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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Plenty of historic homes have a documented brush with greatness in their past. But few offer the impressive history of a 1913 property that was not only designed and built by a Pulitzer-winning ...

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 ...

Charles Ives’s remarkable orchestral work “The Fourth of July” was, as film composer Bernard Herrmann told oral historian Vivien Perlis, intended as more than a mere poetic impression of an occasion.

In his life Charles Ives -- an iconoclast if there ever was one -- was busy with music, not collecting honors. At the same time, he was a man with a very deep sense of place. So it would be ...

Previously, the Owsley Stanley Foundation teased the 12th chapter of Bear’s Sonic Journals and their plan to launch the collection on Sunday, March 15, the final night of Grahame Lesh & Friends-hosted ...

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 ...