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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Born in Danbury, Conn., in 1874, Charles Ives was one of the first modern American ...

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 ...

Charles Ives was born in Connecticut in 1874, into an environment that was dominated at one extreme by European classical music, and at the other by a growing but underappreciated tradition of rural ...

Fortunate for the recently completed cycle of songs by Charles Ives on Naxos' Charles Ives: Songs, Vol. 1 are Theo Bleckmann's re-imaginings of 12 of Ives' better known vocal compositions, Twelve ...

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 ...

Charles Ives--Yale man, insurance salesman, transcendentalist, composer--surely one of the most unusual figures in the history of music. Danbury Conn. was his musical matrix. In the solid German ...

The Danbury Music Centre’s Charles Ives Concert Series spring season, completing its second full season, will feature four concerts. The series is dedicated to celebrating the legacy of Danbury’s own ...

In his life, Charles Ives -- an iconoclast if there ever was one -- was busy with music, not collecting honors. At the same time, he was a man with a very deep sense of place. So it would be ...

A new take on Wynton Marsalis’s “Blues Symphony,” a piano cycle by Gregory Spears and Rosa Feola’s solo debut are among the highlights. This pioneering composer is not the easiest to love. But while ...