Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site bbnccv.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!bbnccv!keesan From: keesan@bbnccv.UUCP (Morris M. Keesan) Newsgroups: net.music.classical Subject: Re: ives Message-ID: <60@bbnccv.UUCP> Date: Wed, 26-Jun-85 18:37:26 EDT Article-I.D.: bbnccv.60 Posted: Wed Jun 26 18:37:26 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 29-Jun-85 01:02:45 EDT References: <2843@decwrl.UUCP> Reply-To: keesan@bbnccv.UUCP (Morris M. Keesan) Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, MA Lines: 12 --------------------------------------------------- One of my favorite Ives pieces is his "Variations on America". Ives originally wrote it for organ, and it was arranged for orchestra by William Schumann (who won a Pulitzer this year). I happen to think that the transcription for concert band of Schumann's arrangement is the most successful of the three. Neither the organ nor the orchestra has quite the right range of timbres to give the proper character to each variation. I'm not aware of any commercially-available recordings of the band arrangement. -- Morris M. Keesan keesan@bbn-unix.ARPA {decvax,ihnp4,etc.}!bbncca!keesan