More Ives

Kathryn King Media send out the following press release, which contains news of many events celebrating the 150th birthday of Charles Ives:

**BREVARD MUSIC CENTER SUMMER INSTITUTE & FESTIVAL Monday, 15 July - Friday, 19 July 2024 / These events, also funded by the NEH, have already taken place: Monday, 15 July: Charles Ives: A Life in Music with baritone William Sharp and pianist Steven Mayer; Wednesday, 17 July: Concord Sonata with Michael Chertock; Friday, 18 July: Orchestra (Delta David Gier, conductor): Symphony No. 2, with source tunes **JACOBS SCHOOL OF MUSIC at Indiana University Charles Ives at 150: Music, Imagination and American Culture Monday, 30 Sept - Tuesday, 08 October EDT/ Chief among four Ives festivals supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, curated by preeminent Ives scholar J. Peter Burkholder and cultural historian Joseph Horowitz, this cross-disciplinary festival will be by far the most ambitious celebration of the Ives Sesquicentennial. All events are free, registration is recommended: Registration link. N.B.: The entire Charles Ives at 150 festival will also be live-streamed. **THE ORCHESTRA NOW: 10th Anniversary Season / Bard College IVES AND THE PIANO Saturday, 09 Nov at 6pm EST at Olin Hall / Bard College campus Recital, readings, artwork, and discussion Featuring Donald Berman , Leon Botstein , Kyle Gann , and Joseph Horowitz Free and open to the public. No RSVP necessary. https://www.bard.edu/news/events/ives-and-the-piano CHARLES IVES: A LIFE IN MUSIC Saturday, 16 Nov at 5:00pm EST at Olin Hall / Bard College Scripted playlet with songs and commentary Featuring Richard Aldous, Donald Berman, J. Peter Burkholder, Kyle Gann, Joseph Horowitz and William Sharp Free and open to the public. No RSVP necessary. https://www.bard.edu/news/events/charles-ives-a-life-in-music CHARLES IVES' AMERICA Saturday, 16 Nov at 7:00pm EST at Fisher Center / Bard College Orchestral concert including performances of songs quoted in Ives’ music, followed by a discussion Featuring The Orchestra Now (TŌN), Leon Botstein, conductor; Donald Berman, J. Peter Burkholder, Joseph Horowitz and William Sharp Tickets from $15. Livestream pay-what-you-wish. https://ton.bard.edu/events/ives/ CHARLES IVES: A LIFE IN MUSIC Sunday, 17 Nov at 12:00pm EST at Olin Hall / Bard College Scripted playlet with songs and commentary Featuring Richard Aldous, Donald Berman, J. Peter Burkholder, Kyle Gann, Joseph Horowitz and William Sharp Free and open to the public. No RSVP necessary. https://www.bard.edu/news/events/charles-ives-a-life-in-music-2024-11-17 CHARLES IVES' AMERICA Sunday, 17 Nov at 2:00pm EST at Fisher Center / Bard College Orchestra concert including performances of songs quoted in Ives’ music, followed by a discussion Featuring The Orchestra Now (TŌN), Leon Botstein, conductor; Donald Berman,, J. Peter Burkholder, Joseph Horowitz and William Sharp Tickets from $15. Livestream pay-what-you-wish. https://ton.bard.edu/events/ives/ CHARLES IVES' AMERICA Thursday, 21 Nov at 7:00pm EST at Carnegie Hall Orchestral concert including performances of songs quoted in Ives’ music, preceded by a discussion at 6:00pm EST Featuring The Orchestra Now (TŌN), Leon Botstein, conductor; Donald Berman, J. Peter Burkholder, Joseph Horowitz and William Sharp Tickets from $29 ($25 + $4 fee) https://ton.bard.edu/events/america/ **CHICAGO SINFONIETTA / Illinois State University CHARLES IVES' AMERICA Wednesday, 19 Feb at 7pm CST at Normal Theater / 209 W North St, Normal, IL 61761 Film screening: Charles Ives' America with commentary by producer Joseph Horowitz and featured participants CHARLES IVES: A LIFE IN MUSIC Thursday, 20 Feb at 11:00am CST at Kemp Recital Hall, Centennial East, Illinois State University Ives' songs tell the story of his life. Featuring baritone Sidney Outlaw, pianist Steven Mayer et al. Commentary by J. Peter Burkholder, Joseph Horowitz and Alan Lessoff MASTER CLASSES Thursday, 20 Feb / times and locations tba Master classes for ISU students by Sidney Outlaw and Steven Mayer Free and open to public / for more information contact Alan Lessoff: ahlesso@ilstu.edu IVES, TRANSCENDENTALISM, AND THE CONCORD SONATA Thursday, 20 Feb at 7:30pm CST at Kemp Recital Hall, Centennial East, Illinois State University Performances by Steven Mayer, piano, with readings by Sidney Outlaw and commentary by J. Peter Burkholder, Joseph Horowitz and Alan Lessoff  CHARLES IVES AND THE GILDED AGE Friday, 21 Feb at 11:00am CST at Kemp Recital Hall, Centennial East, Illinois State University Lecture by Joseph Horowitz with commentary by Alan Lessoff CHARLES IVES' AMERICA This concert takes place in Mandel Hall / University of Chicago Saturday, 22 Feb 2025 at 6:00pm CST Pre-Concert Recital Songs by Charles Ives with Sidney Outlaw, baritone; Steven Mayer, piano Saturday, 22 Feb 2025 at 7:00pm CST Chicago Sinfonietta concert / Mei-Ann Chen, conductor Music of George Walker and Charles Ives event page / ticket link Other explorations of Charles Ives, his music and his legacy include: **Extensive coverage in the autumn 2024 issue of Phi Beta Kappa's journal The American Scholar, which includes essays by Tim Barringer, Sudip Bose, J. Peter Burkholder, Allen C. Guelzo and Joseph Horowitz.

