In this episode, Dave and Andrew explore the winner of the fifth Pulitzer Prize in Music, Charles E. Ives for his Symphony No. 3, "The Camp Meeting."
This piece, largely scored/written between 1908-11, features many of Ives's favorite techniques, including musical borrowing, cumulative form, and mixtures of harmonic techniques all wrapped up in a short and compact chamber symphony. Ives himself had mixed feelings about the piece, thinking it was a transitional "crossway between the older ways and the newer ways," but it caught the attention of the Pulitzer board through its premiere performance in New York conducted by Lou Harrison in 1946. It was also the first piece to win the Pulitzer Prize that written much earlier than its premiere, and it helped propel Ives and his music into the public eye.
If you'd like more information about Ives or his Symphony No. 3, we recommend:
1) The Charles Ives Society: www.charlesives.org
2) Charles Ives, Memos, edited by John Kirkpatrick (W.W. Norton, 1971)
3) J. Peter Burkholder, All Made of Tunes (Yale University Press, 1995)
4) Mark Zobel, The Third Symphony of Charles Ives. Vol. 6 CMS Sourcebooks in American Music, edited by Michael Budds. (Pendragon Press, 2009).
5) A new recording by Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony: https://www.sfsymphony.org/Discover-the-Music/SFS-Media/charles-Ives-Nos3-4
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Episode 51 - 1993: Christopher Rouse, Trombone Concerto
Episode 50 - 1992: Wayne Peterson, The Face of the Night, The Heart of the Dark
Bonus: An Interview with Howard Pollack
Episode 49 - 1991: Shulamit Ran, Symphony
Episode 48 - 1990: Mel Powell, Duplicates
Episode 47 - 1989: Roger Reynolds, Whispers Out of Time
Bonus: An Interview with William Bolcom
Episode 46 - 1988: William Bolcom, Twelve New Etudes
Bonus: An Interview with John Harbison
Episode 45 - 1987: John Harbison, The Flight Into Egypt
Episode 44 - 1986: George Perle, Wind Quintet IV
Episode 43 -1985: Stephen Albert, Symphony RiverRun
Episode 42 - 1984: Bernard Rands, Canti del Sole
Bonus: An Interview with Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
Episode 41 - 1983: Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Symphony No.1 (Three Movements for Orchestra)
Episode 40 - 1982: Roger Sessions, Concerto for Orchestra
Episode 39 - 1981: No Winner
Episode 38 - 1980: David Del Tredici, In Memory of a Summer Day
Episode 37 - 1979: Joseph Schwantner, Aftertones of Infinity
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