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 bewildered by his untraditional ...
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 ...
In songs, symphonies and sonatas, Charles Ives furnished America's musical past with a future. Halley Erskine/Yale UniversityCharles Ives circa 1948 Long before his death in 1954, at 80, Charles Ives ...