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 ...

A new take on Wynton Marsalis’s “Blues Symphony,” a piano cycle by Gregory Spears and Rosa Feola’s solo debut are among the highlights. This pioneering composer is not the easiest to love. But while ...

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 ...

Charles Ives Studio at the American Academy of Arts and Letters (all photographs by the author for Hyperallergic) Object by object, some 3,000 artifacts from the studio of composer Charles Ives have ...

The more Charles Ives I hear, the more I adore him. He is the quintessential American composer, an autodidact, a musical genius. And he was a successful insurance broker. Every text about him mentions ...

At the American Academy of Arts and Letters at Audubon Terrace in Washington Heights, you can view the Connecticut studio of a famous American composer recreated piece by piece. Charles Edward Ives ...

Fortunate for the recently completed cycle of songs by Charles Ives on Naxos' Charles Ives: Songs, Vol. 1 are Theo Bleckmann's re-imaginings of 12 of Ives' better known vocal compositions, Twelve ...

American composer Charles Ives (1874-1954) was an arts iconoclast in the vein of his contemporary poet Wallace Stevens (1879-1955). Both men were successful business executives who profoundly changed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Plenty of historic homes have a documented brush with greatness in their past. But few offer the impressive history of a 1913 ...

Long before his death in 1954, at 80, Charles Ives seemed less like the father of American music than an eccentric uncle whose antic behavior and uncensored opinions at birthdays and funerals ...