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 ...

The iconoclastic American composer become cultural monument Charles Ives was born 150 years ago last Sunday. Ulysses S. Grant was then in the midst of his second term as president. Ives’s father ...

On Saturday, foremost American pianist Jeremy Denk delivered a vibrant and eclectic program in Battell Chapel that paid homage to the life and legacy of composer Charles Ives, in celebration of the ...

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.

Charles Ives’s remarkable orchestral work “The Fourth of July” was, as film composer Bernard Herrmann told oral historian Vivien Perlis, intended as more than a mere poetic impression of an occasion.

NORMAL — The works of classical music composer Charles Ives shall be revered this week at an Illinois State University-hosted festival in Normal. The Charles Ives Sesquicentennial Festival will begin ...

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 ...