New Charles Ives CD

To tuning list participants:

Now that we're absolutely certain <g> that Charles Ives was
fundamentally a xenharmonicist, if you haven't already, please "check
out" the new Charles Ives CD on CRI records: "Ives plays Ives..."

There are several versions of Ives playing (piano) his uncompleted
"Emerson Overture for Piano and Orchestra" (1910-11), which later
"evolved" into the first movement of his Concord Piano Sonata...

There is also a wonderful recording of Ives SINGING and playing his WWII
song "They are There!" For Ives fans, this is a real knockout...

Some of these tapes result from sleuth work of Vivian Perlis; in fact,
she found the most striking "Mary Howard Studio" tapes with the Ives
singing...

Important for Ives performers, reconstructors and students is the
improvisational nature of the Ives performances. His performances
practically verge on a jazz concept, since Ives feels perfectly free to
change things each time around... he was pretty much opposed to a fixed
concept. Of course, it was the COMPOSER improvising, not anybody else,
and composing as he went along...

Also commentary by James Sinclair of the Ives Society and comments by
Emerson Concerto authority and Ives musicologist David Gray Porter...

The CD is in the record stores in New York, but in case you can't get it
in your area:

Composers Recordings Inc.
73 Spring Street, Suite 506
New York, NY 10012
212-941-9673
www.composersrecordings.com

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Joseph Pehrson