Thanks primarily to a handful of pieces that celebrated pastoral America, Charles Ives is seen by many as some sort of cranky, avant-garde romantic. A recent piece by The New Yorker‘s Alex Ross made ...
On Tuesday, Conor Hanick will perform Charles Ives’ Piano Sonata No. 2, commonly called the “Concord Sonata,” in Spoleto Festival’s Music in Time series. The piece has four movements, each based on a ...
My favorite Charles Ives quote dates from 1931, when the composer was in New York for the first public performance of his "Three Places in New England." It was hissed and booed, but Ives seemed ...