Ives is remembered as the leading American composer of art music of the 20th century. Born in Danbury, Connecticut, Ives was deeply connected to New Haven and attended Yale as an undergraduate from ...

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

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.

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 ...

This question is among many ideas that the “Charles Ives at 150: Music, Imagination, and American Culture” festival seeks to explore. From Monday, Sept. 30 to Tuesday, Oct. 8, the Jacobs School of ...

The music of Charles Ives is the headwater of the American experimental music tradition. Previously unheard dissonances, multiple keys clashing against each other, different tempos sounding ...

This year is the 150th anniversary of the birth of Danbury composer Charles Ives, and the Charles Ives Music Festival is celebrating its namesake in a big way this season, with music by Ives on ...

11 a.m. Thursday — "Charles Ives, a Life in Music" concert by baritone Sidney Outlaw and pianist Steven Mayer at Kemp Recital Hall, Centennial East, 353 S. School St., Normal.

Charles Ives at 150: Jeremy Denk plays the piano worksStrings attached The inclusion of the four violin sonatas, played in reverse order as is the wont of Denk and his colleague, violinist Stefan ...

On nights and weekends, he composed music, most of which went unperformed in his lifetime. His name is Charles Ives, and after he died in 1954, his reputation slowly grew as America’s first truly ...