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From: robdye@ut-sally.UUCP (Rob Dye)
Newsgroups: net.music.classical
Subject: Re: ives
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Date: Tue, 25-Jun-85 02:49:35 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 25 02:49:35 1985
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Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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Summary: cut the crap! (B-)) and record recommendations

In article <2843@decwrl.UUCP> janzen@pipa.DEC writes:
>                               ...  The Quarter-Tone Pieces for pianos
>are crap.  I'll have to write new quarter-tone pieces to have something to
>play.  

I'm sure we are all eager to hear your masterpieces. B-) (I wear glasses.)

>The choral stuff is crap.

	[mild flame on]
I don't know about the rest of the net, but I find such glib commentary
to be insulting to us as readers and to a fine composer.
	[mild flame off]

>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.

All jesting and flaming aside, is this the album which includes the song 
"Charlie Rutledge"?  ("Another good cowpuncher has gone to meet his fate..."
The song starts out as an innocent little trail tune until it begins to 
recount the way good-old Charlie's horse fell on him during the spring
round-up, when the pianist's part turns into a real knuckle-buster.  Great
fun.) I blindly ordered the Nonesuch album of Ives songs sung by Jan DeGaetani 
several months ago, believing that it contained that song (which is one of my 
favorites, obviously) and was disappointed when it arrived to see that 
it didn't.  (Don't get me wrong.  I still enjoy the Gaetani album.)

Back to the original query about Ives recordings, I enjoy very much my DGG
recording of "Three Places in New England".  My favorite is the middle mvt,
Putnam's Camp.  It is a prime example of Ives' "phantasmagorical" style, with
marching bands competing against each other.  It's a joyous riot. (Michael
Tilson Thomas conducts the BSO.)  I also like the RCA (?) recording of this
same piece which has a nice flip side as well: Roy Harris' Third Symphony.
(I think Ormandy conducts the Philadelphia on this one.)

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		Rob Dye
		Dept. of CS, UTexas at Austin

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