Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-pipa!janzen From: janzen@pipa.DEC (Thomas E. J. LMO4/B5 279-5421 ECL Test) Newsgroups: net.music.classical Subject: ives Message-ID: <2843@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Mon, 24-Jun-85 08:52:53 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.2843 Posted: Mon Jun 24 08:52:53 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Jun-85 01:03:09 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 25 Charles Ives wrote many fine works. The best work is his First Sonata, which is the source book of riffs for modern Jazz pianists. The Unanswered Question is very good, and is a companion piece to Central Park in the Dark. Incidentally, I once saw a copy of the manuscript for UQ in the Library of Congress. I noted that in this neat score, the last change made was to change the last note in the trumpet motif half the times it appears, by a half-step to ensure that it was never consonant with the current string chord. The Fourth Symphony, The Second String Quartet are good too. Real Ives. The Three Page Sonata is exciting. The Quarter-Tone Pieces for pianos are crap. I'll have to write new quarter-tone pieces to have something to play. The songs are wonderful, especially on Marni Nixon's album, in which she takes on the persona and voice of the songs' characters. General William Booth Enter in heaven, from Vachal Lindsay's poem, is his best song. The choral stuff is crap. Thomas E. Janzen DEC Marlboro MA Posted: Mon 24-Jun-1985 08:48 EST To: @MUSIC Posted: Mon 24-Jun-1985 08:48 EST To: @CLASSICAL