Charles Ives

Fricke’s Picks: O’Rourke’s Long Song 11/24/2009

Midsummer madness 08/18/2009

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What Six Blackbirds Hatched 06/24/2009

Classical Music/Opera Listings 06/04/2009

Highly original American composer of orchestral, chamber, and solo vocal and piano music who used and anticipated polytonality, atonality, and polymeter/polytone clusters. A unique quality of his music is the combination of well-known hymns and popular tunes with a complex dissonant accompaniment. Notable works include Three Places in New England (1914) and the Sonata for Piano no. 2, "Concord, ...more