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Most of the tracks are related to the "Emerson" movement of the Concord Sonata, and proved useful in the reconstruction of the Emerson Concerto. [5] However, Ives also recorded sections of the "Hawthorne" movement of the Sonata, and "The Alcotts" in its entirety, as well as excerpts from his Studies for piano and his First Symphony, [7] plus a raucous version of the song "They Are There!"
New World Records issued 42 tracks of his recordings on CD on April 1, 2006, as Ives Plays Ives. In Canada in the 1950s, the expatriate English pianist Lloyd Powell played a series of concerts including all of Ives's piano works, at the University of British Columbia. [33] Recognition of Ives's music steadily increased.
The Unanswered Ives is an hour-long documentary about the life and musical career of the American composer Charles Ives. [1] Written and directed by German film maker Anne-Kathrin Peitz, the documentary features Ives' early years in Danbury, CT, his musical relationship with his father, education at Yale and later career as insurance executive and composer.
The Best Of Burl Ives, Vol. 2 (1975, MCA 4089, 2 records) Hugo The Hippo (1976, United Artists LA-637-G) Christmas by the Bay (1977, United States Navy Band) We Americans: A Musical Journey With Burl Ives (1978, National Geographic Society NGS 07806) Live In Europe (1979, Polydor 2382094) The Special Magic Of Burl Ives (1981, MCA MSM 35043)
The short plays are almost all comedies (or comedy dramas), focusing mainly on language and wordplay, existentialist perspectives on life and meaning, as well as the complications involved in romantic relationships. High-school and college students frequently perform the plays, often due to their brevity and undemanding staging requirements.
The composer in 1913. Ives composed The Unanswered Question, subtitled "(a Cosmic Landscape)" in Ives's work papers, [12] in 1908 (though it is often erroneously dated 1906), [1] and revised it in 1930–1935, at which time he included a 13-bar introduction, made the woodwind parts more dissonant, and added further dynamic and articulation indications. [13]
Ives traveled about the U.S. as an itinerant singer during the early 1930s, earning his way by doing odd jobs and playing his banjo. He was jailed in Mona, Utah, for vagrancy and for singing "Foggy Dew" (an English folk song), which the authorities decided was a bawdy song. [11] Around 1931, he began performing on WBOW radio in Terre Haute ...
When Ives recorded the Transcriptions in the 1930s, he restored most of these cadenza passages to the Transcriptions, and one photostat copy of the Transcriptions ("Copy C") shows how they were to be reinstated in writing (cf. the CD Ives Plays Ives for his recordings). Most of the more complex original text passages of the Sonata movement were ...