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
Episode 33 - 1975: Dominick Argento, From the Diary of Virginia Woolf
Episode 32 - 1974: Donald Martino, Notturno
Episode 31 - 1973: Elliott Carter, String Quartet No. 3
Episode 30 - 1972: Jacob Druckman, Windows
Episode 29 - 1971: Mario Davidovsky, Synchronisms No. 6
Episode 28 - 1970: Charles Wuorinen, Time’s Encomium
Episode 27 - 1969: Karel Husa, String Quartet No. 3
Episode 26 - 1968: George Crumb, Echoes of Time and the River
Episode 25 - 1967: Leon Kirchner, Third String Quartet
Episode 24 - 1966: Leslie Bassett, Variations for Orchestra
Episode 23 - 1965: No Prize (the Pulitzer Hat Trick)
Episode 22 - 1964: No Prize (again)
Episode 21 - 1963: Samuel Barber, Piano Concerto No. 1
Episode 20 - 1962: Robert Ward, The Crucible
Episode 19 - 1961: Walter Piston, Symphony No. 7
Episode 18 - 1960: Elliott Carter, Second String Quartet
Episode 17 - 1959: John La Montaine, Piano Concerto No. 1
Episode 16 - 1958: Samuel Barber, Vanessa
Episode 15 - 1957: Norman Dello Joio, Meditations on Ecclesiastes
Episode 14 - 1956: Ernst Toch, Symphony No. 3
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