TERRY GROSS, HOST: 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 ...

Composer Charles Ives at 150: A messy vision of America remains unsettling To mark the 150th anniversary of the maverick American composer’s birth, pianist Jeremy Denk releases an Ives tribute ...

Sony Classical’s two boxes dedicated to Charles Ives—honoring the 150th anniversary of the great American composer’s birth—are this year’s most important reissues.

His name is Charles Ives, and after he died in 1954, his reputation slowly grew as America’s first truly original composer. To mark the anniversary, pianist Jeremy Denk has released the album ...

This question is among many ideas that the “Charles Ives at 150: Music, Imagination, and American Culture” festival seeks to explore. From Monday, Sept. 30 to Tuesday, Oct. 8, the Jacobs School of ...

Sunday is the 150th anniversary of the composer Charles Ives’s birth, and the most fitting way to celebrate would be to bang your fists on the table and rail against the damned closed-mindedness ...

Many music lovers consider Ives, who died in 1954, to be the first truly great American composer. A new recording by pianist Donald Berman is a major addition to the Ives discography.