Charles Edward Ives was born in 1874 in the small manufacturing town of Danbury, Connecticut. Although educated in music, he made a living as a businessman and composed on the side.

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Growing up, percussionist and composer Paul Frucht thought every town in Connecticut had its own version of the Danbury Music Centre.“I just thought, ‘OK, this is the Danbury Music Centre.

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.

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 ...

Object by object, some 3,000 artifacts from the studio of composer Charles Ives have been reconstructed at the American Academy of Arts and Letters in Washington Heights. The replica of the studio ...

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 ...

The house has remained in the Ives family since the composer’s death, in 1954, and his grandson, Charles Ives Tyler, working with the scholar James Sinclair, had arranged Ives’s composing ...

Review: In Curious show, Charles Ives plays composer and referee. Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 72°F. Saturday, June 28th 2025 Digital Replica Edition. Home Page. News.