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Selected Correspondence of Charles.(Composers' Writings and Letters)(Book review)
Ives. Edited by Thomas C. Owens. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. [ix, 400 p. ISBN-10 0520246063; ISBN-13 9780520246064. $45.] Illustrations, facsimiles, references, index.
In these days of hurried, often vacuous, e-mail messages and the presumption of intimacy, where one is called by one's first name from the outset, it is refreshing to read letters written with a certain deliber-ateness, civility, and formality, even if such qualities may strike one as somewhat quaint. Reading the correspondence of Charles Ives, written some fifty to a hundred years ago, gives us more than a glance into both the every day life and creative world of the man many ...
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Lou Harrison. By Leta E. Miller and Fredric Lieberman...suggested listening, index, compact disc. Lou Harrison is the second book by Leta E. Miller...composer and independent, the first being Lou Harrison: Composing a World (New York: Oxford...
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...fun writing," says Lou Harrison, the current dean of...and 2000. In the book Lou Harrison: Composing a World...premiere of Charles Ives's Third Symphony...composer recommends Lou Harrison: A Portrait (Argo...
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- Magazine article from: The Humanist May 1, 2003 700+ words
...Arts Award acceptance speech Lou Harrison 1997 Humanist Arts Awardee Lou Harrison was born in Portland, Oregon...collaborated with Charles Ives, Harry Partch, and John...Humanist Arts Award in 1997. Lou Harrison died at the age of eighty...
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- Magazine article from: Dance Magazine July 1, 2003 700+ words
...Dracula, and The Snow Maiden.--Clive Barnes LOU HARRISON Distinguished American composer Lou Harrison, who wrote prolifically for stage and concert...conducted (most notably, the premiere of Charles Ives's Third Symphony), served as rehearsal...
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- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Richard Dyer, Globe Staff October 16, 1988 700+ words
Lou Harrison has lived one of America's most adventurous lives in music, and, at...music. He conducted the first complete performance of a symphony by Charles Ives, and a young soprano named Leontyne Price sang in the premiere of his opera...
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- Reference information from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music MICHAEL KENNEDY and JOYCE BOURNE January 1, 1996 700+ words
...perf. in NY of orch. mus. by Ives was in Jan. 1927 when Eugene...It was a failure. However, Ives's mus. was beginning to attract...later, Bernard Herrmann and Lou Harrison . Slonimsky bravely cond. perfs...1930 and 1932 and later cond. Ives works in Europe. Slonimsky...
- Charles Ives, A Life with Music.
- Magazine article from: American Scholar Jones, Robert C. January 1, 1998 700+ words
...In an article about Charles Ives and his music published in the November 1946 issue of Listen, Lou Harrison wrote: I suspect that the works of Ives are a great city, with public...represented? Such is the work of Ives, and if we here, in the United...
- Yale Musicians to Perform Songs of Charles Ives at Carnegie Hall.
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire October 9, 2007 700+ words
...that Naxos has undertaken. Ives' songs, written between...archives and interviews with Ives' family members, friends...Cowell, John Kirkpatrick, Lou Harrison, Nicolas Slonimsky, Elliott Carter and even Ives' barber. The program concludes...
