Ives was a composer who started composing music at age 13, according to the Charles Ives Society website. He composed several songs, including "Variations on America," and he won a Pulitzer Prize for ...
One hundred-fifty years ago, a mild-mannered insurance man was born in the small Connecticut town of Danbury. On nights and weekends, he composed music, most of which went unperformed in his lifetime.
In addition to a pre-concert talk featuring noted cultural historian Joseph Horowitz, Ives scholar J. Peter Burkholder, music director Leon Botstein, renowned baritone William Sharp, and pianist ...
This question is among many ideas that the “Charles Ives at 150: Music, Imagination, and American Culture” festival seeks to explore. From Monday, Sept. 30 to Tuesday, Oct. 8, the Jacobs School of ...
To mark the 150th anniversary of the maverick American composer’s birth, pianist Jeremy Denk releases an Ives tribute album that educates,... Charles Ives’ vision of America still strikes an ...