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Ives: Symphony No. 3, "The Camp Meeting" & Symphony No. 4

11/8/2019, 18 Tracks, 1:08:51

The American composer Charles Ives was profoundly influenced by hymns – a connection that Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony and Chorus make explicit on their live recording of Ives's Third and Fourth Symphonies. Alongside the two symphonies are some of the American hymns that found their way into those scores. Both symphonies are highly complex works yet, as their use of hymns shows, also richly evocative.

Featuring

  • Michael Tilson Thomas
  • Peter Dugan
  • San Francisco Symphony
  • San Francisco Symphony Chorus
  • Carl G. Gläser
  • Charles Crozat Converse
  • Lowell Mason
  • Anonymous (Traditional)
  • William Batchelder Bradbury
  • Charles Ives
  • Joseph P. Webster
  • John R. Sweney
  • Heinrich Christopher Zeuner
  • Simeon Butler Marsh

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Composer's Artistic Vision

A fundamental aspect of Charles Ives's musical language is quotation, where allusions to pre-existing music prompt listeners to make associations with the broader world.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Charles Ives often tinkered with his compositions for years or decades, due to the unlikelihood of performance, making the chronology of his works complicated.

Source: Booklet

Compositional Technique

Charles Ives's Symphony No. 4 is a complex collage incorporating passages from his earlier compositions and a wide array of popular music, including parlor songs, marches, ragtime, and Protestant hymns.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

After graduating from Yale with a D-plus average, Charles Ives prospered as an insurance businessman, allowing him to compose music without needing public interest.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

Michael Tilson Thomas, the San Francisco Symphony's Music Director since 1995, has won 12 Grammys, 11 of which are for his recordings with the SFS.

Source: Booklet

Notable Performances

Leopold Stokowski, an 83-year-old conductor known for new music, enlisted two additional conductors for the 1965 premiere of Ives's Symphony No. 4, highlighting its complexity.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Charles Ives's father, a Connecticut bandmaster, encouraged his son's "open-earedness" by delighting in musical coincidences like overlapping sounds of separate bands.

Source: Booklet

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