**The Charles Ives Society itself has been preparing for the sesquicentennial for years. Among the initiatives undertaken by the Society and continuing to this day are: **A series of videos about Charles Ives, including panels - All the Way Around and Back - and twelve commentaries - From the Ives Studio - posted online via the Society's website, charlesives.org. The All the Way Around and Back panels examine Ives and his works from many perspectives. The first of them features distinguished author J. Peter Burkholder, pianist Jeremy Denk, conductor Leonard Slatkin, soprano Susan Narucki, and pianist and Charles Ives Society President Donald Berman for a discussion on / introduction to Charles Ives, moderated by BMI Foundation President Deirdre Chadwick. The second panel, released in Spring 2024, is a discussion on Ives and Improvisation featuring John T. Cooper, composer/arranger and professor, Scheidt School of Music/University of Memphis; Bill Frisell, guitarist/composer; Eric Hofbauer, guitarist and department chair, jazz and contemporary music/Longy School of Music of Bard College; Ethan Iverson, pianist/composer/writer; jazz faculty, New England Conservatory; Phil Lesh, bass player, The Grateful Dead; and David Sanford, composer/leader, David Sanford Big Band; professor of music, Mt. Holyoke College, with moderator Judith Tick, Professor Emerita, Northeastern University and author: Becoming Ella Fitzgerald. A third panel, currently in production, is populated entirely by composers and features Martin Bresnick, Robert Carl (moderator), Jason Eckardt, David Lang, Lei Liang, and Tania León. This third panel will be released in late 2024. The From the Ives Studios commentaries are posted in each month of the sesquicentennial year, as follows: January / Eve Beglarian (Composer)  February / Jan Swafford (Composer; Author: Charles Ives: A Life with Music) with James Sinclair (Music Director, Orchestra New England; Executive Editor, Charles Ives Society)  March / J. Peter Burkholder (Professor Emeritus, Indiana University School of Music; Author: Listening to Charles Ives)  April / Denise Von Glahn (Professor of Musicology, Florida State University) May / Cody Upton (Executive Director, American Academy of Arts and Letters) June / Eric Hofbauer (Jazz and Contemporary Music - Department Chair, Guitar: Longy School of Music of Bard College; Prehistoric Jazz volume 3: Three Places in New England / Eric Hofbauer Quintet) July / Suzanne Eggleston Lovejoy (Music Librarian for Access & Research Services, Yale University Music Library) August / Joel Sachs (Conductor; Pianist; Author; Co-Director, Continuum; Professor Emeritus, The Juilliard School)  September / James Sinclair (Music Director, Orchestra New England; Executive Editor, Charles Ives Society) October / Kyle Gann (Composer; Author: Charles Ives's Concord: Essays After a Sonata; Professor of Music, Bard College)  November / Carol Oja (William Powell Mason Professor, Department of Music and Graduate Program in American Studies; Faculty Director of the Humanities Program, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies / Harvard University) December / Jan Swafford (Composer; Author: Charles Ives: A Life with Music)  **One of the core missions of the Charles Ives Society is to create critical editions of all the composer's works, a mammoth project that has reached its culmination in 2024. Among the most challenging of these endeavors is establishing the critical edition of Ives' Sonata No. 1 for Piano, a five-movement work edited by George Barth which if anything presents even more daunting editorial challenges than the better-known Sonata No. 2 for Piano: Concord, Mass., 1840-60. The principal players in the decades-long preparation of the critical editions of all of Ives' works have been Donald Berman, General Editor of the piano works; Thomas Brodhead, who issued the critical performing edition of Ives' fourth symphony; James Sinclair, Executive Editor of the Society, who has produced authoritative editions of all of Ives' orchestral sets (which he has recorded with Orchestra New England on nine discs for Naxos), as well as, with Neely Bruce, all 192 songs of Ives; and David Thurmaier, general editor of Ives' choral music. Inquiries about the Ives Society's critical editions can be directed here. **The completion of 30 years' editing of the smaller works for piano, now published in their entirety in three volumes issued separately by Peermusic and Associated Music Publishers (AMP). **The establishment of a priceless resource of data about Ives on charlesives.org the Society's website, including a complete discography of recordings of Ives' music, a Borrowed Tunes Index, a complete list of compositions, a list of Ives' publishers (by individual work), a list of programming suggestions from Ives scholars linked to key milestones in Ives' life and career, and much more. **A collection of images and videos of important places and physical objects which figure in Ives' life. **Critical commentaries by authoritative scholars on specific works have been housed on charlesives.org, analyses that have not been published in print or anywhere else. In short, in this 150th anniversary of Ives' birth and for all the years to come, Ives enthusiasts can be assured that a wealth of information, images, performances and new insights into the extraordinary Mr. Ives will be made available.