Charles Ives Remembered - An Oral History

Interweaving photographs, concert programs, scores, and drawings with the texts of more than fifty interviews with family, friends, neighbors, and colleagues, Charles Ives Remembered is a vivid memory portrait of an enigmatic American composer, told in the voices of the people who knew him best.Charles Ives (1874-1954) was publicly an insurance executive but privately a composer whose eccentric works and paradoxical life would intrigue, perplex, and inspire generations to come after him. Moving from Ives's childhood and years at Yale to his business and musical careers, the memories and reflections assembled in this Kinkeldey Award-winning volume provide a multifaceted and humanizing view of an American musical icon.

Summary

Interweaving photographs, concert programs, scores, and drawings with the texts of more than fifty interviews, this book is a memory portrait of an enigmatic American composer, told in the voices of the people who knew him best. This is a Kinkeldey Award-winning volume, providing a multifaceted and humanizing view of an American musical icon.

Product details

• Authors: Vivian Perlis
• Publisher: University Of Illinois Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.07.2002
• EAN: 9780252070785
• ISBN: 978-0-252-07078-5
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 426 g
• Series: Music in American Life; Music in American Life (Paperb; Music in American Life
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > Monographs