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From: keesan@bbnccv.UUCP (Morris M. Keesan)
Newsgroups: net.music.classical
Subject: Re: ives
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Date: Wed, 26-Jun-85 18:37:26 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 26 18:37:26 1985
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Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, MA
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    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
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