Ives: Symphony No. 1; Symphony No. 4; Central Park in the Dark
1/26/2024, 9 Tracks, 1:18:23
Featuring
Andrew Litton
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Dallas Symphony Chorus
Charles Ives
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Recording & Production
This recording was made possible in part by The Eugene McDermott Orchestra Fund.
Compositional Technique
Ives meticulously explored most 'modernist' musical vocabulary, such as polyrhythm, polytonality, and spatial music, years before musical 'modernism' itself was born.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Ives believed that music was life and dreamed of a transcendent future where life would become a kind of music, with every person a composer.
Composition History
Ives's First Symphony was presented as a glorified homework assignment, written under duress as a senior thesis at Yale, in a late-Romantic style.
Composer Biography
Charles Ives's father, George Ives, began his musical career as the youngest bandmaster in the Union Army during the Civil War.
Compositional Technique
The works The Unanswered Question and Central Park in the Dark, composed in 1906, were the first in history to create an aural collage by superimposing different kinds of music.
Composer's Artistic Vision
George Ives, Charles Ives's father, taught him that any combination of notes is acceptable if one can make sense out of them, a unique license for a composer at the time.
