This is FRESH AIR. This year marks the 150th birthday of Charles Ives. Many music lovers consider him the first truly great American composer, although some of them are bewildered by his untraditional ...
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 ...
Charles Ives (1874-1954) once described the poetic genesis of one of his best-known compositions: “The ‘Housatonic at Stockbridge’ … was suggested by a Sunday morning walk that Mrs. Ives and I took ...
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