Charles Ives Remembered: An Oral History

by Vivian Perlis

Overview

Interweaving photographs, concert programs, scores, and drawings with the texts of more than fifty interviews with family, friends, neighbors, and colleagues, Charles Ives Remembered is a vivid memory portrait of the enigmatic American composer, told in the voices of the people who knew him best.

Charles Ives (1874-1954) was publicly an insurance executive but privately a composer whose eccentric works and paradoxical life would intrigue, perplex, and inspire generations to come after him. Moving from Ives's childhood and years at Yale to his business and musical careers, the memories and reflections assembled in this Kinkeldey Award-winning volume provide a multifaceted and humanizing view of an American musical icon.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780252070785
Publisher:	University of Illinois Press
Publication date:	07/24/2002
Series:	Music in American Life
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Vivian Perlis (1928-2019) was the founder and former director of the Oral History of American Music at Yale University and the writer-producer of documentaries of Eubie Blake, Aaron Copland, and John Cage.

Table of Contents

	List of Illustrations	vii
	Foreword to the Illinois Paperback	xi
	Foreword	xv
	Preface	xix
	Youth and Yale Years
	Amelia Van Wyck	3
	Ely Ryder	13
	Philip Sunderland	14
	Lewis Bronson	20
	Charles Farr	21
	Harold A. Hatch	24
	Insurance
	Julian Southall Myrick	31
	W. Eugene Smith	42
	Watson Washburn	45
	William S. Verplanck	47
	Kathryn Verplanck	48
	John S. Thompson	50
	George Hofmann	52
	Peter M. Fraser	61
	Mrs. Samuel Berneri	62
	Charles J. Buesing	65
	Family, Friends, and Neighbors
	Brewster Ives	71
	Bigelow Ives	81
	Chester Ives	84
	Richard Ives	89
	Arthur Hall	91
	T. Findlay MacKenzie	93
	Barbara MacKenzie	95
	Will and Luemily Ryder	95
	Debby Hall Meeker	99
	Mrs. Burton Twichell	100
	Gertrude Sanford	101
	James Thomas Flexner	101
	George Grayson Tyler	103
	Charles Ives Tyler	106
	Charles Kauffman	108
	Anthony J. ("Babe") LaPine	112
	William A. Grey	113
	Carrie Blackwell	114
	Mrs. Rodman S. Valentine	115
	Clara Sipprell	117
	Music
	Mrs. Artur Nikoloric	123
	Monique Schmitz Leduc	125
	Elliott Carter	131
	Charles Seeger	146
	Nicolas Slonimsky	147
	Bernard Herrmann	155
	Jerome Moross	163
	Arthur Berger	167
	Lucille Fletcher Wallop	168
	Darius Milhaud	170
	Dane Rudhyar	171
	Carl Ruggles	172
	Evelyn (Mrs. John J.) Becker	177
	George F. Roberts	183
	Mary Bell	190
	Lehman Engel	193
	Lou Harrison	198
	Goddard Lieberson	206
	Mary Shipman Howard	209
	Louis Untermeyer	211
	John Kirkpatrick	213
	Index	229

Editorial Reviews

"A marvelously orchestrated portrait of this utterly singular American."—New York Times

"Charles Ives Remembered found a wide and enthusiastic audience when it appeared in 1974, and was awarded the Kinkeldey Prize of the American Musicological Society. Thanks to the University of Illinois Press, it is now back in print and accessible to a new generation of readers as well as its original fans. Over the intervening years, the book has become recognized as a classic of its kind."—Chamber Music

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