The Charles Ives Music Festival begins a new season on Monday, August 1st, 2022. The six concerts this season explore the themes that are essential to the music of Ives: folk music, searching for ...

The Seattle Symphony has been involved in a two-year project they call "Made in America," concerts of orchestral music by 20th century Americans. The young Charles Ives wrote his Variations on ...

Composer Charles Ives died 50 years ago Wednesday. Though Ives is now widely recognized as one of America's most important composers, his work was not performed during his most creative years.

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 ...

Compared with the resources and ready audiences for the New Haven Symphony Orchestra and the numerous symphonic ensembles at Yale, Orchestra New England (ONE) comes off as the classical equivalent of ...

The music of Charles Ives is the headwater of the American experimental music tradition. Previously unheard dissonances, multiple keys clashing against each other, different tempos sounding ...

But it has to be said of Charles Ives, for whom the unruly musical welter of late-nineteenth-century New England—a mess of Protestant hymns, marches and other band music, camp songs, rags, patriotic ...

My favorite Charles Ives quote dates from 1931, when the composer was in New York for the first public performance of his "Three Places in New England." It was hissed and booed, but Ives seemed ...