Keeping Score: Charles Ives's Holiday Symphony [Blu-ray]

Keeping Score: Charles Ives's Holiday Symphony [Blu-ray]

Director: Joan Saffa, David Kennard, Gary Halvorson
Cast: San Francisco Symphony
San Francisco Symphony
, Michael Tilson Thomas
Michael Tilson Thomas
Keeping Score: Charles Ives's Holiday Symphony [Blu-ray]

Keeping Score: Charles Ives's Holiday Symphony [Blu-ray]

Director: Joan Saffa, David Kennard, Gary Halvorson
Cast: San Francisco Symphony
San Francisco Symphony
, Michael Tilson Thomas
Michael Tilson Thomas

Blu-ray (Wide Screen)

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Overview

As hosted and narrated by classical music scholar Michael Tilson Thomas, this program travels inside the life and work of early 20th Century American Modernist composer Charles Ives (1874-1954). Thomas unveils a grand paradox at the core of Ives's life: the fact that, although he nominally celebrated the idea of "surviving the assault of one's own success" and "going it alone," these were principles that Ives never really lived out: he made a steady living from insurance and never relied exclusively or even predominantly on his musical income. The program then uses Ives's Holidays Symphony (performed here by the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra) as the basis for a musical journey across New England in spring, summer, fall and winter.

Product Details

Release Date: 11/10/2009
UPC: 0821936002599
Original Release: 2009
Source: Sfs Media
Region Code: 1
Presentation: [Wide Screen]
Language: English
Time: 1:51:00
Sales rank: 34,514

Special Features

Closed Caption; Full-length concert performance of Ives's Holidays symphony by the San Francisco symphony in high-definition

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
Michael Tilson Thomas Host

Technical Credits
Gary Halvorson Director
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