150 years after his birth, composer Charles Ives remains a maverick Many music lovers consider Ives, ... WILLIAMS: (Singing) Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth because I'm happy.

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 ...

Sunday is the 150th anniversary of the composer Charles Ives’s ... America might solve its issues with a lyrical barn-raising or spiritual-singing or cattle-rustling. Ives is optimistic ...

Charles Ives (1874-1954) once described the poetic genesis of one of his best-known compositions: “The ‘Housatonic at Stockbridge’ … was suggested by a Sunday morning walk that Mrs. Ives ...

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 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 ...