Ives was a composer who started composing music at age 13, according to the Charles Ives Society website. He composed several songs, including "Variations on America," and he won a Pulitzer Prize for ...

One hundred-fifty years ago, a mild-mannered insurance man was born in the small Connecticut town of Danbury. On nights and weekends, he composed music, most of which went unperformed in his lifetime.

My favorite Charles Ives quote dates from 1931, when the composer was in New York for the first public performance of his "Three Places in New England." It was hissed and booed, but Ives seemed ...

Charles Ives Studio at the American Academy of Arts and Letters (all photographs by the author for Hyperallergic) Object by object, some 3,000 artifacts from the studio of composer Charles Ives have ...

The Charles Ives Music Festival begins a new season on Monday, August 1st, 2022. The six concerts this season explore the themes that are essential to the music of Ives: folk music, searching for ...

A new take on Wynton Marsalis’s “Blues Symphony,” a piano cycle by Gregory Spears and Rosa Feola’s solo debut are among the highlights. This pioneering composer is not the easiest to love. But while ...

This year is the 150th anniversary of the birth of Danbury composer Charles Ives, and the Charles Ives Music Festival is celebrating its namesake in a big way this season, with music by Ives on every ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. It's an outdoor day of fun and music when ...

In songs, symphonies and sonatas, Charles Ives furnished America's musical past with a future. Halley Erskine/Yale UniversityCharles Ives circa 1948 Long before his death in 1954, at 80, Charles Ives ...