UCSB Arts & Lectures is off and running for its 2025-26 season, as the retiring game-changer Celesta Billeci passes the ...

NORMAL — The works of classical music composer Charles Ives shall be revered this week at an Illinois State University-hosted festival in Normal.

He called Ives’ “Concord” sonata a sonata “like no other—by turns craggily dissonant, witty, haunting, and disarmingly simple.

The second half of the concert belonged completely to Ives with Denk’s obliterating “Concord” Sonata. Widely regarded as the foremost American sonata, the piece is both a technical tour de force and a ...

Alex Ross reviews “Charles Ives at 150,” a classical-music festival dedicated to the composer, held at the Jacobs School of Music, at Indiana University Bloomington.

In 1921 Ives sent out a sumptuous, self-financed edition of his Concord Sonata to two hundred musicians who didn’t yet know who he was.

Denk’s performance is deliciously unhinged. Ives believed in the utopian possibilities of music. So it’s no surprise that his Piano Sonata No. 2, subtitled “Concord, Mass., 1840-1860,” is inspired by ...

Ives believed in the utopian possibilities of music. So it’s no surprise that his Piano Sonata No. 2, subtitled “Concord, Mass., 1840-1860,” is inspired by American transcendentalists.

In honor of Ives' 150th birth anniversary, Nonesuch is releasing a two-disc set of Denk's previous recordings of the Violin Sonatas, with Stefan Jackiw, and, newly re-mastered, his manly 2010 ...

In celebration of the Ives 150th anniversary year, Sony Classical will present two of the most authoritative collections ever released of works by this eccentric, prophetic American genius.