom, and Yankee Doodle. Probably the most complex and fascinating of the four movements of the "Holidays" Symphony, Ives's Fourth of July takes metrical and motivic play to its outer limits. Commenting in his Memos, Ives wrote, "I did what I wanted to, quite sure that the thing would never be played, although the uneven measures that look so complicated in the score are mostly caused by missing a beat, which was often done in parades. In the parts taking off explosions, I worked out combinations of tones and rhythms very carefully by kind of prescriptions, in the way a chemical compound which makes explosions would be made."

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Charles Ives (1874 - 1954): Piano Sonata No. 2: "Concord, Mass., 1840--60"

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Duration: 49:10
Updated: 25 Oct 2012

1. Emerson 2. Hawthorne 3. The Alcotts 4. Thoreau Herbert Henck - Piano

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Tippett conducts Circus Band by Charles Ives 1970

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Duration: 2:28
Updated: 26 Oct 2012

The orchestral arrangement of Circus Band by Charles Ives. Sir Michael Tippett conducting the Leicestershire Schools Symphony Orchestra with the Schola Cantorum of Oxford at the 1970 Cheltenham Festival.

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Charles Ives - Symphony n.4 - II. Comedy: Allegretto (first part)

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Duration: 7:30
Updated: 23 Oct 2012

Charles Ives - Symphony n.4 Michael Tilson-Thomas and Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus The Symphony No. 4, S. 4 (K. 1A4) by Charles Ives (1874 1954) was written between the years of 1910 and 1916. The symphony is notable for its multi-layered complexity - usually necessitating two conductors in performance - and for its over-sized orchestra. Combining elements and techniques of Ives's previous compositional work, this has been called "one of his most definitive works"; Ives' biographer, Jan Swafford has called it "Ives's climactic masterpiece." First movement This movement and the third movement were first performed in New York City on January 29, 1927. In contrast to Ives's other works for large orchestra, which begin in quiet and meditative moods, this symphony starts with a strong, maestoso, fortissimo bass line, immediately followed by a rising trumpet fanfare. A quiet passage follows. The movement ends with chorus singing the Epiphany hymn Watchman ("Watchman, tell us of the night.") Unlike the bold beginning, the movement dies away, quadruple-pianissimo, at the end. Second movement Ives bases this "Comedy" movement on Hawthorne's story The Celestial Railroad. It is possibly his most extreme essay in overlapping of multiple thematic material, found also in his Holidays Symphony. Tunes quoted include The Sweet By and By, Beulah Land, Marching Through Georgia, Ye Christian Heralds, Jesus, Lover of my Soul and Nearer, my God, to Thee. The complexity of this movement ...

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Ives: Hilary Hahn and Valentina Lisitsa

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Duration: 2:35
Updated: 02 Nov 2012

Hahn and Lisitsa play the first movement from Charles Ives's Fourth Sonata. The whole album is in stores now.

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Charles Ives
This photo from around 1913 shows Ives in his "day job." He was the director of a successful insurance agency.
Background information
Birth name	Charles Edward Ives
Born	(1874-10-20)October 20, 1874
Origin	Danbury, Connecticut
Died	May 19, 1954(1954-05-19) (aged 79)
Occupations	composer, insurance agent

Persondata
Name	Ives, Charles
Alternative names
Short description	American modernist composer
Date of birth	October 20, 1874
Place of birth	Danbury, Connecticut
Date of death	May 19, 1954
Place of death

Aaron Robinson
Robinson's 1949 Bowman Gum baseball card
Catcher
Born: (1915-06-23)June 23, 1915 Lancaster, South Carolina
Died: March 9, 1966(1966-03-09) (aged 50) Lancaster, South Carolina
Batted: Left	Threw: Right
MLB debut
May 6, 1943 for the New York Yankees
Last MLB appearance
September 28, 1951 for the Boston Red Sox
Career statistics
Batting average	.260
Home runs	61
Runs batted in	272
Teams
New York Yankees (1943–1947) Chicago White Sox (1948) Detroit Tigers (1949–1951) Boston Red Sox (1951)
Career highlights and awards
All-Star selection (1947) World Series champion (1947)

Persondata
Name	Robinson, Aaron
Alternative names
Short description	American professional baseball player
Date of birth	June 23, 1915
Place of birth	Lancaster, South Carolina
Date of death	March 9, 1966
Place of death	Lancaster, South Carolina

Persondata
Name	Bleckmann, Theo
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	May 28, 1966
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death

Hilary Hahn
Hilary Hahn in 2007
Background information
Born	(1979-11-27) November 27, 1979 (age 32) Lexington, Virginia, USA
Genres	Classical
Occupations	Violinist
Instruments	1864 J.B. Vuillaume (Il Cannone Guarneri reproduction)

Persondata
Name	Hahn, Hilary
Alternative names
Short description	American violinist
Date of birth	1979-11-27
Place of birth	Lexington, Virginia
Date of death
Place of death

Valentina Lisitsa

Background information
Birth name	Valentina Lisitsa
Born	1973
Origin	Kiev, Ukraine, USSR
Genres	Classical
Occupations	Classical Pianist
Instruments	Piano
Website	Official Website

Persondata
Name	Lisitsa, Valentina
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	1973
Place of birth	Kiev
Date of death
Place of death

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