The Housatonic at Stockbridge

Written nearly a hundred years ago in 1908, The Housatonic at
Stockbridge is one of my favorite Ives' pieces. It's Ives the
consummate phantasmagorical experimentalist and Ives the great
Nature mystic. In this arrangement I tried to push some of the mind-
altering mysticism and wonder to extremes, but in doing so I also
found myself sidestepping a lot of things I loved, like the achingly
beautiful, murmuring whispers. It was a calculated risk, but I
couldn't match (and wouldn't care to try) Ives own vision, so I
consciously tried to find something different within the parameters
of this amazing piece . I tried to takes Ives' polychromatic prism
and turn its focus on mixing intonation systems. In this regard this
arrangement was a kind of watershed for me, and it really altered
the approach I'd use on most all the music I composed thereafter .

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The Housatonic at Stockbridge

daniel stearns
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Well, it's *Dan*!

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "daniel_anthony_stearns"
<daniel_anthony_stearns@y...> wrote:
> Written nearly a hundred years ago in 1908, The Housatonic at
> Stockbridge is one of my favorite Ives' pieces. It's Ives the
> consummate phantasmagorical experimentalist and Ives the great
> Nature mystic.

Hope you are well, haven't heard from you in a while! I'll look
forward to listening to this tonight. Funny: Carl Lumma was just
saying how much a "one-trick pony" Ives was over on MMM, so it will be
good to hear through the 'Stearns filter'.

Good to hear from you,
Jon

Hi Jon. Been very busy (been to eastern Europe, the woods, music
music and music) and have been laying low from the internet for
quite some time, but it's nice to "hear" your voice . Ives... what
can I say, he talked the talk and he walked the walk . He's not for
everyone, but he certainly did it for me... one for the ages. BTW,
one trick pony is a pretty nice movie featuring Paul Simon at his
melancholic, "still crazy after all these years" best .Take care and
I hope you're well,
daniel

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Jon Szanto" <jszanto@c...> wrote:
> Well, it's *Dan*!
>
> --- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "daniel_anthony_stearns"
> <daniel_anthony_stearns@y...> wrote:
> > Written nearly a hundred years ago in 1908, The Housatonic at
> > Stockbridge is one of my favorite Ives' pieces. It's Ives the
> > consummate phantasmagorical experimentalist and Ives the great
> > Nature mystic.
>
> Hope you are well, haven't heard from you in a while! I'll look
> forward to listening to this tonight. Funny: Carl Lumma was just
> saying how much a "one-trick pony" Ives was over on MMM, so it
will be
> good to hear through the 'Stearns filter'.
>
> Good to hear from you,
> Jon