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1 day ago · Ives was a composer who started composing music at age 13, according to the Charles Ives Society website. He composed several songs, including "Variations on America," and he won a Pulitzer Prize ...
3 days ago · Beginning in February 1943 in the skies over Guadalcanal and the Solomons, the Corsair quickly established itself as not just a deadly fighter in air to air combat, but also as a powerful fighter-bomber armed with 2000-pound bombs, rockets, and later, napalm.
3 days ago · In his quest to take up the slogan of the Stieglitz group, "Affirm America", Copland found only the music of Carl Ruggles and Charles Ives upon which to draw. Without what Copland called a "usable past" in American classical composers, he looked toward jazz and popular music, something he had already started to do while in Europe. [51]
4 days ago · If we extend the symbolism of Ives’s The Unanswered Question to debates over Modernist music, the audience might be considered the __________. Druids. In The Unanswered Question by Ives, the woodwind ensemble can be said to represent __________. Mocking Answerers.
5 days ago · Looking for a patriotic soundtrack for your July Fourth celebration? We've programmed a 4-hour playlist of classical and Americana music to go with whatever you're doing on Independence Day, from cooking out to watching fireworks.
2 days ago · These variations on the British national anthem were composed by Charles Ives at the age of 17 for the 1892 Independence Day celebrations (though he premiered the work five months earlier)....
5 days ago · Composer Sean Shepherd has been awarded the 2023 Charles Ives Living Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters — which will see him receive an annual stipend of $100,000 per annum for the next two years.
