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Charles Ives | Musical Moments with Philip Brunelle

July 8, 2020

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In this Musical Moment, VocalEssence artistic director and founder Philip Brunelle shares insider information and beautiful music by the composer Charles Ives, featuring mezzo-soprano Clara Osowski.

Charles IvesCharles Ives

1874-1954

American composer Charles Ives is best known for his experimental music that influenced generations of composers. Born in Danbury, Connecticut, Ives began his musical education under the wing of his father: a musician, teacher, and experimental acoustician. As a teenager, he served as a church organist, which he continued throughout his life. He graduated from Yale University in 1898, where he studied under Horatio Parker. He spent most of his time as an accomplished businessman, founding and leading the successful insurance partnership Ives & Myrick and developing the concept of estate planning. As a composer, his works did not find acclaim until the last few years of his life. His music combines inspiration from the New England past with modern innovations: jarring dissonances, polytonality, polyrhythm, and microtonal intervals. Of his 46 pieces for choir, many are written in this signature style. In addition, because of his work as a church musician, he also wrote numerous practical and accessible pieces for the church choirs that he worked with.

Suggested choral pieces:

  1. Turn Ye, Turn Ye (Theodore Presser Company 352-00464)
  2. The Celestial Country (Peer Music 227151)
  3. Psalm 90 (Theodore Presser Company 342-40021)
Posted in: Musical Moments
Tags: Composers of the Early-Mid 20th Century • United States Composers

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