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From: janzen@pipa.DEC (Thomas E. J. LMO4/B5 279-5421 ECL Test)
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Subject: ives
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Date: Mon, 24-Jun-85 08:52:53 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 24 08:52:53 1985
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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
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Posted:	Mon 24-Jun-1985 08:48 EST
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