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I recently held in my hands the manuscript of Charles Ives's "Three Places in New England." The staff of the Music Library at Yale University left it out for me on a wooden table, and I hesitated before touching the pages, because no American wrote music more momentous than this. Ives was an insurance executive who doubled as perhaps the most audacious composer of the early twentieth century. He began to conceive "Three Places" in 1908, and made changes as late as 1929. The movements have long, heavily freighted titles: "The 'St. Gaudens' in Boston Common (Col. Robert Gould Shaw and His Colored Regiment)"; "Putnam's Camp, Redding, Connecticut"; "The Housatonic at ...